What is the saying about learning from your mistakes???
Well, I did it again this evening...er, morning? Anyway, I tried to change the header file for the Appalachia theme to include a background and the same problem started to occur. The pages only partially loaded. This time I didn't let it escalate to losing the whole board as I knew what the next step would surely bring.
After a couple hours of testing and comparing files for any inconsistencies I think I have found the answer as to why I was able to do this a couple days ago but encountered so much trouble yesterday and today.
The files I adapted yesterday were taken from the theme folder on the server, opened in BBEdit, saved and uploaded. But they weren't accepted once navigating the forum with the browser, in particular the header file. So I totally removed the entire folder and reloaded the original folder and back came the basic style but no headers. This time I opened the header file from the original folder instead of downloading, added the changes and uploaded. Voila!!!
Seems as though downloading the file via ftp and opening and saving it changes the file enough so it is not recognized when returned. I even tried different text formats but for some reason only working on the original file works.
----------On the other board:
In your Profile you will notice that there is a choice of Styles. At present we have four themes listed, subsilver, fiapple, zonesilver and Appalachia. The first is as it comes with the BB software, the last I have altered to color coordinate better with TS. It also has visited links color, the welcome header and some other changes. The others are a work in progress, basically usable as they are. but need headers, footers and some color tweaking.
Enjoy! I'm going to BED!!!
