Integrating jforum into existing site

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Greetings- I would like to use jforum to host the forum portion of my web site - in the exact same manner as used by the jforum website itself: www.jforum.net

It is nice how the jforum stuff runs on the middle - right hand side of the browser.,

I was wondering what is required to acheive this effect like on the jforum site?

I've read some of the previous posts but really could not follow them very well

Is there instructions on this can be done like on jforum web site?


Thank you for the assistance,
curtc
[originally posted on jforum.net by curtc]

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You need to edit the header.html and footer.html templates (found in the templates/default directory) to get the layout you want.

Tip: Edit the header.html and put an HTML comment at the very bottom of the file like:

<!-- Header ends -->

Edit the footer.html and put an HTML comment at the very top of the file like:

<!--Footer starts -->

Open up any jForum page and do a "Save as" to get a copy of the generated HTML.

Use this with your favorite HTML GUI Editor to layout the page making sure only to add HTML above the Header ends comment and below the Footer starts comment.

Once it looks right, merge the new HTML with the original Header and footer files.

Hint: If you want left and/or right hand columns, think about wrapping the JForum generated pages in a three column table (start it in the header/end it in the footer) or use divs.
[originally posted on jforum.net by monroe]