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UKBL ~ Choose Multiple Forum Colors - like VB.Org

With recent requests to do something similar to VB.org without all the complications of seperate CCS scripts and pages, Now you'll be able to change your forums color, Just like VB.org This hack will show you how to make and customise your own forum styles - Great Fun

PLEASE NOTE, The demo Screenshots are not the Colors you will be getting They are just quick examples i made to show different colors. The Colours are custom made by you when you Edit the CSS in your Styles template folder

Lets get Started

First you will need to decide how many colors you want, For example we'll chose just 4, but you can have as many or as little as you want.

Then decide which forum style you want to use to offer your color changes, I've used just the VB default style for this example.

So here we go..........

1. Go to your Admin CP and select Style Manager

2. Click the Link at the bottom - Add New Style

3. Parent Style - Select the Style that you want to offer Color Changes on, Normally this would be your chosen default style, and name it Default - Green Allow User selection - Yes Display order - 20 Then Save

4. You will see that you've created a copy of your default style called default green. Now we'll need to play with our Colors

5. On your defalt Green style click on All Style Options and GO, scroll down untill you come to the Body CSS

Then basically you need to work your way down this changing Background Colors, font colors etc,, If you click on one of the colored squares you will bring up a selector of colors which can let you chose the color you want without having to know Hex color numbers.

Trust me, I've not done this before and already within minutes i was making different forum styles, It really is that simple, The key word here is experiment You'll love it

To see your changes save and then click on the Forum Home Page link at the top right of your screen.

So basically thats what we need to do to make our different color Styles, Do a new Default Style for each color you want.

Color Squares

Next we'll need our color Squares









Just make your own in the color which best represents your Style and save to your forums /images/misc folder To fit nicely in the bottom navbar, I made mine 13 x 13 pixels and made them in paint.net, You can use photoshop or even windows paint

Half way there

Now comes the Fun Part

We need to Make our Color Squares Clickable so for that we'll have to edit a bit of code.

Open Notepad or a similar Text editor and add the following Code

<a href="link.com"><img src="picture.jpg"></a>

Now we will need to add our url of our style to the Front of that code like this

<a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="picture.jpg"></a>

You can find out which Style id you need in the Style Manager in your AdminCP, Next we add the url of our color square.

If you already havn't done so, Upload your Color squares to your forums image/misc folder and use the full url to link to that in the code, so now our code will be like this

<a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/green.png"></a>

Then we add a spacer Code to the end of our coded like this  

<a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/green.png"></a> &nbsp;

Thats it, Then you do that with all the colors and save them one after the other, so you end up with one long line of code

   <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/green.png"></a>&nbsp; <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=6"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/red.png"></a>&nbsp;  <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=7"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/blue.png"></a>&nbsp;

Thats the code done, Now to add a few words to the Front of it

 Choose Your Color &nbsp;  <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=5"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/green.png"></a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=6"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/red.png"></a>&nbsp;  <a href="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/index.php?styleid=7"><img src="http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/blue.png"></a>&nbsp;

Remember to add a unedited Link back to your normal Style so members can keep using the original, You can use a white color square for this.

and thats it :up: save your work

Next we'll need to upload the code to our footer template of our Parent Style

Go to Default (Parent) style in the Admin CP and select All style Options > Edit Templates > Footer
and then find

<strong>

and below it add your code, Then save.

You'll see that it will copy to all the child styles automatically

You should get something along the lines of this









Thats all folks

Please Click Install and i'll support 100%

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by pein87

Your awesome with javascript mate well done do you do paid services my js isnt the best?

For you buddy, a donation will suffice Pm me your problem and i'll help where i can, But this hack wasn't done with JS

[KevinL]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

thanks for sharing now if only I could create some nice colours as I would most likely create something that looks like yours

Try this site... http://www.colourlovers.com/ it has a lot of colors to work off

UK, nice work once again!

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by KevinL

Try this site... http://www.colourlovers.com/ it has a lot of colors to work off

UK, nice work once again!

Thanks kev :up:

[atmaca]

Thank you, very nice (:

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by atmaca

Thank you, very nice (:

Thanks, Don't forget to click installed if you use

[dvbusuario]

On the next page is implemented in the script where vbulletin-turkey.com add this hack to implement javascript and ajax

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...etswitcher.htm

How can you implement to vBulletin?

Demo: http://www.vbulletin-turkey.com/
Look at the navbar

Thank You!

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by dvbusuario

On the next page is implemented in the script where vbulletin-turkey.com add this hack to implement javascript and ajax

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...etswitcher.htm

How can you implement to vBulletin?

Demo: http://www.vbulletin-turkey.com/
Look at the navbar

Thank You!

Thanks for your post but its got nothing to do with my mod, and i recommend you email the admin on that site as opposed to starting a new topic on my thread.

[Amadeus Cho]

tagged.

if it's half as easy as you say you've done a great job

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by Amadeus Cho

tagged.

if it's half as easy as you say you've done a great job

Thanks, Let us know how you got on

[Gweebs]

Thanks....

Going to have some fun with this later...