The interface of Melon Forum Component is formed by user controls (.ascx). This gives possibility for easy customization of the templates and styles of the web controls in the user controls.
All styles that are that applied to the controls in Melon Forum Component are separated in css file Styles.css. The defined cascading style sheets (css) classes are with prefix "mc". The styles together with the images from sub-folder Images form the final appearance of the component.
The styles (Styles.css) and images (folder Images) are placed in one folder ForumStyles.
When you integrate Melon Forum Component in your web site you may want to customize the appearance of the forum and even use themes feature from ASP.NET 2.0.
- Customize the Look&Feel of the forum without using themes.
If themes are not used then ForumStyles folder should be copied to the main folder of the forum component MC_Forum where the user controls are placed. Only in this way the defined styles and images will be correctly applied and displayed in the component’s interface. The developers could modify the css classes and replace the images with another but they should keep their names. - Use themes
If the web site where forum component will be integrated use themes then the folder with the styles and images of the component (ForumStyles) should be copied to each folder of the used themes under App_Themes and after that the styles and images could be modified to suit to the themes.
