Modifying header to display image issues
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Hello everyone, we’ve started a forum about a week ago and decided to use a template to skin the board. After a good couple of hours, we managed to match the forums colors and feel to our main website. I’m not really well-versed with CSS or PHP but i’m familiar enough to experiment, tinker and achieve the results I usually want. And besides, i’m learning as I go!
But there’s one thing that’s sort of baffling me. I’m trying to add our “logo” image in the header, right where the normal forum name text would appear. Usually, that’s just as simple as going to the header itself and replacing the PHP code used to get the name of the forum with an IMG html tag with width, height, etc.. However, the image won’t appear at all! We’ve double checked the directory, made sure it was pointed to the right place, checked the chmod settings on the image and everything should be fine, but the image still doesn’t appear. The result is in the screen cap below:
http://marknine.com/image/ioforums.jpg
Is there something specific i’m supposed to be looking for? In the CSS file or the header.php file itself?
header.php
<div class="header-wrapper">
<div class="header pagewidth">
<!-- TITLE -->
<h1><a href="<?php bb_uri(); ?>"><?php bb_option('name'); ?></a></h1>
<?php if ( bb_get_option('description') ) : ?><h2><?php bb_option('description'); ?></h2><?php endif; ?>
<!-- END TITLE -->
</div>
</div>CSS
/* header & nav */
div.header-wrapper {
background:#222 url('images/header.png') repeat-x scroll left top;
}
div.header {
border-top:10px solid #E05900;
padding:40px 0 40px 10px;
margin:0 auto;
}
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Thanx Kevin, I don’t feel you’re being anything but helpful. No sweat!
Back before the beginning I used to hand code with a GeoCities website. And long before that I had a Vic20…I hate to admit it but I’m responsible for far too many of those useless Usenet ng’s that still exist (alt.worms.out.of.a.hot.cheese-log ,etc.) So I kind of know a little. Anyway, I’m not scared to break the interwebs. …Algore can just build another one.
I could probably snag some code from somewhere, paste it *somewhere* and tweak it to work as I desire (or close to it), I just need to know where to do this.
Like these “php” files; Where are they and how do I edit ’em? (with NotePad like a batch file?)
I’m a 50+ year old bench jeweler but with a little help from kind folks I learn little bits of other interesting stuff. If I knew where/how to edit these files I’d chance messing up my bbPress board. I can always just make another one and stick it in the same directory on my server. The few people who have joined the various boards I’ve been testing out get a little panicky when everything changes all of a sudden , but they’ll get over it.
Thanx!
Ah GeoCities, how i miss all those animated GIFs
Well mate, if you’re up for the challenge I’d start at something like http://www.w3schools.com/ (HTML, then CSS, then PHP sections). 9/10 it’s learning by doing and asking when stuck.
Also, I’d strongly suggest installing and playing around with WordPress before bbPress. It’s not a requirement at all, but they’ve nailed the separation of Presentation, Data, Logic so it’s easier to know where to edit – while in bbPress it’s all still bundled in together most of the time – making it hard to know where to edit if you’re new.
Effort will get you very far with bbPress though, it just needs to “click”. Don’t be a stranger
Kev
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