Forum OpenACS Q&A: Newbie wondering the best way to do headers

I have a super newbie question.  I am looking for help/suggestions onhow other people are handle the idea of a common, shared header (likead_header, but customized).  It is my understanding that DPS is notyet ported, so I'm not sure how to handle this.More specifically, I would like to create my own custom pages (with acommon header), and then also use the same common header for some ofthe modules pages.Thanks for any tips.Chris
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Posted by Roberto Mello on
The DPS can be used now, just don't use the datamodel part. Michael Cleverly is using it at his job and he uses Solid.

As to the headers, the easiest way to change the appearances of most standard ACS pages is customizing ad_header. I usually do that _and_ create an ADP tag that can be used form tcl pages by editing tcl/yoursite-styles.tcl (move photonet-styles.tcl to become yoursite-styles.tcl)

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Posted by Roberto Mello on
I forgot to mention that you should RTFM. The OpenACS Getting Started Guide has the answer to your question and more.
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Posted by Lachlan Myers on
Note: Robs reference has a typo - opeancs should be openacs. :)