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shutiri:
Hi.
I've installed SMF, but not still familiar with it. I first used XMB, and then phpBB. Now, to integrate with CPG, I changed to SMF.
I'm having some troubles to configure the look of my board. On XMB, I could set a lot of things (header, footer, colours, pictures, backgrounds...) directly on the admin. On phpBB, I just had to edit basically 3 files (header, footer and index) to get almost the results I wanted (I didn't use it very much, because I went directly to SMF).
Is there an easy, very graphical tool to "copy-paste" the content, maybe with a WYSIWYG tool like dreamweaver (which I use) or I have to learn PHP to change everything ?
Is there a way to see demo themes fast (like in the phpBB site) ?
thank you,
shutiri.
Ben_S:
An easier to use theme editor is planned but isn't complete yet.
In all honesty though it really isn't that difficult to manage without it, to change the look pretty much everything is in the Themes/xxx/index.template.php and IMHO it is much easier to work with than phpbb's system.
Oldiesmann:
Currently their is no way to demo the themes, but that will probably change in the future. As far as graphical content goes, most of the settings you'd be looking for would be in style.css, boardindex.template.php or index.template.php. For the overall style of the header and the footer, check out the template_above and template_below functions in index.template.php. To customize various colors, you'll want to modify style.css. If you would like custom "new posts" and "no new posts" images, you'll want to call them on.gif (for new posts), on2.gif (the slightly lighter version of on.gif used when there are new posts in the child boards but not the parent board) and off.gif (for no new posts) as well as new_some.gif and new_none.gif (the images used in the "New Posts" and "No New Posts" bar on the boardindex). Hope that helps.
Tomer:
--- Quote from: shutiri on May 06, 2004, 05:02:14 AM ---Hi.
I've installed SMF, but not still familiar with it. I first used XMB, and then phpBB. Now, to integrate with CPG, I changed to SMF.
I'm having some troubles to configure the look of my board. On XMB, I could set a lot of things (header, footer, colours, pictures, backgrounds...) directly on the admin. On phpBB, I just had to edit basically 3 files (header, footer and index) to get almost the results I wanted (I didn't use it very much, because I went directly to SMF).
Is there an easy, very graphical tool to "copy-paste" the content, maybe with a WYSIWYG tool like dreamweaver (which I use) or I have to learn PHP to change everything ?
Is there a way to see demo themes fast (like in the phpBB site) ?
thank you,
shutiri.
--- End quote ---
You can modift the main temapltes via Admin center, index.template and style.css.
Most of its HTML and not PHP, but if you have trouble, you can always ask for help via forum or PM me. :)
shutiri:
thank you for the help. I'm doing all that I can and as you can see, I'm posting all my troubles !! ;D
I understand HTML, but I've always let dreamweaver do the most of the work... ::) and of course, I'm having problems if I can't graphically move the components. But generally talking, the more I use this forum, the more I like it... I has a lot of features I didn't even know I needed !!
Another thing: my site is in spanish, and the translation is not complete. I'm doing it and I would like to propose it of somebody else needs it althought.
thank you again,
Shutiri.
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