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[mmjaeger]

Hello,

Could somebody please guide me to a list with all the tags, code, placeholders that can be put into a template?!

Thanks for your help

[Ralph]

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Hello,

Could somebody please guide me to a list with all the tags, code, placeholders that can be put into a template?!

Thanks for your help

Try looking in the Etomite Wiki at http://wiki.etomite.com and see if what you are looking for is there... If not, give us some specifics and we'll do our best to help you out...

[mmjaeger]

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Hello,

Could somebody please guide me to a list with all the tags, code, placeholders that can be put into a template?!

Thanks for your help

Try looking in the Etomite Wiki at http://wiki.etomite.com and see if what you are looking for is there... If not, give us some specifics and we'll do our best to help you out...

I already checked that out - could really find it. What other tags are there besides e.g. "CONTENT" to be placed in a template.

Thanks for your help

[Ralph]

Didn't you find what you were looking for here...???

http://wiki.etomite.com/EtomiteDocumentati...ariables?v=1796

[jaredc]

Try the function listing page and also the variables list (which is where you'll find things similar to your content tag).

[mmjaeger]

this is what I'm basically talking about:

http://phpwcms.de/index.php?id=17,0,0,1,0,0

by the way, is there a way to get a printer-friendly version of the content like in phpwcms.de?

I really think etomite and phpwcms should join forces - they would have an unbeatable CMS.

Thanks for your help

[mmjaeger]

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I really think etomite and phpwcms should join forces - they would have an unbeatable CMS.

Noooo. That would be like parking a bicycle next to a Ferrari. You just don't do it!

I don't think that's a fair comparison - there are certain things in phpwcms that I really like.

Anyway, everybody is free to have his own opinion. By the way, do you know how to achieve a printer-friendly page in etomite?

[mmjaeger]

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By the way, do you know how to achieve a printer-friendly page in etomite?

I haven't seen it as a feature, but it's a darn fine idea. And one that has inspired me enough to get my CSS fingers out...

sound great - you might want to have a look at phpwcms.de then.

would that be a snippet then?

by the way, I was just wondering about the meta tags - would it be a good idea to put them as a chunk item?

[mmjaeger]

is it correct that the admin menu on the left looks kind of different from 0.62 to 0.61 - I thought there was a different look with more infos in 0.61 or maybe I just did something wrong.

[mmjaeger]

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by the way, I was just wondering about the meta tags - would it be a good idea to put them as a chunk item?

It would indeed. Keeps things modular and tidy.

pdf beside just printer-friendly would also be a nice feature, wouldn't it?

[WebbyMom]

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By the way, do you know how to achieve a printer-friendly page in etomite?

CSS would indeed be one good way to do it. Have your link to the printer-friendly page point to a version of the document that uses a second "printer" template which calls a print stylesheet. That would double your pages though, prolly not a good one off the top of my head....

OR, alternatively, you can list two stylesheets in your main template head, one for media="screen", one for media="print" and then set areas of the page that will not display when the print version is rendered. Then all they have to do is hit their browser's print button. You can see an example here on one of my sites - do a print preview to see the formatting. This should work for newer browsers (prolly v5 and up).

So there's a couple of basic mechanics ideas for you.

[Mathijs]

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You can see an example here on one of my sites - do a print preview to see the formatting.

That's a very neat solution which I haven't come across yet (being kind of a newbie) :wink:
Printer friendly pages tend to be very Google friendly as well, but I'm not sure on how these crawlers would like such a piece of meat. Anyone else?

[WebbyMom]

I have other pages on the site that have a Google page-rank of 4/10 which are also set up this way. Not that 4/10 is my ideal, but my set-up hasn't seemed to stop Google from anything, including spidering my site (just checked one page, and it's listed 15th for pertinent keywords - I'm not altogether unhappy with that).

Depends also on how your page is created. My pages on that site are not great examples of this, as I learned about all this cool stuff AFTER I re-designed the thing. But basically you're putting lots of good content on the page, using keyword-rich, relevant text, and then you set up div's and style them so that some of them don't print (like your navigation area, graphics, etc.), that's all. If you have a good page, you have a good page, and Google will like it. Doesn't matter if it calls for a separate print style sheet to print it. Which is exactly the huge advantage to alternate style sheets for print - you don't need to make two pages.

[mmjaeger]

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Try the function listing page and also the variables list (which is where you'll find things similar to your content tag).

Where do I e.g. find something like this: [[NewsListing?newsid=8]]
in the wiki manual? I was expecting to find those tags in the advanced templating section. But that section somehow is linked to the snippets?

[Mathijs]

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If you have a good page, you have a good page, and Google will like it. Doesn't matter if it calls for a separate print style sheet to print it. Which is exactly the huge advantage to alternate style sheets for print - you don't need to make two pages.

I know about 'good' pages, for I managed to get a site at the top of page #1, using very common search words
** me slamming breast **

What I would say is that a separate printer friendly page could be a very good way to raise your page ranks, but for this embedded solution I have my doubts. If you're not worried about page ranks though, it's a neat solution indeed.

[mmjaeger]

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By the way, do you know how to achieve a printer-friendly page in etomite?

I haven't seen it as a feature, but it's a darn fine idea. And one that has inspired me enough to get my CSS fingers out...

maybe a script like http://www.printer-friendly.com/ could be converted into a snippet - I just don't know. Unfortunately I know very little PHP.