Q: Forums with different layout?

[OllyHart]

Hello...

We use UBB at the moment. We have some forums at our site and we are hosting some other forums. Is ist possible with VBulletin to give some forums a different look e.g. logo, colours like UBB?

Yours,

Oliver

[Martin]

with the templates, if you know a little HTML you can change the entire look to anything you want it to be. It's really quite simple.

[OllyHart]

You mean that I have to change for example to edit a new forumdisplay-template. For example i change the variable Backgroundcolor in e.g. #000000 or something like that?

Yours,

Oliver

[Martin]

yup, you can do that.

there are colors set up in the "Change Settings". This will change all your default colors. My forum looks exactly as it did when I had a UBB.

The only dificult part is changing to different color schemes for the individual forums. Theres somethin buried deep in the Hacks or the Colors&Styles forum about how to do that. It involves adding and modifying a LOT of templates.

[OllyHart]

Maybe we shoud look at the things to understand it a little bit easier. Look at:

http://www.gamesmania.de/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro&BypassCookie=true

The first nine forums have the same look. The other ones, try for example, the Grand Prix Forum have a different look.

What about the import function. Does it work well? It's important to have all users and posts in the new forum.

Yours,
Oliver

[JimF]

Yes, the import function works great.

As far as your templates, you can create a new one called "forudisplay_1", and specify to use that template in a certain forum.

-jim

[Mike Sullivan]

version 2 has the UBB-like styles system.

[OllyHart]

That sounds great. Do you have a release-date?


Yours,

Oliver

[Mike Sullivan]

Originally posted by OllyHart
That sounds great. Do you have a release-date?No, relatively soon though.