New Logo

I Like the new logo:

Slay the Dragon..........


rstones12

Big thanks to my friend Cycoze for the logo and the banner to be found on the main page.

They are very nice - on the main webpage is a 'credit' for him/her.

Funnily enough it was only yesterday morning when the subject of website and forum layouts came up in a discussion with a work colleague.

The new logo is much better - just needs rolling out to all the forums here now

Especially where the silver-grey bar with the "Our malware removal uiniversity .... details" text appears; it comes halfway down the old "Malware Removal" logo and looks a bit messy. The new logo addresses this nicely.

I always feel that the standard phpBB header layout is a little messy with respect to the standard links (FAQ, Search, Memberlist, etc) - could that be tidied up a bit?

Moya Brennan, aside from producing lovely music has a good header layout.

Angoid

I have the qbar mod on my site.

So some of the menu layout is changeable.

Each LINE of data can have a maximum number of links so with the very top I have set to 3 per line, the menu as 5 per line and the special announcements as 1.

I can change those LINES to be of a BAR type as in the top and special or of a menu type as in this menu.

The top section I expect to grow in links and will try to keep 5 or under per line with a max of 5 lines.

Once the university is more established I will add to the top section - leaving the specials for just that, one off specials. If no specials are active that bar will disappear.

I wish I could make that special bar a different color - so it would stand out more - but they all follow the same scheme.

Very pro looking guys. Well done


Trevuren

"ChrisRLG" wrote:......
I wish I could make that special bar a different color - so it would stand out more - but they all follow the same scheme.

Hi there

Bit late to the show, however this might help. I'm sure you'll get the idea.
Just edit the special1.gif to a colour that suits.
Assumes you have set up your own Menu and the two specials as Use a table
in the qbar config

In your overall_header.tpl add this to the .css style (between the <style> tags

/* qbar - qmenu table - menu only when table used */

.special{

	background: #006699 url('images/special1.gif');

	border-width: 1px 1px 0px 1px;

	color: #FFFFFF;

	font-size: 12px;

	font-weight: bold;

	height: 28px;

	text-align: center;

	}

In the qbar_qmenus.tpl find

<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center">

Replace with

<table width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center">

Find

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="100%" class="bodyline"><tr><td align="center" nowrap="nowrap" class="catHead">

Replace with

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1" width="100%" class="bodyline"><tr><td align="center" nowrap="nowrap" class="special">

upload the special1.gif to subSilver/images (or the path to the style images)

Download special1.gif

Example when above applied


HTH

Would that not effect both the top 3 menu lines as well as the bottom 'specials' when they are displayed.

I will try this on a test forum I have setup at some time.

Thank you for the suggestion.

Hi there

No, it would not affect the top three lines because they are part of qbar
the lower lines are part of qmenu

HTH

OK - then this is probably a good 'addon' to this program.

You might like to post this at the phpBB forum - in that mod - for those who might like something similar.

Have you seen the thread !!! it is a mess. The author rarely visits to keep it updated. The included text file in the download is incorrect, bad error never corrected by the author.

Yes a lot of MODS are like that.

The Olympious Color one is just as bad (installed here at MWR). I helped out a couple of times in that topic. Even though I am no expert.

Altering your style is not too difficult. Just play around with the .css.
I do all the work on my forum styles and I am no expert. Just learned by editing the .css. I use a test board of course .

"mal" wrote:Altering your style is not too difficult. Just play around with the .css.
I do all the work on my forum styles and I am no expert. Just learned by editing the .css. I use a test board of course .

We go one better here.

We have our own two servers - the live one and a test one.

So we can not only test the forum software before installing on the live, but also the operating system updates too.