board customising FAQs and tutorials http://skins.yuku.com/forums/54 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:51:07 GMT Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:46:02 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://skins.yuku.com/forums/54 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Highlighting admin and moderator posts ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/6404/t/Highlighting-admin-and-moderator-posts.html
You can alter your moderator and admin post backgrounds to have a different colour and/or an image to identify them. What you need to do first is find or create an image that you wish to use, and make it a suitable size for use.

There are several places you can put an image in the posting box,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (alison) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/6404 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:46:01 GMT <![CDATA[ Board FAQs index ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/5284/t/Board-FAQs-index.html This index is divided up into sections to help you find what you need to change.

Basic html and CSS
Beginner guides
Yuku css and classes
Fonts
Changing basic elements
Images - icons, smilies, avatars, forum banners
Adding extra bits
Sidebars and layout
feeds@yuku.com (alison) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/5284 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:47:17 GMT <![CDATA[ All forums list sidebar in 3 easy steps ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/5282/t/All-forums-list-sidebar-in-3-easy-steps.html 1. To get a list of all your forums, enter one of your forums and view the source of the page. Locate the forum jump code in the html by searching for "jump topic loop". When you find that, copy the html from the <ul> on the line prior to where your search landed you, all the way down to the </ul> . Paste that code into your text editor to keep it safe.



2. Create a new... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (alison) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/5282 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:51:55 GMT <![CDATA[ How to show all new posts in last X period ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/4973/t/How-to-show-all-new-posts-in-last-X-period.html To create a link that will show all new posts in the previous week, simply follow these steps:

1. Click the advanced search icon on the main page of your board
2. Select the following criteria:
a) leave the keywords blank
b) select week & and newer
c) select order by date
d) select ALL FORUMS
3. Click submit

The url that appears in the address bar on the resulting page is the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (alison) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/4973 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:05:35 GMT <![CDATA[ How to insert a link ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/4515/t/How-to-insert-a-link.html 

<a href="http://www.yuku.com/">yuku homepage</a>
Change the url in red to the url of the webpage you want to link to and change the text in blue to whatever you want users to have to click on to follow the link.


If you want the link to open in a new page,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/4515 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:41:25 GMT <![CDATA[ How to insert an image ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/4514/t/How-to-insert-an-image.html 
<img src="http://images.yuku.com/image.gif" alt="alternate text">
Change the url in red to the url of the image you want to insert to and change the text in blue to whatever you want users to see when the image doesn load (alternate text).


You can change the width... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/4514 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:40:09 GMT <![CDATA[ All about marquees ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/4513/t/All-about-marquees.html A marquee is a (non standard) way of creating scrolling text with simple HTML. Because it is a non standard tag, it may not work as expected in all browsers or in posts.



A Simple Marquee

To get a simple marquee that scrolls from right to left, use the following code

<marquee>This text scrolls right to left</marquee>

Example:

This text scrolls right to left

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/4513 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:34:50 GMT <![CDATA[ Ezboard's posticons ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/3265/t/Ezboard-s-posticons.html posticonhttp://www.ezboard.com/image/posticons/pi_8ball.gif
posticonhttp://www.ezboard.com/image/posticons/pi_arrow_left.gif
posticon feeds@yuku.com (cedar) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/3265 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:01:40 GMT <![CDATA[ Changing the background of post editors ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/2984/t/Changing-the-background-of-post-editors.html
textarea {
background: #000000;
color: #DDDDDD;
font-family: Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;
}

To change the background colour, font colour and font face of the wysiwyg post editor then add the following to your skin(s)

.wysiwyg-editor {
background: #000000;
color: #DDDDDD;
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/2984 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:11:30 GMT <![CDATA[ Replacing the default avatar ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/2578/t/Replacing-the-default-avatar.html
image

Then you can replace it with your own custom image, by adding the following code to your skins. Just put this at the bottom of your Custom CSS (or Extra CSS if using the WYSIWYG editor)

p.user-avatar { overflow: hidden; width: 100px; }
p.user-avatar... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/2578 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:56:18 GMT <![CDATA[ Adding a new message icon to subforums "list" view ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/2495/t/Adding-a-new-message-icon-to-subforums-list-view.html
li.unread { padding-left: 20px; background: url(http://static.yuku.com/domainskins/bypass/img/mira/evilcuteness/icons/new.gif) no-repeat; }


