Editting banner on Default theme Curve

[konstantine]

Hi

I recently upgraded my forum to SMF 2, and I'm working on making a theme based off the default "Curve".
There are only some minor modifications I want to make - I'm extremely rusty with skinning SMF and the last skins were a bit of a disaster, so I'm keeping it simple this time.

What I would like to do, is edit the default banner; remove the forum's name which is a hyperlink, and also remove the SMF banner that is at the top right corner, and also 'disable' the expand option for the banner. I'm wanting to replace all of that with just a single imaged banner.

Can anyone help me with which files I need to edit to change the banner, and how to disable the expand option?

Thanks!

[IchBin™]

That's a lot of work to figure out for you. Have you looked at the tutorials posted at the top? There's even some video tutorials I did to help explain on how to create a basic custom theme.

[Transtar]

Can't get to the exact things right now, but what I did:
Disable SM banner : disabled it through the index.css
Take out the Furum name hyperlink: remove the <H1> section in index.template.php
Disable the expand header: I remember seeing something in the index.template.php

Sorry I couldn't be more help, but everything to do with the header and footer can be found in the index.template.php or the index.css

[konstantine]

That's a lot of work to figure out for you. Have you looked at the tutorials posted at the top? There's even some video tutorials I did to help explain on how to create a basic custom theme.

I'm too familiar with this site, and I might be blind, but I can't see anything that directs me to Tutorials? Are the tutorials something in another part of the forums, or on another part of the website?

Sorry I couldn't be more help, but everything to do with the header and footer can be found in the index.template.php or the index.css

Don't be sorry, that has given me at least a starting point of how to remove what I don't want, and start tweaking the index.template to get what I want. Thanks very much!

[IchBin™]

Sorry, the tutorial links are in the graphics and templates board, where you maybe should post for things like this.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=82003.0

[konstantine]

I took a punt on posting on this board, as it seemed the most relevant.
Thanks for the link, I will look into those tutorials and hopefully work out what to do about my banner

Edit: after looking at the tutorials, I found they weren't really helpful. There were some that were exactly what I wanted, but searching for pieces of code to replace, I couldn't find the code in my files. I suspect there have been a lot of changes in v2 compared to the v1 that those tuts were written with.

Not to worry, I managed to muck around with the code myself and take out what I didn't want to replace it with my banner. It doesn't look the prettiest, but meh, I'm not fussy.

Thanks again