Restyling the good old Newbb Templates – Part II

So, what are we looking at?
Well, we take the 4.0 version as a base, as it will be the successor of the good ol’ 3.0.8 version.

Newbb 4.0

Regretfully it will only be compatible with Xoops version 2.3.1, nevertheless people are eager to upgrade their forums and Xoops version.

The files:
It seems version 4.0 already beholds css driven templates. A closer look learns us that one of the most important files (the newbb_item.html) drives on a nice “css only” structure, which is,.well,….very nice indeed. It even beholds the standard, Xoops widely spread, classes and id’s (head, odd, even etc,..) which is even better because they are spread and defined all over a lot of Xoops themes.

Let’s summarize the files we are going to change and/or alter.

• newbb_edit_post.html
• newbb_index.html
• newbb_index_menu_click.html
• newbb_index_menu_hover.html
• newbb_index_menu_select.html
• newbb_item.html
• newbb_menu_click.css
• newbb_menu_hover.css
• newbb_online.html
• newbb_poll_results.html
• newbb_poll_view.html
• newbb_rss.html
• newbb_search.html
• newbb_searchresults.html
• newbb_thread.html
• newbb_viewall.html
• newbb_viewforum.html
• newbb_viewforum_menu_click.html
• newbb_viewforum_menu_hover.html
• newbb_viewforum_menu_select.html
• newbb_viewforum_subforum.html
• newbb_viewpost.html
• newbb_viewtopic_flat.html
• style.css

A Lot of files!? But don’t be scared, we will go through them one at a time.

Preparations
Of Course we can’t start without having a nice development area so we can view the current templates. Currently we’re setting up the environmentwhich will only display the forum. We are not going to use a theme yet because it can effect our judgments. Later on we’ll try to past it within a dozen of themes. Still having fun?:) (BTW, loving the spelling checker of WordPress, makes my life so much easier)