Theme/forum help please.

[Lost-Faith]

Ok,i will start this off by letting you all know that i am very bad at coding.but i would like to make a nice forum,with one of the themes found here [made by bloc] and i was wondering if there is a very user friendly forum builder or something that would allow me lots of constimaztion.or just a user friendlly forum builder,that allows me to put in a theme easily?  i know this may sound very stupid to someone who knows alot of coding etc,but i obviouslly dont,but need to make my own forum very badly.thanks in advance.

[Dannii]

The forum comes with its own installation code, and can also install themes with a few clicks of the mouse. What do you have? how much have you done already?

[Lost-Faith]

well,i already have one running with hxxp:guildportals.com [nonactive],but i was starting a newer one with forumer.com.that one is also running,but it does'nt have anything in it really.

[forsakenlad]

You can easily install a theme using the SMF Admin Panel, just go to "Theme and Layout Settings" and just at the bottom you will see the box for installing themes...

[Lost-Faith]

ok,i'm sorry but this is were my stupidty kicks in,i have both SMF and PHP downloaded but i dont know how to get either "running" i've read the read me/install files and all i really see is the real long code,what am i supposed to do there? once i get past the code,and get it actually running,i should'nt have any problems.

[kegobeer]

i have both SMF and PHP downloaded but i dont know how to get either "running"

You need a functioning webserver to run SMF and to utilize PHP.  There are plenty of sites that explain how to set up a webserver, and Unknown has a great tutorial available.  Just search the forums for it.

[EPro]

ok i have a theme ..... found the install page in SMF but what file do i select to intall everything in the folder

[A.M.A]

The theme file which is either *.zip or *.tar.gz

[EPro]

so i shouldn't unzip the file? ...... and if i need to add a mod i do the same?

[EPro]

now it doesn't change??? i don't understand

[[Unknown]]

SMF will unzip the files for you.  Don't worry about them, just upload them.

-[Unknown]

[EPro]

everytime i do that only 3 file get loaded ....... no images or anything ..... tryed to do a manual and link it in the info for the theme and it kinda worked but got some errors ....... any thoughts ..... mabey i missed a step

[bloc]

Maybe - when you have pressed "browse" - you could take away the content of the bottom box there, the one that say something like "themexx". I am not totally sure which versions of SMf thats needs this, but I usually do it anyway.

[EPro]

got my themes working ..... thanx to all ...... now i want to add a mod ..... hmmmmm going to pull my hair out

[EPro]

what does this mean?
Notice: Undefined index: hello_member in /home/content/e/n/f/enfamy/html/smf/Themes/cerberus/index.template.php on line 179 EPro

[[Unknown]]

You're using an older version of SMF.  Upgrade.

-[Unknown]