How to Edit Original Corked Screwer Content.

Hi and thanks.
I think I was too impatient yesterday and uninstalled Drupal and installed wordpress. That's the easy part. I had corked screwer running when I posted. I just could not figure out how to put my components into the template I had seen.
I don't understand what possible value there is to a template is it is a complete mystery as to how to input your material to reproduce that result.
Corked Screwer had a main 10*3 (approx) image that scrolled on a 10 second timer and changed to 4-5 different images - that I imagined were illustrating the topics. I saw no facility for me to input my own images into the first scroll bar.

Underneath the main image scroll were three columns with photos to id the topics which can be clicked on and then I can go read the article. This is what I want ------- why is it not remotely obvious how to set that up?

Again, what is the point of the template?

I've been using Drupal to build websites for local businesses for a couple of years. I installed the Corked Screwer theme on a dummy site to see what was up.

There is not an obvious way to update the images for the slider (slide-show). You actually have to go in and edit the page.tpl.php and edit the lines that reference the slider images.

You might take a look at the Marinelli theme. It has a built in slide-show and a region where you can add blocks for your content below it. I don't think it would take much effort to get a similar look, but the ease of adding the slide-show images is substantially better. Under the settings for the theme, there is a field for uploading and labeling the slide-show images. You can also define which page the images should display on. Thus the slide-show on a sub-page can be unique from the home page. Or just a single image displayed on each sub-page with a slide-show on the homepage. This will make it easier to keep the site fresh with new images as you desire.

Also, I would like a built in directory on site, not of the site and my articles - but like an add on dbase maybe where I can have a look up and search directory of marinas, boat builders, etc.

I personally would tend to write a module that handles and displays this information. But, you might consider creating a content type to handle it. Set the content type up to include fields for all of the information you want available e.g. company name, address, url and description. Then use views to display and sort the data to present it to your users. You might have a view that displays just marinas on a page for marinas and have it sortable (or filtered) by state, and then another page where the same type of functionality is created for boat builders.

If you are just starting in Drupal, I echo what has been said, the learning curve can be steep. I believe it is worth it, but if you are short on time, and not a programmer, you may find it too steep. I learned independently starting with Drupal 6, and had the luxury of time so I used on-line tutorials for specific questions and wore out a copy of Pro Drupal Development. I am now using a variety of books to migrate from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. If it helps, what programming I know is self taught and I'm a bit of an old fart. My generation still used sliderules in high school ;-)

Agreed, the customization of Corked Screwer (CS) is somewhat primitive, but their approach of having you edit page.tpl.php is not unique. The Danland theme, which I've used on another site, also takes that approach for the slideshow. If you are willing to make a few tweaks, though, Corked Screwer works pretty well. I used it to set up a site for a friend's poultry farm so you can see how it works with other images:

http://triplecreekpoultry.com/

She's just starting out using it, so there's not a lot of content there yet, but I do like some of the things that CS does. It doesn't manage things well on an iPad in portrait mode (fine in landscape, or on an iPhone), and I need to look at the CSS and see what's up. Seems to adjust to screen width pretty well in most other situations.

But yes, it takes some editing of php and css files to make changes. I'm certainly not a Drupal expert, but I do appreciate the flexibility. WordPress is simple, but more limited, IMHO, in what you can do. There's not much you can't do with Drupal, but it's pretty plain out of the box.

-Joel

I have to say I prefer the page.tpl method to the way I have seen some themes do it.

This is at least a code based change that is easy to find. I am almost always looking at the page.tpl anyway so it makes it easy to add slide images quickly if you know what your doing.

I don't really like it when I have to go searching all over creation to find where to change the slider in some themes. page.tpl is a natural place that I feel is the more standard approach for quite a few themes.

I definitely agree with what troutdun said "their approach of having you edit page.tpl.php is not unique." It is not unique in any way, when themes go and put images in a completely seperate folder I get downright annoyed. I would rather find a couple lines in page.tpl then search through folders for files to replace.

That's just my 2 cents on the issue.

Due to the high position of this in google, I wanted to add that it's not necessary to remove the template content from the themes/corkedscrewer/page.tpl.php file. As soon as some content is added to the block called banner, the built-in banner slideshow is hidden (see lines 101-105).

Simply define a block with jquery slideshow content, or use views to output a block with HTML that matches the corkedscrewer sample values. Doing this needs a bit of tweaking to the view html generator but works fine.

I checked, you additionally need to go to the Settings of the theme, and un-check the box marked "Slideshow" to remove the built-in banner slideshow (see lines 101-105).

I had to modify a view's style php file to get my block output to match the existing banner code, but it does work.

The post is old. However for the benefits of those who like to use Corkedscrewer theme and like to customize them, here are the changes that you should make:

[1] Number of slides

Current is 5. Let us say you want to change to 6, or whatever.

Try it.

[a] Unzip the corkedscrewer fies.
[b] Find and open template.php file using any text editor
[c] Search for "array('type' => 'inline', 'scope' => 'footer', 'weight' => 5)"
[d] Change it "6" // without the quotes
[e] Save it
[f] Use cPanel/File Manager // if using remote host
[g] Navigate to /public_html/sites/all/themes/corkedscrewer
[h] Click "Upload File"
[i] Browse to your local file directory where you made the changes
[j] Select ../template.php and click "Upload"
[k] Press "yes" to overwrite the existing file
[l] Wait until file upload is completed

!!!Important!!!

Do not refresh the page yet.

[2] Adding slides

2.1 Preparing the image file

[a] Make sure your slide is ready. File size is 950x250 px.
[b] Copy your slide to local machine in ../corkedscrewer/images/local and give it a suitable name which is intuitive.
[c] Open cPanel/File Manager/public_html/sites/all/themes/images/local
[d] Upload the image file to the above directory.

2.2 Editing page.tpl.php file

You need to make 2 changes to the codes.

The first change:

[a] Open ../corkedscrewer/page.tpl.php file.
[b] Search for

<

div class="slider-item">
[c] Select the entire code snippets for any slider item and select "copy"
[d] Go to where you want to place it // I place it to the beginning and click "paste".
[e] Replace the name of the file with without the angle bracket
[f] Edit the title and body.

The second change:

[g] Go to the section

<

ul id="slide-nav">
[h] Copy and paste the following "

"

Before anything, recheck that there are syntactical errors.

Now you are ready to upload page.tpl.php

[i] Open cPanel/File Manager/public_html/sites/all/themes/corkedscrewer // if not already opened.
[j] Click "Upload File"
[k] Browse and select "page.tpl.php"
[l] Click "Install" and wait for completion.
[m] Go to your Admin Page
[n] Flush all caches
[o] Reload the page if necessary.

What happened? If you see the changes, you have done it correctly. Otherwise, either I may have missed listing some steps or you may done it wrongly.

Good luck.

Does anybody please know the syntax to get the > and < arrorws working correctly? Rather stupidly I changed the slide names and cannot now work it out from what I have left!

Any help would be appreciated. Google searches have gotten me nowhere to date.

If you have a working slider where the ARROW symbols work, could you cut and paste the code here?

Thanks

Cebab54