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for1lonestar
Joined: 23 Nov 2006
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 Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:56 am Post subject: Love the template! |
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I love the template of this board. It says it is subsilver but it is nothing like my subsilver which I hate (to plain and too white.)
Can someone direct me to where I can get this template or how I can make my site layout like this?
Thanks so much,
Jonny |
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dcz
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Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:09 am Post subject: Re: Love the template! |
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Welcome and thanks 
Well, this layout is based on subsilver obviously but the changes are many and all meant to make this site rather unique, as all should IMHO.
So this one is not available anywhere, I made it up, and I don't think I'll release it.
Anyway, the code is online and you can off course take a look at the css and html output, you'll find a rather regular hack of subsilver, coded with tables and css classes.
Actually, subsilver is a very good base to start from when willing to build up a personalized template for phpBB. SubSilver's code is up to date and maintained with phpBB, so it's easy to deal with it.
I am convinced every phpBB forum should have a personalized template, subsilver being easy to tweak and help easy to find
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for1lonestar
Joined: 23 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:25 am Post subject: I am TOTALLY new to running my own forum and such |
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I just downloaded and started using phpbb so I am VERY new to all this.
Though I doubt I could do it, would you be offended if I copied the layout of your site? Imitation is the best from of flattery they say. GRIN
The layout is just so fine and while I would have different menu topics it is perfect for my needs. Most of all I like the dark bordering wile keeping the viewing area lighter. I can't stand all the white in subsilver and the blues are used are not pleasing to my eyes.
I run a VERY small forum on parrots and such so it is not like it would be out there and I would be happy to put some type of credit to you at the bottom as is standard I think. Just tell me how to credit you.
Again, I don't think I would be able to do it because HTML is not the easiest for me much less learning css but I would love your permission.
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dcz
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:12 am Post subject: Re: Love the template! |
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The main problem will be this template is using a lot of additional parsed vars, so the tpl needs some php code changes to work as they do here.
So it would not help this much is I'd send you the tpl files.
Anyway, if what you like is the general layout, it's easy. Take a look at the source code :
The overall_header.tpl ends up here :
| Code: | <tr>
<td width="20" height="25" nowrap="nowrap" class="out_body"> </td>
<td class="left" width="1%"> </td>
<td class="main_body" width="98%"><br/> |
and the overall_footer.tpl begins here :
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</td>
<td class="right"> </td>
<td width="20" nowrap="nowrap" class="out_body"> </td>
</tr> |
You only need to get inspired from those to get the surrounding and all.
Take a look a the css file to see how I declared classes:
| Code: | | <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/templates/subSilver/dyntar.css" type="text/css" /> |
The other tpl file are almost kept untouched.
So you can get inspired from this no problem, but you must make it look a bit different in the end. This mean you should not reuse the images, but rather make up some yourself and preferably try to use some slightly different colors.
It's not because I don't want to be copied, I really think every web-site should have a unique template even if they can be based on the same one.
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for1lonestar
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:43 am Post subject: Thanks for the offer |
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Thanks for the offer but I don't even know where to find these things or how to open and edit them but I will save the info for when I have more knowledge of how phpbb works.
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Peter77
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:06 am Post subject: Re: Love the template! |
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Hello, since you say you are new to phpbb, you are probably not aware of their template / layout downloads. http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/catdb.php?db=2
Hope that helps, Goodluck  |
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