| Putting images on your site or customizing the header [message #160338] |
Thu, 20 August 2009 02:27  |
wittrs
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Is it possible to make some innocent surgical changes to FUDforum's appearance? Things like uploading a banner or a PNG at the top of the page. All I can see are discussion about changing the color.
If not, what about running it in an iframe? Does that create any problems?
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| Re: Putting images on your site or customizing the header [message #160339 is a reply to message #160338] |
Thu, 20 August 2009 15:21  |
The Witcher
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| wittrs wrote on Wed, 19 August 2009 21:27 | Is it possible to make some innocent surgical changes to FUDforum's appearance? Things like uploading a banner or a PNG at the top of the page. All I can see are discussion about changing the color.
If not, what about running it in an iframe? Does that create any problems?
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Yes it is possible by editing the header.tmpl for your theme in fact you are only limited by your knowledge of html etc.
Of course its not just that simple. Once you have created a "New Template Set:" for your forum, edit your header.tmpl as desired then "create your theme" otherwise every time you rebuild your theme it will over write your changes including those for your header.
We discussed it briefly here: http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=118576&start=0&
It all depends on your knowledge and how innocent you want the changes to be. The example I am currently using as the default in the test forum is a single image and was accomplished by adding:
</head>
<body><!comment--insert header image code -->
<div align="center"><img src="/theme/concord_default_tst1/images/tsthdr2.jpg"></div>
into the header.tmpl using the Admins template editor AND THEN creating the new theme "concord_default_tst1" using the theme manager.
On the other hand for http://thewitcher.us/ I used naudef's northern lights experimental theme http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=118490&start=0&
By uploading the theme to .../thm/northernlights
Added a favicon by inserting
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >
<link rel="icon" type="image/gif" href="animated_favicon1.gif" >
Into the header, added a single javascript mouse over image link as well as some table links to other sites.
I also uploaded the images needed, and changed some of the other images BEFORE creating the new theme "northernlights_default" using the theme manager and making it the default theme.
You can see how it was done by right clicking and selecting "view page source"
Bottom line is there is any number of ways to do make changes to FUDforum's appearance, I believe I have some notes around here somewhere on inserting Images into other areas of the forum as well.
"I'm a Witcher, I solve human problems; not always using a sword!"
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| Re: Putting images on your site or customizing the header [message #160350 is a reply to message #160348] |
Mon, 24 August 2009 22:14 |
The Witcher
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Just looking at it, I was intrigued that you managed to insert the buttons into the default header! But I believe you could rearrange the order the of the buttons and title along with a <align="center"> tag, of course I believe you would need to include the search block in that: and I don't have time to test the idea out.
Even if it worked I'm guessing your title still would not be centered because of the search block on the right you would have to try it and see, firebug tells me that that sections consists of 2 TD's but I only saw one /td. The last attempt I saw with the images at the top should work fine if you placed one of the buttons on the right and centered it.
As for clearing the header going to next page the only way I could think of doing so would be to create virtual forums on the front page linking to a different sub forum or theme with different headers or no header at all but that would negate having a home link as your title. However I am sure there is a more elegant way of doing so.
I tried the registration button and got no response! The only time I have seen that before was when I enabled "Path.info" but did not create a path info theme so you might want to like into it. I bookmarked it because I want to understand more about this E-mail group posting thingy!
"I'm a Witcher, I solve human problems; not always using a sword!"
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