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Re: [How to] Change your board logo 3.1.x

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Thanks, Lady G. That's something else I would have liked to see in a changeover document.
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Re: [How to] Change your board logo 3.1.x

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mamba wrote:It's better not to remove the SITENAME and description for SEO reasons.
That's conjecture but you can stop SITENAME & SITE_DESCRIPTION showing up by adding 'none' rather than deleting those lines:

Replace:

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<h1>{SITENAME}</h1>
				<p>{SITE_DESCRIPTION}</p>
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<h1 style="display: none;">{SITENAME}</h1>
                        <p style="display: none;">{SITE_DESCRIPTION}</p>
At least if you're worried about SEO the above won't affect it.
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Hopefully someday, the developers can add these options in the ACP to be default, so we don't have to edit those properties. Because lots of forum admins want to change those properties. :)
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Re: [How to] Change your board logo 3.1.x

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I have followed thge instructions and the logo on my site is not changing? I have done this a few times before on 3.0.12 although we could also change in admin panel.
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Re: [How to] Change your board logo 3.1.x

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Purge the board cache and reload the page in your browser from the server.

A normal browser refresh reloads the page from the browser cache, you need to reload the page from the server, also known as a hard refresh. Browsers vary but it can usually be accomplished:
  • For Windows and Linux using: Ctrl + F5 or Shift + Reload
  • For Mac using: (Cmd) + F5 or Shift + Reload
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Re: [How to] Change your board logo 3.1.x

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I tried that but it did not work.
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You didn't follow the instructions. The stylesheet is referring to "./images/site_logo.gif" which is just the standard phpBB logo:
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Re: [How to] Change your board logo 3.1.x

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M.O.B. wrote:Hopefully someday, the developers can add these options in the ACP to be default, so we don't have to edit those properties. Because lots of all forum admins want to change those properties. :)
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teacherph wrote:Thank you! but one question how can I make it look like the wide header/logo of the phpbb?
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@ juliend: This has been asked a few times and I haven't seen a decent resolution to the question for 3.1.x as yet. You would be better off asking in a new topic in [3.1.x] Styles Support & Discussion.
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Re: [How to] Change your board logo 3.1.x

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these instructions work just fine for 3.1 except the one that says to make the div height 10px smaller than the image. in this case make it the same size as the image and make the change in the css file 10 pix smaller.


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Re: [How to] Change your board logo 3.1.x

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Hi!

I have followed this guide, and it all appears to work ok..

my site here: http://www.pedal-cafe.com displays correctly...

However, on the mobile it appears all small and to the left like this...

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Can anyone help?

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Re: [How to] Change your board logo 3.1.x

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Has anyone answered your question?

If the logo is too small, you may need to use a different image for mobile. You can do this with CSS Media Queries, such as this example for responsive.css.

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 @media only screen and (max-width: 700px), only screen and (max-device-width: 700px) {
	.responsive-support { display: block !important; }
	.responsive-support a {
		(insert properties here)
	}
}
The "@media" properties will apply only to a mobile device.

This is a style question. I suggest you bump your thread Site logo image responsive with this question.
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Re: [How to] Change your board logo 3.1.x

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My trick was to right-click on the chrome browser, and choose the "inspect element" option from the menu. The code comes up and it shows the exact css file and classes corresponding to the images and other entities displayed on the browser. I then went there and changed all the values to 0 px and the image vanished. I also used the same trick to get rid of the image in the ACP. I had to edit a file called admin.css to accomplish that.

Is this way of doing things fine and approved by the experts here?
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Re: [How to] Change your board logo 3.1.x

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:shock: Wait, what!? :shock: phpBB was re-written from the ground up, yet the developers still assume that we'll be happy to use phpBB as our community logo unless people are capable of editing html/php documents based on some instructions that appear to have flaky support at best for mobile devices?

I was hoping that the upgrade to 3.1 would see my community forum well into the future, but I'm going to have a serious look at other alternatives to phpBB now. I genuinely appreciate all the hard work that phpBB developers have done, but I would have thought that a GUI to change the forum logo would be the first thing to be implemented. Is it phpBB 'creating communities' (with our system) or phpBB 'branding communities' (with our system).

Dont' get me wrong, I am quite capable of making these changes to the php files to customise my theme, but I don't really feel like I should have to edit various PHP files so that I can put my forum logo on my forum, let alone have to read about all the problems that people are having to get their logo to appear on mobile devices etc.
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