templates in livesite

alexmotyka

I might have missed something but is there any way I can get greater control of a templates layout, without using components. For example is there any way I can produce a page that has centered content created by a DIV (obviously with a fixed width, margin auto and a white background) where the body has a different colored background. Refer to attached image for the effect I wish to create (the component would then be placed within the white area).

Thanks

Have I missed something or is live site not capable of doing this?

wscott

If all of your components reside within the white centered area, you can do this by creating a new page layout stylesheet and defining it in iw-home/local/config/pagetype-config.xml. This actually wouldn't be a big change from the existing layout stylesheets. You could then select the page stylesheet within Page Settings (it is called "Layout Type" or something; the existing two are "Table" and "Div"). If most of the pages in your site are going to look like this, you can set it as the site-wide default by editing default.site, and then override it on pages that need a different layout.

This feature is only supported in LiveSite 2.2.1.