[DosDawg] the blocks are created with ajax, excellent technology, you will need to open your admin page, from the nav menu on the left, you will select builders, from that menu, you need to select pages builder, now this opens with a nav menu across the top you wll see on that nav menu that there is a link called "homepage" this is the index page of the site. clicking on the homepage will open the index page area where you can edit what is on there and where you want it located at. as mentioned, this is ajax and allows for drag and drop of the items that are in the columns.
I see. It doesn't show up at all in IE (which is my only option at work). Nice job there. On firefox, it shows up, but works I have to hold the box in the new section for several seconds for it to create the new dotted space for it. That delay made me think it wasn't working because all I could do was re-arrange the boxes, not remove them or change the column. Now it works -- if I use the right browser, but feels clunky because the delay just feels non-responsive.
change all of the required fields for this, you can turn off matching as well.
I'm sure you're right, but I still haven't found it.
[DosDawg] skinning, this is a lost term on this script, there such thing as skinning, this is called templating when you are working with a dynamic scripting language such as dolphin or joomla or many others.
Same idea, but the previous poster answered that. I'm used to PHP-Nuke style themes. This way sounds like a pita.
[DosDawg] the giant area with all the wasted space can be changed from the admin area, this is done from the settings --> basic settings , and ticking use custom html block. or you can change the images that suit you and continue to use the flash loader.
I saw where I can reduce it to a single image (and I do want a single image there, just a lot smaller). But I don't see where to change the size.
Also, on IE some of the time, the box is still big, but the images are tiny in the lower right corner of that box.
[DosDawg] to change some of the nav menu buttons, you got to admin builders, navigation builders open the link for navigation builders, and just drag and drop what you want want on the menu. note that the block items under the menu item will also drop off the menu, so you need to be sure of what is on there, and make sure you dont have a user for it.
That's also totally blank from IE. From Firefox it's pretty counterintutive. I'll try again when I get home, but I didn't see a way to do it when I did find the way to move the blocks around.
create a poll it will show on the index page, as best i know, which would be the latest poll created. the link on the menu is for the archive of polls.
And how do I create a poll (either as admin or user, though I don't want my users creating polls and I think I turned that off from the admin tool).
that dolphin presents that i think boonex should change on all future releases. there is no reason to have to chmod 80+ files to do an install. i use a flat text file and shell to chmod all my files, which take me about 2 seconds to get done.
Then why can't they include the flat text file. Not that it would help me, I'm testing it in a shared hosting environment where I don't have shell access. It took me about 45 mintes using the host's custom file manager.
That did not exactly start me off on the right foot with this product.
That reminds me, I don't have access to the cron table, so I didn't set up that part at all. It wasn't clear why this is necessary, but does that mean I shouldn't do a production install on a shared host?
i hope some of these answers have given you some insight on getting things straight.
They certainly have, and thank you for taking the time, but there are just so many other issues. Some of which I mentioned here.
People keep recommending Dolphin (with a module) to offer geocities/tripod type functionality, but I haven't found any modules at all or how they are installed much less a web page creation module.
