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Re: Appearance [message #26406 is a reply to message #26207]

Wed, 20 July 2005 21:02

jhogue

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colors are not horribly difficult to change, though it would be great if someone wrote a template mod script.

Make a new template in the admin CP Template Manager in case you make a major boo-boo. Set it to default and enable it. Then edit the templates. I'd do a new header graphic first.

Then, start with forum.css

Use the admin control panel edit the forum.css template. This is the forum's style sheet. Look for the hex color codes, which start with a #xxxxxx. Just plug in different hex codes to change colors of fonts and such. I use GIMP, the free graphics editor, and its Color dialogue to pick and test hex codes. Font styles and sizes are here, too, though it can be a puzzle to figure out which ones appear where.

The stripes that go across the screen are actually thin little .png graphics files that repeat a bunch of times to look like a stripe. tableHeaderbg.png is one of them. I just ftp'd it off of my server from /var/xxxx/FUDforum/thm/default/images and changed it's color in my graphics editor. I saved a copy of the original, ftp'd the new color up, and shazam (clicked rebuild theme in Admin CP)-- and a different colored stripe appears.

Someone (maybe me) will get around to giving a better description of what mods to make to change colors and fonts and such, but if you know how to use ftp and the admin cp, you can tweak a lot of the look.

-J

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