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Is this a good idea?

Post by lw-d » Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:28 pm

Basically, I am trying to save space on my site, I have a template that has collapsable columns, works great. Now, there are some pages that have modules in the columns, I think they should be there by default, but, lets say a regular site visitor decideds that they would like to temporarily collapse the left column for instance, maybe they are in the forum and don't want the user poll that I may have decided to keep in the left column. They just click a button and it collapses.

I think this would be awesome for the user, its all giving them that little bit more interaction with the site.

Would love to hear peoples views, I am no expert user so I imagine that this idea will get blown out of the water, I dont know, maybe it has been done before with j!

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Re: Is this a good idea?

Post by ChiefGoFor » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:55 pm

That does sounds like an awesome idea. This should be able to be implemented using Javascript and having some action that would hide the div tag for the left column. I have never done it, but I think it just might work!
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Re: Is this a good idea?

Post by lw-d » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:21 pm

It just makes sense to me, surprised that nobody has implemented it with joomla, I am no programmer, more of a designer, can anyone help me try and implement this, obviously, the rest of the community can use this is with get it right.

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Re: Is this a good idea?

Post by sikumbang » Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:33 pm

You mean something like this?
http://www.templateplazza.com - Joomla Templates and Extensions

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Re: Is this a good idea?

Post by ChiefGoFor » Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:53 pm

Wow, that looks nice. Thanks for posting it sikumbang.
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Re: Is this a good idea?

Post by sikumbang » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:03 pm

wew .. I've thought that everybody knows about this JA template before ...  :laugh:
You're welcome ChiefGoFor ;)
As additional, I think the template use moofx script :) for that module collapse feature.
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Re: Is this a good idea?

Post by lw-d » Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:38 pm

I couldn't find anything on the JA template, maybe there is an issue with my browser (firefox on the mac), the other link was awesome though, I am going to try and implement it this afternoon. With the JA template, can you point to the effect in action.

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Re: Is this a good idea?

Post by lw-d » Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:39 pm

Wow, I found it, top right, I have that template, I am going to study that now.

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