Platform: ColdFusion/.NET

Every company has their own look and feel for their websites, with Fusetalk you can not only create custom style sheets to achieve your look and feel. You can also use our included templates to put your own look and feel around the fusetalk interface. Every page of the forum interface is wrapped in a top and bottom file that are located in the include/custom directory. You can put whatever you want in these files to achieve your own look and feel.

An example using our templates.
1. Open up the include/custom/top.cfm (.aspx for .NET) file.
2. Type <table border="0"><tr><td>TOP</td></tr><tr><td>LEFT</td><td>
3. Open up the include/custom/bottom.cfm (.aspx for .NET) file.
4. Type </td><td>RIGHT</td></tr><tr><td>BOTTOM</td></tr></table>.

You should now see a table surrounding the forum, from here the sky is the limit in creating your own custom look and feel.

Implementing a custom look and feel for multiple forums.
As you know FuseTalk can serve multiple forums from one code base. Performing a custom and look and feel as we did above would apply to any forum. If you want to apply custom look and feel for different forums you would do the following logic statements around your look and feel within the include/custom top and bottom files.

ColdFusion

<cfif FTVAR_FORUMID eq 1>

Do This
<cfelseif FTVAR_FORUMID eq 2>

Do That
<cfelse>

Default
</cfif>

ASP.NET

<%if ftObj.ForumInfo.ID = 1 then %>

Do This
<%else if ftObj.ForumInfo.ID = 2 then %>

Do That
<%else %>

Default
<%end if%>

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