Blaze

[Andrew]

This style was developed by my firm Epic Designz as a promotional tool for a new site called YourIndex. This style is free to be used on any forum provided that you retain the small promotional message in the footer (We made it as unobtrusive as possible.) The package includes the full set of PSD's, so you can make changes to suit your board or apply the same layout to non-vBulletin portions of your site. If there are any problems with the style, please report them to me in this thread, so I can get them resolved as quickly as possible.

Update 11/22/2006 Version 1.50
* XML file updated to vBulleitn 3.6.4

Update 11/9/2006 Version 1.40
* XML file updated to vBulleitn 3.6.3

Update 10/9/2006 Version 1.30
* XML file updated to vBulletin 3.6.2
* Fixed display problem when Online Users was disabled.

Update 9/17/2006 Version 1.20
* XML file updated to vBulletin 3.6.1

Update 8/26/2006 Version 1.10
* Fixed the URL's in the header and footer.

Installation Instructions: Click Here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=787027&postcount=024) https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2007/08/10.gif (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=support%40epicdesignz%2ecom&item_name=vBulletin%2eorg%20Style%20Donation&item_number=EPIC%2dDONATIONS&no_shipping=1&return=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eepicdesignz%2ecom%2fforu m%2fgeekmart%2ephp%3fdo%3dsuccess&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&charset=UTF%2d8)

[Hideo Kojima]

Great, I love it!

[twitch]

Very nice. I like the red/white/gray/black color scheme

[Snuff_The_Punk]

Amazing theme! Great work! :D

[IncredibleHawk]

awsome ty

[Pablasso]

awesome, the most professional free theme that i've seen so far, thank you

[cygy2k]

This is an amazing theme to be free. I'm glad I downloaded it before you change your mind and charge for it:)

[Andrew]

This is an amazing theme to be free. I'm glad I downloaded it before you change your mind and charge for it:)I have absolutely no plans to ever charge for any of my themes on vBulletin.org - I enjoy giving back to the community that helped me out so much when I first started working with vBulletin about two years ago.

[cygy2k]

Do you know of a way to make the legacy postbit a fixed size rather than shifting sized for each member? Other than that, I have it working great on my site. Thanks!!

[Jay...]

now that is one very nice theme, just wondering, how do i change the width of the column on the left?

[lindab2]

Nice! Thanks a lot :)

[Andrew]

Do you know of a way to make the legacy postbit a fixed size rather than shifting sized for each member? Other than that, I have it working great on my site. Thanks!!You could always hard code the width of the left column in the postbit_legacy template.
now that is one very nice theme, just wondering, how do i change the width of the column on the left?That would be in the FORUMHOME template, and it's currently set to 250 I think (Just do a text search for width="250", and you'll find the spot.)

[cygy2k]

I found out what the problem is with the legacy postbit, it is tied to a hard coded width and works fine in Firefox but in IE it is completely crappy looking. I'm using the stock template with no changes and it isn't working well.

[KevNJ]

how can i remove the left side bar ?

[Andrew]

how can i remove the left side bar ?The easiest way would be to revert the FORUMHOME template and then reapply the category spacing template mod to it from this thread (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123530&highlight=category+spacing).

[phill2003]

Thank you, if you pm me a paypal address i would like to chuck a little something your way in the next week for this handsome design.

[realraptor]

Hi there,

Fantastic style! On your included layout.psd, there's a "Latest Threads" column on the right, how can I achieve that also on my vB?

[Andrew]

Hi there,

Fantastic style! On your included layout.psd, there's a "Latest Threads" column on the right, how can I achieve that also on my vB?The easiest way would be to modify the output of one of the Top X stats mods - I did that before on a forum that I used to run.

[ChrisTech]

Looks nice, but ran into too many issues attempting to add IBPro arcade & VB Plaza links to the navbar, gave up and reverted. Bah.

[Andrew]

Looks nice, but ran into too many issues attempting to add IBPro arcade & VB Plaza links to the navbar, gave up and reverted. Bah.The navbar is identical to the stock vBulletin navbar - I literally just copied and pasted the table that contained it from the navbar template into the header template.

[phill2003]

The navbar is identical to the stock vBulletin navbar - I literally just copied and pasted the table that contained it from the navbar template into the header template.


I was just going to mention that :)

[ChrisTech]

The navbar is identical to the stock vBulletin navbar - I literally just copied and pasted the table that contained it from the navbar template into the header template.


Attempting to setup the IBPro Arcade into that template, and cannot find various things in the templates.

