Script URL: http://www.thewiltseyway.com/mboard/mboard.php
Version of script: downloaded yesterday 03/02/2006
Version of PHP: ?
Hosting company: ranchoweb.com
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If you go to the above URL you'll see that I'm kind of stuck. I've read everything that I can find (and understand) about .css and I don't understand much.
I would like to have the message board match the rest of my website: http://www.thewiltseyway.com, with the top, links and the links down the right side. I'm not quite sure how to do this.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Kathleen
Another customizing question
You have to place the html you now have in the body section of a standard layout from one of your pages in the header.txt and footer.txt file provided with the mboard script.
In the header.txt file this would be in your case:
Start with: <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="table1"> and end with: <td width="98%"> (This is just before <font face="Verdana" size="2">February 27, 2006</font><p>)
In the footer.txt file this would be in your case:
Start with: </td><td width="1%"> </td></tr></table> (this is after where you normally place text in your page) and end with: </table> (this is just before the </body> tag, don't include the </body> tag).
To set you background, you have the edit the style.css file.
First you have the split the BODY, TD section.
Because i don;t see you using css-styles in your page I'll explain.
In the css file styles for displaying elements of your page are set. The BODY,TD {...} section set styles for both BODY and TD's in your page. But you only want a background for your BODY, therefor you have to split. To do this, copy the whole BODY,TD {...} section and in the first section delete ,TD and with the second section delete BODY, it will now look like this:
Now add the link for the background-image to the body section like you have already done, it will look like this
To learn more about css styles use the following site a lot to see the different css style options: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
I hope this helps you.
Greetings,
Henrie
In the header.txt file this would be in your case:
Start with: <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="table1"> and end with: <td width="98%"> (This is just before <font face="Verdana" size="2">February 27, 2006</font><p>)
In the footer.txt file this would be in your case:
Start with: </td><td width="1%"> </td></tr></table> (this is after where you normally place text in your page) and end with: </table> (this is just before the </body> tag, don't include the </body> tag).
To set you background, you have the edit the style.css file.
First you have the split the BODY, TD section.
Because i don;t see you using css-styles in your page I'll explain.
In the css file styles for displaying elements of your page are set. The BODY,TD {...} section set styles for both BODY and TD's in your page. But you only want a background for your BODY, therefor you have to split. To do this, copy the whole BODY,TD {...} section and in the first section delete ,TD and with the second section delete BODY, it will now look like this:
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BODY {
color : black;
font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
}
TD {
color : black;
font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
}Code: Select all
BODY, TD {
color : black;
font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background-image: url(http://www.thewiltseyway.com/bgdsgldtree2.jpg);
font-size: 11px;
}I hope this helps you.
Greetings,
Henrie