Make sure the image is quite small, or ensure that you add the height of the image so that it shows in full.

li.unread {
padding-left: 20px;
background:... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (alison) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/2495 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:54:45 GMT <![CDATA[ Changing classic poll bars ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/2227/t/Changing-classic-poll-bars.html
We only use 10 colours, but because there are up to 20 options available, we double them up after 10 options and use the same colours again. If you can come up with 20 different... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/2227 Wed, 23 May 2007 13:29:08 GMT <![CDATA[ Skinning the navigation menu ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/2018/t/Skinning-the-navigation-menu.html
/* nav menu background colour */
.mgr-navigation-sliver { background: #000000; }

/* nav menu text colour & links */
.mgr-navigation-sliver, .mgr-navigation-sliver a:link,
.mgr-navigation-sliver... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/2018 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:06:16 GMT <![CDATA[ Supported BBCode ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/1944/t/Supported-BBCode.html We now support a variety of ezcode/bbcode (bulletin board code) when you post they will be turned in to the corresponding html. When you edit the post, the bbcode won't be there it will have been replaced by formatted text. This isn't a bug, you can use bbcode again if you want, or just use the built in tools on the post editor to modify the already formatted text.

The list of supported codes are:

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/1944 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:13:05 GMT <![CDATA[ New post icons in posts (ala ezboard) ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/1790/t/New-post-icons-in-posts-ala-ezboard-.html **UPDATE**

You can set a custom icon to appear at the top of new replies inside posts by going to the custom images section of your skin and scrolling down to the "In Post Buttons" and adding the image url under the "New Reply" field. When someone makes a reply and you haven't read it, the image will appear there.

The rest of this FAQ is for those who want to get fancy!

You have much greater control over how to... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/1790 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:15:53 GMT <![CDATA[ Adding more smilies to your skin ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/1741/t/Adding-more-smilies-to-your-skin.html If you want to add more than 50 smilies to one of your skins you need to follow these instructions.

  1. Go to your domain and open the menu at the top.
  2. Click on Admin Menu then Look & Feel and finally on Personal Skins.
  3. On the smilies page that loads, at the top click on Import... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/1741 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:00:51 GMT <![CDATA[ New and Hot - Create 2 icons, but use them in 4 places ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/1628/t/New-and-Hot-Create-2-icons-but-use-them-in-4-places.html
    Well it doesn't matter, as it's easy to use the two icons that you have. By simply adjusting the opacity using css, you can fade them out for use when the topic has been read.

    Simply use this css:

    .icon-nonew, .icon-read { opacity: .2;... ]]>     feeds@yuku.com (atlass) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/1628 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:41:20 GMT     <![CDATA[ Different banner in different forums ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/1549/t/Different-banner-in-different-forums.html This FAQ is for putting a single banner image in different forums. If you have a complicated banner that is more than just a single image (that uses html of some kind), you will need to do that using Forum Specific Skins instead.

    http://skins.yuku.com/topic/1549 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:22:49 GMT <![CDATA[ Making your own skin in 8 easy steps ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/1535/t/Making-your-own-skin-in-8-easy-steps.html This guide is mainly for the complete beginner, but anyone is welcome to try it! Making your own skin from scratch (rather than copying one from the library and editing that) couldn't be easier. All you need to do is follow these 8 steps.


    1. Go to your domain, click on "navigation" and then on the "admin menu" tab in the middle. In the page that appears next, click on "community skins" in the sidebar... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/1535 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:38:07 GMT <![CDATA[ Showing a sidebar in different forums ]]> http://skins.yuku.com/topic/1528/t/Showing-a-sidebar-in-different-forums.html If you want to have completely different sidebars (different links or news etc) or different sidebar skins in different forums, you will need to do that using Forum Specific Skins, changing the sidebar in that way is not possible using the method in this post, it is... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris) http://skins.yuku.com/topic/1528 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:52:37 GMT