themes not geting 100% width (with photo)

Regular Joined: Oct 15, 2005 Posts: 92 Location: Brazil

hi

guys, i need your help!

my theme does not expand to 100% of the screen! what shoud i do?

see it:

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at the #1 block, i need to enlarge it

at the #3 block, same as #1

what shoud i edit?

EDIT:

GOT #2 Very Happy

Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

well right click on that left area next to the block,then go for background image...
then you know what the name is,search it in your theme...that could be a part of your block,or theme.php or even your html header..if you have one.
when you find the image take it out but also the html part that creates that side area left and right as shown on your image.
so...its not only an image,but a few <td> as well....i guess.

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:34 pm

dude, i have edited story_home.html and worked when just 1 news is active...

files of the templaet

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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:40 pm

Dude ?
Thats a good one...nice but i prefer just hitwalker.

As you fixed the other one im sure you can find these also.
Just look for the background image with the litle bit of html with it.

registered · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:28 pm

I got my start in PHP-Nuke, if you will, by fixing themes. It would seem there are two different mindsets at work, when it comes to themes -- graphic artists that have a gift from God when it comes to shapes and colors, but can't 'code' worth beans -- and ppl that lack imagination and originality, but can spot a 'code' problem a mile away, and know how to fix it.

Having said that, a common problem with many, many PHP-Nuke themes is they won't align themselves correctly. Often, for instance, the header and footer are one size, and the main body is another -- or they don't fully fill the page, sometimes by design; sometimes not

The reason you see this sort of thing so much is because there is NO easy answer. All themes are different. What works in one theme doesn't necessarily work in another, and so forth.

Generically speaking, what I try to do is trap a page inside a '100% width' table -- the whole thing -- then do away with the margins for this table. If you look at my production site, you will see this in effect.

In this case, I added an additional '100% width' table to the theme right after the body tag, and in the body tag itself, I added some code that does away wth the margins.

The table I added is simple:

Quote:

The code I added to the body tag is somewhat more complex. The body tag itself is simple enough:

Quote:

<b-o-d-y>

...however, in the CSS file I specified:

Quote:

b-o-d-y {
background-color: #000000;
color: #FFFFFF;
cursor: default;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #CCCCCC;
scrollbar-base-color: #313131;
text-decoration: none;
}

I did this for W3C compliance. If you don't care about compliance, you can use something like:

Quote:

<b-o-d-y marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" topmargin=\"0\" leftmargin=\"0\" rightmargin=\"0\" bottommargin=\"0\" ...>

Of course, once again, this may or may not work for you, depending on what the underpinnings of your theme are...

Heh! I don't know if this even addresses YOUR situation, but what the heck. It might help somebody...

Regular Joined: Nov 28, 2005 Posts: 92 Location: UK

Hi can anyone please tell me as a noob which files to check for the forums page only table width?

i have blocks down the left side showing in forums and want the forums full width,
also do i use your code above?
thanks in advance

B2Z

registered · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:56 pm

Try http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/nukemanual-hide-left-blocks.html

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 6:25 pm

thanks for the reply, i looked at the link, will that hide every page left blocks? or just in the forums? or is there a quick fix and what file just for the forum boards etc

thanks again inadvance

B2Z

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:36 am

Please look at the first code, it will hide it from just the forums

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 5:48 pm

Hi All great advice thanks for removing the left blocks, i have sorted them in the temp theme we are running,
i purchased a nuke theme from a link on nukecops but wot a head mash installing it.

ok templatemonster.com seem like they can't fix the theme or can't be bothered in my view, offered me a refund but i replied i'm not happy and want them to sort it,

pages are different widths to each other, right borders were hiding text in posts or any right blocks etc,

can anyone whos the dogs tell me if they can look at the theme for me and if it can be fixed? how much they will charge me?

any help on this greatly appreciated.

thanks

B2Z

Theme Guru Joined: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 1006

if you could please provide me a link to download your theme. I will attempt to get the bugs out for you. I will need the original package not one that you have edited in anyway. Thanks! Razz

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:23 am

sent the link to your pm, i have just downloaded the correct original version from the seller, so is untouched and original ok.

thanks B2Z

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:21 am

okay, thanks. I will get back to you sometime today with whatever result i get. BTW, it would be very helpful to know exactly what type of nuke you are currently using patches, version, etc. Thanks

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:39 am

correct link now pm to you and nuke 7.6,

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:56 am

what type of nuke? what patches, etc. ?

