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customizing the forum : FINALLY! Something I understand....

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:35:18 +0000

Author: Skyforum
Subject: 7103
Posted: 23 September 2005 at 7:35pm

FINALLY! Something I understand. I LOVE tables.....

You can wrap your entire forum on all 4 sides with tables and size themany way you want. There are a couple basic rules to remember.

You can't build this on the floor so you need to put it up on the

Rows are = to

and they go from side to side

Columns are = to

and they go from top to bottom

You need to / (close) each table, row or column when your done.

It's really that simple. if you want to put a nav menu on the left sideof your forum, you need to build a with 1 row and 2columns.

<---- this is your row
    <-----this is you closing your first column
    <-----this is you closing your second column
   <-----this is you closing your 1st row

<-----this is your first column (menu here)

<-----this is your second column (forum goes here)

<--- and then closing your table

Here's my header.asp & footer.asp. I placed tables on the left, right and the top of the forum.

Begin Header.asp

<table Width="98%">
   <tr width="100%">

      <td align="center" colspan="3"> (row will span 3 columns)
      Put the upper menu bar here. A single row, 1 column
      td>
   tr>
   <tr width="100%"> Beginning of second row
      <td valign="top" Width="15%">
      Left Side Nav here. The first of 3 columns in this row
      td>
      <td>
------------------------------------------------------
Ok, now leave this are blank, this is where the forum itself will be placed. 
This is the end of the header and the beginning of the footer
------------------------------------------------------
 Begin Footer.asp
      td>

      <td valign="top" width="10%">
      Right Margin, the third column is here
      td>

   tr> Now we close the row
table> and close the table

body>
html>

Now, all you have to do is decide how big you want each column. Look atmy code and you'll see how I did it. it's realy simple... If I addedanother row, I could place even more page on the bottom effectivelywrapping the entire thing. Don't forget to close your tags. Somebrowsers will work just fine without closing them, but others (not ie)will freak if you don't close em up.

Edited by Skyforum - 23 September 2005 at 10:16pm

customizing the forum : thanks dpyers

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:53:26 +0000

Author: numanme
Subject: 7103
Posted: 20 June 2005 at 7:53pm

thanks dpyers

customizing the forum : http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=13814 ...

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:01:37 +0000

Author: dpyers
Subject: 7103
Posted: 20 June 2005 at 11:01am

http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=13814

customizing the forum : Anyone got a working example of...

Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:36:25 +0000

Author: numanme
Subject: 7103
Posted: 19 June 2005 at 9:36pm

Anyone got a working example of the footer and header

customizing the forum : Hi, I tried to use the code here,...

Wed, 26 May 2004 13:41:26 +0000

Author: Lucent
Subject: 7103
Posted: 26 May 2004 at 1:41pm

Hi, I tried to use the code here, but my form seems to be pushed down to the bottom. Did I do something wrong?!

Here are the code I have in my header and footer, and I also post a image of my what I see on my form.

Here is the code I have in my header.asp
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footer.asp
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customizing the forum : Excellent, all the above code...

Wed, 12 Nov 2003 05:44:57 +0000

Author: daviduk
Subject: 7103
Posted: 12 November 2003 at 5:44am

Excellent, all the above code works great- thankyou all for help in this. it looks just the way i want it to , I have now swapped from the layout to the .css customizing- it's fun. I am experimenting with the .css as never done this before, its going well.

Tahnks for your help again!

David.

customizing the forum : To add a colum down the side you...

Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:52:55 +0000

Author: wistex
Subject: 7103
Posted: 11 November 2003 at 1:52pm

To add a colum down the side you would need to add another column to the table Borg created above.

Code in the Header:

Navigation Menu
Place html for navigation here!

The width="150" part specifies how many pixels wide you want the navigation to be. The width="100%" part specifies that you want the table to use all the screen's real estate.

Code in footer:

The above code would provide the basic shell for a navigation bar on the left hand side of the screen, with the forum appearing to the right of the navigation.

If you wanted a right hand column, add the code in red to the footer similar to how it is added to the header.

There are other attributes you can add. If you need more information, you can do research on web about creating html tables.

customizing the forum : Hopefyll you're talking about...

Sun, 09 Nov 2003 14:28:57 +0000

Author: uvena.com
Subject: 7103
Posted: 09 November 2003 at 2:28pm

Hopefyll you're talking about the alignment of the navigation at the top of the forum.

Dont forget to use BR tags before and after the table.. if you don't it can cause placement to be incorrect in IE6 (I dont use other browsers). I recently created my own menu and ran into this problem.. when I didn't use the br tags it would cause errors in the way the hyper links were working, cause the link trail to be over the top of the nav.. etc.

So I suggest exactly what Borg said, except place
above and below the table.

customizing the forum : Use tables. Start the table...

Sun, 09 Nov 2003 02:34:04 +0000

Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 7103
Posted: 09 November 2003 at 2:34am

Use tables.

Start the table in the header:-

Then close the tables in the footer:-

The simplest way to do this is to create a template for your page leaving a table free to place the forum in.

The simply everyting before where you wish the forum to be shown placein the header and everything that is left place in the footer.

customizing the forum : hi there. I have read the files...

Sat, 08 Nov 2003 14:51:01 +0000

Author: daviduk
Subject: 7103
Posted: 08 November 2003 at 2:51pm

hi there.

I have read the files on customizing. i have put my picture in and the menu links default to the middle but i want know how to place these where i want them. what code controils where they are placed?

In the notes i dont understand how i can put a column down the side when you start the coding in the header and finish it in the footer!

if that makes sense and you can help it would be appreciated.

dave