| images to mark administrators and moderators? [message #35754] |
Wed, 07 February 2007 17:50  |
Lewis
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I would like to associate custom images with administrators and moderators, so that they will be easily identifiable to everyone in my forums. This has proven surprisingly difficult.
I first tried to do this using the rank images. However, because rank images can only be associated with post count, and not with authority or privileged membership or anything else, I could not. I see I'm not the only one who has tried this with fudforums, but apparently such use of ranks is not going to be supported by the software developers. Strike one.
My second idea was to use avatars. The only way to keep these images consistent is to make users choose from a built-in list. However, because administrators cannot moderate the use of built-in avatars, anybody in the forums could assign themselves the image I'd want to reserve for privileged members. Strike two.
My third idea was to use custom tags. This is the option that seems to be recommended by the software developers. However, if I'm going to add an image into the custom tags space, I want the whole image to be visible, rather than have it added to the bottom of a scrolling space that is too narrow to show the image. It's not attractive at all. Strike three.
Is there anyone who is willing to step up to the plate for me? Three things would help. If I could find a way to make the custom tags space expand to fit the dimensions of my custom images, instead of trapping them behind scrollbars, that would fix my problem. Or if I could find a way to force administrator approval before members can use built-in avatars, that would be a cumbersome but workable way to do it. Finally, if anyone has developed a way to associate ranks with some criterion other than post count, such as privileged member status, that would be an ideal and intuitive solution.
My forum is "Powered by: FUDforum 2.7.6."
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| Re: images to mark administrators and moderators? [message #35769 is a reply to message #35754] |
Thu, 08 February 2007 00:40  |
Lewis
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I dove into the templates and figured out how to make the custom tags stop scrolling.
What I did was edit the forum_css template in the following way:
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div.ctags {
overflow: auto;
white-space: nowrap;
margin: 0px;
padding: 2px;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
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I changed the height to 100%, instead of the default 40 pixels.
I also decided that I didn't like seeing the rank names above my tags, so I edited dmsg_tags in drawmsg.tmpl from
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<div class="ctags">{VAR: level_name}{VAR: custom_tag}</div>
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<div class="ctags">{VAR: custom_tag}</div>
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A little persistence has paid off. I think this is going to work great. 
[Updated on: Thu, 08 February 2007 05:13] Report message to a moderator |
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