Blog question for Vivvo experts

[rivertrish]

I've seen in the forums that Vivvo's blog template can offer pretty much any features one might want regarding a blog function on a website. But I'm not smart enough about CMS to understand how to incorporate that.

I want to keep my website as is, and only have one place where a blog would function. It appears that Vivvo would require me to use the blog template for my entire site.

I would assume that I could do this somehow by only uploading an 'article' template from the blog templates to my current article template, and I guess a category template as well...? but then CSS would be all goofed up and I'm not sure what else.

So in order to add a blog as a side feature to Vivvo... what parts of the blog template are necessary to upload and how to I ensure they don't conflict with template/css etc for my main site?

Thanks for any help.

[Brian]

to successfully run a blog along with vivvo site it's better to install another instance of vivvo in a new sub folder and use separate templates to avoid any conflicts with the base installation as you mentioned, or you can install Wordpress instead and customize the blog interface to look like your primary web site, like what the majority of popular websites do.

[damic]

You can actually run blogs without needing a seperate install - it just takes quite a few adjustments to style sheets plus some new tpls. We did it on a site by creating a specific category for each "blog" - then assigned specific tpl's to each category. So if you have "Host A" and "Host B", and both have other type of info in their section...

Host A Category (where the main articles would be stored)
- - Host A Blog (Blog category, where Host A blogs would be stored)

Then on Host A Category tpl page - you can either link directly to the Host A Blog section and/or - embed some of the blog items onto the main category page.

My suggestion is to take the "blog.css" file from the blog them and put that in your themes CSS folder. Keep in mind, you'll need to change colors/fonts to match what you want - and watch out for any img files listed in it. You might try coping those over to your themes image folder too if you'd like.

You'll need to tweak the look out to however you like with CSS of course.