By Tramposo on

Hi there!
I discovered Drupal about 2 weeks ago… and I simply love it. I had used other cms’ before and… this one is better, no doubts. But I have to admit the forum isn’t its stronger point (I was using phpbb up to now). In any case I’m determined to use Drupal’s forum so I’m trying to improve its look.
I guess the way to change it depends on the theme I’m using (multiflex37) but I’d like to ask you whether you can give me any ideas to start with. I’d like to be able to change the background color of messages (the way phpbb does: odd messages in one color and even ones in another), and to put a line or something separating the messages (in my site the background is white and there’s nothing between messages). And the best one: showing the user’s avatar (or even her name, etc.). Or anything...
I have to say that, although I’m not an expert, I can program PHP with no difficulties (or working with css files). So I’d even appreciate a clue about the files/styles I have to modify…
Thanks!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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vm’s picture

vm commented

from the handbooks = Customising the forum

A users avatar is controlled by theme settings in administer -> themes -> configure tab

AFTER

you allow users pictures to be used in administer -> user settings -> picture support

with regards to figuring out what css to alter, get the firefox browser and the firebug addon as well as the webdeveloper addon to see what css is being called where.
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eng.anas commented

there flatforum - uie forum - advanced forum. the last one need some improvements
the first one you can use the head it works for 5.x

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Tramposo commented

Thanks for your replies. I didn't know I could choose whether to show or not user's avatars in the forum. That's good news.
As a matter of fact I've been trying different themes and I've noticed that some of them already do what I wanted. So I'm thinking about changing the theme I'm using.