Hey there,

If you really wish to make your frontpage layout look like the easyblog demo, I strongly suggest you to use Elegant template.

You can check it out on my attached screenshot to have look on my local site with Elegant template.

You also try it out on our Elegant demo site. http://elegant.stackideas.com/

I would like the yellowish background to be like your gray, and white on the inside with two columns with outlines.

Can you provide us with some screenshots on what do you mean 'yellowish background to be like your gray, and white on the inside with two columns with outlines' so that we can have a better understanding of it?

I am so very sorry about the late reply! I have enclosed screenshot here. I prefer not to use the Elegant display as it shows a dark page on my site. The blog shows that background I want on my site regardless of the template choosen, and that is what I also want to achieve. Just the same type of layout with to columns with gray lines and white on the inside and my site page on the outside.

Hey Linette,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. Not entirely sure if I understand you here but if you are referring to the right column ( http://take.ms/RfoBl ) that you see on our demo site is actually a module position from the Joomla template. In this case, it is from the elegant Joomla template.

Based on what I am seeing on your site at http://37.60.245.153/~linettev/index.php/blog , your Joomla template does support a right module position too. All you need to do is to place modules on the right position so that they appear on the right.

Hi and thank you for your reply. I think my question has nothing to do with the template because I use the oregami and the demo is also the oregami, and what I want to achive is not what is on the inside of the columns but the outline around the page. I have also created a page with a right column, and that is not the problem either.

What I want is to put my easyblog page in a container just as on the demo page, with a thin gray outline separating the gray background from the white background on the contents of the column. And I want to have the gray thin line separating the two columns. When I create two columns, It is just floating there with no separation at all. I am not a Joomla expert, and I struggle to make my easyblog page look the same in regards to the outer layout. The framing separating the modules.

Can you help me with this? Pointing me in the right direction? How do I set up my page?

Hey there,

Do you mean that you want the component and the module to be separated by the grey outline only instead of there is a big space between of it just like as shown in the first two screenshots?

If yes, the styling for it is handling by the template instead of the EasyBlog.

It would be best if you can consult with your Template Provider regarding this and see whether is it possible for them to achieve what you want?

Thanks for your understanding.

Hi!

For people like me that are new to Joomla and easyblog, it took me quite a while to understand what you meant by the elegant template. I thought you meant the elegant template in Easyblog, and not another for the outside. I thought that setting also was a part of easyblog, but now I see.

I have recreated what I wanted from your elegant template in mine using css, and achieved it.

I would very much reccomend that this fact above would have been described somewhere in the easyblog documentation. The fact that the demo was a combination of easyblog and a separate elegant template. I searched and searched and sometimes your customers just need the simple documentation facts for each demo page. Because most demos I know has been only one template, and this was something else.

If you have a page with this info, I did not find it. Thank you for your patience.

You can mark it as solved - finally :-)

Hey Linette,

Thanks for updating us, and I am glad that your issue is resolved now. Yep when we are referring to "Joomla template", we are referring to the Joomla template and not the EasyBlog themes

We'll certainly find a way to simplify the explanation in the future