Friday 23 September 2011

editing category structures and changing colours

I've spent most of the day trying to figure out how xpapers fits together and how to modify bits of it. Still got a few issues with adding content and doing forum posts, which will be the topic of a future post.

It seems categories can be created either by going to the admin menu (if you are an admin) and choosing "edit category structure". Once done the command $XPAPERS/bin/setup/mkforums.pl needs to be run from the command line. It seems that only at this point will the categories appear on the main page.

The core 4 colours of the page seem to be controlled by the C1,C2,C3 and C4 variables in /etc/xpapers.d/main.pl. This doesn't change everything on the page, the green/blue bar across the top is actually an image and the backgrounds to headings within the main page.

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