The last holdup for the version 7 upgrade at this point is the CSS theme for the site. I'm not that great with CSS and haven't been able to get the theme right after a few hours work. Attached to this post is a zip with the files necessary to complete the new theme. empegnew.css is the style sheet, and empeg.css matches the one in use on these boards. Then 3 HTML files (and folders with pictures) are there that reference empegnew.css. The goal is to try to match those 3 pages as closely as possible to the existing boards.

Any help with this would be appreciated. Seems my years off from doing web development are starting to catch up to me now.

My brother is a complete wiz with CSS. Whether he has the time to take this up is another matter....I'll give him a heads up though.

Here is the attempt of a CSS noob.

Notes:
I can only test this in FF and now IE7. It seems to work for them.

The right and left black page border is controlled by the margins of .t_outer. That class also controlls the options drop downs and all the other tables on that line. It also controls the spacing between various panels vertically.

Try changing it like this to see what I mean.

.t_outer {
margin-bottom: 20px;
margin-right: 20px;
margin-left: 20px;
}

Edit: I forgot to mentionthe margins of those dropdowns are controlled by tdheader.
Also lighttable and darktable only seem to apply to the new post icon column, so I set them the same as the other columns.
Edit: Noticed that the links wern't shifting to white when hovered on. Updated the attachment.

Edit: You can see the results here here & here provided my laptop is on when the attempt is made.

Here is a slightly different version of the css. It takes care of the menus on the posts page but the box containing the avitar uses the same alt-2 tag so it too gets a black background. The result isn't bad but it's not similar the the current site.

I'll poke into the template file to see if I can get rid of the box around the avatars. Thanks for taking the time on this, I'll plan on going forward with the upgrade here in the next week sometime.

Your Welcome,

After looking it over, it seems that some of the CSS classes are slopply applied, like the alt-2 class being applied to two very different layout elements. I suspect there are more than a few bombs still in the CSS. It's kind of hard to tell with out seeing it work in a live site.

Glenn

The links I posted before have died with my lease on that ip number. I've gone to dynamic dns. Here are the new links.

http://gkb.servehttp.com/empegubb7/MainPage.htm
http://gkb.servehttp.com/empegubb7/FormList.htm
http://gkb.servehttp.com/empegubb7/Posts.html
http://gkb.servehttp.com/empegubb7/empegnew.css