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**TCH-Thomas** · April 28, 2005

I have set up a forum using SMF 1.0.3 here.

On the attached image you see the top of it.

I would like to get rid of the text in the red part and then "stretch" the logo in the green part so it is across the whole page (the logo itself is 750 px)

In which page and what part of it do I modify and finally (since Im no good at php), what exactly do I write, if the logos name is smflogo.gif if and I use the default theme?

Any help greatly appreciated. :notworthy:

**borfast** · April 28, 2005

Sorry, Thomas, I never used SMF so I can't help you much but if you can't figure it out, let me know (PM or IM me) and I'll download it and take a look.

**j2k4b** · April 28, 2005

Thomas... I don't know anything about SMF either... Sorry!

**TCH-Bruce** · April 28, 2005

ditto :notworthy:

**Head Guru** · April 28, 2005

I have little experience with SMF and I was not as impressed as I am with IPB.

Sorry cant help Thomas.

**TCH-Thomas** · April 28, 2005

I like IPB better too, but I like SMF´s price. :notworthy:

**j2k4b** · April 28, 2005

I have said this before on another thread but I like PunBB better. It is highly customizable and FREE! I hope this helps.

**TCH-Don** · April 28, 2005

If you go into Themes > Default

and find index.template.php

in that file look for the body tag

just below is the table cell that displays first.

thats the area the change.

Assuming you are using the default theme.

**curtis** · April 28, 2005

Thomas, goto Cpanel>file manager. Open the directory where you installed SMF and find Themes. There are 2 choices classic or default, pick the one you are using. Then look for a file called index.templates.php and open it. Scroll down until you get to

></head>
<body>';

If you want to put in a new header just place your html under this.

To replace an existing logo scroll down to

//The logo and three info boxes//

and change the coding for the new logo.

An example of a new header and changed info boxes on my site is here

Edited April 28, 2005 by curtis

**curtis** · April 28, 2005

Don you type faster than I. :eek:

**TCH-Thomas** · April 28, 2005

Thomas, goto Cpanel>file manager. Open the directory where you installed SMF and find Themes. There are 2 choices classic or default, pick the one you are using. Then look for a file called index.templates.php and open it. Scroll down until you get to
></head>
<body>';
If you want to put in a new header just place your html under this.

To replace an existing logo scroll down to

//The logo and three info boxes//

and change the coding for the new logo.

An example of a new header and changed info boxes on my site is here

Ok, found "//The logo and three info boxes//", however, after that I found a part saying "// This part is the logo and forum name. You should be able to change this to whatever you want...", so I assumed it was there I would tell where to find my logo since it was the place I found /smflogo in the originalfile but I get a blank page with this text:

This is here because Gecko browsers properly support white-space.... if ($context['browser']['is_gecko']) echo ' '; echo ' '; /* Internet Explorer 4/5 and Opera 6 just don't do font sizes properly. (they are big...) Thus, in Internet Explorer 4, 5, and Opera 6 this will show fonts one size smaller than usual. Note that this is affected by whether IE 6 is in standards compliance mode.. if not, it will also be big. Standards compliance mode happens when you use xhtml... */ if ($context['browser']['needs_size_fix']) echo ' '; // Show all the relative links, such as help, search, contents, and the like. echo ' '; // If we're viewing a topic, these should be the previous and next topics, respectively. if (!empty($context['current_topic'])) echo ' '; // If we're in a board, or a topic for that matter, the index will be the board's index. if (!empty($context['current_board'])) echo ' '; // We'll have to use the cookie to remember the header... if ($context['user']['is_guest']) $options['collapse_header'] = !empty($_COOKIE['upshrink']); // Output any remaining HTML headers. (from mods, maybe?) echo $context['html_headers'], ' '; // Because of the way width/padding are calculated, we have to tell Internet Explorer 4 and 5 that the content should be 100% wide. (or else it will assume about 108%!) echo '

So I am probably missing something. Do I need to delete, add something?

**curtis** · April 28, 2005

Thomas to get rid of the text in the red part:

Goto your forum and sign-in as admin. Left menu go down to Forum Configuration

and click Edit Server Settings. When server settings opens go down to

Message Board Name and delete whatever is in the box. In your case that would be Marve Assistans Forum.

After that text is removed you should be able to adjust the size of your image to the size you want.

**TCH-Thomas** · April 29, 2005

Did that, but still getting this text described above. :huh:

Here is what that part of index.template.php says:

>// The logo and the three info boxes.
echo '
 <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" width="100%" style="position: relative;">
	 <tr>
   <td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="padding: 5px; white-space: nowrap;">';

// This part is the logo and forum name.  You should be able to change this to whatever you want...
echo '
  	 <td align="center" width="750"><img src="http://marveassistans.se/smflogo.gif" alt="" /><br />
<br />
  	 <span style="font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;">', $context['forum_name'], '</span>';

echo '
   </td>

**TCH-Don** · April 29, 2005

The problem is

><br />
<br />
   <span style="font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;">', $context['forum_name'], '</span>';

Try removing it and just use

><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" width="100%" style="position: relative;">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="padding: 5px; white-space: nowrap;">
   <td align="center" >
<a href="http://marveassistans.se">
<img src="http://marveassistans.se/smflogo.gif" />
</a>
</td>

I added a link to home page on the logo.

**TCH-Thomas** · April 29, 2005

Works better. Now there is no white space but the logo is way too much to the right even if it as far as I can see should be centered.

But we are getting close. :huh:

**TCH-Don** · April 29, 2005

My fault, bad coding on my part

You have two

move the align="center"

up into the top

**TCH-Thomas** · April 29, 2005

Thanks Don & Curtis and everyone else. :lol:

It works perfectly now. :thumbup1:

Now I just have to create a new logo since I discovered that the old one was too wide.

**TCH-Don** · April 29, 2005

Looks good.

Glad to help :thumbup1:

**TCH-Bruce** · April 29, 2005

You might want to add border=0 to the image.

**TCH-Thomas** · April 29, 2005

There is a border around it already, Bruce. Atleast what I see in Firefox :thumbup1:

However in firefox its the correct color but in I.E its blue. <_>

**TCH-Bruce** · April 29, 2005

Thomas adding that border=0 will remove the blue box from around the image in IE.

**TCH-Thomas** · April 29, 2005

Ok, here´s what I did...

I changed Bruce suggestion so it adds Dons suggestion about align="center", so now it looks like this:

><td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="padding: 5px; white-space: nowrap;">
<a href="http://marveassistans.se"><img src="http://marveassistans.se/smflogo.gif border=0" /></a>
</td>

This way no logo shows in either I.E or FF but if I remove border=0", it looks as it should in FF but have the blue border in I.E.

Shall the

be there anyway?

**TCH-Bruce** · April 29, 2005

My mistake Thomas

><td colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="padding: 5px; white-space: nowrap;">
<a href="http://marveassistans.se"><img src="http://marveassistans.se/smflogo.gif" border="0" /></a>
</td>

**TCH-Thomas** · April 29, 2005

Thanks Bruce. :thumbup1:

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