Hi
To be honest i’m a little woolly about what you’ve done but I’ll explain what I do and hopefully that’ll help you along. (i’ll assume you’re using Revo as you mentioned ’components’)
1: create your own templates with the TV and chunk calls in the relevant places. Do this on your
local machine with whatever html editor you like.
2: create a new template in your live Revo site: Elements > New Template - give it an appropriate name, description, category
3: add the markup from your
locally created template into Revo in the box marked
Template code (html)
4: Save your template into whatever category appropriate (tip: use as few templates as possible!!! if I ever get to 3 or more then i become very critical of my methods and start to rethink)
Then, when you go to create a new resource, select a template from the
Uses Template: dropdown and you’ll see the template you created. Or, you could set your new template as the default site template and it will be applied automatically (holler if you need to know how to set a default template
)
With modx, templates are flexible to the nth degree, which was what instantly converted me. For example, I like to keep all of my <head> items in chunks ... e.g. I like to keep <title> <meta description> <base href> all in one chunk - [[$title-desc-baseurl]] - like this:
[[$title-desc-baseurl]]
<title>[[++site_name]] / [[*description]]</title>
<meta name="description" content="[[*introtext]]">
<base href="[[++site_url]]"/>
Or stylesheets (same applies to scripts):
[[$common-stylesheets]]
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="[[++site_url]]assets/css/global.css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="[[++site_url]]assets/css/960_12-col.css" media="screen" />
<!--[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" href="[[++site_url]]assets/css/ie6.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" href="[[++site_url]]assets/css/ie7.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><![endif]-->
Hope this helps! But please bear in mind that this is only my way of doing certain things - I’m sure there are loads of different methods that modx’ers are going to post here ...
Shout if anything here needs further clarification - I’m a bit on the hop but will get back asap.
