Some very newbie questions

[tSS]

I didn't get it to work. Surprisingly I'm pretty sure I understood everything you said, I'm starting to figure out some of the lingo and I'm very familiar w/ the AdminCP now. . .

I'll screen shot the CP to see where I went wrong, oh and I changed the logo name to simply "logo.jpeg" and re-uploaded it as well as the background after I was told not to use caps. SO you won't see tSSback, etc. . .

[mikey1991]

Hmm, How odd. Did you do the CHMOD thing? When I try to access http://www.theswankysanctuary.com/images/misc/logo.jpeg

I get a 403 permissions denied, you may have to set the CHMOD at 777

[tSS]

yes, I changed the permissions. AGAIN

I just checked because after I submit it it always changes, I had it at 777 and I just checked and it shows 744 for me. I also checked the recurse thing you mentioned and that's no longer selected.

[Lynne]

I think the images are getting saved incorrectly. They are somehow getting saved as 'folders' with an upload file in the folder. It's kinda weird. We'll get this all figured out, though, don't worry.

[TheLastSuperman]

Your doing good

You want to always put what you want on your website on your server. So copy it via your file manager or ftp from your computer to your forums

Basically you have the .zip file extracted onto your computer right? You should as you had to unzip then upload the contents to install the forums . Now anything you change on your computer has not changed on the server, so if you find the logo and change it you still need to upload it! Remember you should always copy the original and leave it in your computer as Copy of etc so you always have a backup of the original but only upload the modified file to your forums so it will show the changes on your website .

Take your time, you'll be a semi-pro in no time

[tSS]

I think you guys rock for hand holding this newbie! I REALLY do wanna do it myself so I can tweak and learn the behind the scenes stuff, at least for these basics!

[Lynne]

You might want to make this change in your header template:

Find:

<tr>
    <td align="$stylevar[left]"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[titleimage]" border="0" alt="$vboptions[bbtitle]" /></a></td>
    <td align="$stylevar[right]" id="header_right_cell">
        <if condition="$ad_location['ad_header_logo']">$ad_location[ad_header_logo]<else />&nbsp;</if>
    </td>
</tr>

Change to:

<tr>
    <td align="center"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[titleimage]" border="0" alt="$vboptions[bbtitle]" /></a></td>
</tr>

I took out the second td tag which you don't need if you aren't putting in an ad.

[tSS]

I did it!

Grazie!

[Lynne]

Yah!!!!!!

[mikey1991]

Woohoo!