Needing Help Badly

ElvisAaron · Post by **ElvisAaron** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:40 pm

Hi!I just recently had a phpbb forum installed. The only thing I have done to it (that I know of) is changed the background color. But for some reason it is out of whack. It doesn't look nothing like how it looked. I'm not sure if it's even possible to get it back to how it originally was. I'm hoping someone on here can take a look at it and please let me know what I did wrong and if it's possible to fix it. Here's a link to the forum http://elvicities.com/~elvisfootage/forum/ I hope this is the right place to post this.....

Post by **Mick** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:57 pm

When you changed the background colour how did you do it?

What are you using to edit your php files?

You have obviously damaged your board during the edit process.

The easiest solution, in my opinion, being as it is a brand new board, is to upload a fresh copy of phpBB except config.php and you should be fine.

Use a good text editor such as notepad++ available for free download Notepad++ when editing any of your forum files.

In future always remember to make backup copies of any files you want to edit before editing. That way you can always restore them if anything goes wrong

ElvisAaron · Post by **ElvisAaron** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:01 pm

Hi. When I changed the background color all I did was go into styles, then themes, clicked on edit in prosilver, changed the background color in body, in the theme editor and then saved it. Then I used front page to edit the css files (colors and common). Thanks for the reply

Pit$Bull · Post by **Pit$Bull** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:20 pm

ElvisAaron wrote:Then I used front page to edit the css files (colors and common).

Never use 'FrontPage' with anything that has to do with phpBB

ElvisAaron · Post by **ElvisAaron** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:12 am

Thanks for the tips. Just one question though. In order to change the background colors, etc. will I have to edit both the common and color files, as well as edit the theme?

Post by **Mick** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:31 am

No, colours.css should be enough.

ElvisAaron · Post by **ElvisAaron** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:33 pm

Ok, thanks

ElvisAaron · Post by **ElvisAaron** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:56 am

After changing the background color and cacheing the forum my new background color still isn't appearing. I changed it about 8 hours ago so I'm not sure what's going on. Is there something else I should be doing?

narqelion · Post by **narqelion** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:08 am

By "cacheing the forum" do you mean purging the cache in the ACP? Can you provide a link to the board?

ElvisAaron · Post by **ElvisAaron** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:12 am

Hi. Yes, that's how I did it. I'm not sure what else to try. Here's a link to the board http://elvicities.com/~elvisfootage/forum/

narqelion · Post by **narqelion** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:20 am

Ok I see the board, you are using prosilver and this is the style you edited? Can you post the specific CSS class you changed here inside

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ElvisAaron · Post by **ElvisAaron** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:24 am

Here's the part that I changed
html, body {
color: #536482;
background-color: #000000;
}

narqelion · Post by **narqelion** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:41 am

Ok, first thing I want you to do is go to your ACP -> General -> Server Config -> Load settings (near the bottom) and set "Recompile stale style components:" to Yes. Submit. Then go back to your index page and refresh your browser. From this point on your style edits should display with just a browser refresh for you.

ElvisAaron · Post by **ElvisAaron** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:46 am

That worked. Thank you so much. So now when I change something like the colors, etc. it should show up as soon as I refresh my browser?

narqelion · Post by **narqelion** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:47 am

Yes.