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Hi,

It's me again. I know that in an earlier post, I was asking if I could change the color of my forum I made, and I'm told that that I would have to get forum templates. Where do I get them? and how do I install them?

The forum templates come - surprise, surprise - with the forum plugin.

It sounds like you haven't even attempted to install the forum yet. I'd suggest you do that (read the installation instructions!) - it will become a lot clearer then ...

bye, Dirk

I have the forum installed already. I've looked everywhere for a forums setting, and I don't see any. I just want to change the color of the forum to red. Where & how do I go do this?

BTW, I'm new with geeklog.

During the installation of the plugin, you have been asked to copy a directory into your theme's layout directory. So you now have a directory /path/to/geeklog/layout/YourTheme/forum - the template files are in there.

But beware, there are a lot of files in there. If you're lucky, you can get away with a few color changes in the style sheet (remember that you had to copy the contents of the additional-forum.css file into your style.css?).

I recently made a forum theme for my ClearBlue theme and I can tell you that it can be quite a bit of work. But I think the result was worth it ...

bye, Dirk

Ok, I went in and got the CSS file, which is forumstyle.css, I believe?

I tried updating it, by changing the color code, but it still doesn't work!

Am I even updating the right file here? I just wanna change the color of the forum to red from default gray.

- Help!

Don't forgoet you have to copy the code in forumstyle.css into your themes css file!

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Dazzy

The contents of that additional forum style sheet are supposed to be copied into the style.css of the theme you're using. That is actually explained in the forum installation instructions - you should have done that when you installed the forum plugin ...

bye, Dirk

hmmm.. about the forumstyle.css... I have errors in my error.log.. something is calling for forumstyle.css, but I can't find what is causing this...

I have a forum question too.

In the index forum, top level.....the rollover is set to change the font size to a larger size on rollover.

How do I keep the color rollover, but keep the font size rollover the same size on rollover?

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Independent Media Magazine

BTW, can you clear up where the additional-forums.css should be copied to?

Copy the information in the additional-forums.css to what file? Forumstyle.css or the style.css?

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Independent Media Magazine

You need to copy the new CSS declarations in the file "additional-forum.css" are to be copied into the style.css file for your theme.

Each theme has a style.css

If your talking about the text in the Roll-over on the main forum index page then that is controlled as well by the new CSS. You may want to add more css such as setting the font-size as there can be CSS effects from other declarations.

This is the CSS for that rollover effect.

TD.forumRollOver { text-align:left;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #000033
}
TD.forumRollOut { text-align:left;
background-color: #EFEFEF;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #000033
}

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blaine? do you have a solution for my problem?

Just need to run a search on the "forumstyle.css" - looks like it was left there from version 2.2

Look at theme/forum/layout/block_header.thtml and remove

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That did the trick, Thank you very much!

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Independent Media Magazine

Thanks! I did a search for forumstyle.css through windows search function, but it couldn't find the phrase
weird