Help with background color around the logo

Maurice Makaay

Re: Help with background color around the logo
September 04, 2009 08:06PM

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I assume when you said "the image code is before the <body> tag" was referring to the banner/advertisement right? Just need to know what page that banner resides on.

No, I am referring to the placement of your logo code. Excerpt from the page:

[code=php]
....</head><center> <img src="[www.livingnutrition.com];
</center><body onload=""><div id="phorum">.....
[/code]

Even basic HTML skills should cause alarms to start ringing the moment you see something like this. This code is invalid HTML.

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We don't have any html experts. Thought these forums were designed to help people, even if they had basic html skills?

We don't need HTML experts. Basic HTML skills are okay and we're happy to help out people with finding their way in Phorum to change what they need. However, the fact that you have updated your templates in a quite broken way indicates that you're not yet at the level of basic HTML skills.

These forums are not designed to help people with learning HTML/CSS.
These forums are for helping people with Phorum.

I hope that you see the difference.

As for your question: the basic answer stays the same. You should edit your header.tpl and possibly css.tpl to get what you need.

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getitdone99

Re: Help with background color around the logo
September 07, 2009 09:53AM

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Thanks a bunch and I understand completely! Actually we did not do anything with the logo other than replace the old image with a new one. The placement of the logo in the .tpl file was done by the previous web designer. So this means there is other junk that isn't correct in there.

Not being familiar with Phorum, it is hard for me to tell if something is out of place, such as the logo.

All we have done is add background:white to certain areas and added that greenish/yellowish blurry graphic to the entire forum. That's it.

So it looks like we have inherented a bunch of html coding errors.

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Maurice Makaay

Re: Help with background color around the logo
September 07, 2009 10:41AM

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Yes, sounds a lot like that.

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getitdone99

Re: Help with background color around the logo
September 09, 2009 12:46PM

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Do you do side work for these forums? We would be willing to pay someone to make a these final small changes.

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getitdone99

Help please - make the banner ad area white
September 10, 2009 01:00PM

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We are trying to fix the issues located in a forum that we picked up from another developer.

We really need anyone to tell us where we can change the area around the banner / advertisement to another color. Right now it shows through the background image.

here's the stinking site again:

[www.livingnutrition.com]

Help!

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korsakov

Re: Help please - make the banner ad area white
September 10, 2009 02:03PM

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Download Firebug plug-in from Firefox. It will show you the elements (incl. css mark-up) you might need need to remove from header.tpl (to be found found in your template directory). I hope this helps.

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getitdone99

Re: Help please - make the banner ad area white
September 10, 2009 03:02PM

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Ah so the banner coding is found in the header.tpl. That will help get this fixed. Also we will grab the Firebug, which should be helpful in the future for other projects.

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Maurice Makaay

Re: Help please - make the banner ad area white
September 10, 2009 04:25PM

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Hmm... I'm having a deja vu here. Why open a new thread for the issue that you were already working on in another thread?
I think I told you 2 or 3 times to work with header.tpl in that thread already, but good that other wording could get you to the file that needs to be changed.

I'll merge this thread with your original one.

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JakeStew

Re: Help with background color around the logo
September 24, 2009 05:53PM

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So I've been starting to modify a template for my site. I changed the logo and managed to change the size of the top bar. However now I have a strange looking background. It's obvious that the top bar background isn't made to be larger, the way I did it at least. I modified the header_background.png to make it taller, but that didn't seem to do anything.

My site is:
www.o-bio.org/forums

Anyone who knows what I need to modify, please let me know!

-Jake

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Maurice Makaay

Re: Help with background color around the logo
September 24, 2009 06:35PM

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In the CSS code, the background image is refencing the emerald template. You can change that from the settings.tpl.

If you look at the bottom of settings.tpl in your OBRI template, you'll see a few background image references. Change "emerald" to "OBRI" in them and you should be fine.

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