Very Basic Help Needed

Hi jpd, if you're familiar with CSS, you can edit your theme in that manner.  hackyour.lefora.com is a great forum resource for tips on how to change your CSS.

ehhh whats css?

Wait I thnk I got something

I copied and pasted this stuff in my css tab

#page {background-color:transparent;}

body {
background-color:black;
background-image:url();
background-position:center top;background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-attachment:fixed;}

#sidebar, #footer, #header {background-color:transparent;background-image:url();border:1px solid #280F13;color:#FFFFFF;}

#start_conversation, #forum_title, #forum_description {color:#ffffff;}

#nav {/*margin-top:86px;*/background-color:#280F13;}

.section.last-section {border-bottom:1px solid #280F13;}

.section.header-section, .section.first-section, .section.head-section {border-top:1px solid #280F13;}

.section {
background-color:transparent;background-image:url();
border-left:1px solid #280F13;
border-right:1px solid #280F13;
color:#FFFFFF;
}

.nav_table td {border:1px solid #280F13;}

.nav_table thead {background-color:#280F13;color:#ffffff;}

.nav_table tbody {background-color:transparent;}

.nav_table td a {border-bottom:1px DOTTED #dddddd;color:#dddddd;}

.nav_table td a:hover {border-bottom:1px solid #FFFFFF;color:#FFFFFF;}

#thread-list-page h1, #all-categories-page h2 {background-color:#000000;color:#ffffff;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;}
#thread-list-page .item_subtitle {color:#dddddd;}

#admin_topic_panel {background-color:transparent;background-image:url();border:4px solid #280F13;color:#ffffff;}

.page-control {background-color:transparent;background-image:url();margin-top:-10px;border-left:1px solid #280F13;
border-right:1px solid #280F13;border-bottom:1px solid #280F13;color:#ffffff;}

.page-control .paginator {background-color:transparent;}
.page-control .pages a {color:#ffffff;}

.post_col_head {background-color:#000000;color:#FFFFFF;}

.post_col_head a {color:#dddddd;}

.post_outer {border:1px solid #280F13;}

.post_user_col {background-color:#280F13;}

.post_post_col {background-color:transparent;background-image:url();color:#ffffff;}

.post_footer_text {color:#dddddd;}

.widget .title_wrapper, .widget .title_wrapper a {background-color:#280F13;color:#ffffff;}

.widget .content a {color:#dddddd;}

#footer a {color:#dddddd;border-bottom:1px dotted #dddddd;}
#footer a:hover {color:#FFFFFF;border-bottom:1px solid #FFFFFF;}

.start-topic-wrapper {margin:4px 4px 0 0;}

#forum_body #community_menu #app_forum a, #headlines_body #community_menu #app_headlines a, #members_body #community_menu #app_members a, #about_body #community_menu #app_about a {color:#ffffff;}

#community_menu a.title {color:#dddddd;}

.location {background-color:transparent;background-image:url();border:1px solid #280F13;padding-left:5px;padding-right:5px;color:#ffffff;}

.location a, .location a:visited {color:#ffffff;}

a.post_author {color:#ffffff;}

div.posts_user_status {color:#FFFFFF;}

.post_footer_text {color:#ffffff;}
.post_footer_text a {color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;}

.memberlist div.member_block a.user_name {color:#ffffff;}

.info_block {color:#dddddd;}

.button_link {border:1px solid #000000;background-color:#ffffff;color:#280F13;}

.topic_title_row, .topic_title_row h1 {color:#ffffff;}

.topic_category_row a {color:#dddddd;}
.topic_category_row a:hover {color:#ffffff;}

:-moz-any-link:focus {
text-decoration:none;
outline-color:none;
outline-style:none;
outline-width:0px;
}

.start-topic-wrapper .button_link {background-color:#ffffff;color:#280F13;}

a {color:#ffffff;}
*|*:visited {color:#ffffff;}

div.viewmark {background-color:transparent;background-image:url();border:1px solid #280F13;color:#ffffff;}

.post_user_col {color:#ffffff;}

#start_conversation a {
border-color:#ffffff;
color:#ffffff;
}

.awesomeForm legend, .awesomeForm label.single_section {color:#ffffff;}

.awesomeForm .help {color:#dddddd;}

.post_reply_action a {color:#280F13;}

But I dont want to make all these changes I simply wanted to make the text lighter so its readable.
Ok so I'm willing to get familar with CSS, but can I use this editor to make a CSS template?

http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/

What do you think? Do you know of another simpler CSS editor or do I have to do all this by hand in notepad?

