Joomlaggravated

July 10, 2010 2:11 PM

So, I'm building a site in Joomla. It's not really doing what I want it to. Styling issues inside...

I'm building a site for a client who requires Joomla. Fair enough. Content is going in, template primarily complete... here's the sticking point. Articles as mocked up have a main body of content, then a sidebar with an image and a few call-out points on each page. This is not a sidebar that can be done as a module - each article needs specific content in this space. It would seem easy enough to do, and I can do it by going into the raw HTML space in the editor (TinyMCE) - but this seems to negate the appeal of the CMS for the end user - I need them to be able to specify sidebar content just as they would specify main content, clearly separated without having to specify tags and floats. Any solutions?

Also, a really lame problem: Every time I load an article to edit, I need to refresh once before I get the actual editor, or am able to save or apply changes. This won't be good if it persists. Anyone know a fix?

posted by setanor to Computers & Internet (1 answer total)

So the sidebar content is unique for each piece of main content, and is linked to that piece and that piece only? Hmm. If your client just wants to be able to put the content into the regular data entry forms, is there a way you could use the built-in division that already exists between the "main" box and "read more"? i.e. put the written content in main, the image/callouts in "read more", and then hack up the template/content module so that the "read more" is displayed in a sidebar div?

Gotta love Joomla ;-)
posted by media_itoku at 9:05 PM on July 10, 2010