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Hello everyone this is my first posting here hope you dont mind. My question is how to I get my new
board to look like this one? What I mean the tabled look.

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fronbow commented

Try this: http://drupal.org/project/flatforum

flatforum will make your forum look like a, well, forum.

serverextremehosting’s picture

serverextremehosting commented

Hello Thank you but I am not sure how to install this theme any ideas? Thank you

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fronbow commented

From the readme.txt file:

Requirements
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Flatforum requires a theme based on the PHPTemplate engine.

Installation
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1) Copy node-forum.tpl.php to your current theme folder.
2) Copy template.php to your current theme folder. If such a file already exists, you need to merge the two files.
3) Copy CSS code in flatforum.css to your current theme's stylesheet (usually named style.css), and customize it if necessary.
(Next is optional, only required for post counts and join date)
4) Copy flatforum's folder to your modules folder.
6) Go to administer > modules, and enable flatforum.

Customization
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After installation, you may want to customize the look of your forum threads, to do so, edit the CSS code included in flatforum.css, mainly you would be interested in background colors and width values.

There's some other stuff you'll want to read in there, but this is the main stuff!

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serverextremehosting commented

Thank you my friend do you have a demo of what this will look like?

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fronbow commented

Yes, you can have a look here:
http://www.fronbow.co.uk/forums

pay no attention to the site theme, I'm still experimenting!

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serverextremehosting commented

Hello Fronbow. Did you get that look from using the download you posted?

Ok this is what I did uploaded the files you recommended.
1-Copy the node-forum.tpl.php to the theme folder.
2-Copy the templete.php to the theme folder.
3-Copy the flatforum.css to the stylesheet? folder. I did not see a stylesheet folder
4-Copy flatforums folder to the modules folder.
5- Went to admin and enabled the flatforum.

I also changed the permission as needed. But I don't see any change
Am I missing something. Thank you for your help.

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fronbow commented

Did you copy the css styles from the flatforum.css into your theme's style.css ? (IIRC I imported them in my stylesheet originally - if you use firefox to view my site, you should be able to have a look at the stylesheet).
Have you got a url I can look at?

Cheers

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normanCWK commented

Hello everyone,

where can I change these Strings, describing a user's group? By default, they are like "n00b" and "Super Admin", which not really meet my demands.

Thanks if anyone can help.