Hello,
I am trying to display names of all categories in one column format to the left in all pages (in addition to the existing home page two column category display). Can this be done?

Thank you in advance for your help
Mark

I am unsure what you want, take a look at my site.
http://www.ultimateworld.info

I have a list of categories down the left hand side and in the right hand IFrame half way down I have full description cats.

If this is what you require, just use the build second homepage mod and either iframe it or call it in with SSI.

Stu2000

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That is exactly what I am looking for..
Your site is sooooooooo coooooool.
I do not know much about SSI or the new mod. Though, I have to dig up for these stuff..

Thank you and regards..
Mark

If u require further assisitance, just post back and I or someone else will help u out

Stu2000

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Thank you!
I am puzzeled! how can you include a whole page from another location using SSI???
I have now idea how it works... now yo make me think of changing one of my sites to include a directory from the other one.. a different page layout..
Can this be made using SSI... how..
Thank you again
Mark

the poor man's way is to manually create them and add them to the html page - you can even add them to the non-links pages. I haven't changed/added a category in over a year. so why waste time to rebuild the same thing over and over ( just my opinion ).


Gene
"The older I get, the more I admire competence, just simple competence in any field from adultery to zoology."

SSI is definately the way ahead, that along with css, my templates contain very little information, its all SSI whicj makes life so much easier.

Everything is contained in simple .txt files and called into the webpage.

The main advantage of SSI is that by changing one .txt file, you can change the whole design of your site, every template in one go, instead of manaully changing each one.

Have a look here, its a small tutorial but it may help you. One thing if using SSI you will have to change links.cfg to build all files as.shtml instead of your current config which is probably .html or .htm

Look here
http://cgi-resource.co.uk/pages/ssi.shtml

Stu2000

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well, there are 2 issues here. one, how to generate the category data ( manual or thru links ) and two how to get that info in your templates.

Links actually creates the category data - your home page and category page. ( well, my home page has all cats 'cause I installed the yahoo mod ). if they are all in the home.html then it would be easy. to do it manually, just copy the html from you home or category page and paste into a new doc. the html may be jumble but create one url and then just copy/paste it enough for all categories. then copy the category into the url. you could do several per minute. or maybe there is a mod to format them.

one of the ways to get them into your html pages is here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...;;page=unread#unread


Gene
"The older I get, the more I admire competence, just simple competence in any field from adultery to zoology."

Thanks a lot all. This gave me exactly what I was looking for.. I will go with that..
Thank you again and regards..
Mark