I'm looking for a theme similar to this one: [-link-]
I want a theme with at least 3 menu areas. One left, one center, one right. But the menu areas must be large enough to add a chatbox. (like the example)
I have a couple of themes, but the menu areas left and right are too small for a chatbox. (Maybe there is a way to make them larger?)
The width of your side menus will be defined in your themes style.css
You need to locate the style element that is associated with the menu area and then adjust the widths accordingly.
NOTE* Remember if you +50px then you also need to -50px from somewhere, ie: the central area.
You need to locate your menu area in your theme.php by seaching for {MENU=2} (or whatever menu area you wish to increase)
Then you need to look above that and find the containing "box" for menu areas, most likely something like <div class="rightside"> or something similar.
Once you know the CSS class element "rightside" then you can search for this in your style.css file and make whatever adjustments are required.
Also do the same for the central area, in most cases its the first few lines of the footer section in theme.php.
If you having trouble then paste the contents of your theme.php to http://paste2.org/ and someone will help you.
C6Dave told me this: "Your going to have to adjust the widths in the related style.css file but you may have problems with all the background images as they will be fixed sizes"
But I can't find these widths. I'll upload my style.css too. This is my theme.php: [-link-] this is my style.css: [-link-]
easiest would be to put the chatbox inside menuarea2. so auto it will be larger.
as for styling; it was mentioned : due to fixed images it is hard. example: menu 1 (2 settings : 1 for default,1 for custom pages) find around line 143/144 from theme (rc_4left)the line that states : style = 0 change this to 40% to experiment. look at result.
similar line is found on 76 (custom)
now after saved them (of course backup made ) look how it interacts with all the different things. center,right etc. The content within the menu area will also be affected. Most things that will add to the adjustments can be found in style css line 1 up to 52. In here you will find the used settings, and the targeted images (which also carry a size to keep in mind).
Another easy experiment to see how some things react is: same line (144) change the width ( = 6) to 60 save. Look again and you see what you are up to. Anyway success, and if anybody still has ideas to easily accompl. this : have a go and help..