Submit Page Guidelines

[reaper]

I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction to add the following text to my submit page.

Wording such as ...

No adult, gambling or illegal sites.
No scraper or Adsense sites.
All sites must be in english.
No free hosted websites.
Not all sites will be added and is at our sole discretion.
A suggested category will be placed either as a toplevel or subcategory.
blah blah blah ...

[ing]

You can add that to the templates/submit.tpl file.

:)

[reaper]

I am a simpleton when it comes to design. Is there any special code I have to use to insert the text into the submit.tpl file so I don't mess it up? Should I create a table in a seperate editor and then insert that table into the submit.tpl page?

[ing]

You can add HTML code to add text to that page. It depends where you want the guidelines to show. If you want them above or below the submit form you could just create a table using HTML in your editor and add it in before or after the submit table.

Make a backup copy of your submit.tpl page beforehand if you are worried about messing it up.

[reaper]

I have tried adding that info to the submit page and get smarty errors. I went back to my backup ... any suggestions?

[ing]

Sent you a PM

[reaper]

This wording would be at the top of the submit template.

No **censored****censored****censored****censored** gambling or illegal sites.
No scraper or Adsense sites.
All sites must be in english.
No free hosted websites.
Not all sites will be added and is at our sole discretion.
A suggested category will be placed either as a toplevel or subcategory.
blah blah blah ...

[ing]

OK.. here's some code you can try... edit it to suit your directory

Content visible to registered users only.

Add that in submit.tpl just before this..

Content visible to registered users only.



:)

[reaper]

Hey thanks that did the job! It was just a matter of where to insert the code.

[LennyP]

I copied that code and edited the text to how I wanted it to be but it did not show up in my page.

[colbyt]

Content visible to registered users only.

Lenny,

I suggest you follow a slightly different method for modding the template files that will save you many headaches if you ever change the design or theme.

For the template you are using add the following to line 7 of templates/submit.tpl
Content visible to registered users only.

Now create a plain text file in that looks exactly like this:
Content visible to registered users only.

Name that file lpguide.tpl and upload it to the templates directory. From now on all modifications are done in the lpguide.tpl file and not in the main template files. You have only made one tiny mod to the main files that you have to remember.

You may add, modify or delete any of the copy on any line that ends with <br />

If the CSS does not make it look as you wish you can add html tags to the lpguide file with no harm to the main template.

[LennyP]

I followed this advice but now the alignment is off. The guidelines are all the way to the left.

[colbyt]

Content visible to registered users only.


try changing the align=left to align=center.

If it worked at all you are getting close.

I was afraid that smarty would mess things up.

[LennyP]

I tried that and changing the other values. It changed the look but never the placement. It was always smushed up against the left side of the screen.