Hey admins, I'm a noob to your site and I just have a few questions regarding a few things. Firstly, our guild currently has a website (which I am the creator of) but it does not offer all of the "sweet uber stuff" that you guys do, so we decided to go ahead and buy a dkp slot. Now, I was looking at some of the featured sites, and I am just wondering how they are able to completely re-vamp the entire code. I saw under the admin tab about downloading the template and menu stuff, but for some reason I am unable to do so. Also, I use Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. If and when I can get the full code, will I be able to use it with said program? Any help would be great, thanks!

*sigh* nevermind..just figured it out...needed to do some more forum digging! thanks guys lol

Where you need to start is this:
Admin > Layout > Advanced Layout Options
On that page is a link that says Generate Layout and Menu Files. Clicking that link will generate the layout.html and menu.html files. After you have done that you need to download the files. To do that right click on the links that says Current Layout File then click save link as and save it to your local computer as layout.html in whatever folder you want to work with. Also you need to do the same thing for the Current Menu File if you want to do any customization of how the menus look.

If you want to edit CSS properties I would suggest you click the link Edit your CSS File on the same page you download the layout files from. This takes you to a css editor of sorts. Is more like just an edit box but contains the full css code. If you are going to be doing a lot of work on it I would suggest you copy all the text into a text editor on your machine and save it as a .css file. The only catch if you do that is that you will have to change the name on your layout.html file for the refering css file.

I don't see any reason why the dreamweaver editor you are using wouldn't work but Chops has always cautioned people that use those. They add a lot of extra code that may not be neccessary to work and may interfere with what you are doing with your site. I would also suggest you read the tutorials about how to customize your site. The contain useful information about the embeded tags that are specifc to DKPSystem.com sites and allow you to correctly display things like the calender, page titles, and forum edit options. Leaving these out will often cause issues that a quick question on these forums can solve.

sorry again to bother you, but where are these tutorials at?

Actually basically what I want to know is if I can use dreamweaver (carefully) to design my whole site, and then add the elements from DKP onto it using the little codes given

Yes you can. It'll definitely take some trial and error, but you can certainly do that. Remember, you'll need to insert those codes into the HTML code, and not into the design portion of Dreamweaver.

heh yes indeed. Okay so if I design my whole page in dreamweaver, I can then save it as an HTML and just upload it using the uploader? Also, the simple code embedded in say, a table, would show up as the full thing? I feel very comfortable with dreamweaver and it's what I am most used to, so I believe I could actually make a better site from that than just doing code in notepad

I'd start and get your whole design laid out in dreamweaver, then dive into the HTML tab and insert the DKP code where necessary.

Also, remember there are some parts that just don't translate to dreamweaver, particularly the menupage. Which is an abstraction of the menus. You'll need to break that off into it's own thing.

okay i still feel noob. I have the layout how i want it and I am simply inserting the dkp tags (in the html) into some small tables aligned right and left. What im wondering is if the content tag is used for all content such as ventrilo, resources, server info, etc. or do i need to specify EXACTLY which content I want where suck as the calendar. Basically, our page is exactly how i want it already, but the content i want to be more in so i can have a nicer background (see the featured site of immortal knights..the way they have that background is how i want our, and i have it made and whatnot, but i want to define my content to sit so it ISNT overlapping my pictures...you can see what i am talking about by going to http://www.infinitus-aequitas.com).