How to change the entire look and feel of the forum?

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Hi all,

I am bit familiar in Java/Freemarker/Photoshop.

I want to develop 2 skins for JForum (One for me and another one for free to all). Could anyone tell me exactly what are the files to be modified? (Just for quick sort).

Regards,
Dongan.


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Simple to do ..

Just take a look in the jforum templates directory. The "default" directory holds the standard JForum look and feel.

You'll need to edit the templates/theme_name/style.css file and the image files in the templates/theme_name/images subdirectory.

The cellpicX.jpg/gif files control the "bars" at the top of the message sections. There is also a language directory (i.e. en_US) under the images dir which has the "post reply" type icon images (containing words).

You can also use the PHP BB themes as a starting point. Most are a close fit.

Then to activate the new theme, edit the WEB-INF/confi/SystemGlobalProperties file to point to the new theme directory (assumed to be under the templates folder).

You don't have to restart anything after editing the SystemGlobalProps file .. the new look will appear automatically.

[originally posted on jforum.net by GatorBait3]

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Thank you GatorBait3. Will work on this and update this column.

Regards,
Dongan.
[originally posted on jforum.net by dongan]

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dongan wrote:Thank you GatorBait3. Will work on this and update this column.

Regards,
Dongan.

You're Welcome!

Let me know if you have any specific questions .. I've done a couple of themes for JForum.
[originally posted on jforum.net by GatorBait3]

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i know
[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Hi Guys!!!

I'm working about that too... why don't you put here yours themes?

Wouldn't it be a good idea to share it with everybody?
[originally posted on jforum.net by leandro_salvador]