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!

[Madbatty]

Could someone please be so kind and tell me what I need to do, to change the colum from the left to the right side? I tried a few things to do that myself but without success xD

[Ohiosweetheart]

You can't. My column is specifically for the left side of the forum. You can always remove the code from forumhome template and install one of the mods here on .org.

[M Shaker]

I like this, Thanks

[Ohiosweetheart]

You're welcome

[Ludin]

Any chance of a release for 3.8.2?

[Ohiosweetheart]

I hadn't planned on it, no. But the 3.8.1 version works just fine on 3.8.2 as there was no change in the templates involved.

[v12kid]

any chance we can get a fixed width? Nice work btw

[Ohiosweetheart]

Thank you.

I'm sorry but these are offered as is.

[Jari37]

I would like to have the column on every page, so I copied the side bar code from 'forumhome' and put it into the 'showthread' template, figuring it would achieve the same result it has on 'forumhome'.

The column showed up, but for some reason the main content part of the page was not filling the rest of the space, it was a reduced size, taking up something like 60% of the space. This doesn't happen on the 'forumhome' pages, the content is spread nicely across the space with no gaps either side.

Any ideas on how I can fix this? Thanks in advance.

[Ohiosweetheart]

Nope, sorry. The side column is only for the forumhome. I've never used one on every page so I don't know how to fix this for you.