Willz

BLAZE SKIN
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/3...shot0015vr.jpg

AURORA SKIN
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/6...shot0020ha.jpg

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i want logo on left the date stuff in top far right and team name beside badge i sent the aurora skin want titlebar at top same on my skin if someone could do that for me id appreciate it...i could send them the header xml file & skin if they need it...would someone with skinning experience do this for me.

thanks 2 how can help

Willz

were on my skin it says news it cause my news flashes when news comes in

michaeltmurrayuk

Easiest thing for you to do, is to open the header.xml for Aurora in notepad (or a webpage editor if you have one - something with line numbers and colour coded code helps you to spot mistakes and not lose your place - but notepad is fine and is free if you don't have anything else).

When you open the header file you'll see most of the sections are well commented about what they are and what they do anything within the <!-- Tags is a comment --> and won't display on your skin (so you can add your own notes to help you out when you know what stuff does just make sure they are inside the tags above).

Just edit the bits you want changing.

The bit commented <!-- TITLE TEXT & LOGO --> controls the placement of the team name and logo, so you'll want to leave that alone.

However if you want your manager, options, links etc... layout, then you'll want to adjust the code below <!-- NAVIGATIONAL ELEMENTS ================================================== ====================== -->

- If you are not having the breadcrumbs menu in the header then just delete all this code:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> &lt;!-- Breadcrumbs --&gt;&lt;container id="crum"&gt;...&lt;/container&gt; </pre>
- Making sure you remove the the last container tag above.

- You could just delete everything below &lt;!-- NAVIGATIONAL ELEMENTS...

APART from the &lt;/panel&gt; tag right at the bottom.

Then just paste in the code from your header file for continue, and manager buttons.

If you want the date in the header, like it is the Aurora footer, open the footer.xml file for Aurora and copy and paste the date code into your header file.

Or paste in this bit of code:
<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> &lt;widget class="date_cell" id="date" text="date" size="8" style="shadowed" auto_size="all" colour="date"&gt;&lt;layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="top" inset="8"/&gt;&lt;attachment class="get_global_attachment" get_property="date" set_property="valu"/&gt;&lt;attachment class="test_global_attachment" get_property="cont" value="-8" set_property="hidn" skip_if_null="false" skip_if_resetting="false" priority="1"/&gt;&lt;string id="format"&gt;[%date#1-day] [%date#1-time], [%date#1-long_no_day]&lt;/string&gt;&lt;/widget&gt; </pre>

into your header file after this bit of code:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> &lt;!-- MANAGER & TEAM NAMES --&gt;&lt;container id="ZDr1"&gt;&lt;layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="horizontal" layout_children="true" inset="-1"/&gt;&lt;layout class="arrange_vertical_attachment" alignment="top" gap="0" offset="4"/&gt; </pre>

That should position the date with your user name and team, you may need to mess around with the text size and offset to fit them in.

(Its nearly 3a.m so there maybe some typos/mistakes above - but basicly open the header file for aurora and play around with the code until you get something you like/want).

Willz

michael i want too move the stuff from the aurora skin too my skin copy & paste it over too the skin im doing so it looks like the aurora skin...dont want too do anthing 2 the aurora skin at all

Willz

aurora header XML
http://www.zshare.net/download/header-xml-cf7.html

blaze header XML
http://www.zshare.net/download/header-xml-qrb.html
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michael could you try it please for me would like it done quick i dont realy get stuff you put up really i am greatful for your time...so i sent you the 2 header xml's.thanks if you can do it.

radestock

What is wrong with giving this a go yourself? Asking someone else to do the work for you is a bit of a cop out if you ask me.

Use the Turnstyle files - look at them, see what they do. Then see how they differ from the files in the skin you want to alter. Yes it might take a while, yes there might be annoying times where nothing seems to work.

But you need to stick with it. This is how every skinner starts.

Willz

rad...know your right just though someone with more skinning knowledge about this could do it n like 5mins or something just so i can move on too something else been at trying this for 3days now hours evernight non-stop...im about too give it in.

Willz

i have the date & time together...how do i get it over beside user name & team???

michaeltmurrayuk

To get the time and date on the right above your user name.

Open your header file

Scroll down to this line (assuming you based your header on aurora's):

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">&lt;!-- MANAGER & TEAM NAMES --&gt;&lt;container id="ZDr1"&gt;&lt;layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="horizontal" layout_children="true" inset="-1"/&gt;&lt;layout class="arrange_vertical_attachment" alignment="top" gap="0" offset="4"/&gt;</pre>

And paste this code below the last line above:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">&lt;widget class="date_cell" id="date" text="date" standard_spec="text" style="shadowed" alignment="top, right" auto_size="vertical"&gt; &lt;attachment class="get_global_attachment" get_property="date" set_property="valu"/&gt; &lt;attachment class="test_global_attachment" get_property="cont" value="-8" set_property="hidn" skip_if_null="false" skip_if_resetting="false" priority="1"/&gt; &lt;attachment class="get_global_attachment" get_property="fcol" set_property="colr"/&gt; &lt;string id="format"&gt; [%date#1-day] [%date#1-time] [%date#1-long_no_day] &lt;/string&gt; &lt;/widget&gt;</pre>

Which will give you a header looking like This

To get rid of the shadow change the style="shadowed" line above to style="none"

Willz

michael thanks for your help...but im giving up on it i have tried & tried what i wanna do but its being a pain in the butt dont have patients so give up on my skin i was working on just couple things wanna do...wish it was easier.