Pixaria Software
With a little HTML knowledge, it's easy to change the default home page for Pixaria from the default gallery view and create a custom home page.
The default home page PHP script index.welcome.php is located in the base directory of your Pixaria installation and its corresponding template file is resources/templates_default/welcome/index.html.
To customise the homepage, first follow the instructions for creating a custom theme and then make a copy of the default homepage file inside your custom theme directory:
resources/themes/mytheme/templates/welcome/index.html
Next, open this file in your preferred text editor and modify the contents to suit your requirements:
{*
/*
*
* Pixaria Gallery
* Copyright Jamie Longstaff
*
*/
*}{include_template file="layout/main.head.html"}
<!-- Show the basic search form -->
{if $set_func_show_gallery_map == "0"}
{load_pixie name="gallery_listing"}
{else}
{load_pixie name="gallery_listing_map"}
{/if}
<!-- INCLUDE THE BOTTOM HTML TEMPLATE -->
{include_template file="layout/main.foot.html"}
To customise the home page, remove the default code for displaying the galleries which will leave you with a blank canvas to work with:
{include_template file="layout/main.head.html"}
{include_template file="layout/main.foot.html"}
Now, you can insert your own content into the space between the header and footer templates. Some suggestions for layouts you can use are shown here:
{include_template file="layout/main.head.html"}
<div class="block">
<div class="head">Two-Column Block Layout</div>
<div class="body">
<div class="box col-6">
<p>Column 1</p>
</div>
<div class="box col-6">
<p>Column 2</p>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
</div>
{include_template file="layout/main.foot.html"}
{include_template file="layout/main.head.html"}
<div class="block">
<div class="head">Fixed With Block Layout</div>
<div class="body">
<div class="box col-12">
<p>Place your content here...</p>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
</div>
{include_template file="layout/main.foot.html"}
{include_template file="layout/main.head.html"}
<div class="block">
<div class="head">Three-Column Block Layout</div>
<div class="body">
<div class="box col-4">
<p>Column 1</p>
</div>
<div class="box col-4">
<p>Column 2</p>
</div>
<div class="box col-4">
<p>Column 3</p>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
</div>
{include_template file="layout/main.foot.html"}