Hi all,

I'm a bit of a beginner with SilverStripe, I'm afraid, so bear with me if this is a dumb question.

I am designing a site in which there is just a main horizontal navigation menu and the content is arranged in a 3-column layout below. Each column may have one or more content blocks arranged vertically one above the other. These blocks contain a title, possibly an image, text and maybe other content.

I have designed a layout based on xhtml and css with divs to define the columns and blocks. What I can't quite grasp is how I translate this to Silverstripe so that I can create, say, 1 long block in column 1 and 2 blocks in columns 2 and 3.

There is a mock-up at this url that hopefully shows a rough idea of what I am trying to achieve (the actual content blocks are empty in this image at the moment):

http://www.tellura.co.uk/examples/3-column_layout.png

Does Silverstripe have the concept of a sub-page that I could define as having a title, image, content and so on?

Thanks - yes, I had followed all of the tutorials. Apart from a few errors they are a good guide. However, here is where I am getting lost. Silverstripe has the concept (in the news tutorial) of an ArticleHolder which is effectively a container for one or more ArticlePages. So far so good. However, what I am trying to do is more complex: my content (maybe I should call it a ColumnsHolder) holds three columns, and each column holds one or more ContentBlocks. How does the naming convention work in this case? And how do you actually make these appear in the content creation window in the CMS editor?

Alternatively, should I simply ignore the columns as far as the editor is concerned (and manage them in the css) and simply have a page type of ContentBlockHolder which contains all of the ContentBlockPages - one for each content block that I want on the page? I suppose I could then have properties on each content block that identify its column and its row order.

It would just be useful to see a more complex example than the news page in the tutorial - can anyone point me at such an example?

Thanks,

Ian.
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Ian - did you ever find a solution to this? or did Dab's solution work?

Hi guys,

Just following up on this. Creating a three column layout is a trivial thing to do in SilverStripe - as is creating any layout for that matter. Dab's solution (of just having three content areas) is a very easy way to do this.