Cutenews Help
So, you've downloaded Cutenews, installed it, but you don't know where to go from there. You're completely lost and confused. Well, here is where I come in to help you. These are just a few tips/tricks/methods of getting what you want out of Cutenews. You don't have to credit me for using these tutorials, but if someday someone asks you for help, it would be nice if you pointed them over here ;-)Changing the News Title
So you don't like the default look of a news title in Cutenews, and you want it to look the way YOU want it. Here's how to customize your news titles.First, go to http://yoursite.com/cutenews and then go to Options > Edit Templates. There will be six links: Active News, Full Story, Comment, Add Comment Form, News Pagination, and Comments Pagination. First, click on Active News. You'll see a box with some code pop up. Find where it has this code (without the spaces), or something like it:
| < div style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 2px" >< strong >{title}< /strong >< /div > |
Then you need to change that code to this (again without the spaces!!):
| < div id="newshead" >{title}< /div > |
Then open up your stylesheet, and add an id for what you want the news title to look like. For example, you might have this:
| #newshead{ border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; font-size: 14pt; } |
That would make your title a 14 size font, with a thin black border on the bottom. After you finish those steps, you also need to do the same thing to the Full Story code under Options > Edit Templates =)
Uploading Your Own Smilies
This tutorial will show you how to delete the [icky] smilies that are default with Cutenews and upload as many of your own smilies as you would like! =)First, you will need to download or make some smilies to use. Beccary has some good ones.
After your smilies are downloaded and saved onto your computer, open up your FTP program, and go to the cutenews directory > data > emoticons. Delete all the files in that folder (except the .htaccess file) and upload all the smilies you want to use.
Next, go to http://yoursite.com/cutenews, and go to Options > System Configuration. In the General heading, find where it says "Smilies". In the box there, list the file names (for example: if one of your smilies is called smile.gif, just write smile) of all the smilies that you uploaded, separated by commas and with no spaces. Now click Save Changes.
Your custom smilies should be up now! =)