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Hey everyone I was wondering if anyone could help me out with the following things. I have a screenshot of my index and I've labeled some stuff to help you understand easier.



1. My first question is, Is it possible to change the icons that appear for new post or no unread post etc. in a theme or am I just stuck with the one that comes with the theme?

2. This Link Text for the forum name is really bothering me. Is there anyway I can change the size, color, font, or just make it dissappear so my banner can come down lower? (It bugs me that I have to have this to make the proper name appear in the window name/tab name rather than just the url.)

3. This just seems really out of place. Is there anyway I can edit this text? I'd either like to make it white or centered or gone. XD

Thank you for any help you can give me.

Not sure why you've posted in the 1.2 forum again when you're on 1.4... moved.

1. In the ./images/ folder there's an image called on.gif, off.gif, and offlock.gif, but as you don't have access to your files, you'll have to edit the templates and put in the absolute path to them, they're mentioned in the idnex template and some of the forumbit templates.

2. That's part of the theme, doesn't look default, so you may need to look through the header template and see where that's being loaded.

3. That's the nav, the code for it is in the header template, or you could probably change the size and colour in the nav CSS classes in global.css

Oh I just realized why I'm thinking such. XD Its 1.4.2 so I just was thinking .2 sorry My bad. You may move my thread if you would like I apologize.

Hmm I'll take a look thank you. Any idea why without the second one my title of the page just appears as the url in the tab? Is it likely that its just referencing the name I set into there to make the title appear and that I could just set it to the name without referencing it there?

Well you probably removed the <title> tag, which isn't what needed to be removed, there would have been something lower down, probably referenceing the Board URL.

And I edited my answer to point 1.

Oh okay thank you for the edit to number 1.

<div id="container">
		<a name="top" id="top"></a>
		<div id="header">
		<h1><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}" accesskey="1">{$mybb->settings['bbname']}</a></h1>
		<p style="display:none;" class="description">Your text goes here.</p>
		<ul class="menu">
						<li class="page_item current_page_item"><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}" title="Forums">Forums</a></li>
<li class="page_item"><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/search.php" title="Search">Search</a></li>
<li class="page_item"><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/calendar.php" title="Calendar">Calendar</a></li>
<li class="page_item"><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/memberlist.php" title="Member List">Member List</a></li>
<li class="page_item"><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/misc.php?action=help" title="Help">Help</a></li>
	</ul>
		</div>
			<div class="panel">
				{$welcomeblock}
			</div>
		<br class="clear" />
		<div id="content">
			{$pm_notice}
			{$bannedwarning}
			{$bbclosedwarning}
			{$unreadreports}
			<navigation>
			<br />

Thats the part of my code thats causing 2 and 3. But when I remove it all together it causes the whole thing to turn into a mess. It loses the fitting into the center and such. Can you help me pick out only the things I need to remove to make only those go away?

I'd say this...

<h1><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}" accesskey="1">{$mybb->settings['bbname']}</a></h1>
        <p style="display:none;" class="description">Your text goes here.</p>

...is what's showing it.

Okay that stopped them from showing but now there is a white bar under the banner as if it were trying to put text there still. Also tried changing the icon path to an external url and it worked but only on the bottom index part with the key. How do I change it on the topics themselves? Is it possible to change the mini icons a similar way inside the forums too?

And there are lots of these left in the header "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" What are those? Are those the reason I still have a huge gap between the banner and forum beginning?

Edit:Alright I've been working on it and I've solved most things. Here's my updates so far I have now removed the two title texts which I am glad but I am still having two issues.

1. I still have a large gap between the banner and the forum start. And 2. Is there anyway to modify how the theme appears as far as the bars and icons internally without having to upload the files to the host (seen as I can't do that).

Thats about the only problems I'm having right now. Come and look at the forum to see what I mean:

http://warcraftunlimited.forumhost.cn/

<div class="logo" style="background:#000 
url('images/logobg.gif');"><left><a
href="http://warcraftunlimited.forumhost.cn/"><img
src="http://zerox.wikispaces.com/file/view/bannerwc3u3-5-09.png"
alt="WarCraft 3 Unlimited Forums" border="0"
/></a></center></div>
<link rel="icon" href="http://zerox.wikispaces.com/file/view/Iconafter.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://zerox.wikispaces.com/file/view/Iconafter.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<div id="container">
<a name="top" id="top"></a>
<div id="header">
<ul class="menu">
<li class="page_item
current_page_item"><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}"
title="Forums">Forums</a></li>
<li class="page_item"><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/search.php" title="Search">Search</a></li>
<li class="page_item"><a
href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/calendar.php"
title="Calendar">Calendar</a></li>
<li class="page_item"><a
href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/memberlist.php" title="Member
List">Member List</a></li>
<li class="page_item"><a
href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/misc.php?action=help"
title="Help">Help</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="panel">
{$welcomeblock}
</div>
<br class="clear" />
<div id="content">
{$pm_notice}
{$bannedwarning}
{$bbclosedwarning}
{$unreadreports}
<br />

That is my current header code.

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Okay I got the gap fixed turned out there was actually a gradient image there that I had to go to the global.css file to find I just changed the height to 50 pixels instead of 250 and its fine now. Course any answer to #2 would be nice still.