Big Medium uses the main section template to build the main index page for each main section. You may view or change the main section template for each section from its section settings page.
For general tips on designing templates, read the templates help file.
What Is a Main Section Page?
The main section page is the webpage that lists all of the latest articles from one of your site's main content sections. It's essentially the home page for the section, showcasing its slice of your website's content. Big Medium lists the links by the articles' publication date, displaying only the most recent articles from the section and its subsections. You set the format display of these links in the "Link Formats" section of the site's widget settings.
Available widgets
Widgets are the chunks of dynamic html content that Big Medium generates for your site. To include a widget in your main section template, insert its tag into your html where you would like the Big Medium content to appear, and flank the widget tag with ++. For example:++ABOUTUS++
Widgets available for the main section template:
- ABOUTUS
- ADMINDIRURL
- ANNOUNCE
- BREADCRUMBS
- BROWSEMORE
- DESCRIPTION
- HEADLINE
- HNAV
- HNAVIMAGE
- HOMEDIRPATH
- HOMEDIRURL
- HSUBNAV
- HSUBNAVIMAGE
- HTMLEND
- HTMLHEAD
- LONGLINKS
- PAGEDIRPATH
- PAGEDIRURL
- PULLDOWN
- QUICKTEASE:slug
- SECTIONSLUG
- SHORTLINKS
- SPOTLIGHT
- SPOTLIGHTIMAGE
- SPOTLIGHTTEXT
- TIP
- TITLE
- TOPNEWS
- VNAV
- VNAVIMAGE
- VSUBNAV
- VSUBNAVIMAGE
Loading the Main Section Template
The main section template, like all template files, must be a text file. Users with webmaster or administrator accounts may load this template into the Big Medium system from the section settings page for the main section. To get there, click the "Section Editor" link in the left column menu of the Big Medium control panel, then click the "Settings" link in the section panel for the section in question. (If you haven't created the section yet, click "New Main Section").
In the "Main Section Template" section of the section settings page, click the browse button, then indicate the location of the file on your computer's local hard drive. After selecting the file, click the "Save" button at the bottom of the page.
Need more help?
For further assistance and documentation, visit the website of Global Moxie, the developer behind Big Medium.