# How difficult is it to style the forums? **URL:** \ **Category:** UX\ **Created:** [4월 9, 2016, 3:54오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-difficult-is-it-to-style-the-forums/42299 "2016-04-09T15:54:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FoxdenVixen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/foxdenvixen/32/121848_2.png) [@FoxdenVixen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FoxdenVixen)\ **Post date:** [4월 9, 2016, 3:54오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-difficult-is-it-to-style-the-forums/42299/1 "2016-04-09T15:54:57Z")
I am working on an MMO game website. We are using PHPBB 3.1 for our forums. The bosses want to change to Discourse forums after viewing Tree of Savior’s forums. I have many questions but the first is how easy is it to style the forums to match the rest of a website. Here is our current website - [http://sacramentgame.com](http://sacramentgame.com). The site is built with Bootstrap 3 framework. Our forums were implemented by another person so the styling is not quite the same. I am restyling them on a staging site to make sure everything matches as best I can. The staging forums are at [http://staging.sacramentgame.com/forum](http://staging.sacramentgame.com/forum). It’s a work in progress. Any insight to difficulty or ease of styling would be greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/astonj/32/215041_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)\ **Post date:** [4월 9, 2016, 4:15오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-difficult-is-it-to-style-the-forums/42299/2 "2016-04-09T16:15:00Z")
You will be looking at mostly CSS changes. There is no easy way to change the html (apart from adding stuff to header/footer etc). So it depends on your design and front end (CSS) code skills I guess. Have a look at the ‘visit our discourse forums’ thread for inspiration 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FoxdenVixen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/foxdenvixen/32/121848_2.png) [@FoxdenVixen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FoxdenVixen)\ **Post date:** [4월 9, 2016, 5:08오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-difficult-is-it-to-style-the-forums/42299/3 "2016-04-09T17:08:54Z")
Thank you. Took a look at some of the sites. Most have very little styling but a couple of the gaming sites do have nice layouts. This looks like something I could handle. ---
**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\ **Post date:** [4월 9, 2016, 6:46오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-difficult-is-it-to-style-the-forums/42299/4 "2016-04-09T18:46:30Z")
> [@FoxdenVixen](#): > > The bosses want to change to Discourse forums after viewing Tree of Savior’s forums. Sorry for the off-topic, but this is a huge forum for Discourse to land. It’s probably one of the biggest (if not the biggest) instances to date. ---
**Author:** ![charleswalter](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/charleswalter/32/116433_2.png) [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)\ **Post date:** [4월 13, 2016, 1:59오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-difficult-is-it-to-style-the-forums/42299/5 "2016-04-13T01:59:35Z")
@FoxdenVixen @AstonJ it actually is relatively easy to change the HTML on a number of areas. This post provides some info on how to customize the templates. [https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-customize-discourse-templates/34813](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-customize-discourse-templates/34813) We have changed a bit of the category template for desktop and mobile at [HelloForos](https://www.helloforos.com) @FoxdenVixen have you decided whether to move to Discourse? ---
**Author:** ![FoxdenVixen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/foxdenvixen/32/121848_2.png) [@FoxdenVixen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FoxdenVixen)\ **Post date:** [4월 17, 2016, 3:21오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-difficult-is-it-to-style-the-forums/42299/6 "2016-04-17T15:21:29Z")
We are moving forward with Discourse as we found someone who can do the migration from MySql to PostgresSQL. Now I am gathering apps that I will need to create a local staging instance of the new forums where I will re-style it to match our current site. It is not user friendly by any means. This is for seasoned developers in my opinion. I run Windows 10 but have to create a Virtual Machine in order to run this. Unfortunately, I am a designer not a developer. I appreciate the documentation linked above so I can figure this all out.