My b2evolution Version: 2.x
3 questions:
I've read the limited information on use of noskin files, but am unsure if that lets me use b2 like I want to. Basically I have built a web site using pretty simple xhtml and it presently contains 4 pages I'd like to use b2 for: a blog, a donor list with several categories, and two different types of links pages. They are called, blog.html, donors.html, deals.html, and jobs.html. The blog will not be allowing comments and the links will only be placed by the administrator. Donors as well will be listed by the admin according to their donations by category.
First question: The pages as built have top and bottom links and graphics, the middle is open for the content. Will the use of the noskin file allow me to place the appropriate b2 files in this center area and keep those pages and page links as is (meaning blog.html, donors.htm, deals and jobs.html)???
Second: Is the donor and links php pages/files on the b2 site, in the download package I installed??? If not where can I get these pages, and are they available with a noskin option???
Third: Are there more detailed instructions on how to get these noskin files working or setup to call the appropriate info from the database to work the way I am hoping they will.
If necessary, I can post the web address for the site, just let me know.
Thanks.
It's not particularly easy to place b2evo inside another, static html page. It also makes hell for your visitors if they want to make links to your pages.
What you're trying to do, if I've understood you correctly, is to have a normal blog and three other pages which go alongside it but are not actually changed via the blog.
The three unchanging pages could just be simple html. You could use b2evo to manage your list of links but if you're not going to have anyone else doing it then you may as well do them in html. That just leaves your blog, which can be a perfectly normal b2evo blog.
To make your blog integrate with your site, you could change links to blog.html to something like /blog/, and put b2evo in there. Then make your b2evolution skin look as much like your other pages as you can. Actually it's usually necessary to do a bit of both - you might have to change the base pages to look like the blog a bit as well, until they all look alike.
Here's an example:
[url=http://mattandcat.co.uk/]This is not a blog page[/url]
[url=http://mattandcat.co.uk/reviews/]This is a blog page[/url]
They look similar, don't they? But the first one is just an ordinary html page made to look like the blog. The second one is entirely generated by b2evo.