Outside The Box - a clean professional theme with side column

Out Of The Box is a free vBulletin style that is designed for a business or professional-type forum, altho anyone can use it!

This styles features -

• a relocated navigation bar and login/member info
• optimized for postbit legacy
• a side column for ads, links, affiliates, partners, etc.
• valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional

PREVIEW

Installation Instructions -

1. Click on the "Install" button on the right of this post, then download the zip file to your computer and extract it (I put it on my desktop, it's easier to remember where I put it!).
2. Open your ftp client to your server. Go to your forum's images folder, open it, and create a styles folder.
3. Next, upload the redbox folder via FTP to your server, into the styles folder, so that your image path is images/styles/redbox/buttons, for example.
4. After you've uploaded the folder, open your admin control panel on your forum, and import the xml file, by going to Styles & Templates > Download / Upload styles > Import Style XML File.
5. Click on the Browse button, locate the redbox-style.xml, and double-click it, so it loads in that box, then hit the Import button.

You'll find a blank images folder in the zip file, containing blank buttons and the logo for the header, all in PNG format for easy editing.

If you would like this style customized for your forum, please read here.

NOTES: Don't forget to replace the Google Adsense code with your own. You'll find it in the navbar template, in the breadcrumb code.

The side column code is in the the FORUMHOME template, and clearly marked.
I have placed our affiliates ads and our partner links on the demo so that you can see how it looks. When you install this style, you'll see "Text Goes Here".

You also have alot of space to the right of the logo, in the header template, to place banner ads.

Enjoy!

[ShawneyJ]

Excellent

[DsmNikki]

Very nice! however i dont know how to edit the banner? any ideas with a software?

[DsmNikki]

how can i get my images to work on my vbadvanced front page?

[tuppyb]

Very nice thank you :up:

[tuppyb]

Originally Posted by Ohiosweetheart

Revert the header and navbar templates. This will take the navbar out of the header and put it back in the navbar template.

Im new to this please could you explain this in more detail for me - thank you

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by DsmNikki

how can i get my images to work on my vbadvanced front page?

Sorry, I hope you got this issue fixed.

Originally Posted by tuppyb

Im new to this please could you explain this in more detail for me - thank you

Go to --> Styles & Templates --> Outside The Box --> click on the << >> button over on the far right.

Find the header template in the list, then on the far right again, click on the Revert button. This will take the header back to it's original state.

Then scroll down to Navigation/Breadcrumb templates and double-click on that. In the list that appears beneath it, find the navbar template (the title should appear in red). To the right, click on revert button. This will put the navigation bar back down under the breadcrumb box.

If you need more help, feel free to visit my site and post on the release thread there.

[tteal]

First and foremost, thank you ever so much for making this free to everyone! What a wonderful person you are :-)

I'm using this skin and have a very slight problem. The top navigation bar is missing the little black arrows after I edited the left hand column out. What code did I mess up and what should I do in order to get those neat little arrows back? :-)

Thank you!

[Wabuf]

Awesome skin! Love the side column.

[Wingz]

Thanks for this; I notice it's made for VB v3.8.1 will it work OK with v3.8.4 ?

[DarthCoder]

this craptheme is another proof that females are not good for anything but fu**ing :- )