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refresh theme

Authored by: andyofne on Tuesday, August 14 2007 @ 12:02 pm EDT

I've put the Refresh theme on my site but I'm having trouble with something... I use phpbbbridge so I could integrate phpbb with geeklog. It has worked well for me.

One thing that doesn't seem to work with refresh is the setting for no left column.

Irregardless of my settings there is a space reserved on the left where the left blocks go.

this also occurs on all static page content.

I'd like to know if there's an easy way to remove the left block 'reserved' space.

Thanks!

Andyofne

refresh theme

Authored by: geiss on Thursday, August 16 2007 @ 12:37 am EDT

I replied to Andrew's email with the following, and am posting it here with the hope that it will help someone as well. There are also a couple of quick additions at the bottom to tighten up the theme a little. Soon I will be releasing an updated version.

-Eric

EMAIL:
Unfortunately in this situation, Refresh is a fixed width theme. Basically, the <div> tags that create the left block container, and the middle/right story container have their width set in the style.css file as percentages (adding up to 100%). Geeklog will essentially skip over the content of leftblocks.thtml when staticpages or plugins are configured to not show left blocks. So, I can get it to not render the left blocks, but it just leaves a white space as the <div> that creates the story area is set to float right and has a width of 72% or something.

Geeklog achieves the story column filling the space by using 100% width tables for the flexible story middle column, but since Refresh isn't a 100% width theme (ie. it doesn't fill the browser window at higher resolutions) but rather a fixed width theme, it's like trying to fit an apple into an orange and end up with something pretty. :-(

In looking at your site, it doesn't look like the phpbb forum spills out much on the right. I would think that if you just edited the header background graphic, the side wrap graphic, and the footer graphic and stretched them out a bit, it might do the trick. The three files to edit are header.jpg, content.jpg, and footer.jpg. Then, in style.css, you will want to change the width values respectively for the following selectors:
#wrap
#content-wrap
#header
#header h1#logo-text
#header h2#slogan
#footer

ADDITIONS:
To fix the login box, simply remove the display:block; property and value from the label selector in style.css like this:

label {
font-weight:bold;
margin:5px 0;
}

Check out my post dated August 15 2007 01:02 AM in this forum thread http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=77864 for a tip on how to fix admin menus spilling over into the right margin.

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