how can i adjust the user info and search box on the header?

Started by mulwa, April 24, 2014, 09:21:45 AM

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mulwa

April 24, 2014, 09:21:45 AM
pls i need a help on how i can make the logo to be at the right hand side of the header and the search box to be moved to the left hand side under the user info. I changed my logo from default to custom and it moved the user info and search box down. See the screen shot of how i want the header to be. I have pointed to arrow to where i want them to be. Thank you for your time and help.

kat

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April 24, 2014, 11:46:15 AM
That looks like a custom theme, Mulwa. As we don't have a clue as to how that theme was coded, you might be best asking in the theme's support topic. That's assuming you get the theme from here, of course...

Sir Osis of Liver

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April 24, 2014, 03:46:27 PM
Which theme?
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mulwa

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April 25, 2014, 06:12:21 AM
it's a custom theme based on default theme. The theme is "on the beach" link to the theme; http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=2753

kat

#4
April 25, 2014, 06:41:19 AM
I see you've posted in the theme's support topic. :)

I'll mark this "Solved". :)

mulwa

#5
April 25, 2014, 08:48:05 AM
pls don't nark it solved, cause i need that to be done on default theme as well. Pls i need a help on the default theme that the header might be as i wanted it to be.

mulwa

#7
April 25, 2014, 12:22:30 PM
am sorry for that. Pls help me to do it for the default theme also. Cause i would use it on the default theme as well

kat

#8
April 25, 2014, 03:30:40 PM
Without needing to completely recode the thing, couldn't you make the logo a gif/png, with a transparent background? If the left part's transparent, the actual logo will appear on the right. Kinda like the attached.

mulwa

#9
April 25, 2014, 05:08:08 PM
but why is it pressing the user info and the search box down when i put and custom logo? Just look at the screen shot how the user info and the search box are moved down. And if i use a small logo, the user info and the search box move up again. It happens like that even on default theme

Deaks

#10
April 26, 2014, 02:10:09 AM
this is cause of the size of the logo and how the default theme is designed to work with logo's as on the beach is just a variation of the default it will act the same.
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mulwa

#11
April 26, 2014, 08:24:55 AM
Μπράιαν Poύνικ Ντίκεν,
please can you help me to fix it for me on the default theme? Thank you for your time sir

kat

#12
April 26, 2014, 12:13:15 PM
Use a smaller logo? Seems the easiest way...

mulwa

#13
April 28, 2014, 06:04:10 PM
@ K@ you are right. But i would like to make the logo a bit bigger.

kat

#14
April 29, 2014, 06:41:25 AM
I would imagine that the best way to get a bigger logo (which, by the way, a lot of your members might find extremely annoying, after a while), would be to forget the normal way of adding a logo and add some code to index.template.php, to show the logo independent of the normal "Show logo" stuff.

I'm not sure where to put the code, now, coz it's a long time since I did this... But, I used this:

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<div style = "text-align: center;"> <img src="http://www.forum.com/Banner.gif" usemap="#Banner" alt="" style="border-style:none" /></div>

It'd probably need to go somewhere around  the <body>'; tag.

Although... In that file, there's a line that says this:

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// Custom banners and shoutboxes should be placed here, before the linktree.

Maybe something could go there, huh? Not sure what, to be honest, coz I tried the code, above, there, and the forum croaked. :(


Before you start editing files, though, you WILL remember my sig... won't you? ;)

mulwa

#15
April 29, 2014, 04:52:09 PM
thank you K@, maybe i should be trying to check the section where i need to place the code

kat

#16
April 29, 2014, 04:58:38 PM
It'd be best for you to try things out, coz you know exactly where you want the logo.

Trial and error, perhaps?

Do remember to keep the original file, as a backup, though. :)
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