Changing Look & Feel

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I want to change the homepage to display latest 10 topics from selected four categories. How do I do that? Do you have any templates ready for this or do I need to come up with my own?
[originally posted on jforum.net by balakiran]

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Hm, you will have to change the template - forum_list.htm and some code - class ForumAction.java, method list()

Rafae;
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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I installed jforum from the binaries, do I need to take the source and rebuild some jar files?
[originally posted on jforum.net by balakiran]

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You don't need to rebuild any jar, only JForum. You can get the source here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15940

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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I need the same thing as balakiran. I only have 4 topics. I am looking for a theme where the 4 topics are displayed in 2x2 table and the last 5 threads are listed in each of the cell. So people don't have to click on the topic everytime to drill in. I know this is a bit unconventional but this will help out the performance of my site a lot. Having this will also make JForum stand out from other forum engines.

Can we build this into the code (eg. ForumAction.listTopXThreadsInEachTopic) ? I can take a stab at it, but I know nothing about Freemaker so it make take me a while

[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Yes, you can do it yourself.

In some near future release JForum will be able to support customized templates per forum and topic, added by the admin at runtime.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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That's nice. When do you plan to release that?

-Simon
[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]