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Sage Hazzard
Jun 9th, 2002, 03:00:14 AM
Can the look and scheme be changed? As many people know, with EZBoard, you can change what your personal profile looks like by using HTML for the entire page, in the "hobbies" box. It could change the background color, text color, eveything. Can this be done here?

Thanks for answering my question. :)

NOTE: Currently, I'm on vacation from RPing for a few days, so I might be late in replying back. :)
TheHolo.Net
Jun 9th, 2002, 09:45:29 AM
Make all posts specifically to SWFans staff in this forum from now on.

In answer to your question; Sure you could put CSS into one of your profile fields and change its look to some extent, but you have to take into consideration that the largst fields (biography and intrests) only allow 250 characters maximum and that your changes will apply to every one of the more than 20 style sets available here at SWFans, which would most likely make it look odd in some.
Sage Hazzard
Jun 9th, 2002, 04:31:12 PM
Oh, cool, thanks. How would I go about doing that? I'm not entirely sure how you do it in EZBoard, although I have heard how to do it, just never tried. How would someone go about doing it here?

Sorry about the wrong forum. Honestly, I've never even checked this forum and didn't cross my mind to post it here. My mistake. :)
TheHolo.Net
Jun 9th, 2002, 04:37:46 PM
My hint; Learn CSS.
Sage Hazzard
Jun 9th, 2002, 04:44:54 PM
:lol I get that part, but where would I put it? On EZBoard you put it in the hobbies box. Is that the same here?
Alpha
Jun 9th, 2002, 04:46:08 PM
What's CSS?
Sage Hazzard
Jun 9th, 2002, 04:48:39 PM
Cascading Style Sheets I believe. :)
TheHolo.Net
Jun 9th, 2002, 04:48:47 PM
Originally posted by Sage Hazzard
:lol I get that part, but where would I put it? On EZBoard you put it in the hobbies box. Is that the same here? I stated in my initial reply which profile fields allow for the most characters. 250 is the maximum allowable characters for profile fields in this version of vBulletin. It helps save on database bulk.

CSS = Cascading Style Sheets.

If you view the source of any forum page here you will see a section near the top inbetween "style" opening and closing tags. That is the CSS section and varies from style set (like Jedi or Sith)to style set.
Sage Hazzard
Jun 9th, 2002, 04:49:58 PM
Okay, I get it now. I didn't read your first reply well enough. :) Thanks.
TheHolo.Net
Jun 9th, 2002, 04:57:20 PM
Here are some links to a few profiles that I modified with CSS on ezboard:

http://pub76.ezboard.com/utracesha.showPublicProfile?language=EN

http://pub76.ezboard.com/udalethriamalpannis.showPublicProfile?language=EN

http://pub76.ezboard.com/uarrianarezner.showPublicProfile?language=EN
Mortaniuss
Jun 10th, 2002, 12:02:48 AM
http://pub76.ezboard.com/umortaniuss.showPublicProfile?language=EN :D
Sage Hazzard
Jun 10th, 2002, 02:46:06 AM
All very, very nice.

Question, how did you get the background image and color square? That's not done with CSS is it? Forgive me if it is, I'm a newbie in that. If it's not down with CSS, then how? Do I put the <body> tag into my profile customization or what?
TheHolo.Net
Jun 10th, 2002, 09:23:57 AM
Its all CSS. If you look at the source code you can see which field it was all placed in
Master Yoghurt
Jun 15th, 2002, 06:47:38 AM
Since everyone else is doing it, here is mine :)

http://pub56.ezboard.com/umasteryoghurt.showPublicProfile

Btw, in adition to using CSS, Sage could probably use an iframe to include more stuff in his profile.