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tedsmith
Replacing Banners Area with Custome Design

  • 2004/7/2 17:24

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Can anyone tell me how to easily place my own site logo in place of the current banners on my site?

I have a little logo sorted and uplodaed that's gone in place of the XOOPS logo and the left, and that works OK. But I want to fill all the space at the top where banners currently display, with a graphical version of my site name that I've made with CorelDRAW, because currently it's just empty. I don't want to add a flash graphic, or anything fancy.

Can anyone help?

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Anonymous
Re: Replacing Banners Area with Custome Design

  • 2004/7/2 17:28

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Check my site... http://www.problacks.com is that what you are refer to?

If so..

hold on ...I will tell you how i did it...it was done so long ago..I forgot *smile*
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tedsmith
Re: Replacing Banners Area with Custome Design

  • 2004/7/2 17:32

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That's exactly what I mean!! How did you do that man??!!! Please tell me.
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Anonymous
Re: Replacing Banners Area with Custome Design

  • 2004/7/2 17:39

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Go to your Cpanel
Find your themes folder

Find the theme you want to edit
for instance mine was Gooberhead

Then go to

theme.html

and replace...
{xoop_banner}
part.....

this is what I did








src="youbannerurlhere">


let me know if it works!

eq
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tedsmith
Re: Replacing Banners Area with Custome Design

  • 2004/7/2 18:08

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Ok, fallen at the first hurdle again!!

"Go to your Cpanel
Find your themes folder"

All I have showing in my control panel is System Admin, Forum and Links, because so far they are the only enabled modules. I can't find the 'themes folder'. I have no idea how to access it via the Control Panel. Is it part of another link? Have I misunderstood? Do you mean access the site using FTP and find the Theme's folder that way, then open the theme.html file?
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Anonymous
Re: Replacing Banners Area with Custome Design

  • 2004/7/2 18:18

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Oh ok, when I said Cpanel. I meant you Domains Cpanel. Does your host supply Cpanels?
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tedsmith
Re: Replacing Banners Area with Custome Design

  • 2004/7/2 18:33

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Yes, it does, but I don't think I can acces my root folders from there. I can access things like e-mail, domain settings, phpMyAdmin etc. To access the actual files I have to start an FTP link using Dreamweaver.

I assume that what you are getting at is that I need to access the file theme.html located in the folder of the theme I am using and change the code as you describe, and most importantly placing my logo file name in the bit :
src="youbannerurlhere">. ???
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Anonymous
Re: Replacing Banners Area with Custome Design

  • 2004/7/2 18:52

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Yes, if you can access the theme folder for the Theme you are looking to change. and when you get into that theme folder. you can edit your site's theme in the theme.html

eq
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damjam
Re: Replacing Banners Area with Custome Design

  • 2004/7/2 19:30

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Quote:

tedsmith wrote:
Yes, it does, but I don't think I can acces my root folders from there. I can access things like e-mail, domain settings, phpMyAdmin etc. To access the actual files I have to start an FTP link using Dreamweaver.


You don't need to use an ftp client to do this.

Open two windows - one for your XOOPS site and one for your Cpanel. In Cpanel click "File Manager", click the folder named "www", click the folder named "themes", click the file named "theme.html". Look in the upper right and click "Edit File". Make your edits, click "save" at the bottom, then refresh your XOOPS window and you should see your changes.
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tedsmith
Re: Replacing Banners Area with Custome Design

  • 2004/7/3 10:58

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Dam. It's all gone wrong! I'm rubbish at this!

I tried what was suggested, but nothing changed, despite me refreshing the cache and ensuring the 'updates after changes' thing was set in my preferences page.

I tried various other things (just guessing really), and now its worse than before. I can't get it to show the logo that I had chosen earlier and it never did show my title logo in place of the banners.

I need to put it back to its original state, I think by downloading the theme again and installing it, but if I do that will my forum get overwritten? I think it will.

If anyone has the heart to reply then thanks - but I think I'm best giving this up as a bad job!

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