Topic: Can I create a forum that looks like this using Simple Machines?

[nickharambee]

Hi

I would like to create a forum on my website that looks something like the one I have attached below, from the Things website.

In particular I like the minimal quality to the forum, and the background images on each post, which suggests a speech bubble.

This forum was created with Phorum, and I would use Phorum but it doesn't have one crucial feature that I would like, which I believe Simple Machines has, and that is the ability for the user to opt to receive daily or weekly summaries of posts to threads, sections or the forum as a whole.

I would be grateful for any advice on this

Thanks

Nick

[Marcus Forsberg]

Welcome to SMF,

Yes, you can achieve something like that using SMF, if you take the time to tweak the templates accordingly.

[Matthew K.]

You could definitely do this if you knew how to edit template files, wouldn't be that tricky.

There may already be a theme close to this, so I suggest you checkout the theme site.
Labradoodle-360

[nickharambee]

Excellent, thanks for the prompt replies!  I will dig deeper and find out more,

Nick

[Marcus Forsberg]

Labradoodle-360: I have never once seen a theme like that for SMF on the theme site, and I doubt there is one available.
But no, it shouldn't be too hard to fix, if you know how templates work.

nick: Please let us know if you need any guidance