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[Liz]

First off, thank you so much for breaking down IPB 3 skinning. Coming from InvisionFree to my own domain and IPB 3, there's a HUGE difference in skinning and without all your help, my boards would not look nearly as good as they do now. That being said, I do have a few questions I couldn't seem to find the answer to, primarily surrounding images and their implementation.

My primary question surrounds removing the white text that reads Watch Forum. Here's a shot of it while viewing a forum:


And while viewing a topic:


As you can see, I located the page_white_add.png on the forumIndexTemplate template and was able to remove the white text reading in the forum view, but I have so far been unable to locate the transmit_blue.png on either page, nor have I been able to find it on the topic view. I have a feeling the easiest way to do this would be to locate "$this->lang->words" and edit the text there, but I have no idea where I can find these subdirectories or whatever they are best called. Does anyone here know where I can find and edit this?

I'm also guessing that since the image for watch topic and watch forum are the same, I'll need to edit the image to read simply "watch" but that's easy enough to do later. My main issue at the moment is the presence of that darn white text! Any ideas?

[Broni]

Welcome aboard

I'm really not sure, what exactly you want to change/remove.
I'd like to also know a link to your forum, since you have a custom skin.

[Liz]

http://thelondonliferpg.com/forums

The skin in question is Pink Jacquard. I've made it myself, using your awesome tutorials. I'm still in the process, of course, and I haven't even begun to tackle the posting page and such. In a (hopefully!) clearer description of what I'm trying to do, I'd like to trade the text-based posting images (the blue box images with white typeable text) for images that have the text written on them, so as to utilize the script font seen in "new topic", because I know not everyone has that font on their computers.

In case you need a visual, what I'm trying to get rid of is circle in blue with a little blue X on them. The circle without an X shows where I managed to find the appropriate line of code in the template forumIndexTemplate and delete it, so the phrase "Start New Topic" no longer appears.





I'm guessing the easiest way to delete the text would be to locate the directory the software accesses using the line of code that reads "$this->lang->words" in the individual templates and editing the words in the directory directly, rather than attempting to find each place the code appears in each template. But I have no idea where to find that directory, or really where to even begin to look!

ETA: Now I'm even wondering if this is possible, or if I'm getting in way over my head!

[Broni]

First of all, I can't see Pink Jacquard skin.
If I need to login in order to see it, you'll need to provide temporary login for me.