Step-by-step on creating style set to match a website?

[mattdrury]

They do at that. Thanks. I've got that and my unique-logo problems solved now. All aboard!

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I have a couple of boards whose styles I want to force-match to at least the colors found on the accompanying standalone websites, to create a reasonably seamless back-and-forth.

Is there...

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I'm sorry, but I'm new here and don't understand the difference between the two sites. Could you explain, please?

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I have more than a few sources of external data in text form that I'd like to pop into the message base automatically - today in history, weather reports, consumer alerts, that kind of thing.
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I understand you can get double the bandwidth if you're using EPP mode on both parallel ports, but the driver upgrades are a bear to find. I can't ever remember if their BBS is 8N1 or 7E1.

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My tip: for those who can live without it, make vBulletin_logo.gif a 1x1 transparent GIF89a. Not having to offer that up regularly will be bound to save pipe.

(If anyone actually wants...

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My copy of 2.2.8 (and more recently 2.3.4) shows this at the top of each forum's thread list:Is that what you're talking about? If so, there's an option in admin / vBulletin options called, conveniently...

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Not with vBulletin (yet, thank the gods) but with other software I've run, yes. We ended up setting permissions so that he could only read/write to one section, but read the rest; everyone else could...

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We have a standing Photoshop contest on whatever strikes someone's fancy, but nothing formal like prizes and such. Though one of the last times we gave a member away as a prize to another - they almost...

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Now that's comedy. ...

[mattdrury]

I'm on my way to everyone else's now. In the meantime, http://mattdrury.net/bbs is my current offering. Enjoy.

[mattdrury]

It's never been a concern here. Quite the opposite: folks like sharing birthday greetings and such. It's part of the social nature of my system. Tech-support boards may feel otherwise, of course.

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I found it charming and fun, as did my wife. I'm glad they did it, and even sent them complimentary feedback.

Google has a solid rep for being anything but spyware.

[mattdrury]

Thanks, I did. The last time I upgraded the BBS was 2.2.8, and I've been away for a while. All better now....

[mattdrury]

Thanks. I'm on 2.3.4 now, simply enough, and that did the trick nicely. Thread splitting bliss.

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That'll be the long-term solution. For now, I've just suppressed the logo by replacing it with a 1x1 transparent GIF89a. Thanks for the speedy feedback!

[mattdrury]

...make that 2.3.4 - handy and painless upgrade process, that!

Thanks, Steve. Any plans for something along these lines in 3.x?

(And don't you sleep? )

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I have mine own vBulletin_logo.gif on http://mattdrury.net/bbs working fine in place of the default one. In some of my forums, though, I would like to have a different logo override that.

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Oven-fresh install of 2.2.8 on a NT4 box with the recommended PHP/SQL goodies. When I try to split a thread by radio-buttoning the desired posts and kicking it off, I get this. About the only non-stock...