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Dear all,
I am looking at customizing the polarbear pro template. First of all, is that ok with regard to the developer?

If so, I want to adjust the width of the right column. It sounds trivial, but my attempts have so far failed..

I would also like to change the colors of the text, i.e. from the light blue color to black.

Hoping for some tips here. :)

Thanks,

Lars

Hi Lars,
Yes it's ok with us to customize the template as you need to - you would need to adjust the column widths in the template.css, index.php and also modify the background image slices.
I do this for client sites sometimes when we base their development off our template framework - it's not to difficult but also not a trivial task as it can take 20 mins or so to tweak all the .css values correctly - when you change one width then margins on text, etc need also to be adjusted.

PS: the pro version of polar bear already has a wider right column.
casenano.com/

I have the same problem with the right column. Everytime I made it smaller the middle column slides to the right side! So I have space between the left and the middle column.

Big Bear, con you tell me exactly what to do?

Regards, Timo

So the left right and middle columns need to balance up.

By that I mean if you subtract some width in the CSS from one column you'll need to add some to another column so that the values are approx the same.

This is because the columns are floated up against each other - if you increase the width of one it pushed the next to along a little bit.

The other issue that might be confusing people is that we have hard coded some widths into the index.php

You need to have a look at these because they will override the template.css widths in many instances.

The reason we have done this is to create a control mechanism for the collapsing columns in this template.

Hope this helps.

ok, I try - and fail...

I want the right column 100px smaler, but how? Everytime I change, the middle column run down the site.

On which positions in the code I have to summate - or to subtract the 100px?

Regards, Timo

sorry - i forgot to mention - you also need to edit the background images - body.png, body-right.png, etc

the ones you need to edit depend on what columns you are publishing.

der_timo are you a paid member or a member who purchased one of our templates previously? If so I am happy to go in and make these changes for you.

No, I´m not a paying member. Then I think I have to try out myself... If I don´t get it working as I want, I will pay.

Thanks!

Hi der_timo,

I'm not trying to get you to pay ;-) and I'm always happy to help people for free as well as long as I have time - right now I am so overworked it's not funny so I cannot afford to much time.

What is the link to your site?

no no, I didn´t mean that you try to made me paying. The link is:

www.djundservice.de/index.php

I want to have the scrolling item as right as possible, because it is so small.

In index.php you need to edit this:

#content

{

padding-left: 0px;

width: 600px;

}

and make the width a bit smaller - this will stop it popping out.

you also need to edit this background image if you want to make the column appear smaller:
www.djundservice.de/templates/polarbearpro/images/ body.png

you would need to open it in photoshop or a similar program and make the right column the width you want it to be.

which width?

open your index.php and look for #content


specifically the following lines as described above:

#content
{
padding-left: 0px;
width: 600px;
}


Where it says width:600px;

try making this maybe 550px and see what happens.

A little trial and error to get it looking right is required.

ok, I thought you mean another width.