Changing the header of a phpBB3 forum.

Changing  the default header of a phpBB3 forum is easy.

I used this very useful website that is pretty self-explanatory to change the picture shown within the header:

http://www.easytutorials.org/phpbb3_styles_logo.html

Note: When you refresh your forums to see if the changes have taken place, do so by pressing SHIFT+F5. (This clears the cache and does a full refresh)

A faster way would be to  rename your  image to "site_logo.gif"  and  overwrite the  default one by moving it  into the "styles/*stylename*/imageset/" folder. The  image will most likely be scaled to a default size so you must change the size manually by going into Administration Control Panel>Styles>Imagesets>Edit and under Select Image select Main Logo. Select 'yes' to Include Dimensions and manually type in the desired image size.

Keep in mind that if your image has a background with a solid colour, it will show up on top of the background of the header, sometimes making it look unprofessional. To fix this you must either create the image with a transparent background, or edit the header background to match the image.

To do the latter, go to Administration Control Panel>Styles>Themes>Edit and comment out the following line by changing:

background-image: url("{T_THEME_PATH}/images/bg_header.gif");

to

//background-image: url("{T_THEME_PATH}/images/bg_header.gif");

Right on top of this line, the code "background-color: #FFFFFF;" can be seen. The "FFFFFF" part can be changed to any colour hexidecimal  code (more colour codes can be found here).

When done, hit Submit and check out the new forum header (remember to refresh with SHIFT+F5).

5 Comments  on Changing the header of a phpBB3 forum.

5 Comments  on "Changing the header of a phpBB3 forum."

1. TAimur  says:October 7, 2008 at 12:03 am

   thanx for the helpit worked

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2. Johnny Mestizo  says:December 11, 2008 at 12:45 am

   Worked for me also. Cheers

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3. NHE  says:July 16, 2009 at 5:40 am

   thanks so much for this!! It really saved me a ton of time!!

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4. Gary Webb  says:December 20, 2009 at 12:01 pm

   I have been struggling with this for hours and you are the first person to make this sound simple. Thank you so much it took 2 minutes using your advice.

   Thanks again.

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5. Charlene  says:September 17, 2014 at 10:27 pm

   They don't work with the "we clearblue" theme :/But thank you so much for this tutorial

   Reply