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Topic: Site Intergration, CSS Problems...

My site: http://www.the44th.co.uk/

Hey, i've installed my forum and created a template in the main.tcl file. This all works.
The next step i wanted to was to change the 'style'.
I figured out that this was done with the stylesheets (.css)...

The first thing i did was to create my 'own' .css files "44thER.css" & "44thER_cs.css" etc.
I tried loading the template from the admin panel, this worked but caused problems as the forum seems to like to revert back to the default theme.

The next step i took was to basically, edit over the default "Oxygen" .css files (i make backups). I ONLY changed the colour's i.e. F1F1F1 became: 202020 etc.

I uploaded into the right directories on my website, and refreshed. The colour's i had specified worked, the problem i have is that the table-style template the forum works from had disappeared. It looked like a site-map... I have no idead why this was as i only edited the colour codes and didn't interfer with the .css itself with anyway.

At the moment, i've reverted back to default .css sheets and now i'm posting here... any help would be great.

2 Reply by Paul

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Re: Site Intergration, CSS Problems...

I think you had it right in the first place. The reason it reverted back to the old style is you have to set the new style in admin options and in your user profile. The admin default is only for guests and new members.

Also, make sure you have the right "imports" at the top of your main stylesheet.

3 Reply by Nix (edited by Nix 2005-03-20 00:10)

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Re: Site Intergration, CSS Problems...

I tried to set the new theme in the admin options but it still kept reverting. Hence why i decided to edit over the oxygen.css etc/

I've already changed the imports.

I just don't understand why the tables that the forum sits in just disappear when i change the colours.
I'm not tampering with the css at all. Just changing colour codes and it kills the forum template?

4 Reply by Nix

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Re: Site Intergration, CSS Problems...

I think i've got it now dunno where it went wrong, but tried it again (3rd time) and all is well, been editing the css for some time now, check out my forum if you want. http://www.the44th.co.uk/forum