Compact Headers 2.0, or CH2, is a little template modification that removes the logo image from your UBB™, and it streamlines the rest of the top portion of your UBB™ to make it smaller and more aesthetically pleasing.
CH2 is a complete rewrite of the original Compact Headers hack. There are two main behind-the-scenes differences between CH2 and the original Compact Headers (CH1). Namely, CH2 has been built entirely for UBB™ 6.1.0, and it's also been coded to be (hopefully) XHTML validated, for excellent cross-browser compatibility. And of course, though CH2 does look similar to its predecessor in terms of what the end-user sees, there are quite a few differences in that area as well. Almost all upper elements of pages have been incorporated into CH2 - this means anything that would normally appear between the logo and the main body of the page. Those changes are too numerous to list the particulars here, so you'll just have to look for yourself. CH2 is also even more compact than CH1 - the whole upper area of your UBB now contains no more than three lines of text (provided you don't have exteremely long forum or topic names, etc.). CH2 also goes a long way toward complete standardization - where several templates in CH1 got their own table implementation, *all* templates in CH2 now reference the $StandardTitleTable variable and only vary from each other in the name or extra information in the bottom row.
Because this hack contains complete template files, installing it normally will overwrite any hacking you've already done to the standard templates. As such, it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you start out with a clean board and install the CH2 templates before installing anything else!!Very special thanks to Allen Ayres for letting me use his XHTML-based templates as a starting point for CH2. Also, massive amounts of crazy ninja love to him for porting CH2 up to UBB™ 6.1.0.3!!!
Here are the links I'm sure you'll be interested in...
Demo:
http://www.se7enet.com/site/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi Downoad:
https://www.ubbdev.com/columns/Skorpion/mods.html NOTE: You must be a valid license holder before you can enter the main download page.
Please let me know of any bugs or problems you find. Thanks!
---Skorpion
[ 12-04-2001 11:15 AM: Message edited by: Jamin ][ 12-17-2001 07:02 PM: Message edited by: Jamin ]
