plain zen like front page required if possible

[stog]

hi
thx for your excellent tiny portal which i use on quite a few sites
i wonder though which theme/setup you would suggest for getting the simplest of front pages- and which would give me most flexibility on setting up buttons or even none!

using 1.1.11 and 1beta4 - i've been playing around with header and footer php's to allow for an iframe use of an html site, but would love to have a simple adagio or corto look without any of the forum log in/messages links showing up on the front page - this is for a specific site which will only be used by a few folks for forum use...

i've set up a front page article approach too with corto but would love to lose most of the index template just for the front page

is it a matter of editing out in the index template - which affects the whole forum site or is there another approach i am overlooking

any ideas gratefully received

many thx again

[JPDeni]

The header and footer for the site will show up on the front page, so if you don't want that, you'll have to make something that doesn't use the index.php file for your theme. You could create a separate page outside of your forum directory as an entry way into your forum, with just a simple link. Then you could make the page look however you wanted.

[Mick]

Jp.....

how about a index.html ?

It would be a blank page.  It just a matter of adding its content with a link to the forum which uses index.php

[stog]

thx

i suppose my hangup is that when they are anywhere in the forum/smf area and click home - they don't get to that index.html , but go to index.php -

which might only mean  that i need alter the 'home' link, but that seems so integral to the smf part - $scripturl is it?

ie we can get into the smf site from the html ok, but to get directly 'back' from the smf area....using smf's 'Home" button..

i'm actually tieing-in or attempting to tie-in, an iweb site

(would it be any easier if i was using smf2 RC2 ? and, this wonderful clean theme here, of mr bloc's with beta5 seems that it might allow a very spacious front page with a very minimal top too )

thx for your input guys n gals

[Mick]

You can always add a link button to yoursite.com/index.html in the nav bar.

unless you want that in the linktree?

the index.html will come before index.php if accessed that way.

[JPDeni]

(would it be any easier if i was using smf2 RC2 ? and, this wonderful clean theme here, of mr bloc's with beta5 seems that it might allow a very spacious front page with a very minimal top too )

When beta 5 is available to the public, that might be an option. Until it is available, we don't offer it as an option, though, because it would be sorta worthless to tell you to use something you don't have access to.

which might only mean  that i need alter the 'home' link, but that seems so integral to the smf part - $scripturl is it?

$scripturl points to the index.php file. You shouldn't have to change anything.

the index.html will come before index.php if accessed that way.

Interesting. I've never used both in a directory.

[ccbtimewizard]

It depends on what the apache is configured to read. You can set the default indexing file of a directory through .htaccess, and generally index.html will be read before index.php as index.html is the most common.

[stog]

You can always add a link button to yoursite.com/index.html in the nav bar.

unless you want that in the linktree?

the index.html will come before index.php if accessed that way.

thx but what i really want to try n do is........
can i change the 'title' Home - so that it is called something else? leaving me free to add a new button in the smf parts, that links to my index.html which i can label Home..thro-out the smf part


i wondered about using the "action"mod as a way of adding my own button perhaps - could this be a way of adding my home .html page to the linktree?

--->yes re beta 5  and smf 2 - with this very theme looks almost the solution - i await all with eagerness!

thx everyone

[Mick]

You can always add a link button to yoursite.com/index.html in the nav bar.

unless you want that in the linktree?

the index.html will come before index.php if accessed that way.

thx but what i really want to try n do is........
can i change the 'title' Home - so that it is called something else? leaving me free to add a new button in the smf parts, that links to my index.html which i can label Home..thro-out the smf part


i wondered about using the "action"mod as a way of adding my own button perhaps - could this be a way of adding my home .html page to the linktree?

--->yes re beta 5  and smf 2 - with this very theme looks almost the solution - i await all with eagerness!

thx everyone

Yes the action mod should work but my question is,

..if you need a front a page, why does it matter if it shows in the link tree?


All you need is a button in the navigation bar of the forum directed to the "new" front page.

Do you have a website and a forum?  or just a forum?

Have you tried the "bakers dozen mod" yet?  It adds 13 extra pages to the forum and has a linktree system.  Its based off the "help" pages.

[ZarPrime]

thx but what i really want to try n do is........
can i change the 'title' Home - so that it is called something else? leaving me free to add a new button in the smf parts, that links to my index.html which i can label Home..thro-out the smf part

This is easily accomplished.  The themestring to change is located in the following file --> /Themes/default/languages/index.english.php

In SMF 2.0 RC2, the line to change is ...

Code Select Expand


$txt['home'] = 'Home';


In order for this to take effect, you might have to "Empty the file cache"after you change the "Home" to "Whatever".

In SMF 1.1.11 it's different.  I believe the line to look for is ...

Code Select Expand


$txt[103] = 'Home';


ZarPrime