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:58 am

php nuke 7.6 standard version with all patches so i'm told only re installed early december, how can i check the versions for you?

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:56 am

I believe that you sent me the wrong theme. This one is a vehicles theme. It looks nothing like the one you posted at the top of this thread. Please check and resend if needed. This one is named 4779 located inside of a zip file called 7985. Thanks Smile

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:05 am

yes the correct one is the 4779 folder, the outer folder and zip is 7985, that is how it came form the supplier, with instructions to unzip and upload the 4779 folder to the root/theme location as any other theme is done.

you are correct and it is a vehicle theme.

thanks B2Z

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:55 am

well, this theme cannot be a 100% theme. IS that what you wanted to do with it? Perhaps I am confused because I see now that the original poster here was not you, lol. What exactly is it that you want to do with this theme? Sorry for the confusion on my part.. that will teach me to glance and not read at posters ids..lol

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:57 am

i never started this topic! i joined in lower down under evaders post,

Hi can anyone please tell me as a noob which files to check for the forums page only table width?

i have blocks down the left side showing in forums and want the forums full width,
also do i use your code above?
thanks in advance

B2Z

sorry for confussion

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:06 pm

lol, okay, so you just want the forum page to show the full size with no blocks on either side.. correct?

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:19 pm

Okay, I have been spending time today on your theme. I do not believe that you will be happy with the results. IT appears to me that this theme is quite old. It is complety hard coded in so many places that making normal "tweaks" to it that a normal theme takes just fine, breaks yours. That is why you cannot achieve the full size forums amoung other things.

The theme also has no footer information. IT doesnt even want to accept the code without breaking. IT also has a pretty unattractive graphic error at the bottom of the footer around the keys. I am sure that if I were inclined to look further there would be more issues.

You said that they offered you a refund. If it were me, I would take the full refund. I dont know what you paid for it but I suspect it wont be worth the grief of trying to work this theme as you want.

I can understand why you like it in some regards. The header graphic is very nice. If I were you, and couldnt make my own theme, I would take that refund and find someone to make a new nuke theme using the same image concept. Then you would be sure that it would do what you wanted. There are some good designers out there, me included, who would be happy to work on a project like this for you. If you decide to you may look at my porfolio on my site and contact me if you want to discuss a new theme. Either that or post and ask people for suggestions on who should design your theme.

If you keep this current theme, I wish you the best of luck. I jsut think that you will spend a lot of extra cash trying to get someone to fix it how you want it to be. Either way, I am sorry that I couldn't do more for you.

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:25 pm

i was dreading that outcome, thanks anyway, if i take the refund, i have to remove all traces of the the theme and sign the waiver to that fact or jail for me lol,

they are still looking into the fixing of it so may wait it out and see if they can sort it at their expense,

if not not sure what to do, as we already run the flash version on the start of the site, www.nissan4x4ownersclub.co.uk/index.htm

how much approx for a theme based on that nature to match if poss are we talking about plz???

thanks

rob

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:16 am

Hi, sorry about the outcome. I was just trying to be as honest as possible with you. To be clear though that is a splash page not a flash page. There is a big difference. Also, just as a side note, splash pages can interfere with getting your sites indexed in general. In case you didnt know that. For me a theme based on this that would be exclussive to your site would run about 75-125.00. IT all depends on the amount of details and or extras. Of course that is for a theme exclussive to you. I wish you the best of luck. I will be interested to see if they remake it for you. Razz

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:25 am

ok thanks was that £ or $

also that last link click on the enter and that is what i meant,

thanks rob