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jrolinc
Starting Member
USA
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 Posted - 05 December 2001 : 17:50:57
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Hi folks
Been reading here, and have setup the Snitz Forums on my site. I've spent the better part of the day reading through the various Forums here, as well as the Forum where people post their customized Forum Site.
My question, (yeah, kind of a big general question), is where do you start in customizing your Forum?
I mean, I would like to have it fit into my overall theme/colors and all that, and am just not sure where to start?
Example: One of the sites that was submitted was www.championsinarms.com
So how do you get the Forums in your own tables/colors, modifying how it all looks on the page?
Obviously, I'm fairly new to ASP, but given enough time can/will figure it out, but if I can find someone to turn/point me off in the right direction...it would be much appreciated!!
Thanks for now...I'm sure I'll be back for more!
jeffrey
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
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Posted - 06 December 2001 : 03:28:28
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If you built your own site, you'll know what the main colors are that you've used. So open your forums and login as admin. Then go to the admin options > Font/Table Color Code Configuration. The easiest way of getting everything looking the way you want is by having the forums open in a second window and refreshing that page after you've made a change in the color configuration.
After you've set up the color scheme for the forums you may want to customize your forums a little further and that mostly means editing inc_top.asp and inc_footer.asp. But I can't give you any pointers since your site is for registered members only and I don't want to register...
Hope this helped a bit.
Roland
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jrolinc
Starting Member
USA
14 Posts |
Posted - 06 December 2001 : 12:07:41
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Thanks Roland
I'll take a look at those files you mentioned. Here is a link directly to the Forum I've got setup: (I'm also including a login if you'd like to look around). On the Info Page (currently) is a text Link that if clicked will open the Forum Page(s).
I guess my question is a bit more specific at this point. Yes, I saw where the colors/fonts can be changed and will look at that a bit further to try and "match" colors to my other Site colors.
But, (you saw the Main Site Login/Registration Page), I've got that design/interface on all of my pages along with Navigation menus (or buttons), so how do I get the Forum to "fit" into this design? Does this make sense?
Thanks
jeffrey
Edited by - jrolinc on 06 December 2001 19:19:28 |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 06 December 2001 : 13:27:10
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You could start a new table in inc_top.asp just below the <body> tag like this (rough and not with the correct codes):
<body bgColor="<% =strPageBGColor %>" text="<% =strDefaultFontColor %>" link="<% =strLinkColor %>" aLink="<% =strActiveLinkColor %>" vLink="<% =strActiveLinkColor %>">
<a name="top"></a><font face="<% =strDefaultFontFace %>">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>make your site layout here</td>
<td>
Then add this to the top of inc_footer.asp:
</td>
</tr>
</table>
What you're doing is putting the forums in a table so you can put your default layout in that table to and combined it'll look as if you've made it one site...
You could of course also add an extra <tr colspan="2"> above the <tr> that I created so you can use more links at the very top of the page.
I hope this quick and not so clean explanation helps you get on your way. If not, let me know and I'll go a little more in depth.
Roland
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