| Hi, Many thanks for your post. I've attempted to answer your questions below. If you need any further information or have any additional questions don't hesitate to contact us. > 1. I made adjustments to a custom skin and when I refresh the browser the skin shows up, but then disappears and the forum reverts back to 'classic skin'. It's like it's there until all the images download and then it gets replaced. All I did was change the blue to red in the style files using HEX colors. This could be a browser cache issue. It's hard to say exactly without seeing this first hand. Would it be possible to access your installation via a URL? Or even better via FTP? If FTP is possible you may wish to open a ticket and we'll review your skin. 2. I love the actual color set of classic skin, but I want to change ALL THE SHADES from Blue to RED. Is there a way to do this without manually editing every line of the style sheet? Or... You will need to modify the style sheet to fit your colors. You will also need to modify some of the table background images from blue to red. The original PSD files are provided within the download to make this as easy as possible. A quick and easy way todo this would be to perform a global find and replace on the hexadecimal color value you want to replace within the style sheet with your new color. 3. Does anyone know of a resource of skins/style sheets where you can add more skin types to the site? Unfortunately we don't have such a site as yet. It's something we've been hoping todo for some time however i suspect this will be after the InstantKB.NET release within the next few months. 4. Long as I've got your attention....I'd like to use the Wrapper option to add the Logo to the top of every page on the forum except I don't use XML at all. Anyone have a link or example code I would use to execute this? I'm a little confused here. You don't need to use XML to take advantage of the wrappers. This will simply add the HTML you provide to the header and footer globally within the forum. You can see an example of this within our documentation at the link below...
http://docs.instantasp.co.uk/instantforum/usingwrappers.html 5. And finally, how do you add rotating banners to the top of a forum and also manage them? This really depends on the ad software you use to manage your banners. You can insert either standard JavsScript which a 3rd party ad solution may generate into our pages using wrappers or if you found a ASP.NET banner management tool this may allow you to add user controls within our MasterPAge (http://docs.instantasp.co.uk/instantforum/usingmasterpages.html) to serve the ads. In terms of managing advertising we don't provide any means within our software todo this however ti would certainly be possible to integrate a 3rd party solution. I hope this helps a little. If i've missed anything or you have any further questions don't hesitate to respond.
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