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The page for your category will automatically display a list of all the articles in that category (add some more articles to see this). -and- To make a list of articles in a specific category display on a page other than the category page, you use the 'Article List" Content Part. Content parts ...

yeah I know...it took me days to figure out the most basic things.

Have you associated the template with the category (as described in the previous message)? Are you saying that you see all the template elements but just not the content? Or is it a completely blank page?

Yes it is insanely complicated. Here's how to do what you want: In the left column of the admin area, click: 'templates" You will see your template list. Click on the [+] 'add template' button. this will create a new blank template. In the 'main' area make sure you put a {CONTENT} replacement t...

Yes it is the 4. It is now working. Thanks.

That's interesting. I am using a mac and none of my browsers (Internet Explorer, Safari, Firebird, Opera ) show this. They do show the hint windows for the other interface widgets (cut, delete, etc), but not for the red x icon to the left of the article title. Is there a way to extract the article I...

Thanks for your help, Pepe. I think I am already using the article ID, but just to make sure...exactly how do I find the article ID? Is it the ID that is shown in blue-grey in the content part summary (article page)? Because I could not make it work, I have removed the search field from the template...

oops wait I spoke too soon. It only works on the page with the search content part (the ID:9 page). It does not work on any other pages, even though the form is visible on all pages. ??? I have created a search structure level and a search page with a search content part. Here's the code I am using ...

thanks. the quotes were the problem. works fine with no quotes.

Wow that works! Thanks Pepe.

In the onLoad field of Template area, what path do I use to preload images in my 'picture' folder? I am using the same path as for the normal state images (picture/image.gif), but the over state images are not preloading. Any ideas? The actual code is more complex than I mentioned above and does inc...

I agree. You can't expect a CMS to do everything. That's what designers are for!

(However, I do think the nav_table_column menu would be much more powerful if it was all CSS based and had all its controls located in one style sheet.)

Thanks everyone. phpwcms is great, but the menu system is very limited. I have decided to forget the left column and the Nav_Column. Its just too hard to customize. I will be hard-coding the links using Oliver's method. If you look at the attached desgin you will see why: http://www.stevenlyons.com/...

Thanks again.

But will ID work when embedded in and around javascript?

OK I can now answer my own question after being forced to look at another wcms site's code.

For those of you interested in doing this, all you have to do is use the following link structure:

How do I link to my site structure from a custom menu? The menu is made from images with Javascript rollovers. Each is coded like this: <a href="#" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('menu_r2_c1','','/cms/picture/menu_r2_c1_f2.gif',1);"><img nam...