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Title: Forum Upgrades
Post by: acdouglas on August 17, 2006, 09:25:59 pm
Hello, SMF For Free.

I just took a look at the available SMF For Free forum upgrades hoping I'd find what might suit my purpose, but, unhappily, no luck.

What I was looking for was an upgrade that would give me access to the forum code and the style sheet for the Mercury theme which my forum (Classical Music & Opera Forum) uses so that I could make a few minor display alterations. (I need the code part only for the main title display as, oddly, it appears that its display is not controlled by the style sheet alone, but is coded in a <span> statement in the forum code .)

Any chance of working something out along that line?

Thanks for your attention to this.

ACD (A.C. Douglas)
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: SMF For Free on August 18, 2006, 09:56:07 am
I could see doing the stylesheet. I could see maybe adding a class selector or id to the title for which you can then edit the style though the stylesheet.
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: acdouglas on August 18, 2006, 11:09:31 am
I could see doing the stylesheet. I could see maybe adding a class selector or id to the title for which you can then edit the style though the stylesheet.

That would work, SMF.

How much for the upgrade?

ACD
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: SMF For Free on August 18, 2006, 11:13:23 am
I am going to check out if I can do when I come home from work in about an hour. I would do that for free.
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: acdouglas on August 18, 2006, 11:45:54 am
I am going to check out if I can do when I come home from work in about an hour. I would do that for free.

Huh?  Do what for free?  Give me access to the Mercury style sheet with the added title class included?

That's more than generous, SMF.  I insist on paying some token amount at least.

Please.

ACD
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: SMF For Free on August 18, 2006, 01:42:07 pm
Ok. Think I got it working.
Added id="maintitle" to the title

Added the mercury.css to your style editor. The stylename must be called mercury in order to work.
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: acdouglas on August 18, 2006, 02:13:19 pm
Ok. Think I got it working.
Added id="maintitle" to the title

Added the mercury.css to your style editor. The stylename must be called mercury in order to work.

Many thanks, SMF.  You've done me and the forum a most gracious service.

The added id= works just fine.  However, that lovely background image under the main title has mysteriously disappeared even when I remove my new Style Sheet entry from the Style Sheet (i.e., thereby leaving the Style Sheet unchanged) to take advantage of your newly added <span id="maintitle"> to the forum code .

Can we get that important background image back as before?

ACD
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: SMF For Free on August 18, 2006, 02:17:11 pm
Brought it back. The image had a different location since we moved the style sheet.
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: acdouglas on August 18, 2006, 02:30:41 pm
Brought it back. The image had a different location since we moved the style sheet.

A thousand thanks, SMF.

I'm going to get to work now making all the little tweaks I need to make to the Style Sheet.

You've been more than generous concerning all this business, SMF, and most gracious into the bargain.  I cannot begin to thank you enough.

ACD
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: acdouglas on August 18, 2006, 04:01:06 pm
SMF:

Beginning just a few seconds ago, I'm getting a "Cannot find server or DNS Error" when I try to access my forum

(http://musicandopera.smfforfree.com/index.php).

Is this a problem having to do with the change in location of the Mercury Style Sheet, or is it a global problem with the forums?

ACD
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: SMF For Free on August 18, 2006, 04:48:51 pm
Backup trying to figure out what casued it.
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: acdouglas on August 18, 2006, 04:50:21 pm
Backup trying to figure out what casued it.

Thanks.  Staying tuned.......

ACD
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: Crasy on August 18, 2006, 04:50:48 pm
Global Problem..couldn't do it either
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: acdouglas on August 18, 2006, 05:18:48 pm
SMF:

Forum is up now, and seems to be running as it should.

Thanks.

(P.S. What was the problem?)

ACD
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: SMF For Free on August 18, 2006, 05:32:34 pm
Might have been too many emails that caused a fault.
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: Crasy on August 18, 2006, 05:34:46 pm
Could it possibly happen again?
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: SMF For Free on August 18, 2006, 05:41:43 pm
Maybe I really don't know these are freak things.
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: Crasy on August 18, 2006, 05:47:36 pm
Ah gotcha.
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: acdouglas on August 18, 2006, 07:26:44 pm
SMF:

I just tried to change the font face of my title via the Style Sheet, and no go.  I checked the <span> statement in your altered code, and found,

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<span id="maintitle" style="font-family: Impact, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;">

There should be nothing in that <span> statement other than the id class so that I can control all aspects of the style of the title via #maintitle.  As it stands now, all I can control via #maintitle is the color.

Thanks for your attention to this.

ACD
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: SMF For Free on August 18, 2006, 08:16:52 pm
Done.
SMF For Free
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: acdouglas on August 18, 2006, 08:18:41 pm
Done.
SMF For Free

Again, many thanks, SMF.

ACD
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: acdouglas on August 19, 2006, 05:33:13 pm
SMF:

UPDATE:  SMF:  Scratch this request.  I've handled it myself through the Header/Footer function in Manage Styles.  Sorry to have troubled you.

ACD

May I trouble you once more for a small favor?

In the forum template code, at the point where the main title is set up for display, the code reads:

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<span id="maintitle">&nbsp;&nbsp;Classical Music & Opera Forum</span><br />

Could you please insert another <br /> tag after the existing one?  I want to show more of a space between the main title and the first table, and a second <br /> tag seems to do the trick.  I tried making that extra <br /> tag part of the main title itself, and it accomplishes the job, but of course screws up the in-line link display at the head and foot of all tables that display that in-line link.  I also tried using line-height in the #maintitle id in the Style Sheet to do the job, but that misaligns the text and background image.

Many thanks for your attention to this.[/s]
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: SMF For Free on August 20, 2006, 08:06:45 am
K, I was just going to do it too heh.
Title: Re: Forum Upgrades
Post by: acdouglas on August 20, 2006, 08:48:43 am
K, I was just going to do it too heh.

Thanks, SMF.  I knew you would once you got some free time.

Actually things worked out much better for me this way because I now have total control of the header, and can do with it exactly as I would were I working with the forum code itself.  For instance, I've added a subtitle to the header which I couldn't have done using the Style Sheet alone.

Thanks again for your attention to my request.

ACD