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I discovered a real cool trick a bit ago, I made an image of some good "site header" text, then made it a staticpages centerblock with a space in the "title" so I have an unusual site index page header.

I know that must sound unclear--see southparkcity to see what I mean.

Now I want to "lower" the beginning of the left and right blocks, so they start at the same place as the articles.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Tom
www.southparkcity.com

Try playing with blockheader templates of your theme.

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Geeklog Polish Support Team

Correct, you can use the option in functions.inc to use different block templates for different blocks.

BTW there's a break tag in your site title...

(sorry, I first said it was in config.php)

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Dutch Geeklog sites about camping/hiking:
www.kampeerzaken.nl | www.campersite.nl | www.caravans.nl | www.caravans.net

Thanks, all, but that doesn't seem to be getting it...the blockheader (even using an alternate one for the top-block on each side) still leaves the background of the left-n-right-sides. What I actually want to do is shove even that background image down on the page.



Also--my goof--when I gave you the URL earlier, I forgot that I'd set up this "center graphic" I'm talking about to be viewable by admin only, in case I screwed up while I was experimenting. It's now viewable, for those that want to see what I'm trying to do:



southparkcity.com



beewee--thanks for the comment on the br tag, yep, also on my list is to figure this out--I insterted the br tag in my title purposely because of how it displays in the header on the page, I need to find out how to keep a br in the header but eliminate it from the title.



Thanks again, all!

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Tom
www.southparkcity.com

About the break-tag: You could hardcode the title in the header template

About lowering the blocks: this is tricky because of the theme you are using. The top of the left column is, if i can remember from using the same theme, is coded in the header template. So you could place a image tag for a transparent image (speck.gif) with the correct height (or a vertical menu to fill the space and get rid of some menu-tags).

I guess the top of the right column is in the footer template. Place an transparent image there as well.

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Dutch Geeklog sites about camping/hiking:
www.kampeerzaken.nl | www.campersite.nl | www.caravans.nl | www.caravans.net

I don't know how that theme works but why couldn't you just put a spacer gif at the top of leftblocks.thtml and rightblocks.thtml before the {geeklog_blocks} variable?

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Yes I am mental.

I really do appreciate the comments! I started fiddling with the theme just a bit, right along the lines of what both of you are suggesting--first time I've tried to hack a theme--interesting stuff.

First I did indeed go into the leftblock and rightblock thtml files, and there's a blank gif image right where I need it in both--to push the start of the blocks down. Two issues:

1. The background image of the column areas didn't push.
2. Hmm. This pushed the columns down on all pages, I only want index!

Beewee, as you said, while the rightblock does have that blank file in it so I could probably push the background image down, leftblock is elsewhere--I'll find it--but elsewhere.

Regarding the 2nd issue, what I also need to do is my first real code hack, to find in lib-common where calls to the theme files go on, add in ifs to calls where if I'm on the index.php page, call special cloned versions of the thtml. So I only get this change for the index page.

Whew--I know this isn't a lot of programming, but I'm somewhat new to PHP & had to get over the intimidation factor before I decided to go for it!

NOW I'll post a new thread--"rookie lib_custom question" or somesuch so I do a good clean job of it.

Thanks for all the comments! They led me to realize what I have to do.

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Tom
www.southparkcity.com