Piet Building His Forum

[Piet]

I have look around and canot find wat I'm looking for......so I'm gonna rock the boat myself, with the help of you ALL.

So I'm conna kick off with my first problem:

1. Looking at this forum......how do I do the sizing of your main board so that I get the space on the left for the side bar or side panel.

2. I am gona use the defult skin of vBulletin but I want to create a nother one, so I dont lose the original skin, kan I to that, and how.

Peggy have been a lot of help so far.

I have not install vBadvanced jet, working on a clean vBulletin instalation.

Thanks.

[Chris]

1. Looking at this forum......how do I do the sizing of your main board so that I get the space on the left for the side bar or side panel.

Just get the side column hack over on vbulletin.org. It is very easy to do. Just do a search for side columns.

I am gona use the defult skin of vBulletin but I want to create a nother one, so I dont lose the original skin, kan I to that, and how.

adminCP>Styles & Templates>Style Manager>Add New Style

Parent Style: None
Title: Whatever you wanna name it
Allow User Selection: Up to you ( I usually choose no while I am working on a skin so that no one can see it till I am done)
Display Order: doesn't really matter

Click save and now you have a new style to work with.

[Piet]

Just get the side column hack over on vbulletin.org. It is very easy to do. Just do a search for side columns.



adminCP>Styles & Templates>Style Manager>Add New Style

Parent Style: None
Title: Whatever you wanna name it
Allow User Selection: Up to you ( I usually choose no while I am working on a skin so that no one can see it till I am done)
Display Order: doesn't really matter

Click save and now you have a new style to work with.

Mmmmm.........all this hacking makes me nervous: But thanks so far............Baie Dankie

[Peggy]

Don't let it make you nervous. The great thing about vBulletin is that if you make a mistake you can always revert the templates and get it back to the way it was

[Piet]

Don't let it make you nervous. The great thing about vBulletin is that if you make a mistake you can always revert the templates and get it back to the way it was

Heheheh....if you say so,

I have load 4 other skins, how do I del them?

[Peggy]

go into the style manager in your ACP, select the skin on the right, using the drop-down menu for the skin, select delete. and Go.

Then you'll have to go into your FTP and delete the files.

[Piet]

go into the style manager in your ACP, select the skin on the right, using the drop-down menu for the skin, select delete. and Go.

Then you'll have to go into your FTP and delete the files.

Mmmm...yes, how do I know wat files te del. Me I wil del everything.

[Peggy]

the files for the skin would most likely be in their own folder. For example if the skins' name is Herbert, then there would be a folder in your images directory in ftp named herbert. You would delete that entire file.

If you're unsure of this, you don't HAVE to delete it right now. It's not hurting anything to leave it there for now, certainly not taking up alot of space. So wait til you're more comfortable with deleting it.

[Piet]

the files for the skin would most likely be in their own folder. For example if the skins' name is Herbert, then there would be a folder in your images directory in ftp named herbert. You would delete that entire file.

If you're unsure of this, you don't HAVE to delete it right now. It's not hurting anything to leave it there for now, certainly not taking up alot of space. So wait til you're more comfortable with deleting it.

Thanks for that had me worry there for a while.

One more question at this point in time......if and when I install vBadvanced, wil it overide this side bar Hack?

Thanks......Dankie

[Piet]

Yepie if all worked Thanks you all!! Peggy your n Star.

Now to install vBadvanced CMPS.