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dimeco
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May 8, 2008, 9:15 PM
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Is there a way to split an article into pieces, to load in the same page?
i.e., (very rough mock up here LOL)
Article title
Author video attached to article
Date
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
~ sponsor break ~
Paragraph 3
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There's two reasons why I'm asking this:
1) to allow (if we choose) a sponsor in the middle of the articles.
more importantly:
2) so that I can put a video in the right cell, have the first paragraph or two on the left cell, then continue the remaining part of the article in the full width (merged left and right cell).
Sorry I don't always use CSS because I know many of my viewers have their settings off or use older browsers and then it just looks icky on the page, so I need to be able to work with tables...
multiple table cells.
Thoughts?
I've played around a little with a dummy article test - http://www.thatsubject.com/topics/publish/internet-marketing/Internet_MarketingTest.shtml - but you'll see that the article is below the video - shouldn't be, hence why I prefer it to merge to more than one cell.
I thought I'd add two examples of *other* sites that have kind of what I'm thinking...
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080509/american_axle_gm.html
(They have an ad on the left after the first paragraph, the article continues on the right, then merges down again below).
Example 2:
http://marketing.about.com/od/marketingmethods/tp/blogmarketing.htm
This shows a "split" in the article as there's a sponsor break.
Two others:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/08/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?cnn=yes
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a key one:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/05/06/ep.web.womens.health/index.html
This one has an image below, kind of like the first example, except this isn't an ad, its a pic for the article which continues on the right. (i.e., this could be video).
Perhaps this is maybe best / required in css... but regardless, can someone help?
Can we split the article in the page or make it wrap like these?
Amber
(This post was edited by dimeco on May 8, 2008, 9:23 PM)
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MikeB
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May 9, 2008, 10:20 AM
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Re: [dimeco] Split article question (not page break)
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Hi Amber,
Thanks for the post!
Article Manager 2 has a built-in placeholder modifier that will actually limit the amount of paragraphs that are displayed. You can read a bit more about this here:
http://www.interactivetools.com/docs/doc.cgi?/articlemanager2/templates/modifiers_limitParagraphs.html
In this case you could then output something like this:
$article.content:limitParagraphs(1-2)$
SPONSOR/AD CODE HERE
$article.content:limitParagraphs(3+)$
Does this sound like something that will work for you?
I hope this helps Amber!
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dimeco
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May 9, 2008, 11:56 AM
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Perfect - thank you!
Amber
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Illume Magazine
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Jun 9, 2008, 9:41 AM
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Hello Mike,
I used the code in your suggestion, and it works great! Basically I have split the table into 2 cells, which houses the author bio. See example: http://www.illumemagazine.org/magazine/publish/god_faith_and_a_pen/where_jews_and_muslims_could_cooperate.php I split up the article by 1-7, and 8+ paragraphs.
Is there a way for the body text to wrap around the extra space?
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Jake
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Jun 9, 2008, 1:00 PM
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Hi there,
I took a look at this page for you today and it doesn't seem like there is an easy way to get the text wrapping around that area, since you're using a table-based layout. One thing you could try is to increase the value of the "colspan" attributes for your <td> tags to see if you can get this going. You'd probably want to make a test copy of this page if you'd like to play around with that.
If this page used CSS and <div> tags however, you could specify a "float: right;" attribute for the bio box on the right-hand side and the text would automatically wrap around it.
Let us know if you need anything else.
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