Web Design Need help on my forum

Hi there, I have a forum from PhPBB where I use the AZ_Retro style:

Discuss our future • Index page

I want to change the lay-out a bit more to my website: Home but somehow I cannot change the dark grey background on the left and right. Besides that I would like the orange "discussourfuture" title above the pictures and the "search box functions" below the pictures. Also the grey area between the orange table called "Board index" and the actual forum should be white. However since this forum has so many style sheets and other moderate options in the controlpanel I am lost where to change. I hope someone can help.

Cheers,

Bram

 

Hey Bram,

I have spent the last few months editing phpBB forums, it's tricky to start with but get's easier pretty quickly. I internet is being particularly tricky at the minute so I can't even view your website, but I can help you.

There seem to be two ways of setting the background on a phpBB forum. 1 is a set HTML colour value, the other is with an image. It's usualy the later, I think I've only seen it once when the background was set with a HTMl value. I'll quickly look through some themes I've made and grab the lines/names for you. I'll update this post when I've found it.

Update:
Ok so, if you traverse to the folder containing your theme, go in to theme/image and see if you have a background.gif. If you do, it should be a plain block of that brown colour when you open it. Make a new document of the same dimension (I found that editing gifs from themes usualy doesnt work), fill it with white, and save it as background.gif, replace the old backgrounf.gif with the new one. You shouldn't need to change any code, it should just update the image.

To change the the colour of the 'Chage our future' text you need to find it in one of the files. Ok if you go into <them folder>/theme/<themename>.css scroll down till you find

"/* Text
--------------------- */"

Try editing the colour values for the headers. I don't think I've ever had to do this, I always used an image and removed the writing ontop of it.

 

Hi Recidivist. I am using a template for PhPBB (AZ_Retro), where I have changed the "body_bg. png" in the theme/image folder already and uploaded with my fileserver. I have also set the body backgrounds to white. On my website these kind of things worked, but in this case both didn't help. So thanks, but very lost on this one.

 

I can't help you tonight, my internet is so bad right now I can hardly open webpages. I'll go through the folders and and files and get it sorted into a txt document and paste that up on here tomorrow or if it stops being so slow tonight.

 

Thanks, would really appreciate that!

 

Ok so, my internet has regained functionality. I managed to find and download the skin you are using and have been through it and edited some of what you asked. I've edited various images and fields so it should look more like your main pages. I havn't tested it out, but it should be right.

For the orange Discuss our future title, what did you want to change about that? The text, text colour, or remove it completely? Also, could you explain what you wanted changing about the search box, and what you meant by
"Also the grey area between the orange table called "Board index" and the actual forum should be white"
Your forum appears to be down, so I can't check myself.

I'll attach the files when we're finished editing.

 

Thanks mate. I would like the title to appear as on the website (Home), so left above the pictures and, if possible, the searchbox right below the pictures before "FAQ".
Apparently my index page and forum were indeed down. I have put it back on. The grey area I was talking about is gone. Hope you can help and I really appreciate this

Bram

 

Ok, uploaded structured zip, replace files on your webserver with the one in there. Doesn't change search box/title, may aswell get the other stuff out of the way first.

 

Thanks, I already managed to change the header image to the same picture as on the website. Unfortunately the light grey between Board Index and Forum is back. And the dark grey on the left and right is still there. I'll play a bit with this color stylesheet. Thanks!

 

I managed to change a few things, and it looks a bit better now I feel: Discuss our future &bull; Index page

However, the dark grey still annoys me

 

Yeah, it's hard to do it with out actually ahving the forum there to see if it works. There are a lot of problems with phpBB, which the phpBB team are trying to fix for later releases, so it's really just trial and error. You should be able to change most of the thing you want within those style sheets, hopefully it shouldn't take you too long to find the correct one. I havn't been much help, but keep us posted on how it goes, mebe i can chip in on something else xD

 

Thanks. The biggest problem I have is that I can't directly see the changes i made, like I can with my normal website. It usually takes half an hour before you see the changes.

What do you think of the forum now? Discuss our future &bull; Index page

Looks more like the website? Would you change anything else?

Thanks mate.

ps Where is your website??

 

The forum is starting to get pretty good, just need to make that pesky grey/brown colour on the sides white and have a little grey border in your body_bg.png and it's good to go. You may want to also edit/add to the copyright text in the footer, and change the text's colour (It's light grey on white at the minute and you can hardly see it).

Good job with it so far ^_^

 

Yeah, if only I knew how to change that grey/brown color... it's starting to annoy me I just cannot seem to find it... If only I knew the HTML code for it, I could go through the style sheets to locate it...

Good comment about the copyright. Didn't look there before. Thanks.

 

I went through the colours.css and changed the 6E6262 value that should have been the background, but aparently it didn't work. Try looking in another .css file, mebe it's there.

 

Mhmk, there ya go ^_^

 

Hi guys, thanks a lot. I found it myself as well. The problem was that it showed up twice (head and body) and previously I only changed one of them, which doesn't change it. But it's gone! Discussourfuture for a structural sustainable planet

I managed to move the searchbox.

Now I have to manage to move the topic title to the top left and the grey area below "forum" has to become white. Finally there are 4 little grey boxes that I want to remove.

Cheers!!

Bram