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iweber - 6/21/2013 11:09:54 AM
   
Making a Product Reviews div using Forum web part
I'm attempting to make a product reviews area towards the bottom of a product page, using the forum web part(s).

What I really would like to do is learn how to customize the look and formatting of this web part. In fact, that's all I really need to do, everything else would be built in to Kentico that goes along with it.

Does anyone have any tips on how to really do this? Right now I am figuring out the CSS class of each section of the web part, and then going into the main CSS file and doing display: none; for all of the stuff I don't need. I feel that this method is very crude, and could come back to pose problems in the future if the website is ever upgraded. Is there a way to really change the layout of the web part? I looked at the layout properties of the webpart, but it is just asp.net code and nothing to do with HTML or CSS formatting. I can't change the location of a single element through there. Who knows though, maybe my strategy will work just fine. It just seems crude to use CSS before and after commands to format.

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Kentico_RichardS - 6/22/2013 12:00:25 AM
   
RE:Making a Product Reviews div using Forum web part
Hi,

Just to understand the issue - basically you want users to "rate/write something" about each product, is that right? My question would be if it would not be better using the "Message Board" webpart which would be better for this purpose I believe and you can create your own layout and style it however you want. Can you check it out? If you have an Corporate site sample you can find it under Examples -> Web parts -> Message board.

Or have I somehow misuderstood the isssue?

Kind regards,

Richard Sustek