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Hello guys, Im building a gaming community website and I decided to make myBB look alike the main website. So far I had good progress but I got stuck with the main menu thing. I want the same as the website. Managed to get some changes (disabled the default, added the new one) and I ran into some problems. The code that I have for the main website wont exactly work with myBB. Menu background Images, rollover menus, and dropdown wont work.
I was aiming to make it work with the website menu css (and of course I coded/changed the header.php and made sure all paths are correct) but I guess it wasnt so simple. 

Can anyone provide some insight??? I do have coding skills (game dev) but my web developing ones are not the best.
(I thought of writing everything from scratch based on some other forum threads, but before I get to that point I wonder if there is something to do with those codes)

Bellow you will find screenshots and the code I used.

what im aiming for: http://i.imgur.com/bHflz2X.png
and where i managed to get: http://i.imgur.com/iV52K6Q.jpg
(theme is iGame by iAndrew and I modified lots of stuff in the looks)

Demo of the website template to see how the menu works.
Demo Site

the css part of the header/menu/social stuff
/* -----------------------------------------
  Header
----------------------------------------- */
#logo {
	margin:0px auto;
	width:960px;
	text-align:center;
}
#logo img {
	margin-top:70px;
	border:0;
}
#social_ctn {
	padding:60px 0px 0px 0px;
	text-align:center;
	width:960px;
	height:37px;
	background:url(../images/cmenu/social_ctn_loop.png) bottom left repeat-x;
}
#social_ctn a {
	display:inline-block;
	height:36px;
	margin:0px -3px 0px 0px;
	width:42px;
}
#social_ctn img {
	margin-top:0 !important;
}
#social_ctn a.social_t{
	width:31px !important;
}
#social_ctn a:hover {
	background-position:0px -36px;
}
#facebook {
	background:url(../images/cmenu/facebook.jpg) top left no-repeat;
}
#rss{
	background:url(../images/cmenu/rss.jpg) top left no-repeat;
}
#twitter{
	background:url(../images/cmenu/twitter.jpg) top left no-repeat;
}
#google_plus{
	background:url(../images/cmenu/google_plus.jpg) top left no-repeat;
}
#you_tube{
	background:url(../images/cmenu/you_tube.jpg) top left no-repeat;
}


/* -----------------------------------------
  Menu
----------------------------------------- */
#menu_wrapper{
	height:auto;
	width:960px;
}
#menu_left, #menu_right{
	width:2px;
	height:66px;
	float:left;
}
#menu_left{
	background:url(../images/cmenu/menu_left.jpg) top left no-repeat;
}
#menu_right{
	background:url(../images/cmenu/menu_right.jpg) top left no-repeat;
}
ul#menu{
	height:66px;
	width:956px;
	float:left;
	background:url(../images/cmenu/menu_loop.jpg) top left repeat;
	padding:0;
	margin:0;
	list-style:none;
}
ul#menu li{
	float:left;
	height:66px;
	padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
	background:url(../images/cmenu/menu_divider.jpg) top right no-repeat;
	
}
ul#menu li a{
	font-family: 'Oswald', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
	font-weight:700;
	font-size:14px;
	text-transform:uppercase;
	display:block;
	height:46px;
	color:#fff;
	padding:20px 20px 0px 20px;
	text-decoration:none;
	text-shadow: 0px 2px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);
	background:url(../images/cmenu/menu_hover.png) top left repeat-x;
}
ul#menu li a:hover{
	text-shadow: 0px 2px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#ccc;
	background-position:0px -66px;
}

/*style the sub menu*/

#menu li ul {
	position:absolute;
	z-index:9999;
	visibility:hidden;
	background:url(../images/wrapper_loop.jpg) repeat top left #1c1c1c;
	border:5px solid #212121;
	margin:0;
	padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;
	width:200px;
		-webkit-box-shadow:  0px 2px 5px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 75);  
    box-shadow:  0px 2px 5px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 75);
}
#menu li ul li {
	height:auto;
	background:none;
	margin:0px 10px 0px 10px;
	padding:0;
	float:none;
	background:url(../images/menu_drop.jpg) bottom left repeat-x;
}
#menu li ul li.drop_last{
	background:none;
}
#menu li ul li a:link, .myMenu li ul li a:visited {
	color:#fff;
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:12px;
	height:auto;
	padding:10px 15px 10px 5px;
	width:auto;
	text-transform:capitalize;
	font-weight:normal;
	transition:color 0.15s ease-in-out, padding 0.15s ease-in-out;
	/* Firefox 4 */
	-moz-transition:color 0.15s ease-in-out, padding 0.15s ease-in-out;
	/* Safari and Chrome */
	-webkit-transition:color 0.15s ease-in-out, padding 0.15s ease-in-out;
	/* Opera */
	-o-transition:color 0.15s ease-in-out, padding 0.15s ease-in-out;

}
#menu li ul li a:hover {
	font-weight:normal;
	background:none;	
	color:#2ac0ff;
	padding-left:10px;
	transition:color 0.15s ease-in-out, padding 0.15s ease-in-out;
	/* Firefox 4 */
	-moz-transition:color 0.15s ease-in-out, padding 0.15s ease-in-out;
	/* Safari and Chrome */
	-webkit-transition:color 0.15s ease-in-out, padding 0.15s ease-in-out;
	/* Opera */
	-o-transition:color 0.15s ease-in-out, padding 0.15s ease-in-out;

	
}
/*end menu*/
And the header.php part of it.

<div id="logo"> <a href="#"><img alt="alt_example" src="./images/cmenu/logo.png"></a>
      <div id="social_ctn"> 
      
      <a class="social_t"><img alt="alt_example" src="./images/cmenu/social_tleft.png"></a> 
  
      <a href="#" id="rss"><img alt="alt_example" src="./images/cmenu/blank.gif" height="37px" width="100%"></a> 
      <a href="#" id="facebook"><img alt="alt_example" src="./images/cmenu/blank.gif" height="37px" width="100%"></a> 
      <a href="#" id="twitter"><img alt="alt_example" src="./images/cmenu/blank.gif" height="37px" width="100%"></a>  
      <a href="#" id="google_plus"><img alt="alt_example" src="./images/cmenu/blank.gif" height="37px" width="100%"></a>
      <a href="#" id="you_tube"><img alt="alt_example" src="./images/cmenu/blank.gif" height="37px" width="100%"></a> 
    
	  <a class="social_t"><img alt="alt_example" src="./images/cmenu/social_tright.png"></a> 
      
      </div>
    
    </div>
		
		
<div id="menu_wrapper">
      <div id="menu_left"></div>
      <ul id="menu">
        <li><a href="./index.html">Home</a></li>
        <li><a href="./banner2.html">Forum</a></li>
        <li><a>Games</a>
        	<ul>
                <li><a href="#">Submenu example 1</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Submenu example 2</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Submenu example 3</a></li>
                <li class="drop_last"><a href="#">Submenu example 4</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="./post_list.html">Teams</a></li>
        <li><a href="./post.html">Community</a></li>
        <li><a href="./post_game.html">Media</a></li>
      
        <li><a href="./contact.html">Contact</a></li>
      </ul>
        <a style="width: 940px;" href="#" id="pull"></a>
      <div id="menu_right"></div>
      <div class="clear"></div>
    </div>
Nevermind, I spent all day rewriting and now everything works like a charm.