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#0, by lou-santiago, 08 August 2008 09:20 PM

Hey everybody, Chuck my computer guru is taking some time off, so it's up to me. lately I have had some guys saying that the forum was hard to read. Is there a way we can make the font bigger or maybe bold? I think white might even work. Any help on this would be great

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Re: question about fonts

#1, by chief, 08 August 2008 10:53 PM

If you know CSS, you can edit the font sizes via your Admin Panel (under Themes -> CSS), check out the 'Hack your Forum' category on support for more info.

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#2, by lou-santiago, 09 August 2008 12:57 AM

I will check it out thanks

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#3, by lou-santiago, 09 August 2008 01:05 AM

I found the CSS in admin panel. I'm a little lost do just type the font size in the box?

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#4, by cookies, 09 August 2008 05:01 PM

Though I reccomend against doing it this way(more on that at the end), here is what you do to change the base font size with css; type in the box:

body {font-size:16px}

And then press update at the bottom, you can make that 16 bigger or smaller as you desire (for reference its defualt is 12px), its important to keep the px after the number.

This wont update every font size though, so it may make the page harder to read, in the sense that the headings may be smaller than the text.

Why I reccomend against this, is that this may break the layout a little, the correct thing to do is to use your web browsers font resize function.
This wont work properly if you use internet explorer, if you have ie7 you need to use the 'Zoom' function instead.
All other web browsers will resize the text with the normal text size settings, which is one of the main reasons to reccomend Firefox, Safari or Opera.

If your uses are stuck with ie6 then the css is the only way to go for the moment, though its an area we hope to improve on later.

Hope this helps.

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#5, by lou-santiago, 09 August 2008 10:19 PM

What if I just change the color to white. That way the font size won't be an issue

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#6, by cookies, 10 August 2008 03:43 AM

Hi,
that can be done in a similar way, try this piece of css in the box:

body, .section {color:white}

This will change most of the text to white, if you want to change it all to white, just ask, but thats a little more complex; this should get the main bulk of text, and most importantly for your users the posts.

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#7, by lou-santiago, 16 August 2008 09:53 PM

I got it. Thanks alot

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Re: question about fonts

#8, by scytheron, 21 August 2008 03:45 AM
How about changing catagory text colors? i've been messing around with firebug (which is amazing) and even crashed my forum for a few minutes because I put something in wrong regarding widgets.  However, I cannot seem to figure out how to change my catagory text (like on the main page) all to white or something lighter than grey.

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Re: question about fonts

#9, by scytheron, 21 August 2008 05:17 AM
I'm sorry for double posting, but I found it with firebug.  It took some learning but firebug is really useful.

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