EVO frontpage

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Known problems:

#1 (Only for Joomla 2.5) If you clic on an article of EVO frontpage and then you see the article and still the module too, this is for you.

Since Joomla 1.5, Joomla has changed his behaviour and presents a "problem" with all modules and item menus configured to show articles. In this case, when you are using EVO frontpage set to be shown in a menu item of Joomla 2.5 that is configured to show articles (for example articles like a blog) and you clic an article shown by EVO frontpage, you will be seen booth; the article and the module. (For ie: you are viewing your homepage, wich only has my module, so you can see some articles in it, you clic one of them and now you see the entire article plus still my module.)

To avoid this, you need to create a new hidden menu item for each category you have, following these steps:

1. Create a new menu (Menus -> Menu manager -> Add new menu), set a Title (like Menu for categories) and any menu type (like catmenu).

2. Inside that menu, we need to create each Menu item (Menus -> Menu for categories -> Add new menu item) and select type (Category blog) and menu title (for ie: News). At right tabs, select one of your categories (like News). Do this with each category you have articles to be shown in EVO frontpage.

3. The end. Now, if you clic on an article shown by EVO frontpage , you will be reading the entire content of the article without seeing my module. Note that the name set to the menu item will be part of the URL, like www.mysite/news/article1.

#2 If you have activated EVO frontpage in a certain page of your site and now other modules or animated addons don't work, you must go to module parameters, go to Advanced, at right, and set Jquery option to NO. With this setted up, you won't be abble to use animated tabs on EVO frontpage module.

A good piece of advice:

(The problem #1 can be solved with this method too). If you have some issues showing the module, you can easily show the module inside an article, so you can move the module simply moving the article. To do that, go to EVO frontpage module settings and in module position set a position that your template hasn't got, like "evofrontpage", then, create an article, write a title like "Article for RVO frontpage" and set it Uncategorised and Featured (Yes). In content of the article, only write "loadposition evofrontpage" (With "{" at start and "}" at end). The last step is to create or modify a menu item, for example, the existing "Home" item, wich type we are going to change to only show "Single Article" (we select the article created before "Article for EVO frontpage") and set the Article options at right, like not to show title, author, etc...

Go to Home page and see the result!

How can I re-generate the thumbnails?

Maybe, you are changing the size of thumbnails but it uses the old smaller / bigger one. If this happens, go to your hosting files admin and delete images into /images/stories/evofp. Then, thumbnails will be re-generated.

It doesn't create thumbnails on localhost.

The module doesn't work 100% on localhost because it searches for images in a real web hosting. It should create all the thumbnails when will be installed into a web hosting on internet.

It doesn't create thumbnails.

Be sure that images you are using in your articles are are hosted on your /images folder, and that images in your articles are placed in Introtext, before the Read more. Maybe you don't want to show an image in Introtext in your articles, but you want to generate thumbnails...due to behaviour changes in Joomla! 2.5 the only solutions for this issue is to insert an invisible image before the Read more, with an invisible HTML code like this: <!-- <img src="image_url_here" /> -->

Where must be hosted the images which I put into articles to be generated as thumbnails?

To best performance, images on your articles must be hosted into /images folder. (However, in Joomla! 1.5 module version, files can be hosted where you want; coming soon to Joomla! 2.5 version)

Can I make a Menu with it?

Yes, if you want to make a Menu with this module, like the example we have at left, follow these steps:

- Create a new category to host the articles of next step.
- Create an article (or many as menu items you want). The title of the article must be the title you want to show like menu item (For example: News). You can add an image into the article and/or text to be shown in menu item.
- Create new Menu and the items you want.
- Go to EVO frontpage Module admin page and set to show only the category created before.
- Now, when you clic on item menu, you are actually going to an article, so now, you only need to redirect from this article to the item menu you have created in step 2. You can do it through a redirection code or an extension. For example, for Joomla! 1.5, I have used the plugin SBD 301 Redirect.

Can I change font size, colors, etc?

Of course; you can modify it by the general way changing the CSS file, at /modules/mod_evo_frontpage/css folder. You can help yourself using addon for Firefox like Firebug. Make a backup of CSS file before modifying.