Header Question UPDATE::

[jnick]

It's me again :p.

I have a quick questions on a header. My friend needs some help with his website/forum.

Basically, he made a "header" via dreamweaver. It's basically a 2nd navigation bar. Now this navigation bar runs horizontally at the top of the page. He would like to take that navigation bar, and put it as the header of his phpbb forums.

Is this at all possible?

The one problem I see off the bat (maybe it's not a problem) is he created the header/navigation bar in dreamweaver. No this header rests on a html page with the background color of the main site. Is there anyway I can get the navigation bar to be the header? Or will it take the whole image, nav bar and background color?

The final header I'm looking for is a logo, design, and the the navigation bar. Does this mean I have to have them all in ONE file?

ANy help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Jnick

[theKeeper]

Depends on a couple things...

One... is that header & nav one solid image file? Or does it also have html?

Two... what board is your friend using? Every board has different parameters as to how its header file can be altered.

Off-the-top i don't see any problems doing this. But more detail would help focus the explanation.

[jnick]

Sorry for the lack of information

Ok, we're using Phpbb 2.

Plans have changed. All he wants is his Navigation Bar and the matching background to his site.

Right now, I have an HTML file of the Navigation bar (header) on the background.

This is what he gave me. He wants this navigation bar as the header of the forum, along with the background behind the navigation bar in the header. His goal is so the site and the forum look like it's the same page . .. if you know what I mean.

Thank you!

Jnick

[jnick]

UPDATE:::

I have the header showing up in to header area of the forum. I know this because the BACKGROUND color shows. But the navigation bar itse;f does NOT show.

Now my guess is because that the navigation bar is made up of different .gif images. I have put the gif images in the main images folder of the boaards, but I'm going to have to add code to the overall_header.tpl file, aren't I?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

Jnick

[theKeeper]

First off, you can store these images anywhere you like. Simply point the browser to them with the proper code. That's not the problem.

Second... yes, edit the 'overall_header.tpl' file for this. Just dump the code for your header section into the tpl file. But be aware that it needs to go into a specific part of that file's code. Otherwise, it'll mess up the php insertion code.

If you have DW i suggest you use that to preview the general layout of the header file.

[jnick]

Thanks keeper.

After looking at other forums, I'm mostlikely going to have to recreate the navigation bar within photoshop I think. Every forum using phpbb, wth a nav bar as a header, they all have it pointing to specific images. Like "home.gif" or "Contact.gif".

So my guess is, in order to get this to work, I'm going to have to remake the bar in photoshop? Because he originally made it in DW. So the only Images are od the bar itself, not of the wording on the bar.

Or, maybe I need to insert the HTML code of the HTML document in the overall_header.tpl section?

THanks for all of your help.

Jnick