daprezjer

Hi, I'm new to Mambo and trying to use the Latest News Module. I'm doing fine, except that I need to put a:

"...
read more"

after each title.

For instance, if the title of the recent news item is:

Senior selected Massachusetts NHS Student of the Year

I need the link to say :
Senior selected Massachusetts NHS Student of the Year...
read more

In addition the "read more" part needs to be a different color (red) and linkable.

You can see the site at http://bishopstang.phoenix.vertex.net/. On the right, you'll see the first news item is dynamically created by Mambo. The rest are hard coded. I need the first news item to look like the rest.

And while I'm at it, I'd prefer that the title from these news items not be the "header" on the following page, but rather a smaller header under the header "News". Any thoughts on how this could be accomplished?

Thanks!

crash777

1. Create a new class:
class="readon"
(this is the class, at least what I have in MY mambo, for the READ MORE link)

2. Turn off clickable titles.

3. For the titles... adjust:
class="contentheading"

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Aaron Monello

daprezjer

Ha, I just figured that out, but I had to go to the "Newsflash" module, not the latest news module. I have had a problem though editing the "contentheader" module. Seems that when I do that I also change the header type on all of my pages. I tried setting the module class instead but the contentheader style always overtook it, using !important or not. I ended up making the titles links and working the .a style, but it's not exactly what I wanted to do. Any thoughts on making the contentheader style different for the "latest news" section different than the content headers of the pages?

blackline

I havnt got that far in my process.

I'm still trying to figure out how to get the latest news on my frontpage and also then how I add, edit and remove news, wherefrom in the admin?

crash777

Depends on what you are using and how you want news to show up. The latest news lists the item titles and the newsflash will list the intro texts...

In the module.. check the "Module Class Suffix". I normally put a "-specificname" for my suffix.. then in the CSS file, make sure to add this suffix...
.contentheader-specificname {color: red; }
If you need to you can also do:
a.contentheader-specificname {color: red; }

don't forget the readon class:
a.readon {color:red;}

Just set the "Module Class Suffix" accordingly (and differently) for the newsflash and latest news modules.

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Aaron Monello

crash777

In the modules section, go into the latest news module and set it to show, according to your preferences, the section/category of your choosing. Make sure to publish it in one of the module positions that is available in your template. Also make sure any items in the section and category you chose are published.

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