Ipb 2.2:Resizing Forum Skin to Fixed

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Resizing Forum Skin to Fixed (75%)

Lots of forum owners prefer to be looking at a skin that does not take up the whole screen. Well, this tutorial will explain how to achieve just that in a simple and timely manner.

Follow these simple steps to achieve the desired result. Straightforward and to the point.

Administration CP Enter the Administration Control Panel (Admin CP) by visiting your forums and instead of browsing the index.php inside your forums' directory, change index.php to admin.php. This will bring you to the screen in which you enter your administrative username and password.

CP Login Enter your administrative username and password (same as your forum username and password)

Look & Feel Tab Click on the Look & Feel tab at the top of your forum.

Cascading Style Sheets Click on the dropdown beside the skin and select Edit Edit Stylesheets (CSS Advanced Mode) from the dropdown menu.

CSS Modification Press Ctrl + F in your browser to search for CSS on the page. In the box that determines what the browser will search for, type in:

In that code, you will find a width attribute. Change the width from its current percent to 75%.

Find:

For the width attribute, enter:

Save Template Bit After deleting the two lines of code, click on Save Template Bit.

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