Templates

Managing Templates

The following elements should not be changed unless you are fairly familiar with HTML/CSS! If you do change them without the help of Vivvo technical staff

You may crash your site!

To access your template management section, select Templates from the main administrative menu

Templates menu

In this section you manage all the templates and stylesheets.

Style sheets (.css files) control the layout, font styles, colors and positioning.

Css edit

Templates (.tpl files) which determine the ‘look and feel’, as well as the elements and content of your website.

Templates edit

Templates are stored in the /templates folder. They have .tpl extension but they are normal HTML files that can be easily controlled from the Administration area, where you can amend every respective template and save your changes without having to use any third party HTML editor. Alternatively, you can use your favorite editor like Dreamweaver, Front Page or similar and then use FTP program to transfer files to your web server.

Make sure not to rename or remove special tags {} (like {ARTILCE_ID}, {ARTICLE_TITLE, etc.). Every respective template matches specific action or event. Pages usually consist of several templates (i.e. show_breadcrumbs.tpl, show_all_articles.tpl, show_votes.tpl, etc.)

Spoonlabs technical staff shall not be held responsible for fixing any problems that may arise are a result of inexpert changes to the Vivvo code.

Full template specification is covered in the Developer's documentation.

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