How can i get my forms to look more like these forums?

http://successiqu.com/groups/the-holidays-are-coming/forum/topic/test-2/

http://successiqu.com/forums/the-holidays-are-coming/

because i do not have a full width page, it is all so scrunched up – any suggestions?

[@nexia Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

yeah, the actual css/templates of BP are crap to integrate, you will have to edit most of the elements if you want them to look standard. that’s why i switched from a real pro theme to a basic BP theme with no style…

the complain could go to the designer who made the “default” skeleton way too complicated at first…

the only themes that are really easy to manipulate are these 3: http://premium.wpmudev.org/themes/ … had to pay to access them, but i’m happy with the result…

[@snapstart Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

I am not unhappy with my integration – I just would like a more standard forum, everything is so tight into the groups – i guess i could just make a custom forum template without the optionsbar

[@jeffsayre Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

Catherine-

Are looking to have a sitewide forum instead of group-based forums? If so, read my response in this thread:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/cannot-add-topic-in-bbpress-forum#post-29032

[@nexia Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

and if you still want to keep the default BP forums, you can apply permission like here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/disallow-ordinary-users-to-create-groups so just the admin can create groups, and you simply use your admin level to create these groups, and have the first group to host all the forums, making only account #1 the forum manager, showing all the forums at the same place… that’s what i plan on doing…

[@snapstart Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

oof – not up to deep integration right now, took forever to get this site live!

so..

I did some edits in the templates for both the user and the forums, and it now fits much better- i really like the newer userpage,

http://successiqu.com/members/larrytyler/

see i got the avatar down in the profile section istead of taking up a column by itself –

for the groups/forums i took the large avatar out and moved everything up

http://successiqu.com/groups/the-holidays-are-coming/forum/topic/test-2