In postbit_legacy template cannot find <if condition="$post['joindate']"><div>$vbphrase[join_date]: $post[joindate]</div></if>

In navbar template cannot find <td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

[Andrew]

The first bit is different because of the background and borders I place around postbit items - Just do a text search for "$vbphrase[join_date]", and you shouldn't have a problem finding it.

As for the navbar item, I moved the navbar into the header template, so if you look in there instead, you should easily find the spot to add your link.

[concepts]

Installed! Great Style, exactly what I was looking for, suits my logo perfectly!

[Senn]

I installed it. Created some new forums and its broken:

http://www.archivos.biz/foros/

[farooqaaa]

Thanks alot, fantastic one ;)

[Andrew]

I installed it. Created some new forums and its broken:

http://www.archivos.biz/foros/Looks fine to me - Did you fix the problem you were having already ?

[ChrisTech]

The first bit is different because of the background and borders I place around postbit items - Just do a text search for "$vbphrase[join_date]", and you shouldn't have a problem finding it.

As for the navbar item, I moved the navbar into the header template, so if you look in there instead, you should easily find the spot to add your link.

Thats the main problem, the navbar was in the header, cleared that up, added what was needed. Works fine now, juts have to edit the color codes for the arcade and plaza.

[FunkyK]

Nice skin!
I have a question though. When I create a new forum it does not appear in the right frame (on the home page) but rather takes space across the entire width. It also seems to be missing the borded around it.
I'd like to know if anybody else has that problem... ?

Thanks,

Funky Koval

[Andrew]

You need to create categories and add forums into the categories - Adding top level forums won't work with the category spacing mod.

[hotcomputers]

please can you tell me how to keep the left side of the website also in forums?

What template should i change?
i am new with vbulletin
i have clicked installed

thanks

[Andrew]

You would need to move the container table that I have around the forum list in the FORUMHOME template into the header and footer templatest. That would put the left column on all of the pages.

[VBUsers]

nevermind i see it now. thanks and great template!

edit: how is it that the adsense as a post doesnt work? when i add it it comes after every post instead of just the first in every thread. can you help with that?

[Andrew]

nevermind i see it now. thanks and great template!

edit: how is it that the adsense as a post doesnt work? when i add it it comes after every post instead of just the first in every thread. can you help with that?You need to use a conditional to show it after just the first post, but I can't remember what the conditional for that is. I know it's came up on here a lot, so you might try searching for "adsense conditional" to see what comes up.

[jcodemasters]

thank you looks great

[VBUsers]

You need to use a conditional to show it after just the first post, but I can't remember what the conditional for that is. I know it's came up on here a lot, so you might try searching for "adsense conditional" to see what comes up.


ok ill search for it thanks and its a great skin. hope someone helps me with this as well.

[chrisife]

You Didn't include hoe to install this skin? How do I? I am completely a newbie here

[Andrew]

I just added a link to installation instructions that I wrote a while back for vBulletin 3.0 - Not much has changed in the AdminCP since then, so they should still work the same.

[calfer]

I just added a link to installation instructions that I wrote a while back for vBulletin 3.0 - Not much has changed in the AdminCP since then, so they should still work the same.

I just followed your instructions, and most of the stuff works, however, there's still a lot of blue in the header, forum view, etc.

How would I get rid of that?

Thanks.

(also a noob to vB)

[Andrew]

Did you install the .XML file for the style ?

[calfer]

Did you install the .XML file for the style ?
I think so :confused:

I uploaded the xml file in the style & template manager - is there another step to take?

[Andrew]

Did you upload the images folder via FTP to your forum's root directory ?

[calfer]

Did you upload the images folder via FTP to your forum's root directory ?
I did.

Looking through the folder, I might know where the problem is (just not how to solve it).

in the Blaze folder (same folder that the images folder is in), there's some files called:
layout.html
small button.psd
subforums.psd
blanklogo.psd
large button.psd

etc

which directory should these be uploaded to?

[Andrew]

Those files don't get uploaded - Those are the Photoshop source files for making new buttons and stuff.

[calfer]

Those files don't get uploaded - Those are the Photoshop source files for making new buttons and stuff.
ok...I'll try it again pretty soon. Hopefully it works :)

[ChrisTech]

Actual install instructions are nice to have in each style folks post. Gotta remember, not everyone is a seasoned VB person. Some of us might have run vb for years, but never changed skins...full info helps...

[calfer]

ok...I'll try it again pretty soon. Hopefully it works :)
and I re-tried the skin, and it worked PERFECTLY! Looks fantastic - thanks for the skin!!

