Category Images Top & Bottom + Category Spacing

Enjoy!

I dont have any screens for this mod atm, so im sorry


However i did use this style on

www.squareultima.com/forums



If there are any problems let me know

repaste the top part into your forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost to take advantage of collasping.

[DarknessDivine]

My forumhome alignement is also waaaaaaaaay off after this mod...any updates yet Zackery?

[Trekkie]

please update

[imported_str8ballin]

sorry if this seems dumb , ive had a long day and cant beleive I havent figured this out but.. how the hell do you get the tcat_centre.gif to show up, Im unsure where to put the path to the image in the template like I did wid the tcat left and right.. confused.

[Cole2026]

The catagorys seem like they have a fixed width because it is pushing my forum out of balance with my logo.

[tHe Rk]

I just wanted to pop in here and give a shout out on this hack. I couldn't do it when I was in process of getting it to work because we were building a whole theme that we wanted to keep under wraps. But from the one hack we were able to do things we never thought we could.

Things that improved our Look from this hack
#1 We always wanted forum spacing, but could never get it to work right. We now have it and it's fantastic!

#2 Top and Bottom Images is something we ALWAYS wanted, but again had no idea how to do it. They add so much to the forum and you can use them anywhere!

#3 From looking at the code and realizing we could use it anywhere, we redesigned our Postbit using this code, and it's added a whole new level of originality and professionalism to our board.

#4 This code gave us the confidence to really push and figure some new things out. One of those was having links built in onto the forum header, and not only just links, but links that change when being hovered over. And another was the integration in the profile area in the postbit.

This hack ALONE has had the single greatest impact on the look of our board.

You can view the change yourself by going to www.xgplanet.com and using the Quick Style Chooser to switch between the old look and the new look. Its really amazing.

I have also attached some pics of what this has done for our board.

PS - bfoot045's board is CLEARLY inspired by what we have done. I just don't like him copying our style without permission.

[tHe Rk]

Originally Posted by DarknessDivine

My forumhome alignement is also waaaaaaaaay off after this mod...any updates yet Zackery?

I believe there is some fixes for it, as that's how we got ours to work. It's been a while though, so I don't remember exactly how we fixed it. Read through this thread, and I am sure you will find the fixes or links to the fixes.

Sorry for the double post

[Ymeaga1n]

I had problems with my alignment on both the last post and also the image at the beginning, I couldn't figure out how to get them to work til I decided to add width="100%" to the

<td class="thead" width="100%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>

so as i have it below, all forums are now aligned for me.

<tr align="center">
	  <td class="thead" width="15">&nbsp;</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="100%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="250">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="40">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="40">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
	  <if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">
	  <td class="thead">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
	  </if>
	</tr>

Keep in mind you have to have a set width for all the other columns so the 100% from this one doesn't interfere with them. Hope it works for you guys too.

[Cole2026]

Dont worry RK, Its just a test skin, I needed to use something with side stuff like that so I could test out this mod. It will change. The top logo will change.

I would like to use the test style I posted above, and was going to ask during opening,(several weeks from now). Ill use my other style if I cannot use the one I have currently. It was made from scratch in photoshop.

[DarknessDivine]

RK, I fixed it myself just messing around with things and rewriting things..lol added code here and took code out there and ended up working..I have to say I have learned a ton from this mod though...
P.S. Your forum skin looks great!!!

[tHe Rk]

Originally Posted by DarknessDivine

RK, I fixed it myself just messing around with things and rewriting things..lol added code here and took code out there and ended up working..I have to say I have learned a ton from this mod though...
P.S. Your forum skin looks great!!!

Glad you figured it out, and thanks for the compliment