Wait I thnk I got something
http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/

What do you think? Do you know of another simpler CSS editor or do I have to do all this by hand in notepad?

Dude I think I might have it. I got rid of the background image, I dont want that, you can simply cut out lines of Css you dont want? I really just need a good Css editor, does lefora forums have a css editor?

a css editor, is usually a text program with markup, you can use any css editor and copy the css into lefora.

firebug is a tool that allows you to 'test' changes before putting them in your forum, it's an add-on for the Firefox webbrowser.

that link above is a theme editor for wordpress, it won't work for your lefora forum, as the css attribute names are all different.

hackyour.lefora.com is a great resource for learning how to edit your css on lefora.

Ok Chief thanks a lot. So I'm going to try a google search of firebug and see if I can install it and get it to work. If you looked at that page you'd see that it has an editor, that is the type of thing I'm looking for because it would be pretty easy for me and others to generate CSS. I'll check out firebut maybe thats what I need.

Regards

Wow this is so frustrating. Look the Firebug editor is great and everything, but its 500% too complex for what I want to do.

Look the text is simply too dark to read comfortably, so I want to go from dark gray to white against a black background. I want to locate, learn and utilize an editor that can help me make the changes needed here.

I was able using the inspect tool to identify the text and also copy and past a new whiter color in, however I have no idea, or no instructions on how to make that change stick, how to upload it or where to download the css and copy and paste that into the css thing on the admin panel. Why does this have to be so damn hard?

Seriously does there not exist a complete css which is blank but shows which attributes to which sections of the themes you have available on this forum? Frankly spending 2 days to change the colors on a shitty theme beause the creator of the theme evidently lives in in their parents basement is what I call BS. Its too bad your forums are so good or I'd have given up already.

Frustrated and in need of a simple fix.

never mind I give up

The process could not be simpler. After finding the code with Inspect from Firebug copy and paste it into the CSS page in the Admin Panel. Do not forget to save it.

So for a simple exercise: see image I changed the Permalink to red. I than copy the code:

huh? Look at my page now, just look at it, its all fubar :(

Perhaps you need to start over by having an design Forum where you set certain features and see how they look before roll out to your main forum. BTW at any time you can wipe your css additions and save, to return to default. You also will wipe the css page clean if you choose a different theme, so it is always best to take notes and copies of the things you like.

This is what I want right here

http://www.smfhacks.com/smf-theme-generator.html

Click on the various color boxes and it shows you what the hell you are changing. Please develop this for Lefora forums and you'll see your customer count increase 10-100 fold.

Each to his own. I prefer the Lefora way of changing things for colors. I realize their are a few things that are locked to change, but that is the case with any format. IMO a nice looking Forum can help but in the Final analysis it is the Content that the members create that makes a Forum alive.

Well thanks to everybody Chief, Colonel Jack especially for the help and attempts at helping me solve my problem. This place would be very compelling with an editor and if I knew everything there was to know about CSS. Since it would take weeks for me to learn enough and since I found another site which has the exact editor I am looking for, is easy to use, is free, and also has your css ability I guess this means goodbye. Thank you all for your time and efforts sorry it couldn't have worked better.

Curious where I'm off too...

www.forummotion.com

thanks for the feedback, sorry you felt frustrated, we plan to have more theme customization options in the future.

i posted more over here in response to another topic you were on:
http://support.lefora.com/2009/06/09/simple-question-for-forum-templates/page1/#post13686502