Custom Theme Edits

[?Leslie?]

Hey guys,

I've just gotten back into the whole forum scene, but unfortunately I've literally forgotten everything that I'd once used to know. I'm currently looking at making some edits to a theme that I found. If you check out the tester forum that I've created for my own forum, you'll notice that the whole set up of the forum is to the left. I'd love it to be as centered as possible. Because it's a custom theme, I was worried about just tweaking the coding. I was hoping someone could take a glance at it and give me some pointers on how to change the position of the forum. I'd also love it if someone could tell me how to change the height of the title bars. I don't want them to be tiny or anything I just want to be able to make them a little smaller because the coding has made it pretty big.


Tester Site

Any input you guys can give me would be soooo much appreciated.

Also, I thought it was important to mention the screen that I'm working on ATM is 1920x1080.

Thanks in advance!

[Kami]

For the first portion: in Admin > Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS, click the "stylesheet" tab. Once that tab is active, click into the stylesheet so the cursor appears, then press CTRL+F to find the #wrapper CSS that looks as follows:

#wrapper {
    width: 930px;
    margin: 65px auto;
    margin-left: 285px;
    overflow-x: hidden;
}

Remove the portion that I've marked here in RED.

For the section portion, CTRL + F and find the .container>.title-bar that looks like this:

.container>.title-bar {
    min-height: 60px;
    padding: 0px 10px;
    line-height: 60px !important;
}

You have two options here: 1) you can remove the first line and third line and change the padding to 5px, replacing the current 0px 10px (feel free to change 5px to whatever you think is a good amount); or 2) you can simply adjust the values for the minimum height and line height -- note that if you want the text centred vertically, the min-height and line-height need to be identical in size.

Hope this helps!

[?Leslie?]

Thank you so,so much, Kami! I'm going to give the edits a go and see if I can get this code worked out. I appreciate your help! I'll be sure to let you know if I have any trouble with getting these edits to work for me.

Edit

I have a couple of other things I was hoping you could help me with.

1) Is there a way to edit the code so the Login, Register, Logout bar at the top of the page is removed and instead turned untraditional buttons under the logo image so that they are part of the buttons already there?

2) I tried to add a bit of code to move the ads above the logo image, but it didn't work. Is there a way to do this with the theme I'm using or is it just not possible?

3) Is there a way to edit the cbox table so the top is even with the top of the logo image box? I'm a bit ocd about having things even and symmetrical.  

Again, thank you so much for he help!

Edit II

Alright, so I removed the 'margin: 65px auto;' from the wrapper and it didn't work for me. When I look at the forum on my  1920x1080 resolution screen the whole forum is on the left hand side of the page. Do you perhaps have another suggestion that I might try for this? There is a picture of what it's doing below.

SPOILER: Click to show

As for the changing of the title bars, I had to edit four areas to get them to look just how I wanted, but I've accomplished this with your help, so thank you so much!

[Kami]

My apologies. Please also remove the "margin-left: 285px;" portion!

For the rest, I'm not particularly comfortable editing the theme further. Generally speaking, theme edits should always be cleared by the theme creator: many creators dislike it when people change the way their themes are styled (and some go so far as to explicitly forbid it), and there are many cases wherein the theme creator has not accounted for changes to the way the theme is styled and changes may affect more than just the things that are targeted.

My advice would be to go to Adoxography 2.0 (if you google their name, the site link should come up as the first result), register an account, and look for the thread for this theme and see if you're allowed to make edits like this. If you are, then I'd ask the Adoxography folks if the creator is around.

If you can get confirmation that the creator is no longer allowed + they allow for edits to be made to their theme, I'd be happy to help.

Otherwise, you could stick around here and see if someone is willing to help that is less hesitant than I.