• Registered: 2004-05-05
  • Posts: 5

Topic: Some slight problems with new modified PunBB 1.2.5 -Banner images etc.

Hello Again,

I have been running version an earlier version of PunBB for the last year or so, and just upgraded to 1.2.5 today.

Unfortunately there where a lot of small mods I had made to this script that I had forgotten about that were wiped out when I upgraded.

I've managed to change most of the things back to the way they were but there are a couple of things I'm still having trouble with.


Firstly, have a look at my homepage: www.everything.ie , specifically the latest forum posts box at the top left. Since upgrading, bullet points have appeared beside each forum thread. While these look fine in IE they are outside the box in Firefox and other browsers, so I need to know how to get rid of them?



Next ,if you go to the forums part of the site: http://www.everything.ie/forum/ you'll see I've tried to keep the design similar to my homepage.
I've messed about with main.tpl to try and get rid of the text heading and have my logo there instead. It's worked pretty well, except that the menu bar just below the logo has been shrunk (there are now small gaps at either side of it). I'm not sure what I've done wrong, here is what I changed in main.tpl:

<body>

<div id="punwrap">
<div id="pun<pun_page>" class="pun">

<div id="brdheader" class="block">
    <div class="box">
        <div id="brdtitle" class="inbox">
            <div align="right"><a href="/"><img src="../../../images/everythingforum.gif" alt="everything.ie :: place free ads, find jobs, property, love, romance and more in ireland. everything is free at at everything.ie. now click here to go back to homepage" width="255" height="65" border="0"></a>
        </div>
        <pun_navlinks>
        <pun_status>
    </div>
</div>

<pun_announcement>

Perhaps someone can let me know what I need to change to fix this.

And finally, as you can see I've added a link in the bar at the top of the page (:: Everything.ie Homepage :: ), but how do I go about changing the names of the other links in this bar (eg. to change "Index" to "Forums Homepage")

Sorry for the rambling post, I basically want to:
(1) Ged rid of bullet points on homepage
(2) Get top menu on forums homepage to fit, and
(3) Change the name of the links in this menu.


Every time I've asked for help here before I've always got great assistance so hopefully someone will be able to help me out.

Many thanks,
Robert

2 Reply by Paul

  • Paul
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  • From: Wales, UK.
  • Registered: 2003-08-13
  • Posts: 3,089

Re: Some slight problems with new modified PunBB 1.2.5 -Banner images etc.

2. Change the relevant part of main.tpl to this

        <div id="brdtitle" class="inbox" style="text-align:right">
            <a href="/"><img src="../../../images/everythingforum.gif" alt="everything.ie :: place free ads, find jobs, property, love, romance and more in ireland. everything is free at at everything.ie. now click here to go back to homepage" width="255" height="65" border="0" /></a>
        </div>

1. The recent posts are outputted as list items <li>. You need to add the opening and closing <ul> tags to your main page. Give the <ul> an id i.e. <ul id="recentposts"> and then in your stylesheet give it the style UL#recentposts {list-style-type: none}. As an alternative, if you want to keep the bullet points then just play around with the margins and/or padding on the <ul> and/or <li>.

3. You can add the additional link in admin/options. To change the labels of the other links open the language file which is lang/English/common.php. You will see the menu items grouped together under the navigation section. Just change the text on the right to whatever you want for each item.

  • Registered: 2004-05-05
  • Posts: 5

Re: Some slight problems with new modified PunBB 1.2.5 -Banner images etc.

Thanks Paul,

Advice was perfect and I've now fixed all the minor problems.

I really appreciate your help.

Best Wishes,
Robert