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vBulletin: A Users Guide

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vBulletin: A Users Guide

Overview of this book

Written specifically to allow you to create a discussion forum, vBulletin, provides all of the tools, features and functionality for you to set up and develop a vibrant community. Because it specializes in this one aspect of your website, all the features are geared towards this goal, and you can leave the improvement and additions to the vBulletin developers while you get on with managing the rest of your website. If you are either already running a community forum based on vBulletin, or are planning on establishing one, then this is the book for you. This book will guide you through installing, configuring, managing and maintaining a vBulletin discussion forum on your own website. The book begins with the initial installation and configuration of vBulletin on your system. You will then go on a tour of vBulletin and its features, for both users and administrators. This will grow your understanding and familiarise you with the power and possibilities of vBulletin. vBulletin's Administration Control Panel is where you can control every aspect of your board. From users, forums and word filters to skins, templates and maintenance, everything can be done through the web-based control panel. The book devotes significant sections to covering these, getting you up to speed on the options available to you, and offering advice to help you make the right choices with your board administration. To make your forums stand out from the rest, we cover skins and templates to take your first steps in customising your forum. vBulletin is one of the most popular forum platforms available. Well known for its power and speed, it drives many of the most popular discussion forums on the Internet.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Building Forums with vBulletin
Credits
About the Authors
Preface

CSS Modifications


Let's look at how to make a few forum changes. Specifically let's look at how to make the table title text bigger and tweak the color a little bit. The original table title is shown in the image below:

Changing the Table Title Text

Practice makes perfect, and it also gives you the confidence to make bigger changes later, so we suggest that you work through this quick exercise with us. (You can easily revert the changes back to the default at the end.)

To do this, first enter the vBulletin AdminCP. From here, click on Styles & Templates to expand that menu, and then click on Style Manager as shown below:

Now click on the button in the right-hand window marked Go (shown below). This brings up the All Style Options page.

This loads up a massive page with a large number of options. Note how all the sections are clearly labeled as to what settings they control. At the top you have the settings for the Common Templates, including the generic page headers and footers. Below...