Black armband equivelant on main page

[Gene Hunt]

Hi,

Is there any way I can have something along the lines of a black armband on the front page of my forum? Something that I could easily put in place if a person we knows passes away and then remove after a short period. I have a scrolling marquee but I was thinking of something more graphic based.

Open to ideas / suggestions?

Thank you in advance.

GH.

[Tumbleweed]

Dec 6, 2016 11:40:54 GMT -8 Gene Hunt said:

Hi,

Is there any way I can have something along the lines of a black armband on the front page of my forum? Something that I could easily put in place if a person we knows passes away and then remove after a short period. I have a scrolling marquee but I was thinking of something more graphic based.

Open to ideas / suggestions?

Thank you in advance.

GH.

I'm trying to envision how that might look. If you had a black armband, wouldn't it almost have to be on a arm so people know what it is and wouldn't that look odd? I mean a part of a arm showing a black armband? How about a wreath with RIP or a ribbon? Here, I tossed a premade ribben I got online, added RIP on it and added it to my web site. Take a look but maybe not so big? Just throwing ideas out there. Test Site with ribbon on it

[Gene Hunt]

Hi Tumbleweed ,

I should perhaps have worded my post better or thought it through a little more. Your suggestion of a ribbon is a nice idea and the test site looks OK. Is there a way of having the ribbon overlaid on my front page so that it perhaps partly obscures the top banner. Something that can easily be put in place and removed after a short period. I suppose it would be easier to redesign a banner with the black ribbon on it so I can swap it out when necessary, but it would be a pain to place a different personal dedication onto or under the ribbon itself every time it is used.

Thanks again Tumbleweed .

GH.

[Tumbleweed]

Dec 7, 2016 0:22:41 GMT -8 Gene Hunt said:

Hi Tumbleweed ,

I should perhaps have worded my post better or thought it through a little more. Your suggestion of a ribbon is a nice idea and the test site looks OK. Is there a way of having the ribbon overlaid on my front page so that it perhaps partly obscures the top banner. Something that can easily be put in place and removed after a short period. I suppose it would be easier to redesign a banner with the black ribbon on it so I can swap it out when necessary, but it would be a pain to place a different personal dedication onto or under the ribbon itself every time it is used.

Thanks again Tumbleweed .

GH.

We could probably do something like that. Instead of the text being pre-put on the ribbon graphic I could make it editable text and when you don't want to use it, the html part could just be commented out. By commented out, when you don't want some html to show you just do this is red:

<!--html code I'd give you-->

So the red is there when you don't want it to show and then you just remove the red when you want it to show.

So let me redo the ribbon with no text and fiddle with this. Would you prefer the ribbon be a bit smaller?  Since you didn't provide a link to your site, what size is your banner so I can get the ribbon positioned correctly and then see if I can get html text to line up on the ribbon graphic. If you don't know the size, can you pm me the link to your forum? Also, we might need a different ribbon (or something else?) since the one I'm using has a curve and text might not line up on it well.

[Gene Hunt]

This sounds great Tumbleweed. Thanks a lot for taking the time and trouble to help.

Sorry, I meant to give a link to my forum. I've now sent you a PM.

Thanks again.

GH.

[Tumbleweed]

I accidentally replied to you via pm when I was thinking I was here in this thread so check your pm's and sorry about that.

[Gene Hunt]

No worries Tumbleweed I've replied to your PM.

[Tumbleweed]

Dec 8, 2016 10:06:32 GMT -8 Gene Hunt said:

No worries Tumbleweed I've replied to your PM.

Got your pm. I couldn't find one that was straight so I redid the current one but you can always look for a replacement one. I'm setting it up on my test site now so give me a few minutes and I'll give you the code and directions.

Edit:
Gene Hunt , I think this is the best I can do with the ribbon. I have a crappy graphics program but you can take a look at it above the banner (centered and slightly overlapping the banner) here: putteraroundix.proboards.com/ You may want to look for a nicer 

Here is the html part of the code and you can just add this in your forum wrapper (If you want it on every page- let me know if you don't) and I have it right above the 
<div id="wrapper"> which is located about on line 15. (Admin > Themes> Layout Templates>Forum Wrapper


<div id="ribbon_wrap"><div id="RIP_ribbon"><div id="RIP_text">In remembrance of John Doe</div></div></div>

The blue is the text you can change. Below is the css and you can put it between style tags like this....


<style>
#ribbon_wrap{width:359px; height:91px; margin:auto; position:relative; z-index:1000!important;}
#RIP_ribbon{position:relative; bottom:-35px; margin-top:-34px;
background-image:url(http://storage.proboards.com/3422154/images/87bYDvzochnMsqemgVIm.png);background-repeat:no-repeat;
width:359px; height:91px;
}
#RIP_text{font-size:11px; position:relative; top:12px; left:92px;
</style>


...and place the css right above the html part or you can remove the style tags (red) and put it at the bottom of your style sheet. (Admin> Themes> Advanced Styles & CSS> Style Sheet>)

Now again, when you don't want it to show just wrap the html part in commenting out tags:

<!--<div id="ribbon_wrap"><div id="RIP_ribbon"><div id="RIP_text">In remembrance of John Doe</div></div></div>-->

I hope this will work o.k. for you. If you do happen to find a better ribbon you'll have to set the width and height of it in the css and you may have to adjust the positioning which is this part: bottom:-35px;margin-top:-34px;

To adjust the text it would be this part: top:12px; left:92px;

Need help at anytime, now or later, just come back and ask. (Oh, and I'll remove your banner just as soon as I'm sure all is o.k. with this.)

[Gene Hunt]

Tumbleweed That looks great - Thank you!

I have a test forum with the same banner so I can have a go at placing it on there before putting it on the main forum. Only thing I may change - but don't know how, is the color of the text. Maybe to white. I expect that's easy even though I haven't a clue!

Many thanks again Tumbleweed Your help has been fantastic.

GH.

[Gene Hunt]

Forget that Tumbleweed. I have it working just fine. The text is showing as white on my forum so all is well.

Thanks again. Absolutely superb!

GH.