Basic Forum Layout Change Information

Square Corners

Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS > Style Sheet, you'll see a bunch of mentions of .rounded-corners right at the beginning.

Change every instance of @arguments inside of these to 0 and it will remove rounded corners from your forum entirely.

So I replace only the @arguments to 0?
Correct.

and / or

To make that square, visit the
Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS
area in your admin panel. Using the visual editor navigate to
Forum > Body (Content) > Containers > Title Bars
and set the border radius to 0px. That should take care of it.

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You can stop it from scrolling by going to your |layout templates and clicking on Thread, then removing this bit in green on line 8:
There are two places you'll need to make this change.

The other place will be in layout templates > Board template. (NOT THREAD, BUT BOARD) On line 17 you'll see the same deal as before - just remove the part I highlighted in green.

<div class="control-bar ui-helper-clearfix $[scroll_class]">

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How to remove the news ticker?

Disable it in your forum settings by going to Admin > Settings > Forum Settings > News Feed and selecting "Disabled" for News Feed.

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How to change the color of the boards?

Themes > Colors & Theme Creator > Customize Theme Colors

There is a section for title bars in the window that comes up.

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How to change the color of the Nav Tree Text / Links?

Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS
You can change the link colors for the menu by going to
Header
(Top) > Navigation Tree Container > Links and changing the text color there.

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Stop the Navigation Tree Drop Down Menu

If you go to your wrapper template
(Admin> Themes> Layout Templates>Wrapper)
and find what is posted below
(about 3/4ths of the way down)
you can add the red, which will remove it/disable it but keep the coding there in case you change your mind later. As you can see, the participate button(blue) is right above that so that button will remain.


$[participated_threads_link]

<!--{if $[navigation.tree]}
<div id="navigation-tree">
$[navigation.tree]
</div>
{/if}-->


Edit: I noticed you mentioned getting rid of the participate button in another thread so just move the red to where I have it below:


<!--$[participated_threads_link]

{if $[navigation.tree]}
<div id="navigation-tree">
$[navigation.tree]
</div>
{/if}-->
If you want to just prevent the dropdown menu from showing when mousing over the navigation tree, try using this on your style sheet.

Admin > Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS > Style Sheet tab > paste on the very bottom:

#navigation-tree .popup_html {
display: none;
}

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How to stop subboards from displaying

If you want this for all themes you have on your forum, just place the code below into your Main Header under
Admin -> Structure -> Headers & Footers -> Main Header

<style type="text/css">
.sub-boards { display: none; }
</style>


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Change the color for the text at the bottom of the forum

Admin > Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS, just expand Footer (Bottom) > Links and Footer (Bottom) > Copyright Info > ProBoards Link

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Remove the page search

You can add this to the top of your stylesheet:

.control-bar .ui-search { display: none; }

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How to make the background transparent?

Add this to the bottom of Themes > Advanced Styles & CSS > Style Sheet.
.container > .content { background-color: transparent; }

or

Change the above to:

.container > .content { background-color: transparent; background-image: url(URL OF IMAGE);}

Replacing URL OF IMAGE with the url of the image.