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Plexel Help Home Back Site Contents Map Page Index A-Z Main Pages  Audit Standards  Procedure  Clickboard Sections  Steps  Various Emails  Toolbar Etc  Downloads Reference  Information Sites  Download Plexel  Plexos.Com home  Contact us Various Emails - Quite a lot of help on Plexel and making websites. Changing the site Clickboard and Template. Changing the site Clickboard and then doing Utility + Replace Clickboard throughout folder, will copy your change to all the pages in the site. Ditto for template, where you can change the basic colour scheme, columns colour etc. SEE BOX AT BOTTOM OF PAGE

TEMPLATE -------- > One other problem I had, which I can tell you about, was when I was making new pages. A picture from the Kittens? page appeared on every new page made. Apart from Clickboard.htm there is another file called templte.htm in the pusscats folder that is used for every page. This is the same file you can get to with Load + Template Load. Every new page uses the template as a basis and also everytime you use Utility + Replace Template, Plexel is using the Template file to work from. So if you change the colours of the Template and then do Utility + Replace Template + throughout folder, Plexel will change the colours of all the pages in the site. What has happened is that you have somehow inserted an image into col2 of the the Template and it will appear on every new page created. It will not however appear when you do Replace Template to a page without the Kitten image because Replace Template only replace the framework of a page and not the content in each column. So to remedy things please doe Load+Template Load, then edit col2 and remove the image. CHANGING COLOURS IN THE TEMPLATE -------------------------------- You do not change the colours on individual pages. We use one colour scheme per website and this is controlled from the Template file templte.htm. So you just change the colours in this one file. Then you use Utility + Replace Template + Throughout folder + OK. This then copies the template colours to every page in the website. You then have to upload all the pages that have been changed. Use Paste + Upload changed files in folder + OK for this. To change the colours in the Template you first do Load + Template so you can see the template page. Then you do Edit + Header (of the Colors section) to change the Header colour for example. There are various other options. You have to play around with them to see. You can see the HTML Color Words by clicking the link in the Colors section. Another email on this --------------------- > John, in regards to 'changing the template' is it possible to carry out this action in Plexel once text and images have been inserted? Yes. > And, what are the potentials and limitations of doing this? Is the template structure, colours etc, something you decide upon and compose for each site? All new websites are setup with the default colour scheme. It is usually the site makers that change the colours (if they are told how!). Ian did for http://harry-potter-games.com maybe you could have a look. > I ask this in terms of learning purposes, as I?d like to have a go at doing this. Ok first do Load + Html colours, and you can see the names of the colours you can use. Now keep that window open and open another window with New + Display (it's at the top of col3) and go to pusscats (if you are not already there) and do Load + Template Load. That puts the template page in view. Now you can play around with the colours. Click Edit and notice a table to the right of the Edit form with 'Background, HeaderBorder, Header etc' options. Not all of these might work 100% since it's been a long time since I checked them. Now click 'C2' (not Col2) and type 'red' into the box, then click 'Return to Display' and you can see column 2 has gone red. If you did Utility+Replace Template throughout folder all the pages would have a red column 2. Not a good idea! So now click Edit again then 'C2' and type 'seashell' to put the colour back to what it was. You can see 'C1 Line C2 Line C3 Line' this is supposed to represent the page as it looks from left to right. You can also set the line width. Click the left hand LineWidth and type 3, Return to Display, and you can see it thicker. Change it back to 1. So there you go, more or less working ok but there are a few glitches. You may want to have a third window open (do New + Display again) and go to a test page for which you do Utility+replace Template as you go along after each change so you can see the effect. > Although I am aware making any alterations to the template may not be possible for one reason or another, but it's still a feature I'm keen to learn more about. For example, is it possible to change the colours of individual columns and or pages? You can change colours of columns but any changes to the template normally affect all pages in the site in the same way. It is not recommended to change any one particular page colours because Replace Template would normally overwrite them. However you can 'Protect' any page against a Template Replace but that may work against us because Template Replace handles a load of other stuff too like the format of the google ads. So it is best to have one colour scheme for all pages. CLICKBOARD ---------- Normally we refer to the clicking table in col1 as the 'clickboard'. To change it please click Load + Clickboard. You will see a page called 'Clickboard' with a copy of the clickboard in col3. This page is the one used to put the clickboard in all the other pages. What you change here will be changed on all the other pages too when you do Utility + Replace clickboard + throughout folder + OK. To change the clickboard just do Edit + col3 and make changes. You will have to be a bit careful and try and follow the HTML but it is fairly self explanatory. For example to get rid of the Terry Blanco link just remove this line and save:- &nbsp; &nbsp;<A HREF="Terry_Blanco_Foosball.htm">Terry Blanco Foosball</A><BR> Then do Utility + Replace clickboard + throughout folder + OK. The level of indentation is controlled by the number of &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; always forces a space to be printed in HTML because multiple spaces are printed as one space unless you use &nbsp; for example:- Hello this is about three spaces will appear on the page as:- Hello this is about three spaces but Hello&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;this is about three spaces and Hello &nbsp; this is about three spaces will usually appear on the page as:- Hello this is about three spaces