1 Topic by towelie (edited by towelie 2007-04-25 20:50)

  • Registered: 2007-04-15
  • Posts: 96

Topic: Help and Advice please..

/* I posted this on punres.org also a couple of hours ago, no response yet. I have to go out soon so I figured I'd see if anyone had some advice atm. */


Alright I am trying customize my punbb. It may not look great right now because I plan to redo all of the photoshop I have done so far; it will look significantly different when completed. What's there is just place settings kind of to get the feel of editing it properly.

http://thpsvids.com/gfg

The main problem I'm having is that border. It repeats right down the entire length of page. I have tried creating custom docs in the include/user folder and linking that image from include/template/main.tpl, with no result (I created some other elements using that technique). Currently the border is set up in the actual template .css file (Minima.css).

Oh, also the footer is not aligning to the actual bottom of the page like the header is.

Anyway I can't think of any other information to post at the moment, all though I'm sure I will later. So please let me hear your thoughts/questions/etc.

- Thanks,
Towelie

  • Registered: 2004-05-24
  • Posts: 449

Re: Help and Advice please..

I'm not actually sure of what you're asking, mostly since the forum in link you posted looks fine, but... If your problem is a background image repeating you can use the no-repeat attribute to prevent that.

  • Registered: 2007-04-15
  • Posts: 96

Re: Help and Advice please..

Well you did give me an idea actually but.. as you can see here that it's just a thin little image so if it doesn't repeat then it will just add a small bar and not actually be a background. I will try some more stuff.

More advice would be great though, even on general styling issues.

  • Registered: 2004-05-24
  • Posts: 449

Re: Help and Advice please..

You have many markup errors that you should fix, for example there's a ".pun" visible in the main page on the left of the main image. In internet explorer 7 I can only see the background image, the rest is blank. The background image looks fine to, it's probably a matter of screen resolution. Back on the background repeat info you'd do like this:

body {background: url(myimage.gif) repeat-y;}

Which means that your image would be only repeated vertically.

Anyway fix the markup first, you have a few tags that ain't supported by w3c like <bold>. Furthermore PunBB uses xhtml 1.0 strict, hence you cannot use the <center> tag. You can workaround that with CSS instructions or change the doctype to transitional (but I suggest you the first). <img> tags don't have the alt attribute, it's necessary even if it's empty.

<img src="myimage.gif" width="" height="" alt="" />

Also there's a <pun_csheader> tag in your source which is probably a modified entry in the template, no idea what you meant to do with it.
Finally, comments should be 

<!-- -->

you put an extra - in both sides.

I hope this helps. Let me know.

  • Registered: 2007-04-19
  • Posts: 84

Re: Help and Advice please..

How did you change the title 'administrator' to 'GFG ADMIN?'

I tried changing that in the language file but it made no difference..

  • Registered: 2004-05-24
  • Posts: 449

Re: Help and Advice please..

dude07 wrote:

How did you change the title 'administrator' to 'GFG ADMIN?'

Go to http://www.yoursite.com/forum/admin_gro … it_group=1

and change the User Title.

  • Registered: 2007-04-15
  • Posts: 96

Re: Help and Advice please..

Thank you very much Strofanto. I will try your suggestions when I get back tonight.