Forum within my main site
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Topic: Forum within my main site
Posted By: aftereden
Subject: Forum within my main site
Date Posted: 10 September 2003 at 5:08pm
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I am trying to achieve what this guy has done, placing his forum with the main design of his site http://www.hotelairspot.com/forum - |
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Posted By: aftereden
Date Posted: 10 September 2003 at 5:31pm
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answering my own post here... someone let me know if I am on the right path. Do I just need to edit the main root Default.asp file by cutting the code out thats in the body tags the placing my html code in, and then pasting the original code back in the table I would like it to appear in? Sounds right? let me go and have a test. |
Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 10 September 2003 at 5:39pm
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No, no need to edit default.asp. Edit header.asp and footer.asp instead. That is what I did for http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/ - CaribbeanChoice.com and you will see it turned out quite well. ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |
Posted By: aftereden
Date Posted: 10 September 2003 at 5:51pm
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would editing the header and footer allow me to have the forum within a specific table? when I look at these 2 files I can't see how to get the forum within that table, looks like I need to cut my site in half... |
Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 10 September 2003 at 6:20pm
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You would need to treat the forum as a cell in the table you are creating. You would create all the code for the table up to the <td> tag where the forum would reside. The footer file would then resume with </td> and the rest of the table code. Does that make sense? ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |
Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 10 September 2003 at 7:18pm
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Just use the header.asp file and pretend its above the main code in default.asp.
Then change the footer.asp and pretend its below all the code in default.asp Its really simple, i even did it on my site if you want to see it, http://www.invisionportal.com - www.invisionportal.com ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: aftereden
Date Posted: 11 September 2003 at 12:00am
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great thanks for the help... I see the light now. MadDog, nice site, very clean very smart.
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Posted By: amanda
Date Posted: 15 September 2003 at 10:18pm
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hi there i really need help i have no idea what i am doing could someone take the time to explai to someone who wants to learn how to add into site plzzzzz |
Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 15 September 2003 at 10:25pm
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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. ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |
amanda wrote:Posted By: amanda
Date Posted: 16 September 2003 at 4:42am
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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 |
Posted By: God_Struth
Date Posted: 16 September 2003 at 11:01am
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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:
And in footer.asp:
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. |
Posted By: God_Struth
Date Posted: 16 September 2003 at 11:10am
To implement the above code header.asp would now look like:
And footer.asp would look like:
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. |