Some people should not be even attempting to run a website/forum. Eish.

Anyhow, thanks for the writeup UKBusiness. It would be nice if it used vBulletin hooks, but given enough time and tweaking it works well.

Just out of curiosity, why did you choose to use full urls in your code?

you used <a href="http://yourpersonalwebsite.com/forum/images/image.gif">

Wouldn't <a href="/forum/images/image.gif">

Make it a bit easier for users via less editing to do? Also if somebody moves domains or changes things too much they have to redo all their links.

Just curious.

Style Manager :D

Then choose the style

Now click the drop down box and hit edit templates ;) then follow my original instructions regarding navigation & breadcrumb and so on.

When you've had a look there open your forum home page and view the source code... see how the navbar area of the code (near the top) kind of matches the template? Well that's where it is coming from :D - Check it out.

Now after your done there back up a step or two and use the drop down box when you see the styles listed to say main css (instead of edit templates) and hit "go" then google a css info site and see what the definitions mean and you can edit your styles colors, borders and so on.

S-MAN

Thank you so much, Man I have been spending a lot of time familiarizing myself with everything this program has to offer.

WOOT WOOT! yeah, I finally found it!

BTW - I like the fact there is no VB hooks, Anyone can paste this awesome menu to the top of any web page! Great stuff.

Sorry if I wasn't just born with vast knowledge, nor went to any special schools for this, I'm learning on the fly here, and with 7000 posts in just over six weeks, the forum kicks butt!.

Just keep experimenting! UK is one of the nicest ones on here so he will love to read all of this but always remember to make copies before you start :D.

Excuse me, but how can I get the menu at the center of the page? I tried several times without success? Default is left:(

Another question: Is it possible to set the background of the menu transparent? It would be fantastic:)

Il Pompa, you might want to check earlier in the thread because someone did get the information as to how to center it. I seem to recall that it caused problems on fixed vs fluid sites or something. But, search in the earlier pages of this thread.

Your second question would be to create a small transparent image in the same size of the blue.gif and simply upload that image rather than the blue.gif and it should do the trick for you. Good luck! :up:

Thank you very much. As you said, seems to center the menu create some problems. Now I'll try to understand how to create transparency :):up:

Excuse me but where is blue.gif? I've installed "Dropdown" menu :(

In the section of the instructions above look for.....

"background-image:url(http://http : //i475.photobucket.com...e/center_tile_blue.gif"

....you would then upload the transparent image in place of it.

UPDATE: 26th April 2009

Centering the Menu so that it appears central

There has been much debate about trying to centralise the menu tabs, I didn't want to edit the code too much as this would make a mess of it in different browsers, However i've found that there is a way :D

The easiest way to center menu content is to place it inside of a center aligned table, as shown below:

This way the menu tabs will appear central in all browsers.

Hope this helps :up:

oh i do, i do ;)

:D