pMachine Pro Community Forums

Customizing pMachine 2.3

2007-06-21T20:27:35Z

I know that pMachine is no longer being worked on and I don’t know how to incorporate my weblog into an html document so that it doesn’t look so plain. Is there any way it can be done? If so, I’m going to need some clear instructions on how this is going to be done because it will take me some time to get it right.

Thanks,
Jen

How to customize author/timestamp/profile/comments/trackback/pingback field

2007-06-18T20:54:26Z

I want to customize this field - I’m assuming it’s a single entity (please excuse my homemade web jargon) that I can redesign all in one place. I want to delete parts or reword/re-font some parts, but I can’t find the code for it. I’m not using any software like Dreamweaver, just Notepad. Thanks

CSS small problem finding a specific font clour control

2007-02-25T09:32:39Z

Hi,

I have been messing with the theme and have managed so far to get it close to how I want it to look by messing with the various php templates and css.

There is just one bit I want to change to a white font instead of the black it is now.

Does anyone know were to find this specific bit to change

it’s the part that show number of comment. pingback, etc. The numbers are in a black front and I need to change them to white

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The numerals are black, hope this is clear enough, I know what I mean (-:

thanks in advance for any help

all the best

erector

How do I format text within a <pre> tag?

2007-01-15T13:20:30Z

I’m including code snippets in this post:

http://www.parallaxwebdesign.com/pmachine/blog_more.php?id=29_0_1_0_M

I can’t apply CSS formatting to pre (or it isn’t working for some reason) so I tried putting a div with a class within the pre. That changed the pre text from Courier or whatever it is to the font I’m using for my p tags, but still didn’t pick up any of the formatting from the div class.

From my post:




    #


    # Alias: Maps web paths into filesystem paths and is used to


    # access content that does not live under the DocumentRoot.


    # Example:


    # Alias /webpath /full/filesystem/path


    #


    # If you include a trailing / on /webpath then the server will


    # require it to be present in the URL.  You will also likely


    # need to provide a  section to allow access to


    # the filesystem path.

My CSS:

div.coded {
font-size: 0.8em;
font-family: “Courier New”, Courier, monospace;
color: #8E8F0D;
background-color: transparent;
border: 1px solid #006;
}

What am I doing wrong?

Web Design with respect to search engine point of view

2006-10-27T05:21:40Z

Can any body give me detail info about graphics design, website design, custom logo design according to search engine point of view? Is there any great resource?

Intermittant pm_inc problem

2006-12-03T14:39:23Z

I’ve been using pMachine for quite a while now for my own website and have also installed it on a sort of hobbyist site I’m involved with. The blog portion works perfectly fine on this other installation, but I have the main page of the site pulling and displaying the first couple of blogposts as highlights.

I have the include line in my index.php file. And about 405 or 50% of the time, it works just fine. But the other 50-60% of the time, I get the standard “you don’t have your settings right in pm_inc.php” message… Even more weird is that it worked perfectly fine for 6 months and just recently started doing this. I can find no pattern to it at all, and my debugging statements indicate the $pm_path variable is being set correctly every time.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Any idea how to fix it?

I’ve temporarily replaced the error message with a sort of loop of if statements that makes the pm_inc file re-execute itself up to 5 times in a row, and that has gotten the percentage of correct displays up much higher, but that’s a crappy solution, of course, and it’s not 100%.

Anyone have any ideas??? Thanks!

My site loses formatting when viewed in Google Cache - Why?

2006-09-06T15:29:24Z

Little puzzled why my site loses positional formatting for the footer and sometimes other bits and pieces when viewed in Google Cache.

Wondered, if anybody new why this might be?

Any help much appreciated.

Cheers

How to change themes?

2006-08-15T21:10:49Z

I’ve already installed ExpressionEngine and now I need to change the theme to Blue Essence. I can’t seem to find anything on this site or anywhere on the Web that explains how to change themes once ExpressionEngine is installed. Any help would be appreciated…

mp3.com theme and menu

2006-07-26T14:43:11Z

Im trying to make a mp3.com type theme but have trouble with menu

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5339/ssph3.gif

in the image you can see the top menu (home - genres - mp3 players - etc...)

and there is a submenu, if home is slected then the submenu shows (rock & pop | hip-hop | alternative | etc...)

I want to make similar, depeding on category or section of site user is in.

How can I make menus like that for my theme?

any code or theme like this already?

thanks!

Content Dropping Below Nav. Menu

2006-07-02T12:08:13Z

I’m running pMachine Pro 2.4. I am using the default layout with the navigation menu on the left. For some reason, once content is added to the page and the window is resized, the content drops below the left-hand navigation menu.

This is also a problem with smaller screen resolutions. Try it www.usm.edu/band/music/weblog.php. Is there a way I can make the “content” holder to just wrap to the window and not drop below the navigation menu? I’m thinking it’s done in the css style sheet, but I’m not sure how. Any suggestions?