Help With Theme Code

[AspieCrow]

URL: youngdracula.proboards.com/

Hi!

I was hoping someone could help me remove the sidebar from this theme, please? If you could just guide me through the process of removing it step-by-step, I would be very much appreciative!

Thanks very much in advance!

[David Clark]

Please link us to the forum where you're working on this AspieCrow

[AspieCrow]

Done!

Does the theme I need help with need to be the default theme?

[David Clark]

Nope AspieCrow.

Looks like the HTML for the sidebar is in the Forum Wrapper template -- go to Admin > Structure > Layout Templates > Forum Wrapper and ensure that DelAndante is selected in the Active Theme dropdown. From there, locate this block of code on lines 77 through 104:

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<div id="sidebar"><div align="center"><ul id='tab-strip'>
   <br><br><li id='tab1' class='clickable1'>Chat</li>
   <li id='tab2' class='clickable1'>Info</li>
   <li id='tab3' class='clickable1'>Credits</li>
</ul></div>
   <div id='tab1-content' class='tab-content' style="margin-top:20px;margin-left:10px;"><ul class="sidebar_info"><br />
   <br>Best viewed in Chrome.<br>
       All request boards are open to members as are the submissions boards, so show us what you're made of!<br />
       <li class="sidebar title">Shout Box</li></ul>
      <div id="move-shoutbox"> $[shoutbox]</div></div>
   
       <div id='tab2-content' class='tab-content' style="margin-top:20px;margin-left:10px;"><ul class="sidebar_info"><br />
       <li class="sidebar_title">Staff</li>
       <li><b>Admin</b></li>
           <li><a href="http://delusional.freeforums.net/user/1">Rach</a></li>
           <li><b>Graphics Team</b></li>
           <li><a href="http://delusional.freeforums.net/user/3">Capt. Meows</a></li>
           <li><a href="http://delusional.freeforums.net/user/36">Alicia Kitty</a></li>
           <li><a href="http://delusional.freeforums.net/user/153">Eliza</a></li>
           <li><b>Head Spammer</b></li>
           <li><a href="http://delusional.freeforums.net/user/50">Sookie Stackhouse</a></li>
           <li><b>Spammer</b></li>
           <li><a href="http://delusional.freeforums.net/user/372">DG</a></li>
<li class="sidebar_title">Quick Links</li>
<li><a href="http://delusional.freeforums.net/post/14/thread">Welcome & Rules</a></li>
<li><a href"http://delusional.freeforums.net/board/44/advertising">Advertising</a></li>
<li><a href="http://delusional.freeforums.net/thread/1274/affiliate">Affiliate</a></li>
       </ul></div>

Remove that, save it, and you should be good to go.

[AspieCrow]

Thanks very much! That's sorted it!

There's just one more thing, though. On the category titles, there's a Photobucket image error that I can't find to get rid of. How can I?

Thanks again!

[David Clark]

Ah, that issue appears to be an expired image configured in the visual editor. Go to Admin > Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS and expand Body (Content) > Containers > Title Bars and then clear out the Background Image entered there, saving your changes.

[AspieCrow]

Thanks! Unfortunately, I did that and it's still showing up as a problem. Is there anywhere else it needs to be changed?

[David Clark]

Oh, looks like the theme author hard-coded that image in the style sheet. I went in and removed the offending CSS, so it should be gone now.

[AspieCrow]

Thanks very much! That's it sorted now!

Thanks again!

[AspieCrow]

Oh my God, I'm so sorry, I seem to have inadvertently reversed it! Could you remove the offending CSS again please?

Again, really sorry!

[David Clark]

Don't even worry about it! I just removed it again. If it happens to come back, I removed it from line 1644 of your style sheet in Admin > Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS > Style Sheet tab.

[AspieCrow]

Thanks again! Hopefully that should be everything sorted now!

[David Clark]

Sweet, looking good. Let us know if we can help with anything else.

[AspieCrow]

Hi again! There's one more thing I could really use help with, David Clark, if at all possible.

Is there a way to allow the top links (Home, Help, Search, Calendar, Members, Admin, Profile, Bookmarks, Messages) and the Welcome message ("Welcome _____ Logout" for members, "Welcome Guest. Please Login or Register" for gueests) to show up and not clash with the background? Off the top of my head, maybe give them a black background?

Thanks again!