Changing Text on Template 5 Home page, Need Advice for Novice Options

[Jenny]

Hello all
Happy New Year from OZ

I have JUST managed to get template 5 up and loaded on my new site
I know literally nothing about changing text or layout of pages
At present am happy just to find my way around........but the home page is fine except for text in middle which looks a little like LATIN!!

Can some one guide me through the maze to write a small introduction here??

Many thanks

Jenny

[Ken Roy]

Hello all
Happy New Year from OZ

I have JUST managed to get template 5 up and loaded on my new site
I know literally nothing about changing text or layout of pages
At present am happy just to find my way around........but the home page is fine except for text in middle which looks a little like LATIN!!

Can some one guide me through the maze to write a small introduction here??

Many thanks

Jenny

Jenny, You should use a text editor like Notepad or Notepad++ to edit the index.php file. There are comments within the file where to edit the text. In the template 5, index.php file line 104 says

CODE

<!--EDIT PARAGRAPH TEXT BELOW HERE.-->

Hope that helps.

[Paul Wake]

Hello all
Happy New Year from OZ

I have JUST managed to get template 5 up and loaded on my new site
I know literally nothing about changing text or layout of pages
At present am happy just to find my way around........but the home page is fine except for text in middle which looks a little like LATIN!!

Can some one guide me through the maze to write a small introduction here??

Many thanks

Jenny

Using Latin as a filler is pretty common; you'll see it a lot in computer instruction books. It shows where text goes, but since most people can't read it they don't get bogged down by focusing on the content. In this case, it's there for you to replace. I'll add just a bit to what Ken Roy said.

Here's something about Template 5:
http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic...l=template+text

And although this is about Template 4, maybe there's something relevant in it too:
http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic...l=template+text

I use Template 5, although mine is modified quite a bit; the index page in particular is reformatted, and I use some custom icons and so forth. Not many other people do use Template 5 but it seems nice to me. If you're new and curious about the different parts of TNG, you could look at my site. It implements to at least a small degree a number of things that most people don't use and so you might wonder about them if you've been looking around for examples of how they work (like timelines and albums). You'd need access to living data to see some of it. Use guest twice to log in. Note that some of what's there, like the guestbook, isn't part of normal TNG.

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Paul Wake
http://www.xmission.com/~wake/genealogy/index.php

[Jenny]

Jenny, You should use a text editor like Notepad or Notepad++ to edit the index.php file. There are comments within the file where to edit the text. In the template 5, index.php file line 104 says

CODE

<!--EDIT PARAGRAPH TEXT BELOW HERE.-->

Hope that helps.

Thank you very Much

I will give it a go and see what happens!

Jenny

Using Latin as a filler is pretty common; you'll see it a lot in computer instruction books. It shows where text goes, but since most people can't read it they don't get bogged down by focusing on the content. In this case, it's there for you to replace. I'll add just a bit to what Ken Roy said.

Here's something about Template 5:
http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic...l=template+text

And although this is about Template 4, maybe there's something relevant in it too:
http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic...l=template+text

I use Template 5, although mine is modified quite a bit; the index page in particular is reformatted, and I use some custom icons and so forth. Not many other people do use Template 5 but it seems nice to me. If you're new and curious about the different parts of TNG, you could look at my site. It implements to at least a small degree a number of things that most people don't use and so you might wonder about them if you've been looking around for examples of how they work (like timelines and albums). You'd need access to living data to see some of it. Use guest twice to log in. Note that some of what's there, like the guestbook, isn't part of normal TNG.

-----
Paul Wake
http://www.xmission.com/~wake/genealogy/index.php

[Jenny]

Using Latin as a filler is pretty common; you'll see it a lot in computer instruction books. It shows where text goes, but since most people can't read it they don't get bogged down by focusing on the content. In this case, it's there for you to replace. I'll add just a bit to what Ken Roy said.

Here's something about Template 5:
http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic...l=template+text

And although this is about Template 4, maybe there's something relevant in it too:
http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic...l=template+text

I use Template 5, although mine is modified quite a bit; the index page in particular is reformatted, and I use some custom icons and so forth. Not many other people do use Template 5 but it seems nice to me. If you're new and curious about the different parts of TNG, you could look at my site. It implements to at least a small degree a number of things that most people don't use and so you might wonder about them if you've been looking around for examples of how they work (like timelines and albums). You'd need access to living data to see some of it. Use guest twice to log in. Note that some of what's there, like the guestbook, isn't part of normal TNG.

-----
Paul Wake
http://www.xmission.com/~wake/genealogy/index.php

Using Latin as a filler is pretty common; you'll see it a lot in computer instruction books. It shows where text goes, but since most people can't read it they don't get bogged down by focusing on the content. In this case, it's there for you to replace. I'll add just a bit to what Ken Roy said.

Here's something about Template 5:
http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic...l=template+text

And although this is about Template 4, maybe there's something relevant in it too:
http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic...l=template+text

I use Template 5, although mine is modified quite a bit; the index page in particular is reformatted, and I use some custom icons and so forth. Not many other people do use Template 5 but it seems nice to me. If you're new and curious about the different parts of TNG, you could look at my site. It implements to at least a small degree a number of things that most people don't use and so you might wonder about them if you've been looking around for examples of how they work (like timelines and albums). You'd need access to living data to see some of it. Use guest twice to log in. Note that some of what's there, like the guestbook, isn't part of normal TNG.

-----
Paul Wake
http://www.xmission.com/~wake/genealogy/index.php

Using Latin as a filler is pretty common; you'll see it a lot in computer instruction books. It shows where text goes, but since most people can't read it they don't get bogged down by focusing on the content. In this case, it's there for you to replace. I'll add just a bit to what Ken Roy said.

Here's something about Template 5:
http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic...l=template+text

And although this is about Template 4, maybe there's something relevant in it too:
http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic...l=template+text

I use Template 5, although mine is modified quite a bit; the index page in particular is reformatted, and I use some custom icons and so forth. Not many other people do use Template 5 but it seems nice to me. If you're new and curious about the different parts of TNG, you could look at my site. It implements to at least a small degree a number of things that most people don't use and so you might wonder about them if you've been looking around for examples of how they work (like timelines and albums). You'd need access to living data to see some of it. Use guest twice to log in. Note that some of what's there, like the guestbook, isn't part of normal TNG.

-----
Paul Wake
http://www.xmission.com/~wake/genealogy/index.php

Hi Paul

Thanks so much for your help and everyone else who gave advise about Template 5

I managed the text editing Ok but no matter what I do (following instructions from the kind people here) I cannot load a photo into the smallphoto.jpg slot
have tried a few and uploaded a few times to no avail
still blank with X
Can someone please walk me through this??

Many thanks

Jenny

[Paul Wake]

On my site, most of the photos are in the photos folder. However, the index.php page photo is actually in my main genealogy folder (the same folder that index.php is is). Try that, and see if it works.

[Jenny]

On my site, most of the photos are in the photos folder. However, the index.php page photo is actually in my main genealogy folder (the same folder that index.php is is). Try that, and see if it works.

Thanks Paul
I will give this a whirl

Jenny