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2yearsinvegas:
We've got SMF setup to our satisfaction as far as function, and now we're ready to adjust what we've got to have it fit in with our "parent" website scheme. We started out with a theme that doesn't appear to be very easily revised due to a lot of color gradients, so we're considering replacing that with an existing theme that is more solid colors.

So the first question is, what's the easy way to replace our original theme with another? We're open to replacing the theme if it allows us to more easily accomplish the revisions we need. Our target theme is number 2011 and we'll be revising what we have here at our board http://losangelesbillsbackers.com/bisontalk/index.php [nofollow]

Secondarily we will want to adjust the blue in this theme to match the blue in our website.

Lastly we will want to insert our logo.

Any help in tying this all up would be greatly appreciated-

K@:

--- Quote from: 2yearsinvegas on July 26, 2012, 11:17:25 AM ---
So the first question is, what's the easy way to replace our original theme with another?
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Do you mean "How do I install a new theme"?

If so...

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Themes_and_Layout#Install_a_New_Theme


--- Quote from: 2yearsinvegas on July 26, 2012, 11:17:25 AM ---Secondarily we will want to adjust the blue in this theme to match the blue in our website.
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The theme's colours are shown in Hex format, in the theme's index.css file, which is in the "css" directory.


--- Quote from: 2yearsinvegas on July 26, 2012, 11:17:25 AM ---Lastly we will want to insert our logo.
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That's a little easier :)

Admin>Current theme>Logo image URL:

Hope that helps, a bit, at least.

Yoshi:

--- Quote from: 2yearsinvegas on July 26, 2012, 11:17:25 AM ---Secondarily we will want to adjust the blue in this theme to match the blue in our website.

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This would be harder to achieve, as the colours are set in both images and CSS.

If you're fine with both editing CSS stylesheets, and editing images, this will be no problem but if you're not (like me ;D) that can be a problem when changing colours.
* Yoshi2889 is looking forward to SMF 2.1 which implements CSS3, so everything is set with CSS

K@:
Ah, yeah! I forgot about the images!

Good finkin', Yosh!

2yearsinvegas:
OK- We've got the color adjusted in the CSS but I'm not exactly sure about the logo. Right now the pages have "My Community" as a default and I can't locate where that's coming from. I want to eliminate that "My Community" and put our logo in there. I have uploaded the logo to the host server but I don't find the path you suggest Admin/Current Theme/Logo Image. Are you using the latest version, which is what I presume I downloaded?

Thanks for the pointers-

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