Which template is used on WebsiteBaker.org?

[effo]

Hi all,
I installed WB yesterday and started to play with it. It seem realy cool!

I also have a SMF forum, and I would like to link from the WB site to the SMF forum just like it is done on this site. I managed to do that, by adding a new page with an external link.

Now I wonder which template that is used here on WB, because the colors and style fit so well with the SMF layout. I would really like to have the same template on my site. Could that be possible?

[Waldschwein]

Hello!

The template that is used on the WebsiteBaker(2).org WB installations is a custom template, that is not available anywhere (as far as I know). The SMF forum here is not integrated in the WB installations, only the header / footer is manually integrated in SMF template.

But (there's always a but) as the used SMF template (Babylon Theme) won't be available in future SMF versions (SMF2, just as community style) and anyway it will never fit to the "secret" upcoming template of websitebaker2.org (that is done when it's done). And: I don't think it's a good idea releasing the official template from the official site here due to forks and sites that claim to be the official one but aren't.

But you can always take the forum software and style you like best and fit the WB (or the forum style or both) that they fit quite well.

Yours Michael

[doc]

Hello,

everybody can copy over the HTML code of an existing site together with the CSS and images in order to create a WB template in less than half an hour. Only tricky thing is to adapt the menu calls to simulate the menu styles of the original site. Unfortunatelly there is not much you can do about.

There are a lot of people out there exatly doing this, without giving a s*** on the copyright notices set by the original author. It is up to the author of the original site to take actions if he gets aware that someone has copied his site without taking care about the copyright notices.

Regards Doc

[Waldschwein]

Hello!

Of course anybody can copy the whole template, but that is absolutely nothing we should encourage people to do with providing a download of the template... If anybody is really interested in the template he should contact the board... We have a valid "legal notice" page in footer. But I doubt the board will give anybody the template...
Btw: The one that holds the template rights is the e.V., not Ryan anymore.

Yours Michael

[doc]

Hello,

it was not my intention to encourgage people to copy existing designs without giving a s*** to the license terms. I simply wanted to point out that "hidding" a template will not "prevent" clones of once published in the WWW.

Doc

[effo]

Ok, thanks for the info. I guess I have to live with just an link to my forum, as I don't want to mess around too much

[Waldschwein]

Ok, thanks for the info. I guess I have to live with just an link to my forum, as I don't want to mess around too much

Even if you have the template here you can't integrate automatically SMF (and due to license problems with SMF there is also no tool for it). With phpBB (I guess SMF works quite the same) I made just a few changes to the CSSes due to color in both templates (forum and WebsiteBaker), and even without adjustments like here http://yelen-rpg.de/ (yes I know this site is and was dead...) you can have a good visual integration without any integration. The menu from WB is the only problem: On a site where the links don't change often I would suggest hardcoding the menu (view sourcecode of WB site, try to copy it in the header file on the forum) and copy the CSS-classes from WB into the css menu of the forum (or link in forum template to the css class of your WB template, but to be honest - I wouldn't suggest that).
And then nobody sees that there are two systems working.   But on this wb.org site here the "menu" above is really hardcoded on all sites - from WebsiteBaker and SMF.

Edit: The other way of integrating the forum is wrapping it with some dynamic wrapper module from WB - but I would not suggest that. I don't like the idea of such wrappings, they lead often to destroyed templates or blank sites - but you don't have to worry about the menu then... But just try it.

Yours Michael