Abbington Mega Template [Support Thread]

[shags38]

Hello Anne,

subsequent to your response I have merged the files and ended up with a blank front page so have reverted to my default position, ( no tabs and editable home page centerbox). I find myself in a position whereby I am getting advice from 2 quarters and frankly it is confusing, and the advice lacks the 'bouncing ball' type that you put so well in your template instructions (great job as I have commented on before). I have been advised to 'merge files' and/or 'merge folders' and referenced two modules.

Here is what I have done on my latest attempt; merged includes/templates/abbington_mega/templates/tpl_index_default.php from Abbington Mega template with file of same name from Editable Home Page Centerboxes plugin and, merged includes/templates/abbington_mega/templates/tpl_index_categories.php from Editable Home Page Centerboxes plugin with the file of same name written by GAM as posted in the Tabbed Home Page Modules thread. This resulted in the blank page.

I am obviously missing something but the problem is I am not getting a tutorial, I am getting broad suggestions. I know Diva thinks the whole thing is beyond me however I have done similar things before with 'bouncing ball' advice - I am not unintelligent but what I am not is a coder. What I was hopeful of was something like;
1. merge (file name) from (template or some module) with file of same name from Editable Home Page centerboxes (version)
2. merge (file name) from (template or some module) with file of same name from Editable Home Page centerboxes (version)
etc etc, which is what is in the installation instructions for the EHPCB (except it lacks the where from, just merge these files), which I have done.
Somewhere between A and Z I have missed something but I cannot find the right signposts.

I was not at first but I am now confident I have merged the files correctly - do it as often as I have over the past few days and you get to become competent at it.

That is why I will wait Anne - maybe someone reading this thread (aside from Diva), or the other threads, will merge the appropriate files and post the files somewhere.

The frustrating thing Anne is that this is not rocket science, but for people like you and Diva and others it is fairly simple or at least not overly difficult as you do this sort of thing regularly so are very competent. People like me do this, or attempt to do something like this very rarely and only generally when it is a problem so I find it very challenging - after nearly 3 years of using ZC and 10 sites I have achieved much, learned a lot, but this is my biggest challenge yet, and frankly it should not be.

Personally I think the whole thing got sidetracked when Diva responded first to my original query and you effectively became a bystander.

cheers,
Mike