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Theme the search box

I need to change the search box & login controls (CommonHeaderUserContent). I need to get rid of the background color so that a graphic that has been set as the background of the header will show through. Suggestions? Thanks! Doug Evans IT Manager Association of Washington Cities

Posted to Themes (Forum) by AWC IT Team on Fri, Jun 1 2007
Filed under: skinning, css, themes, Theme, background color, CS Themes, Changing Default Theme, Skinned Controls, CS2007 Theme Customization, CS2007 Theme Customization skinning, #CommonHeader, chameleon

Re: How to use Firebug

Supposing that you have your CS home page opened alongside your existing website, you could use Firebug to inspect the GUI elements of the CS home page in pursuit of DOM information. Let's say you inspect the masthead. Upon doing so, you might find that to be a DIV element with an ID of #CommonHeader...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by Neils on Mon, May 28 2007
Filed under: skinning, css, themes, firebug, #CommonHeader

Re: basic blue skin issue - browser width support

If you will link me to where you're site is... I don't want to load one up locally I've been working on a silky new skin myself and have bested this issue with the default theme... but havent gotten to play with the basic blue theme in firebug yet A link to a screenshot of my work in progress... http...

Posted to The Water Cooler (Forum) by rfritts on Thu, Dec 14 2006
Filed under: Skinning, skin, css

do I have to change the icons bg color if I change the forum bg color?

Hi I changed the bg color of all my community server to light blue, and now all the icons (like the folders icons in the forum) are with a white background, and it doesn't look good... do I have to change all the images, or there is another way??? thanks

Posted to Themes (Forum) by liorfrenkel on Wed, Nov 22 2006
Filed under: skinning, css, skin, Theme, images

Customizing CS 2.1

I have gathered, tested and documented (unofficial) a few customizations that can be made to one's installation of CS 2.1 All the tweaks are not mine, I have just aggregated them. Find them here: http://community.dynacx.com/blogs/sashidhar/archive/2006/10/29/Community-Server-tweaks_2E002E002E00_.aspx...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by sskokku on Sun, Oct 29 2006
Filed under: skinning, css, skin, blog skin tasks, new website, navigation, menu, tabbar, cs 2.1, tags, tag cloud, customization, coding, blog code, default theme, sign in, BlogSkins, Skinnings, Theme, CommonUserArea, Content Parts, navigation howto, CommonContentArea, author, Blog Paging

Re: Control Panel Logo

Whenever I need to move something like that I utilize a dynamic DOM viewer such as those included with FireBug or IE Developer Toolbar. Then you can just hover over the element of your choice via IE or FireFox to see what CSS classes, IDs, properties and values are being applied behind the scenes. To...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by Neils on Wed, Sep 13 2006
Filed under: skinning, css, control panel, firebug, ie developer toolbar

What do I need to learn in order to build a site like Hive.net ?

So ive got a Community site up and running based on CommunityServer. Great. Now I want to change the default.aspx to look something like Hive.net. So a larger login box and then other boxes for active forums, recent blogs, recent photos etc, laid out in a similar style to the Hive. What do I need to...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by nichop on Wed, Sep 13 2006
Filed under: skinning, css, design, skin, homepage, skins, cs 2.1, customization

margin-left edit not showing up in Photos section

I edited the margin-left and margin-right tags in the #Common section of Common.css and change them from 35 to 0. Every page in the site now has no side margins, as desired, except for the entire Photos section and the Reader page. Weird. Has anyone seen this problem? I dont see anywhere that the photos...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by chavak on Thu, Jul 20 2006
Filed under: skinning, css, skins, themes, cs 2.0

New WebSite "fuzzydev.com" using CommunityServer 2.0

Hi All, I have launched my website www.fuzzydev.com using CommunityServer 2.0. Honestly speaking it was a pleasant experience, thanks to the CommunityServer team for this great software. Like everone in this community, even I had teething problems during installation and customization. But found solutions...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by Sachin Joshi on Sat, Jun 10 2006
Filed under: footer, skinning, css, skin, new website, cs 2.0

Re: How to set fixed page width? (Ex. majornelson.com)

That is very strange that the "/themes/default/syles/" folder is empty. Are they possibly hidden? Did you do the installation of CS? If that folder is indeed empty what you'll want to do is download the web installer of CS2.0 and extract it to a temp directory and get the .css files out of the "/themes...

Posted to Themes (Forum) by madkidd on Mon, May 22 2006
Filed under: skinning, css, design, skin