I just installed this, but it is not using the default white background. Its purple instead.

http://www.talkjesus.com/view.php?pg=test

Please explain how to go about correcting this.

I also was not able to find where to edit the side column such as the Site Help Pages found here http://www.talkjesus.com/view.php?pg=info_linktous

Thanks.

It is not the hack, it is somehow related to your CSS files/custom design, I'm not sure how to fix it.

Your forum home page has a
<div class="nav_border_out">
<div class="nav_border_in">

</div>
</div>

section which gives the white background to your site but webtemplate does not have it. This means this section is not part of your default vb header/footer although it should. You should contact your designer to make sure vb header/footer has necessary html codes such as this so that webtemplate can inherit them.

You have to edit the theme webtemplate it is using. For this example it is Site Information Pages Template

Thanks. I can't seem to figure out why the side bar template's <li> has a big margin to the left (or padding)

I got the same results in FF3 and IE7.

I'm also not a CSS pro, but those two div classes you mentioned has to do with the navbit area not background.

The style's main css area has #ffffff as the Page Background background color

Thanks. One more minor problem.

The spacing on each side is not there as it normally is in the forum globally. See attached.

Admittedly I have not read through all of the materials as of yet. But, before I spend too much time on this wonderful hack, I wanted to make sure that I could do something in particular with it.

What I'm looking to do is to make a sort of 'splash page' for a new domain that I'm starting. It is sort of an 'entry' page where I'm using it as a launch point for three different areas of the site. So, what I'd like to do is keep the overall 'feel' and color scheme of our site, but 'disable' (or make it not show at all) from the header to the navbar.

Therefore, it allows me to keep my header/logo (or put a custom one if I choose) and then the 'main' area with the three different launch points that I wanted to use for the body of the new page.

Is this possible with this hack/mod?

Yes you can do what you want. After the installation, create a new parent webtemplate which is exact copy of one of the defaults (eg. Default Basic Theme), than edit it and remove sections you don't need (eg. $navbar). If you don't want header or footer as well, you can remove them too or create new webtemplate headers/footers with your changes and use that one in your splash page.

However when you told "a new domain that I'm starting", I hope that forum is also under that same domain. Obviously you can't have forum in domain A and splash page in domain B. :) Webtemplates will be in the same domain your forum is installed.

Would appreciate help on this one. Thanks.

I attached a screenshot of my style's stylevar setting

Did the upgrade... was smooth as silk... I have loved this hack since it first was released and use it alot... this newest version only enhances it even more.

badham

These problems are really related to the set up of your custom skin file. It is not easy for me to track them down and fix. In a correctly set vb skin structure, there will be no such differences but if you designer changes the vb skin's structure and used some elements in navbar instead of header or viceversa, webtemplates might not follow it.

For instance when I compare source codes of your pages I see your forumhome page is inside a

<div align="center">
<div class="page" style="width:100%; text-align:left">
<div style="padding:0px 15px 0px 15px" align="left">


</div>
</div>
</div>

frame which your webtemplate is not. I don't know where does this structure comes from. In a regular vb skin structure it should be set in header/footer and if it were the case, webtemplate would also acquire it automatically. (provided that you use default vb header/footer in your webtemplate setting!). But say if your designer put this structure inside forumhome template, webtemplate might not inherit it, hence problem.

You can try to use this inside your webtemplate theme and see if it will fix things and if not, I suggest you to contact the skin designer.