AkoBlue-Midland Combined Theme

[chadness]

Well, here's my final redesign:
http://aim.aiiresources.com

I ended up blending the MidLand theme from ****** with a HEAVILY modified AkoBluePortal template.  I needed to make it all look like our main company web pages here: http://www.aim.artinstitutes.edu

MidLand theme here:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=24499.0
(please note, the original MidLand theme is no longer available)

AkoBluePortal here:
http://www.mamboportal.com/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,46/func,fileinfo/parent,folder/filecatid,1089/

I'll try to add some screen shots later.

So, what do you all think?

[tjay]

Dang the download for the template chadness posted does not work. Anyone know where I can get it?

[chadness]

tjay, which download were you having problems with?  They both seem to be working now.

Sorry I probably won't be able to share my edited versions with everyone, because I had to tweak some of the core files of Mambo to get everything exactly how I wanted it.  I could share all of my edited files, but that might be overly complicated.

The basics of getting those two to work together though was just to change the AkoBluePortal template to variable width by changing the width command on lines 37 and 148 to 100%

If I get some time I'll try to put together something that looks good between the two without all of my little tweaks.

[chadness]

OK, here you go.  I made some basic modification to the themes I started with that should work for everyone.  Here's some screen shots from my development site:
Mambo front page:
http://aim.aiiresources.com/files/screenshot-1.jpg

Mambo forums (you'll probably want to change those colors to match better):
http://aim.aiiresources.com/files/screenshot-2.jpg

AkoBluePortal (Mambo template) modified to work with SMF:
http://aim.aiiresources.com/files/AkoBluePortal-SMF.zip

MidLand (SMF ver. 1.01 theme) modified to work with Mambo:
http://aim.aiiresources.com/files/MidLand-Mambo.zip
Please note, there is a HIGHLY improved theme for SMF 1.1 RC1 based off of Midland available here:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=43484.msg371697#msg371697

All you should have to do is cosmetic changes - tweak the colors to your liking, change the logo, etc.

I put text documents of the changes I made to these in the files.  Hopefully this will help people to do their own tweaking.

Summary of changes to AkoBluePortal:

Changes to index.php:
Added lines 21-32 - standard SMF header additions.
Lines 37 and 148 - changed width to 100% (may not be necessary).

Summary of changes to MidLand:

In index.template.php:
Changed doctype to "html" from "xhtml"
Changed all actions of logout to mambo_logout
Changed registration link in index.template.php to point to:
<a href="', $mosConfig_live_site, 'directory/index.php?option=com_smf_registration&task=register"
Erased most of lines 112-116 (logo lines) as the logo should be in the Mambo header.  Left in the necessary '; at the end of line 116.
Erased lines 155-258 as this information is duplicated in Mambo's login module, and just takes up extra space.
Changed width parameter on line 115 to 98% to fix a problem with the search box going outside of the Mambo table in IE6.
Line 107 - Changed the left and right margins to 0 px to match the rest of the Mambo site.

In BoardIndex.template.php, Display.template.php, MessageIndex.template.php:
Changed all actions of login2 to mambo_login

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In Post.template.php:
Changed lines from 814-820 to the original posting text box, as the modified version did not seem to work on my site.  Possibly a problem caused by Mambo?
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In style.css:
Commented out lines 2-16 and 50-71 as these tags should be handled by the Mambo template.

[edit]
For some reason the modifications to the standard text box in Post.template.php was causing me to be unable to type any text - it would disappear right away.  I believe these modifications are in there to prevent users from modifying their own posts after a certain amount of time.  For whatever reason, this was causing me problems.  I wonder if this was due to a conflict in the Mambo template?  I replaced the lines with the text box lines from the default theme and that works great.
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[Gersonde]

Mambo forums (you'll probably want to change those colors to match better):
hxxp:aim.aiiresources.com/files/screenshot-2.jpg [nonactive]

Looks cool.
Where can i get the Font in the Header?

