adding custom pages

[dochlaggie]

I need to add a few custom pages to my directory

terms of use

privacy policy [ Google now requires this policy on all sites using adsense]

link to us

I love the product and having a great time.
but need help here.
I am trying to add a custom page but I am doing something wrong.
The page I am trying to add is located at-
http://www.showdog.org/link_to_show_dog.php

there is a problem with no template showing [ just a bit of code showing}. I also added the link to the menu but the lin only shows on the homepage?

If anyone could help me.
Tanks in advance.

[Shophere]

I will assume you are adding the page via the admin section (templates)

for example: you create a page and name it "terms.html"

the URL to view the page will be www.yoursite.com/page.php?id=terms

hope this helps!

[dochlaggie]

Thanks, yes it does, great, thanks. Now I need to know how to get images to appear on custo pages i.e. a link back banner. I have worked out I cant paste html.
My code , I have uploaded the images but they dont show. You may use any of the images below to link to the Show Dog Directory.</p>
<p>Link One </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><img src="http://www.showdog.org/button4.gif" alt="Show Dog Directory" width="219" height="136" /></p>
<p>To display Link Number one </p>
<p>Copy and paste the following code into your website</p>
<p>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.http://www.showdog.org&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.showdog.org/button4.gif&quot;
alt=&quot;Show Dog Directory&quot; width=&quot;219&quot; height=&quot;136&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</p>
<p></p>

[Shophere]

Sorry - I don't understand your question

[dochlaggie]

Thanks for taking the time to answer. i wanted to add images for people to link back to my site. I am having trouble getting the images to show on the page.
http://www.showdog.org/page.php?id=link
thanks again

[Shophere]

OK

when I look at your source code I can't see the image code

correct code is
<a href="http://www.link to where you are going.com" ><img src="location of image.com" border="0" title="if required" /></a>

[dochlaggie]

Thanks so much for all your time. I am still tearing my hair out.

My code looks o.k. to me [ I am using dreamweaver, know very little , trying to learn ] but when i paste it as code between the tags
<%t%><%/t%>

I get this results - http://www.showdog.org/page.php?id=link


pasting the design view into the indeux template gets an o.k. looking result but no images [ or image code]



<p>You may use any of the images below to link to the Show Dog Directory.</p>
<p>Link One </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<a href="http://www.showdog.org/" ><img src="http://www.showdog.org/button4.gif" border="0" title="Show Dog Directory" /></a>
<p>To display Link Number one </p>
<p>Copy and paste the following code into your website</p>
<p>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.http://www.showdog.org&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.showdog.org/button4.gif&quot;
alt=&quot;Show Dog Directory&quot; width=&quot;219&quot; height=&quot;136&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</p>
<p></p>
<p>Link Number Two </p>
<a href="http://www.showdog.org/" ><img src="http://www.showdog.org/button23.gif" border="0" title="Show Dog Directory" /></a>
<p>To display Link Two </p>
<p>Copy and paste the following code into your website</p>
<p>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.showdog.org&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.showdog.org/button23.jpg&quot;
alt=&quot;Show Dog Directory&quot; width=&quot;239&quot; height=&quot;156&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
</p>
<p></p>
<p>To display our banner.</p>
<a href="http://www.showdog.org/" ><img src="http://www.showdog.org/banner5.jpg" border="0" title="Show Dog Directory" /></a>
<p>Copy and paste the following code into your website</p>
<p>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.showdog.org&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.showdog.org/banner5.jpg&quot;
alt=&quot;Show Dog Directory&quot; width=&quot;468&quot; height=&quot;60&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

[Gus]

Hi dochlaggie,

I think that you just have to remove <%t%> and <%/t%> tags.

<%t%> <%/t%%> tags tell smarty/php that everything between them has to be interpreted as text. This will lead to transformation of your " into its code, in other words &quote;.

I think (based on my experience, not on technical knowledge) that <%t%> tags have to be used when smarty/php might take your text as a program instruction.
Therefore, you should avoid using them when you just intend to display or store some text.
When you are in a mixed situation, that is when you have an instruction that includes some text to display or store or whatever, you should write your instruction this way :
instruction part before text <%t%>yourtext<%/t%> instruction part after your text.

I had a similar problem with special characters (diacritics) and came through it by removing the <%t%> tags.

Regards
Gus

[dochlaggie]

Gus, thanks so much. That was the problem. Fixed.

[Bruceper]

The only code that should go between <%t%><%/t%> is code for translation. So this means most text on your site will not have those tags.