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Originally posted by amanda amanda wrote:

take the time to explai to someone who wants to learn how to add into site

What exactly are you trying to do?  If you want to customize the top and bottom of your page, all you have to do is edit header.asp and footer.asp and add your own html.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote amanda Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 September 2003 at 4:42am

ok i really need help bcoz i don't understand wat u mean about changing the header and footer files. i looked at the html for the caribean forum and he has put his logo in the main body code not in the header code.

also how do i acces the html code for the body so that i can change the layout

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amanda, to do this requires some HTML knowledge, if you dont have any then dont attempt it or you could screw up your forums look.


In the includes folder you have two files, one called header.asp and the other footer.asp:

In header.asp look for the following code:
Originally posted by wrote:

<script language="JavaScript" src="includes/default_javascript.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<!--#include file="skin_file.asp" -->
</head>
<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" bgcolor="<% = strBgColour %>" text="<% = strTextColour %>" background="<% = strBgImage %>">



And in footer.asp:
Originally posted by wrote:



</body>
</html>


Please Note: Yours may not be identical to mine above.




What you need to try imagine is that the forum is in one big table cell, so basically you want to build more cells around the forum one.

Like so:


<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" bgcolor="<% = strBgColour %>" text="<% = strTextColour %>" background="<% = strBgImage %>">

<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td colspan="3">Header contents here</td>
<tr>
<td width="10%">Menu in this Cell</td><td width="80%">Forum in this Cell</td><td width="10%">Right content in this Cell</td>
</tr>
</table>


What the above would give you is a basic 3 column look with links down the left, the forum in the middle, and content down the right.

(Note that is just a rough design to give you an idea of what you need to do.)

See the next post on how to place it in your files.


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To implement the above code header.asp would now look like:

Originally posted by wrote:


<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" bgcolor="<% = strBgColour %>" text="<% = strTextColour %>" background="<% = strBgImage %>">

<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td colspan="3">Header contents here</td>
<tr>
<td width="10%">Menu in this Cell</td><td width="80%">



And footer.asp would look like:

Originally posted by wrote:


</td><td width="10%">Right content in this Cell</td>
</tr>
</table>




The left and right columns can be filled with an include file which containes your navigation or sponsors etc...

Hope that gives you a better idea of how it works, give it a try and see how you get on, but as always please make a backup copy just in case.

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