Hey guys -

I just installed the new(er) Helius Gray Theme (3.0) from this site and now I am unable to change the background color of the main pages as well as the other Content Pages. I know I have done this successfully before on the 2.0 version of this theme.

I read the FAQ again and attempted to change these colors in the theme.php file:

$bgcolor1 = "#EFEFEF";
$bgcolor2 = "#FFFFFF";
$bgcolor3 = "#FFFFFF";
$bgcolor4 = "#CCCCCC";
$textcolor1 = "#000000";
$textcolor2 = "#000000";

include("themes/HeliusGray/tables.php");

But it will not take on the main page (it changed only the bg color on the downloads page) nor on any of the content pages where my stories are. What am i missing here?

TIA

Oh - phpNuke 7.8

and i Just installed the Enhanced Downloads Module (7.5-7.9) by Drek(if that could anything to do with it)

oookay, since it doesn't seem like anyone can answer this easily - riddle me this: Can i go back in themes :?:

Just delete the newest 3.0 theme files & install an old version of Helius Gray or would doing that just mess it up more?

Thanx


-- KindPeacho

Often times, changing the color code as you supplied above does nothing. You may have to go into the themes .css to change most, if not all, of the themes attributes. The color codes may also be in the .html files so you may also want to look there.

As for reverting back to the old theme, that shouldn't be a problem. Simply delete the theme you have now and upload the older version. Make sure to test the theme in "Your Account" prior to making it the sites default first.

Look in the themes style sheet file

Are you familiar with CSS and HTML? CSS is a style sheet that can be used by HTML in order to display colors, backgrounds etc. for universal HTML code.

style.css
forums.css

Oh and DO NOT delete your current them until AFTER you upload a new one and change your theme Preferences to it, UNLESS the new theme has the exact same theme name as the old.

See, that's what I thought. I found the CSS style sheet in this theme & I tried changing the two html files that I thought would be the one's to change for the main news page, but neither worked.

I changed the story_home.html and story_page.html

Here is the code for story_home.html, as you can see i changed every color option in there to #FFFFFF and it's still gray. :roll:


<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="50" align="right" valign="bottom">[img]themes/HeliusGray/forums/images/top_left.gif[/img]</td>
<td width="100%" align="center" valign="middle" background="themes/HeliusGray/forums/images/top_center.gif"><font class="storytitle">$title</font></td>
<td width="50" align="left" valign="bottom">[img]themes/HeliusGray/forums/images/top_right.gif[/img]</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
<tr>
<td height="28" background="themes/HeliusGray/forums/images/bg_cat.gif">
<div align="center"><font class="content">$posted</font>

<font class="content">$morelink</font></div>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
<tr>
<td>[img]$tipath$topicimage[/img]<font class="storycontent">$content</font></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="40" align="right" valign="top">[img]themes/HeliusGray/forums/images/bottom_left.gif[/img]</td>
<td width="100%" background="themes/HeliusGray/forums/images/bottom_center.gif">[img]themes/HeliusGray/forums/images/spacer.gif[/img]</td>
<td width="40" align="left" valign="top">[img]themes/HeliusGray/forums/images/bottom_right.gif[/img]</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Is it possible that the grey background is actually a tiled image? Maybe check your images folders and see if there's a small grey box somewhere. Change that to white and see if it works.

Good thought - Yes I tried that (I tried new ways right after i posted while you were thinking as well..hehe..so that's why it's not in the original post)

.... there were two images in the \themes\HeliusGray\style folder and i changed both. THe first one changed the entire background of the theme, but not the stories and contents. The other did nothing (that i could find).


If this helps any - here is the code to the CSS style sheet (i finally found...hehe).

All i want to change - is the Content & main news article pages to a White background.



FONT {FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10px}
TD {FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10px}
BODY {FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10px}
P {FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10px}
DIV {FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10px}

.bodyline {background:#FFFFFF url(images/bg_cat4.gif);border:4px ridge #CCCCCC}
body {background: #FFFFFF ;color:#000000;font:12px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
scrollbar-face-color: #DEE3E7;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #DEE3E7;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #D1D7DC;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #006699;
scrollbar-track-color: #EFEFEF;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #98AAB1;}

A:link {color:#000000;FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica;text-decoration:none}
A:active {color:#000000;FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica;text-decoration:underline}
A:visited {color:#000000;FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica;text-decoration:none}
A:hover {color:#999999;FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica;text-decoration:underline}
.title {BACKGROUND: none; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica; TEXT-DECORATION: none}
.content {BACKGROUND: none; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica}
.block-title {BACKGROUND: none; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica;text-decoration:none}
.storytitle {BACKGROUND: none; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica; TEXT-DECORATION: none}
.storycat {BACKGROUND: none; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica; TEXT-DECORATION: underline}
.boxtitle {BACKGROUND: none; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica; TEXT-DECORATION: none}
.boxcontent {BACKGROUND: none; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica}
.option {BACKGROUND: none; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica; TEXT-DECORATION: none}
.tiny {BACKGROUND: none; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica; TEXT-DECORATION: none}
.small {BACKGROUND: none; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 9px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica; TEXT-DECORATION: none}

/* Form elements */
input,textarea,select{
border-color:#000000;
color:#000000;
border:1px solid;
font:normal 11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif}

/* The text input fields background colour */
input.post,textarea.post,select{background:#ffffff }
input{text-indent:2px}

/* The buttons used for bbCode styling in message post */
input.button{
background:#efefef;border:1px solid; color:#000000; font:11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif}

/* The main submit button option */
input.mainoption{background:#fafafa;font-weight:bold}

/* None-bold submit button */
input.liteoption{background:#fafafa;font-weight:normal}

/* Quote & Code blocks */
.code{
background:#fafafa;
border:1px solid #d1d7dc;
color:#006600;
font:11px Courier,'Courier New',sans-serif
}
.quote{
background:#fafafa;
border:1px solid #d1d7dc;
color:#444444;
font:11px/125% Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif}

okay, now try playing with the colors in the tables.php file

By the way. I have a little tip for you that I use.

I use a color selector to tell me first what the html color code is for the background color I am wanting to change. Once I know this html code (#EAEDF4), I open my HTML editor, Ultra Edit and do a FINS IN FILES> With that feature I can search thru multiple files at once for any one word or code. IT will then tell me which files contain that html color code...tables.php has it.

Color Selector -> http://www.tucows.com/preview/304878
Ultra Edit -> http://www.tucows.com/preview/194610

nice tip

I use Crimson Editor and so far have been very happy with it. - I can have multiple files open as well but never thought of the across the board Find... ty

I will test out the tables.php later and let you know.

I'm getting frustrated I know it cannot be this diffficult - i must be missing an obvious piece here or there..

Oh You Rock!

Changing the tables.php worked

Thank you very much for fixing this annoying problem!