Configuring left and top without the default sideboxes

[jazperson]

Hi, I would just like to know if it's possible to make all the sideboxes be 0 and make the left side empty and after making it empty, I'll add my DIV codes to make it my own design. I tried making all sideboxes set to 0 but when I put my DIV Codes on the tpl_box_default_left, it doesn't appear and when I enable 1 sidebox, the sidebox appear together with my DIV design.

[Kim]

Do you have a picture of what you want to do?

[jazperson]

None at the moment, I was just wondering if there's a way to that I can put a custom left sidebox without using the default sideboxes.

[TinaS]

There are a lot of ways to do what you are trying to do. What I have done in the past is to create my own left column boxes in the modules folder - so I have includes/modules/column_left.php (the default) and I have includes/modules/MY TEMPLATE/column_left_nav.php (my custom nav side).

Now on the pages where I want the custom left to show I simpy change this line
$left_column_file = 'column_left.php';

in includes/templates/MY TEMPLATE/common/tpl_main_page.php to read :
$left_column_file = 'column_left_nav.php';

Now every page that calls that template page is going to show my custom left side bar. You can further customize this on a page by page basis - read the info in the template files to achieve this.

I have used this method and successfully create a Zen site with 41 defined pages, 4 defined menus, and the menus vary on pages depending on where you are.

Works like a charm

Hope that helps!

[jazperson]

Thanks. It helps a lot.