Question Kunena display width?

I just installed Kunena (1.6.3) on our Joomla (1.5.22) website, but instantly I'm faced with an issue... Our 3-column website design scrunches up the forum badly. Is there any way to have the forum load without one of the columns to allow more screen real estate? Or am I SOL?

I've attached a screen shot to show what I mean.

I really appreciate any advice you can provide!

Short of modifying the template, there's no real easy way to do this. Most forums depend on at least a certain amount of screen real-estate to be visually functional. This isn't specific to Kunena. You could try making the modules on the right side of your site not show up on Kunena pages. That would give you back a big chunk of screen space. On our site, we frequently have modules on the right and/or left side of the page, but not on forum pages. There, I only ever have one side column or none at all, depending on the page. Joomla makes this fairly easy.

Yes, most people have only their forum showing when in that section instead of trying to cram it into a tight layout. It's pretty easy to add conditionals to your Joomla template to make side columns/modules only appear on non-forum pages. Here's the countModules reference:

docs.joomla.org/JDocumentHTML/countModules

Hi, I really really want to keep a colomn of modules on the right side on the forum...

Is there a way to minimize the forum width just a little ?? (It's only a matter of like 20px so it can display perfectly)

Thanks

virulent wrote: Is there a way to minimize the forum width just a little?

Yes. Easy to solve by using web design tool like Firebug for Firefox.

Edit the css.

Here is the entry:
#Kunena {
min-width: 700px;
}

Just change 700px it to whatever you need.

Or add this with your changes to anywhere you like in the css:
#Kunena {
min-width: 700px !important;
}