[chadness]

Do you mean the font that says mamboforum.com?  I'm not sure, that was from the original AkoBluePortal.  Mine looks like this now:
http://aim.aiiresources.com
Very different. 
The one I posted here was just the very basic changes I made to make those two fit together - they definitely require some changing to their color schemes to make them useable for anyone.

[b_michael]

Question... I've installed chadness's Ako_BluePortal-SMF theme.

None of the graphics show up, just the standard red X for a missing graphic. Another Mambo bridge theme did the same thing.

The first thing I guessed is that its some stort of CHMOD problem... I noticed that the permission for the images in the rhuk_solarflare_ii theme (that works) were set to 755 and the images within the Ako_BluePortal-SMF theme were set to 644.

I CHMOD'ed the images in Ako_BluePortal-SMF to 755....

The images still don't show up. Any suggestions?

[Herman's Mixen]

you have to copy your images too your mambi images dir

[Kindred]

you have to copy your images too your mambi images dir

Ummm.... since when?

[chadness]

You shouldn't have to move them anywhere different.

That's very strange.  First thing I would check is to go in to your SMF Administration Center and click on Current Theme and Settings.  Make sure the paths it lists are correct.

755 should be fine for the rights.

[b_michael]

I solved the problem, Thanks 

FYI, the zip file unpacks as Ako_BluePortal-SMF, but the index.php of the theme looks for /Ako_BluePortal/images

... So I had to find and replace with the actual path and it solved the problem, great theme

[chadness]

Oops!  I'll fix it   Thanks for the heads up.

[chadness]

I also just realized I was talking about the SMF theme while you were having problems with the Mambo template.  *sigh*  Anywas, fixed template will be uploaded shortly.

[b_michael]

I'm having an additional problem, I think its with the BluePortal theme...

The problem appears with in Midland and Winter themes, it's my last unresolved issue so ANY suggestions would be appriciated.

If I view the forum element within the Mambo template, everything is formatted excellently, extactly the way it should be... Verdona etc..

The moment I click off the forum element, (on to FAQ, etc) the login portion of the site goes to a bigger font size, and all of the elements on the main (right) side of the screen appear in Times New Roman.

I have tried EVERYTHING in order to fix this. I've merged the CSS files, edited font sizes, defined the font in every element that mentioned a font size, etc...

Kindred couldn't find a problem in my CSS code, in fact to simplify things my Mambo and SMF style sheets are identical....

Still I'm having the large font problem, any suggestions?

Thanks

[b_michael]

NEVERMIND 

I feel like an idiot....

I didn't edit the path to the CSS file to include '-smf' like I had to with the images in the previous post.

[repete]

I am using the Midland theme and I'm keeping things really simple.  I got rid of all but the home and search buttons for a guest, and everything but home, search, and profile buttons for a user.  The only problem is that the mouseover for the search and profile buttons are still in the original position so they're misaligned.  I can't figure out how to fix this so help is appreciated.

[chadness]

I am using the Midland theme and I'm keeping things really simple.  I got rid of all but the home and search buttons for a guest, and everything but home, search, and profile buttons for a user.  The only problem is that the mouseover for the search and profile buttons are still in the original position so they're misaligned.  I can't figure out how to fix this so help is appreciated.

I did the exact same thing.  You have to actually edit the image files so that they are adjusted to point to the new position.  Look in the theme's images/english directory and edit the appropriate files in there.  Note that there are seperate ones for guests, admins, and regular members.

[repete]

Thanks so much for the reply chadness, I don't think I ever would have thought to edit the actual images.  By the way, great work on modifying the MidLand theme for the integration.

[chadness]

No problem!  I've had vague thoughts about trying to do it without having to modify the images, but with it not being my theme, I'll probably just leave it.

[deejayh]

Regarding the Midland Theme,

Does anyone know how to remove the Log in box and links on the left hand side?

Thanks
Dave