[KevinLiles]

Thank you.

[jyajay]

I activated the old version 2 postbit, just like on this forum. But the thread tables are broken and not in one straight line anymore. What can I do to fix that?

[Andrew]

There shouldn't be any problems with either of the postbits - I tested both of them before I released the style. Have you made any other changes to the templates ?

[jyajay]

I just changed the header code for adding a link for the advanced rule mod. But thats it.

If you browse through the forum as a guest or a normal member the tables are looking fine.

[buma]

Originally Posted by KevNJ
how can i remove the left side bar ?

The easiest way would be to revert the FORUMHOME template and then reapply the category spacing template mod to it from this threadthread (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123530&highlight=category+spacing).

first of all: great work! thank you. but i have problems getting rid of the side bar. i copied the original FORUMHOME template of the standard-skin into the Blaze FORUMHOME template. reloaded everything and the left "control panel" and forum statistics are gone. but where to login now? how can i get the "control panel"/login box back? maybe i can do it by following you second step: "then reapply the category spacing template mod to it from this thread". but i don't know what that means. i'm kinda new to alle of this. pls help. thx!

greetings

buma

[Andrew]

Oh - I forgot that I had placed the login/info panel into that left column. You'd have to move that back into the header or navbar templates most likely, but your starting to get into slightly more complicated territory.

[murdo]

would LOVE this if there was a blue version to substitute the red

[buma]

hi,

i have one question concerning your style and flashchat!

normaly in the standard style you have to edit "navbar" template.


"At this point, you should be able to edit some HTML code directly from within your web browser. Locate this text:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout"
onclick="return log_out()">$vbphrase[log_out]</a></td>


and insert "<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="chat/flashchat.php"
target="flashchat">FlashChat</a></td> ".

with the default style this is easy. but where in the "navbar" template of BLAZE do i have to put the line in? i can't locate the position :( maybe you can help?!


greetings

buma

[Andrew]

The navbar is located in the HEADER template - I literally just cut and pasted it from one to the other, so if you do the search in that template instead, you shouldn't have a problem finding it :)

[vwturbo]

You would need to move the container table that I have around the forum list in the FORUMHOME template into the header and footer templatest. That would put the left column on all of the pages.

Could you please elaborate on what chunk of code would need to be moved to get the sidebar to show on every page? Thanks!!!!!

[zell_11]

This actually matches my home skin lol

Thanks a lot

[VBUsers]

hey this style is great but if you can take a look at my forum the tables are broken up. how can i fix that? some forums show un even.

http://www.geekscore.com/forums/index.php

please let me know how i can fix that thank you.

[EragonSN]

Well, my first post xD

I got a few wishes; but I would first like to thank you for the Great Skin you Made :D

I would like to know howto add another Table, below the Forum Statistics, like on the forumlink that AR Forums posted.

I also got a small problem, there's a few images not shown, and I have no clue were the problem might be (see attachment),

look at the left side of the title "A few Addons/Updates" , and then you'll see, that the image source is somewere in a folder called "tren_z", but I can nowere find that folder in my vB forum Folder...

Any clue?

[Andrew]

Well, my first post xD

I got a few wishes; but I would first like to thank you for the Great Skin you Made :D

I would like to know howto add another Table, below the Forum Statistics, like on the forumlink that AR Forums posted.

I also got a small problem, there's a few images not shown, and I have no clue were the problem might be (see attachment),

look at the left side of the title "A few Addons/Updates" , and then you'll see, that the image source is somewere in a folder called "tren_z", but I can nowere find that folder in my vB forum Folder...

Any clue?You need to change the paths to your icons and smilies in the AdminCP - It looks like they're currently hard coded to point to another location from an older style.

[Andrew]

hey this style is great but if you can take a look at my forum the tables are broken up. how can i fix that? some forums show un even.

http://www.geekscore.com/forums/index.php

please let me know how i can fix that thank you.In the forumbit_level1_nopost template you can hard code the widths into the table columns. The only problem with that is you can easily send a table off the page if you have a thread title that is too long.

[EragonSN]

You need to change the paths to your icons and smilies in the AdminCP - It looks like they're currently hard coded to point to another location from an older style.

thanks, found the problem xD


and can you help me with my other request?

[Andrew]

You'd prolly need a plugin/mod of some sorts to display the other information that you were after - I don't think you can do that with just a template edit.

