Getting a particular board to stand out from the rest

[russelluk]

Can anyone advise of a fairly easy way to get a particular board to stand out in some way - either with a particular background or bold text or whatever

Many thanks

Russell

[kat]

I believe you can set each board to se a specific theme, if you want.

If you go to Admin>Forum>Boards and click "Modify", there's an option labelled "Board Theme:", right at the bottom.

[russelluk]

Thank you but that changes the theme of that board - I was hoping to get the actual topic board name formatting to look different - e.g. when you log onto this board you can see the first few topics on the home page have a shaded background - I want to be able to do that with a particular topic on my home page board

Thanks

Russell

[russelluk]

I want to be able to highlight certain subjects like this - see the attachment

[kat]

I believe that's standard, for topics that've been stuck (Stickied?)

[Steve]

Will this do what you want:

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3300

[kat]

OO! Good shout, Steve!

[Steve]

[russelluk]

OK so I am not sure I understand the answers - how do I sticky a subject to change the background

[Steve]

The easiest is to go to the topic you want to sticky, scroll to the bottom and click the 'set topic sticky' button.

[russelluk]

where is the set topic sticky button - I do not have that?

[Illori]

admin -> posts and topics -> topic settings check enable sticky topics and save the page.

[russelluk]

I understand but how do I do that with the top level menu - I have done that with a question within the topic but the option does not exist with an upper level board?

[br360]

Are you trying to get a board to stand out on the main index page? Like the board names in this image?

[russelluk]

Yes I want a board to stand out - say at the upper level or just below this - how do we do this?

[br360]

Take a look at this mod- http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3023

[margarett]

Wait. And breathe

There is a terrible confusion here and we need to *clearly* understand what you want.

You said: I want a board to stand out. These are boards:


But then you talk about sticky topics. These are topics:


For boards, obviously sticky doesn't apply...
So, now that we get the difference straight
Which one do you want to stand out? Boards or topics?

Steve and br360 gave you a solution for both cases

[russelluk]

Sorry - I only have a simple forum - I just want at the upper level where the topics or board are (i.e the first screen when you go to the webpage) are to make some stand out - such as Read here first or What this forum is about - it is at the first highest level of the board

sorry I am just learning this - but getting along ok I must say - its just the fine tuning

Thanks I really do appreciate the help

Regards

Russell

[margarett]

So this is what you need

Take a look at this mod- http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3023

See the images given in that page to see if it fits your needs

[russelluk]

Yes but does this mean I can just make a board stand out in a simple fashion - I dont want to have to edit a whole bunch of css pages or other configuration pages using various methods - surely there is a simple way of doing this?

Many thanks again

Russell