What have you added to your new ubb.x? What lil touches have you used to make it yours? I'm sure our readers would be grateful to hear how you have made your board unique!

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not a dang thing! im so clueless..lol

any suggestions for a dummy?

Ive added a calender for the board & a chat room.. then put a pull out member on the front page.. I dont like the pull out menu.. whats an *EASY* menu that would stay up at the top of the board?

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Originally posted by Nikki Christina:
"... whats an *EASY* menu that would stay up at the top of the board?"

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Amen. I have played around a bit with this question, trying both flash and javascript. The backwards compatibility with older browsers is a pain in the neck, however.

If anyone has some nice navbar recommendations (with code) that they could share, it would be very helpful.

Tom

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Is what I have what you're talking about?

Sal Collaziano
www.deerparkavenue.com
Forum: http://deerparkavenue.infopop.cc/6/ubb.x

Well you can always try 'hiermenus' from:
http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/hiermenus/

Don't know if it qualifies as 'easy' though.

You can see an example of it running in the left nav here:
http://technet.oracle.com

Sal, I just went to your site for the first time. I always thought you were a deer hunting site. Guess not, huh.

yeah Sal... how'd you do that?

A few places to try are:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/index.html

and,

http://www.opencube.com/effect_dqm.html

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I've messed with the Opencube one before, but I didn't really like it. I'll stick to the good old fashion way.

If I could only edit the html around the UBB components, then my board design could look awesome! Right now, I'm on a shared server and it doesn't let you alter the code.

On the next upgrade, you guys should consider allowing us to do this. Whether we're on a dedicated server or a shared server should not make a difference in determining who can edit the html = a client is a client. Leave the responsibility of messing up and correcting (or paying Infopop to correct the problem) to us as well.

Hi Buffy. You can add HTML around the UBB.x pages by using the Style Settings page.

For example, that's what we do on this site - putting the Infopop Community Forums branding around what is otherwise an off the shelf forum with no custom stylesheets.

I found this on my travels and has proved very easy and functional. Also, price is very inexpensive.

Pop-Up Menu Creator

Good luck!

Buffy,

Like this:
http://www.ubbdesign.com/ubbx/

(click on ubb.x on the left hand side panel)

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Peter and JC, the Style Settings are very limited. I can't even edit the html code to delete 2 extra lines (just 2 simple <br> codes in the html) that appear right after my forum paragraph description. Can't get to that from the Style Settings...now that's sad!

Nah, everyone started somewhere. Hey my very first day of playing with webpages, I could center a bit of text after trying for several hours. And forms.. ugh forget it.. Now I do stuff in my sleep..LOL It takes time and we're here to help

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Has anyone here found a good dhtml menu solution? I have tried two or three of the above without much success and I really would like to find something so that my users have a good way of getting back to various places on my site.

I have tried Opencube and while I was able to make myself a very nice menu, it simply did not work when I placed it on the board (it did work when I tried it by itself, however).

I also tried the Popup Menu Creator mentioned above by Dharrison, which is a very nice program that is capable of creating nice menus with little fuss but when I tried it using Netscape 4.73 (the only version I have on file), the text on my board turned to mush (instead of regular characters, there were block type things -- sorry for the poor description but I don't know how to better describe it). I tried working with the scripts' creator but he really wasn't sure why it didn't work.

Anyone have any other suggestions? I am willing to pay for a good script (within reason, of course -- one script I found was $149.00 which I think is beyond what I am looking for!).

Thanks.

I went ahead and bought the Pop-Up Menu Creator, and it seems to work, however the javascript it's creating for me doesn't seem to be compatible with the board.

I have a test forum with a test menu running here.

Two problems with it:

1. The menu shows up fine when previewed in both IE and Netscape 6.2. However, when the code is added to the board (right after the HEAD tag), it shows up fine in IE but is not visible in Netscape.
2. When you bring the page up, you will see that the menu items appear with black text on a blue background. That's neither the desired color of text, nor is it what shows up in preview on a simple HTML page. The text *should* be white. It almost appears that the text is picking up the board default of black text (for some reason). Also, you can run your mouse over the text, and it changes to the desired color (white).

I'm not giving up, but if anyone has any other ideas, please share them.

Thanks,

Tom

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Tom:

I took a look at your board, since I too would like to use the Pop-Up Menu Creator if I could get it working.

I noticed the same things you pointed out (i.e. both of your points #1 and #2). Also, the same problems that I pointed out in my earlier post happened when I looked at your board in Netscape 4.73. What happens is the screen looks fine but as soon as you scroll down, the characters below the scroll are blocks, instead of characters. When you scroll back up to where you originally saw text, you get blocks instead.

This seems really problematic in Netscape. I hope someone from Infopop can shed some light here.

Harris

...using his product on a UBB.x board (after he looked at my attempt to put a horizontal navbar on my test forum):

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"On the forum page, styles are being applied to HTML elements.
Here is a fraction from your stylke sheet:
TD, TH, TR, P, DIV, SPAN {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;
font-size: ;
color: #000002;
}
This means any HTML element mentioned above will use this style.
The Pop-Up menu is using Tables and layers, so it copies the styles from the stylesheet.
That's why it's wiser to use classes to apply styles to instead of HTML elements.
I guess though that this is something you can't control and is setup by the UBB board.

I'm afraid that there is no solution to this, unless you can change the UBB tables to use a class style sheet..."

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I didn't want to have to become a web developer to slap a menu on my board with links to chat, etc. At this point (without any better ideas), I guess I'll punt and come up with some simple HTML to use.

Tom

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Tom there are two solutions for you, both easy.

The 'head' section of the style paste in
<style>
TD, TH, TR, P, DIV, SPAN {
font-family: ;
font-size: ;
color: ;
}
</style>

to 'clear' those particular CSS settings.

Better still, save your current 'style' section as a separate CSS file. Edit it in notepad to remove the troublesome section. Load it to you web space as a .css file and figure out the URL. Find the 'Include standard OpenTopic™ CSS in HEAD tag: []' check box to turn off the inline CSS that UBB.x places in the head section automtatically. Last, use the text area in your Style for the 'head' to enter

<link rel="stylesheet" type="test/css" href="http://your_ubbx_url/ws/yourfile.css"> pointing of course to the .css file you created.

This will load the stylesheet minus the troublesome code.

Michael Farris
OpenTopic/UBB.x Product Manager

Side note: To my knowledge a css tag in a given td etc, will overide a global one also.

In otherwords

<tr class="0ne"
<td class="two">

"two" should override the "one" prior to it. The only possiblity is cross browser.

I agree with Michaels solutions though, an external css gives you more control. I do that on my ubb.x. I simply loaded a page looked at the source view, copied the css sheet from it, pasted it in a text file, uploaded it in ascii and put the proper css url tag in the head section. Then told the ubb.x to not load the internal css but to use the external. More and more web developers are using CSS, Xhmtl, and now XMl, and XSL to create webpages on the fly. It saves in overall files size of the page and increases browser compatibility as each browser is upgraded.

I use css extensively, and will be happy to answer questions should you decide to brave the new way

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