Hi .. I'm working on joomla .. and I want to change the layout of the front page .. I want to make the right column and the left one above one of the articles and the rest articles in the middle between the columns ..
like this : http://www2.0zz0.com/2010/10/06/14/100024715.jpg
I figured out that there's a component which I should modify it, I did .. but I couldn't put the right column and the left above one of the articles
Option 1:
Disable the top modules in Module Manager. Change the page from Article View to Article Blog Layout. This way you will have peaces of article in the middle of the screen (something like this) and left+right columns pretty much at the top of the page
Option 2:
If you do not want to disable your top modules... you will have to change CSS and HTML of the template (not the com_content in template but index.php and template.css). You will have to change html wrapping for <jdoc:include type="modules" name="*****" style="xhtml"/> to something like this:
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| LEFT | TOP MODULE | RIGHT |
| |-------------------| |
| | COMPONENT | |
| | | |
| | | |
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| FOOTER |
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Right now your template has following structure
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| TOP 1 | TOP 2 | TOP 3 |
|-------|-------------------|-------|
| LEFT | | RIGHT |
| | COMPONENT | |
| | | |
| | | |
-------------------------------------
| FOOTER |
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This will required to change html of the template in templates/your_template/index.php and rewrite the default css for this template to reflect the changes.