Help Menu Pages

[Anthony Parsons]

I think creating pages from the frontend would top something like this... IMHO, as a priority.

 

[Morgain]

Tekgirl has written a newbie pdf
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/user-how-to-guide.25563/

 

[tekgirl]

I have updated the newbie pdf to include a clickable TOC as suggested by Morgain. I have attached it to this post.

 

[erich37]

that add-on should be in XF-core as every webmaster needs to have all those things.

Many thanks Anthony for your "Help"

 

[Anthony Parsons]

Hopefully as XF develops, it brings front-end editing for pages and help menu items, once they are created via the ACP.

IMHO, that would be the ultimate all-round solution for future ease.

 

[Morgain]

Anthony thank you, so grateful you are here.

Tempting though it was to use all Anthony's riches I decided as mine is a small board to keep the number of pages in Help small.
I used just newbie guide and about us from Anthony's provision.

See www.housemorgain.co.uk/circle/help​

Navigation - navbar, and Help menu all done.
Added link in menu on left to the Help index.

Imprint ("Legal" for me) and Privacy I've put in with Terms and Rules as the formal stuff all together.
This was partly because of not being able to make a logical order integrating Anthony's pages and the standard XF pages, but I think it actually works well as simplification on a small board. (Privacy and Imprint content not in yet)

Also the Basics Guide and About Us content not there yet. Basics will use a lot of tekgirl's great content (Thank you)

Anyone wants to know how I did things ask and I'll try to answer.

 

[Morgain]

Oh I couldn't find the phrase to edit phrase BB codes in the Help menu and dropdown.

Would like to to be How to Edit Posts.

 

[Paul B]

Search the actual phrase content like so:



That returns three phrases, bb_codes is the one you want.

 

[Morgain]

I dunno what went wrong Brogan. I tried to do that before. Anyway your help meant I felt reassured and tried again.

 

[Morgain]

Where can I govern the colour of the link Terms and Rules, bottom right?

 

[Paul B]

Add to EXTRA.css:

/* Terms and Rules */
#legal a:link, #legal a:visited {
color: @dimmedTextColor !important;
}

 

[Morgain]

OK I really like this addon except for the lack of bbcode editor. I made a big effort to accept that oh XF WHEN will you add this to Pages for goddessake!

Having done it all in loborious html - I find that
- a) I can't use anchors on the page - what? this is html page anchors.
- b) two tables I used to make columns have unwanted black borders.

http://www.housemorgain.co.uk/circle/help/newbie

whinge whinge weep hissy fit

 

[Paul B]

I suspect your HTML is incorrect for your anchors, as templates render all HTML.

To create an H2 anchor for example, you would do this: <h2 id="CustomStyling">Custom Styling</h2>
As you can see here: http://xenforo.com/help/thread-prefixes/#CustomStyling

Then you can link to that anchor on the same page using: <a href="/help/thread-prefixes/#CustomStyling">See the Custom Styling section for details.</a>

 

[Morgain]

Brogan I'll study that of course.

I use

<a href="#navbar"><b>NAVBARS</b></a>

which clicks to this placeholder further on in the page:

<a name="navbar"></a><b>NAVBAR </b>

Have used that for around 15 years and it works on all the sites I've ever done - a 100 or so - admittedly not many.
There must be something XF doesn't like or wants as an extra.


OK OK OK yours worked - of course. Things wuz simpler once.

 

[Paul B]

You have the closing a tag before the text.
Try: <a name="navbar"><b>NAVBAR</b></a>

 

[Anthony Parsons]

And id replaces name now, as Brogans first example was the current use of HTML.

Using name will cause you future issues when it becomes obsolete and browsers stop supporting it.

Unfortunately, bbcode is really only a frontend function, not backend. If XF ever take page editing to the frontend for areas like help, then bbcode will certainly become a usable function again.

 

[Morgain]

Thank you for kindness Anthony and thank you for the example Brogan.
(The a being where is was was once correct honest!)

I still have a black line border around my tables.
Tried border=0px and tried border-color-white ...

<table  width="90%"  border=0px><tr><td valign=top ><h2 id="circles"><b>THE CIRCLES OF HOUSE MORGAIN</b></h2> These are our main areas of interest which are also clubs which you can join.<br />As a member of a Circle you will be notified about new additions to the discussions that interest you in your own Circles. You can see who else is a member of your Circle and get to know them if you like. You can also take part in shaping how your Circle (or Circles) works. <br />On the right of most pages here you will see a menu column, like the one just here. It shows you all the mainCircles to click to visit.<br />
<i>More about Circles.</i><br /></td>
<td valign=top ><img src="http://www.housemorgain.co.uk/circle/styles/default/circles.png" / ></td></tr></table><br />
<h2 id="clan"><b>THE CLAN OF HOUSE MORGAIN</b></h2> House Morgain is both an <b>online</b> community AND a <b>physical </b>community which centres on a 16thC motherhouse. The "About Us" page is about memberships and lists our Elders with their areas of care for the Clan.<br />
<i>More about the Clan.</i><br /><br />

 

[Anthony Parsons]

I don't understand why you would use a table to do anything nowadays... unless tabulated data. CSS columns and rows (line height) are pretty standard things nowadays.

 

[Morgain]

Because they are so comfy and straightforward to code.
I can't cope with css!

 

[erich37]

Anthony,

there are 2 other pages which might be helpful to be included:

- Webmaster (this is where you put the Banners for your own website, so that webmasters can link via Banners to your website)
- Partner (this is where you put the Banners of your Link-Partners)