Board Remodel

[Teg]

Brian and anyone else who has the time do this....

Basically I would like each category to display 3 columns of boards. No spaces in between... Something like the following:

    

Want to add that I only want this board layout on the home page not once you are inside the boards. The sub boards don't need to display like this

[Kami]

Teg - I am not 100% sure I can fill this but just in case, what are your plans for categories that don't have boards in multiples of three?

[Teg]

For my forum all categories have no more or less than three boards

And if possible I'd like to be able to implement a background image in the and when u hover over it gives u the board info on a colored background

[Kami]

IDK how comfortable you are with editing the layout templates, but on a first glance it seems to me the easiest way to remodel this would be to use a three column div, with the widths set to 33.33% each.

What about height? I see you have two rows for if moderator/if subboards, but if those are not applicable what happens?

[Teg]

Apr 3, 2015 12:19:00 GMT -8 Kami said:

IDK how comfortable you are with editing the layout templates, but on a first glance it seems to me the easiest way to remodel this would be to use a three column div, with the widths set to 33.33% each.

What about height? I see you have two rows for if moderator/if subboards, but if those are not applicable what happens?

Height would be 100-200px. If those rows are absent, or not applicable, then those rows wouldn't appear.    

[Kami]

What would happen to the 'last post' cell if the number of characters in, say, someone's display name + the characters in the thread title would exceed the width of the row?

[Teg]

Oh, for last post


Last Post by: Username - Timestamp

[Kami]

Apr 3, 2015 12:46:27 GMT -8 Teg said:

Oh, for last post


Last Post by: Username - Timestamp

So no thread name, to clarify?

[Teg]

Correct, no thread name, just the username and timestamp

[Kami]

Apr 3, 2015 12:50:39 GMT -8 Teg said:

Correct, no thread name, just the username and timestamp :)

OK. I can't work on this today but if by Monday no one else has replied then I'll go ahead and work this out for you (:

(Sorry I'm swamped w/ work at the moment)

[Teg]

Apr 3, 2015 12:55:07 GMT -8 Kami said:

Apr 3, 2015 12:50:39 GMT -8 Teg said:

Correct, no thread name, just the username and timestamp

OK. I can't work on this today but if by Monday no one else has replied then I'll go ahead and work this out for you (:

(Sorry I'm swamped w/ work at the moment)

That's alright, I'm going to attempt to try it some more to see if i can figure it out. If not, then maybe Ill hear from you by monday     

[Kami]

Apr 3, 2015 12:58:52 GMT -8 Teg said:

Apr 3, 2015 12:55:07 GMT -8 Kami said:

OK. I can't work on this today but if by Monday no one else has replied then I'll go ahead and work this out for you (:

(Sorry I'm swamped w/ work at the moment)

That's alright, I'm going to attempt to try it some more to see if i can figure it out. :) If not, then maybe Ill hear from you by monday :D    

At a first glance I'd probably do something along the lines of having three divs side by side using float, and use more divs for each section of the board front (descrip / topics / posts /etc), if that helps.

[Teg]

Apr 3, 2015 13:12:36 GMT -8 Kami said:

Apr 3, 2015 12:58:52 GMT -8 Teg said:

That's alright, I'm going to attempt to try it some more to see if i can figure it out. If not, then maybe Ill hear from you by monday     

At a first glance I'd probably do something along the lines of having three divs side by side using float, and use more divs for each section of the board front (descrip / topics / posts /etc), if that helps.

My problem is having the three duplicate themselves on the home page. for some reason if i insert the divs, it does that... lol 
Thanks for the suggestion I'll play around with it some more and let you know if I am successful or unsuccessful LOL

Actually, I wonder if I could just do the remodel in the "home" template since I only want it to appear that way on the home page? What are your thoughts on that? 

[Kami]

Apr 3, 2015 13:36:06 GMT -8 Teg said:

Apr 3, 2015 13:12:36 GMT -8 Kami said:

At a first glance I'd probably do something along the lines of having three divs side by side using float, and use more divs for each section of the board front (descrip / topics / posts /etc), if that helps.

My problem is having the three duplicate themselves on the home page. for some reason if i insert the divs, it does that... lol 
Thanks for the suggestion I'll play around with it some more and let you know if I am successful or unsuccessful LOL :D

Actually, I wonder if I could just do the remodel in the "home" template since I only want it to appear that way on the home page? What are your thoughts on that? 

link?

and I dunno. It really depends imo. If you had a different style per board I'd suggest the home template but since it's the same just in rows of three I'd suggest board template.

[Teg]

Okay, will doing it in the boards list template make it appear to the su boards too bc I want those to display normally