i know this has been talked about a lot, and i read a few posts on it but i still haven't seen a post yet that explained it fully. i want to have a half inch or more space between categories. it gives each category a more seperate feel from the one before and after it.

i also wanted to round the corners on the category table which wouldn't look right if they were connected.

i have UBB 6.1.0.3 and i've already tried the hack where you replace "$TBT" with "<table><tr><td>" and added the "$TBB
$TBT" under "my $CategoryStrip = qq~". yes it did seperate the categories but my page was a mess afterwards. all the tables were different widths and nothing was even in a pattern.

so i'm assuming that since the last time this was talked about, there has been some advancements and it's a little bit easier. if not then would anybody be willing to talk to me on AIM or something about this and maybe look at my code?

thank you a lot.

sorry this reply is really not much help...

just wanted to say hello to another ubbdever frrom Charlotte

so hello already.

well if you read this

http://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=17;t=000387

Your going to and up with something all not align. You have to find all the coade to align them and I didn't found any of them right now

charlotte's in the house!! hehe

sorry about that...not trying to waste a post...just wanted to reply to the charlotte comment.

The easiest way to make them line up is to move the "lightbulbs" to the right side instead of the left. They will line up with very little effort that way.

alright, now is there a way to line everything up without doing the lightbulbs idea.

i really think having the lightbulbs on the right side of the board would look really ugly.

i'm willing to change whatever code needs to be changed...i just need help finding that code as i don't know perl and cgi.

thanks to everyone for the help so far.

i'm willing to do this the hard way but i just need a little guidance.

anyone feel like helping me out on AIM or something?

I was able to get it to work with up to 3 categories (any more and the lightbulbs would go out of alignment) by specifying widths for the various "td's". This is not easily done and that's the reason that you don't see it very often. Any slight change to the summary page can totally throw it off. If you look at the way the lightbulbs work you'll see why they become the issue.

bookie had it lookin real good on his site for a while, it was beautiful :sniff: - mebbe he might have time to share the secret

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by AllenAyres:
bookie had it lookin real good on his site for a while, it was beautiful :sniff: - mebbe he might have time to share the secret </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's what I was refering to, I had it going too but it seems that as soon as you have more than 3 categories the lightbulbs take over again. When I had the lightbulbs repositioned of course it was flawless.

I still do have them seperated.

http://www.clan-316.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi

I will post some exact instructions for those wanting this tommorow.

wanting and waiting...

Thanks Bookie !!!!!!

*eagerly anticipating the arrival of the "exact instructions"* hehe

Here.

I haven't tested those instructions, so let me know how they work. Thanks.

Thanks Bookie!

For the novice (me) you might want to say which files are to be edited.

it looks like public_forum_summary.pl is the only file edited.

ewwwwww...sorry guy, some things need to be checked i think. damn...i'll take a picture of it and then just post that because i can't leave my board like this.

there's these black boxes all over the place.

if you want, i'll email you the .pl file for you to look at too but this definitely didn't work for me.

thanks for the trouble so far though...hope you keep working on it because this is in such high demand and most people don't know how to do it.

-dustin

alright here's the three links to the top, middle and bottom of my main page after the hacking:

http://www.gsentertainment.net/top.jpg

http://www.gsentertainment.net/middle.jpg

http://www.gsentertainment.net/bottom.jpg

now here's a link to my page looks without the hack:

http://www.mvremix.netfirms.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

not sure what happened but i would guess that it's just a couple smaller/minor details.

thanks for your continuous help. -dustin

I did it on my test board, seems to work fine. Don't think i'm gonna do it with my main board tho. we'll see i'm tempted just so it looks different today than it did yesterday