Thanks for letting me know
I thought it seemed strange being a link from here from a well known member.
Starting a second forum - questions
- Thread starter Alvin63
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I thought it seemed strange being a link from here from a well known member.Ok. The only one I've got is to reduce the size of the header in the header/logo row. It's
height: 85px;
I also have this in extra.less
.p-header-logo {
margin-left: auto;
}
To centre the logo. Those are the only two edits I've done.
Forum is working fine and the error has gone now since I deleted it. But will do that yes. Is there any different or better way to reduce the height of the header?
Edit - I meant is there any different or better way to centralise the logo? That's the bit that's in extra.less
Edit - I meant is there any different or better way to centralise the logo? That's the bit that's in extra.less
Tracy Perry
Well-known member
Have to give them this much... they at least fix their issues fairly quickly.
Your forum looks fantastic
Did you design it all or get someone to customise it? I'm struggling with a noddy logo at the moment. It's ok but ...
webbouk
Well-known member
Add this to extra.less
// Center Logo
.p-header-logo {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
Tracy Perry
Well-known member
yep... submitted it to them.
thanks... the base style is a PixelExit one (@Russ does a great job), but is one of their older ones but the best I found to fit what I wanted. I've modified it "slightly"Your forum looks fantastic
to fit more inline with what the topical area is.The logo, even somewhat corny in appearance, was created by me. I do have to admit that it turned out looking rather nice on the back of some t-shirts I had done. I changed the text up somewhat to make it more compact, but the next batch will use
merge instead of join. I went with what the better 1/2 suggested instead of my first instinct. The sweatshirts didn't turn out as nicely as they kept the text more rectangular in location than spread out like on the t-shirt.
Tracy Perry
Well-known member
Yes, @Russ, the last time I checked, provided many services. Honestly, if you have the ka-ching (which I do not since I'm retired on a fixed income) it would be well worth your time & money to contact him. PixelExit (edited, to many Pixel softwares I deal with) does an excellent job and every one of their custom styles I have seen has been beyond impressive.
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Tracy Perry
Well-known member
Exactly the position I'm in. I'm a purely self-supported site and am a fixed income. I do my site for the love of the topic. I HAVE been blessed by being around for awhile and having some VERY good associates/friends that are familiar with the aspect of admin/customization. @Russ being one of them. It's one of the reasons that I have, and will continue, to highly recommend PixelExit.... there are few that have been around as long as they have and are as dedicated to XF as they are. My current style is a simple example of what simple tweaks can take their stuff to.
One thing you might do is (if you aren't already) join The Admin Zone and see if anyone there is interested in creating you a nice logo. Some of the folks that work over there are very reasonable.
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Ok so my forum is getting going before I've finished it! Word has got out. So I'm madly trying to get everything sorted and ready. It looks ok (apart from the logo which doesn't show up well on mobile view).
But I seem to remember there are various things I need to set up in the admin panel re email and allowing Google searches and bots etc. Is that right? Or is email just set up to go? Have had one email issue resolved by the server.
But I seem to remember there are various things I need to set up in the admin panel re email and allowing Google searches and bots etc. Is that right? Or is email just set up to go? Have had one email issue resolved by the server.
Under SEO there's an option to tick using friendly URL's to get rif of the "index.php?" in the web address. Should I tick that? Underneath it says
"If you enable this option, the links generated by the system will not include "index.php?". However, to enable this, mod_rewrite must be available and an appropriate .htaccess file (or the equivalent for your web server) must be in place."
I seem to remember there is an .htaccess file in the forum software on the server so assume it's ok to tick that.
"If you enable this option, the links generated by the system will not include "index.php?". However, to enable this, mod_rewrite must be available and an appropriate .htaccess file (or the equivalent for your web server) must be in place."
I seem to remember there is an .htaccess file in the forum software on the server so assume it's ok to tick that.
Mr Lucky
Well-known member
You may need to activate the .htaccess by removing the suffix: .txt
Ok - could you explain that please Where is the suffix .txt that I move? In the server file manager? Also I had a look on google console and it suggests adding some code to the forum to verify the site. Is that a good idea or not? Don't think I did that before - I got "seen" by google via google ads.
Where is the suffix .txt that I move? In the server file manager? Also I had a look on google console and it suggests adding some code to the forum to verify the site. Is that a good idea or not? Don't think I did that before - I got "seen" by google via google ads.Also - Favicon. I find this confusing. Real favicon generator says to extract the files within the root of your website and then insert code into the head of web pages. Sounds very complicated. I think last time I just had a 16 x 16 ico and uploaded it to the website on the server. Now it seems to give you all kinds of favicon sizes for different media and install the lot in your website server.
I just want to keep it simple! I did make a favicon in favicon io - but once downloaded it was a .png instead of an io. When I converted it, it looked very fuzzy. Favicon io also downloads various different sizes but only one is an io and that's too big.
I just want to keep it simple! I did make a favicon in favicon io - but once downloaded it was a .png instead of an io. When I converted it, it looked very fuzzy. Favicon io also downloads various different sizes but only one is an io and that's too big.
Ok I have sorted my favicon. I found it all far too complicated with different favicon sizes in a file to upload to the root and code to put on each page but in the end one of the icons in the download was a 32 x 32 ico file so I just uploaded that one to the server and it worked. Seems hard to just get a 16 x 16 ico file made on its own these days.
If anyone's interested I used this site and just used the one 32 x 32 ico file from the download and forgot the rest and the code it suggested etc.
realfavicongenerator.net
If anyone's interested I used this site and just used the one 32 x 32 ico file from the download and forgot the rest and the code it suggested etc.
Favicon Generator for perfect icons on all browsers
The ultimate favicon generator. Design your icons platform per platform and make them look great everywhere. Including in Google results pages.
realfavicongenerator.net
