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LoL I used to think orange was only good to use when it was for Halloween... but this last year or at least the last 6 months I have been pointing out varoius "orange" themed websites to my wife saying... I like orange... This looks good... LoL

Many of my users stuck with the Haloween theme until the Christmas one became avail.

Dave, I registered so I could see the colors. Very nice job.

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Thanks

On the way to work this morning I was thinking about the way you did the transparent gifs for the 8 table cells that make up the border and something hit me: Couldn't you just cut four gifs, one for each corner? Since the table cells adjacent to the corners will take on the dimensions forced by the transparent gifs in the corners you should be able to cut the number of transparent gifs from 8 to 4...

On days like today I'm glad the car knows how to get to were I work...

I made the original suggestion, but Dave had already been working on them when I made it... besides, it was Rick who had them in 5.5, he had taken them out for the templates for 6.0

Anyways, it might be a while before we see 6.2.1, if you have the bugfixed versions of the templates, you might release them here so those trying to edit their tbopen / tbclose won't think they are messing something up

If you dont put all of the clear .gif files in their respective cells the row or column will not shrink down to your required widths/heights.

You'll have to play with them for a while to see what causes what... lol

It's actually pretty simple. Open up the ubbthreads.tmpl file and look for:

<!-- END CATEGORY LOOP -->
<!-- END OF FORUM LOOP -->

Right after that you should see:

</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Which is realy just a hard coded default $tbclose so just replace the:

</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

With:

$tbclose

Save and upload the file

I added the sidebar template mod to my test site.

All that's left is for me to edit the editdisplay.php and doeditdisplay.php files so users can select to see it or not.

You can select a left or right hand sidebar to be displayed.

make that edit changedisplay.php and dochangedisplay.php

scratch that... need to edit editdisplay.php and changedisplay.php

LoL

will get them right eventually....

I understand what you're saying, but the four corners should effect the dimentions of the adjacent table cells. I'll set one up with just the corner gifs to test it out.

The logo graphic on my web site has a forground image in the left hand column that forces the other columns to be the same height (the middle cell doesn't shrink even though the only gif is a background image).

Test it out and try sizes under say 10 pixels. You'll see that they all wont drop down in size unless they all have something in them.

Now I see what you're saying: They won't scale down.

Dave also fixed some major goofed up wacky stuff happening in myhome.

It's attached here.... but JustDave gets all the credit.

Thanks Josh!

I put up Dave's changes against the original in Beyond Compair -Ugh! Lots of junk ASCII spaces and some comments that shouldn't have been.

Good job JuystDave!

Thanks

Was thinking...

I think it's about 15 px where the cells start to fail in getting smaller than. And I can't say for sure if it's just IE specific or not. Netscape used to colapse to almost nothing if there wasn't something in it... lol

I have looked at my test site with Mozilla 1.2, Netscape 7.0 and IE 6.0 and they all rendered well. Out of curiosity I tested with a webtv emulator and all of the graphics are not visible because I guess it cant deal with css2 attributes in the style sheets. It just looked like a basic setup. No frills. lol

I downloaded Opera 7.0 pr2 today... have yet to install... curious as to how that's doing.

Allen I got the sidebar finished as we discussed.

It's editable from the online template editer.
It's width and what side it's on (left/right/off) is set in theme.inc.php.
Users can opt to turn it off from their display prefs.

Oh... and it should work with php code so other things can be done in the template such as the users online hack display


Now someone will probably want me to document it or something... lol

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Yes,

I had something close on measurection before my upgrade. They couldn't choose what side.... but they could turn it off.

I had the shoutbox in there to try and make the site more interactive. It seemed to slow things too much for me, but some liked it.

I always wanted to get "hot topic" working there etc.... but if you remember some of my posts for help (member functions etc.....) I finally gave up. LOL

Dave, do you mean that little sidebar on your template can contain ads/etc. but the user will have the option to have it not displayed if they don't want to see it?

Yes that's correct Aaron.

Of course it can be made to where they don't have an option if you really want them to see the ads.

Hey was just thinking... with 2 line changes I can let users select left/right or off.

Thanks for the idea.

no, that's not what I was thinking!!!!

I just think that's awesome, that you could now add features to the forum that can be seen from any page. And giving them the option to remove it just makes it more customized to the users liking. And occasionally you could change it up and throw in an ad or something if you wanted. As long as you keep changing it, they will keep checking it anyway, if they are a regular visitor, just to see what's different. I think that is a great option.

Man, you know you're hooked when.......

The side bar is very cool for someone like me who has his entire web site in Threads. Even the articles on my site are Threads posts

I'll attempt to put together some documentation on the sidebar sometime soon. (tomorrow night hopefuly)

I still would like about 5 more color variations for the package. Then with some effort the site's color can change daily for visitors. (users prefered choice would override of course)

You're gonna give the zip file a name?...

Sorry, couldn't resist

Now that made me laugh out loud! LoL a zip file with a name plus a text file inside.... with a name too! LoL

It's cool to add JustDave's shoutbox to the sidebar too.... which is possible with some tweaking.

Allen does this at his stand site.

I've done this here:

http://www.thesoulelement.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php

ROFLMAO!

I like it!

It is just what I was looking for.

I might change the background to something a bit more subtle so scrolling doesn't hypnotize me

yay, quick reply

great news on the sidebar Dave

The sidebar is installed here too... btw

Just not active.



I may have to change where the sidebar is closed as it doesn't look right with your surrounding table.

Now throw some of those sweet template and t-dev blue stylesheet on here.

I still need to update the generic header so my logo looks like the rest of the forum, but I'm close...

Check it out

How do I make the same border changes to the tables in IIP? Can I use $tbopen and $tbclose?

thats very cool

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Thanks Pappy!

I just finished the banner at the top. Now all I gotta do is wait for JustDave to rescue me on IIP

Looking good!

In the pals directory there is a file called tablewrappers.tmpl that you need to edit. This contains both the opening and closing table values plus some additional settings.

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In the pals directory there is a file called tablewrappers.tmpl that you need to edit. This contains both the opening and closing table values plus some additional settings. [/]

Can I use $tbopen and $tbclose in the tablewrappers.tmpl file?

You should be able to transfer the html you have in them over to the the tablewrappers.tmpl. The wrappers the pal boxes use include an additional "center" that is used after the header so that the header itself can be customized. Rick couldn't go that route with .threads because in a lot of cases he has much more going on in that area. The table wrappers that don't include the center are basicly the same as the .threads ones. With your wrappers layout you can place this into the center wrapper for the pal boxes:

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">


This will close the header and open the body of the pal box.

This is looking good can't wait till we see a hack on this one.