[Disco_Dave]

Hi

Great write up helped a lot, I've found the stylevars to be much easier to use then editing templates, as I know nothing about editing templates or css etc.

I have one last thing to do on our test site before we move, I would like to insert this image below into the forumhome on vb4 like it is on vb3 is this possible?

Regards,
Dave

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by tricksodave

Hi

Great write up helped a lot, I've found the stylevars to be much easier to use then editing templates, as I know nothing about editing templates or css etc.

I have one last thing to do on our test site before we move, I would like to insert this image below into the forumhome on vb4 like it is on vb3 is this possible?

Regards,
Dave

I'm assuming your speaking about replacing the bottom "dull" image with what's shown at the top i.e. the nicer blue with rounded corners? Of that's the case you will need to modify some templates and css to show it properly but let me know.

[Disco_Dave]

Hi

Thanks for the reply, I would like to add the fish logo plus the rounded corners. I couldn't get the colour to be the same for some reason using the stylevars.

Is it possible to use the original css templates for this? We have no web designer now he's gone AWOL.

Dave

[Disco_Dave]

Originally Posted by tricksodave

Hi

Great write up helped a lot, I've found the stylevars to be much easier to use then editing templates, as I know nothing about editing templates or css etc.

I have one last thing to do on our test site before we move, I would like to insert this image below into the forumhome on vb4 like it is on vb3 is this possible?

Regards,
Dave

Can anyone help with this, I'd really like to get vb4 to look like our old forum. Need to learn how to put the image in on the left also.

Regards,
Dave

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by tricksodave

Can anyone help with this, I'd really like to get vb4 to look like our old forum. Need to learn how to put the image in on the left also.

Regards,
Dave

Well you can try something simple i.e.

Edit additional.css and try something along the lines of:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

^ Rough Example and that also removes the ability to define a image background for forumhead, meaning that using this method shown above you can't specify a alternate background i.e. a Gradient image as shown in your attachment.


Another method is editing the templates themselves that contain the forumhead <div> tags i.e.

Edit forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost and find:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Add the code shown in blue:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Now edit additional.css and add:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

^ And that method allows you to still define a gradient image background on forumhead and also inserts your image (*Adjust the forumhead background/colors via the stylevars system respectively and swap out the filename home.png in the code shown and link directly to your small & cropped white fish image and call it a day!) .

[Disco_Dave]

First class, this should help us a lot...

Thanks for your time
Dave

[K4GAP]

As of today's date, is this article accurate to include 4.2 ?

[tacklebox joe]

best post i've read so far....great job! Thank you for this informative post!

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by GaryT

As of today's date, is this article accurate to include 4.2 ?

It *should* be however don't hold me to that if let's say you find one discrepancy lol however if you run into something regarding 4.2 that seems different or is not covered here simply ask.

[tacklebox joe]

no probs with vb4.2.0 PL3 regarding these instructions that i've personally encountered so far

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by tacklebox joe

no probs with vb4.2.0 PL3 regarding these instructions that i've personally encountered so far

Thanks for the feedback Joe .

[anagnam]

hi TheLastSuperman,

I tried changing the min-height in the .doc_header of vbulletin-chrome.css but it dos not reflect the changes after saving . any idea as to why?

[darnstrong]

Hey Supes,

your thread has been invaluable and I thank you HUGE for it!, I was wondering thou.. if you take a look at my forum www.autismfamilyforums.com you will notice the crowd in my header, and the space between the bottom of them... I would like to know why that is there?, and how can I get the crowd to sit on the nav bar?

Thanks in advance..

Don

PS: I am a HUGEEEE Superman fan myself... and work in comics... look me up on facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/JediColourist

[darnstrong]

[IMG][/IMG]

Where do I change the Text colour I have circled and with happy face, I have looked everywhere and I can't seem to find where it is

Thanks

Don

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by darnstrong

Where do I change the Text colour I have circled and with happy face, I have looked everywhere and I can't seem to find where it is

Thanks

Don

Well the bottom half can be easily modified via adding this to additional.css:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

If we try this version to also snag the title, this is when it changes on all pages:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

It's the top half i.e. the page title that is the issue, if you modify that via css per the bottom example above it changes on all pages not simply forumhome (which we will assume you do not want to do, only make the change on forumhome naturally) so you can at this point either:

1) Modify the template and specify the css via style="css here;" example:

Edit the FORUMHOME template and find:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Change to:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

OR

2) Make a plugin for this:

AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Add New Plugin

Product: vBulletin
Hook location: parse_templates
Title: Custom Style Changes
Execution Order: 5

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Change the STYLEID == 1 i.e. change the 1 to the styleid # of the style you are changing this in otherwise it will change in all styles not just the one in question you're working on .


So it's either option 1 or 2, option one means one less plugin on your site, option two is not technically css correct in a sense i.e. they say its best to use id="cssid" or class="cssclass" instead of style="css code here directly" but imho that's better than a plugin parsing/checking etc but the choice is up to you .