• Registered: 2007-03-13
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Topic: How the hell do u customise this forum ??

Ive uploaded.. managed to find the style sheet that allows me to change the colors to suit my site.. But how do i change the look of the site ?

I want to change the VEry top part.. where u log-in and log-out,  Index, rules, search etc..  To suit my own site

but cant for the life of me find out where the links are.. where they are being caled from or what part of the css im supposed to change..


Does the creator think everyone is a fluent php programmer ?

  • Smartys
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Re: How the hell do u customise this forum ??

What do you want to change about them?

3 Reply by yeahgreat (edited by yeahgreat 2007-03-14 01:45)

  • Registered: 2007-03-13
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Re: How the hell do u customise this forum ??

Sorted!!

  • Smartys
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Re: How the hell do u customise this forum ??

Moved to Integration then wink
Edit main.tpl, remove <pun_navlinks>, add your own code in its place: I believe that should do it

  • sirena
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Re: How the hell do u customise this forum ??

More info on style modding, inc the header and footer issue, is also at:

http://punbb.org/docs/faq.html#faq3_3

and

of course:

http://wiki.punres.org/Wiki_index#Style.2FCSS

It actually is quite easy to dev up a style of your own, esp by building up from style pre-built by tools like http://www.jsand.net/spinkbb/?lang=en, or just modding some of the existing styles at http://www.punres.org.

But I can see how for a new PunBB user, figuring it all out is hard going.

The documentation is obscure, and scattered all over. 

Every day I discover something new myself, and I've been using it for a while.

Coding is fun and intellectually exciting, whereas preparing documentation for users and other developers is dead boring and dull. Hence documentation is typically not great with a lot of open source coding projects, IMHO. Hence many of these projects are commonly accompanied by flourishing forums like this one smile

  • From: Cork, Ireland
  • Registered: 2007-01-18
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Re: How the hell do u customise this forum ??

you can also hack apart PunBB to suit your site very well but i have found that once you do this, should you want to upgrade PunBB when a new major version (1.3) is released then it will make life very difficult. 1.3 should make integration easier but there is no known release date for this so it could be months or even years away before a final build is out.