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jeff1965
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 Posted May 5th, 2012 03:53 AM IP   
I look in faq first. I'm new to this stuff so please forgive my dumb questions. This is my first post and the first time I've ever tried to build a forum.
I want to put a column on the right side of my forum with a shoutbox, I believe that is the right term, and also a live chat box. Can I do that? If so, will someone walk me through it. Pretend like you are talking to a ten-year-old if you will.
If there is a good tutorial somewhere that shows how to do this, you can post that link and I'll give it a shot on my own first if it is too complicated to explain.
Thank you in advance,
Jeff
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jeff1965
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Posted May 5th, 2012 04:01 AM IP
P.S.
I did create a 'test site' as suggested so I can figure this stuff out. I have very little stuff in my 'actual' forum so far, so no need to worry about me screwing anything up too bad.
P.P.S.
I tried several different forum sites over the past week trying to set one up. This site is by far the best, at least for someone who is just now learning how to do something like this. Hats off to the people at Excoboard. Someone there has their act together.
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jeff1965
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Posted May 5th, 2012 06:04 PM IP
Okay, making progress. It took me a bit to figure out exactly where on the control panel to paste this. For other new people who are trying to figure this out you go to "Feature Settings" and scroll to the bottom. There is a box there under a section called Custom HTML. Paste the above script into the section called "header".
At least, that is what I did. Haven't done anything else yet, but at this point I can now see the column on the left when I load the forum.
Thank you for your help.
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bunk
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Posted May 5th, 2012 07:48 PM IP
I would have thought the script would have needed to be put in "custom templates", but as long as it worked the way you wanted it, that's great 
Have a nice day, Bunk
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jeff1965
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Posted May 5th, 2012 10:15 PM IP
Okay, so anyone have any ideas on how to make it show up on the right side of the forum instead of the left hand side.
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jeff1965
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Posted May 6th, 2012 12:35 AM IP
Well, I went and tested it in the Custom Templates section also. It worked there as well. I show up slightly different though, as far as placement goes. I'm going to leave the copied script in the Custom Templates Header section. I don't know what I'm doing yet, so you are probably right and that is where it is supposed to go.
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bunk
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Posted May 6th, 2012 06:16 AM IP
Try changing this from left to right: <td width="16%" align="left"
There may be more of those tags in need of change also, i'm not an expert on these, but have played with a lot of them and got them to work the way I wanted them to...
Have a nice day, Bunk
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jeff1965
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Posted May 6th, 2012 11:48 PM IP
Okay, well changing the first one from left to right didn't do the trick. Will try now to change all of em from left to right and see how that goes. Thanks for your continues help.
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jeff1965
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Posted May 6th, 2012 11:54 PM IP
Alright, so I went in and changed everything I could find that said "left" or "center" to "right". Still showing up on left hand side. I am wondering if I should paste that code inside another section of the html or whatever it is. I have been adding it, so far, at the bottom of all the other html that is already on the page. Will play around some more and see what happens.
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Enix Elek
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Posted October 28th, 2012 06:46 PM IP
If you want to change the side bar from left to right it will take a bit more effort than just changing the alignment. The problem you're actually faced with is that there are 2 cells, td elements of the same row that are separating the the forum into the two columns. the <td width=16%" align="left" is the top of the column in the row that becomes the side bar.
At nearly the bottom of the html code you'll find the <td valign="top" width="79%" which is the second cell of the same row that leaves the room for the forum to slide up into it.
What you need to do, is take all the code that creates the sidebar (majority of it) and switch it with the code for the 2nd half of the page, so you'll have the larger % in the first cell and the side bar in the 2nd cell. Hope this helped o.0
Tearing apart and rebuilding is just a part of what i do!
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