[EragonSN]

how did you first add them? I might be able (with alot of reading), to add one myself, by doing some template edit xD

or, AR Forums might be helpful, as it seams that you allready have added 2 additional boxes

[Andrew]

Oh - That's what you were wanting to create. Just open up the FORUMHOME and copy and paste one of the boxes that I already have there right below it. Then just change the content it of it to whatever you'd like.

[mustangdotcom]

I am getting a fixed width so when I browse with an 800x setting you have to scroll left/right.

The demo site handles resizing fine.
Any clues?

[Andrew]

There shouldn't be any problems with the style being fluid unless you've added content into the left tables that make them larger than the originals.

[VBUsers]

do you happen to havethe code to even the forums?

[chrisife]

Can somebody help me. The width of my forum home appears too large. It doesn't fit the display.

The forum is: http://www.nollywoodforum.com/forums.php

Thnx

[Andrew]

Can somebody help me. The width of my forum home appears too large. It doesn't fit the display.

The forum is: http://www.nollywoodforum.com/forums.php

ThnxYour problem is being caused by the humongous stats mod that you have installed - There's so much content in it, that it's taking up an easy 800px of page real estate, and it doesn't condense any further.

[chrisife]

Your problem is being caused by the humongous stats mod that you have installed - There's so much content in it, that it's taking up an easy 800px of page real estate, and it doesn't condense any further.

Disabled hack and display ok now.
Thnx:D

[VBUsers]

ok im getting this error from some of my members. can you let me know why?

[VBUsers]

ok im getting this error from some of my members. can you let me know why?
anything? i really need toget this fixed.

[Andrew]

My guess is you've created an issue with the table by adding those additional buttons to the bottom of the lefthand column (Not sure if that's a hack or what really.) If you disable/remove that addition, do you still have the problems ?

[VBUsers]

My guess is you've created an issue with the table by adding those additional buttons to the bottom of the lefthand column (Not sure if that's a hack or what really.) If you disable/remove that addition, do you still have the problems ?

yes the problem happened to me when i had a clean install (no hacks or mods added) and i looked at the site from my frends PC. he has a 15 inch monitor and IE6. then i went to my PC and thought it was just his. but i have members and staff telling me it is still going on. dont know why

[akirareiko]

I need this version 3.6.0...

[Andrew]

I need this version 3.6.0...I only support styles at the current vBulletin version - You'll need to upgrade to 3.6.1 or try using the 3.6.1 style on your 3.6.0 installation.

[WHMTalk]

Thanks a lot for such a great theme!

Could you please guide me how to put that left column on the right side of the main body?

Thanks!
Kind regards,
- Avinash

[SimonVlc]

Great design Andrew!!!

I found a little bug with private forums. They break the mail forum page for the users who have access to them.

Simon.

[aj510]

Andrew, fantastic design.

I just have one question. Would it be possible to make the usernames of posters link to their info etc? ie on the forum you click on a user in a thread and it displays a menu.

cheers,
AJ

[Andrew]

I don't understand what you mean by that - The big username in the postbit should already have the dropdown menu that allows you to send a pm, view their profile, etc...

[IncredibleHawk]

Good stuff!:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[bonjurkes]

skin is really cool and really good work but i have a problem

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

how can i fix it ?

[Andrew]

I honestly cannot determine what is causing that problem for some of you guys - I've been completely unable to recreate it on my dev forums, which leads me to believe it's being caused by one or a number of mods that affect the postbits somehow.

[jyajay]

I got another problem. If there are any hidden (private) forums, people like guests have a broken forum index.

The first is logged in as an administrator, the second is as a guest.

[Andrew]

Hmm - I'll look into that later today and release an update if needed.

[jyajay]

Ok, I figured out why the table is broken. I am hiding the users currently online for guests.

But I cannot find an error within your code.

[bonjurkes]

I honestly cannot determine what is causing that problem for some of you guys - I've been completely unable to recreate it on my dev forums, which leads me to believe it's being caused by one or a number of mods that affect the postbits somehow.


the problem is infraction.gif . It seems fine when you post because you cant give infraction to yourself, it seems fine when you look the board as member, because members cant see infration button.

I changed the button with the vb's default yellow/red card and everything turn back to normal ;)

[obmob]

Oh, this one is different, i like it :)

[MRGTB]

I like your Horcrux skin andrew. very nice indeed. Were can that be downloaded?

[Andrew]

That was a custom job for a long-time client of mine, so it is not available for download or sale.

[Andrew]

the problem is infraction.gif . It seems fine when you post because you cant give infraction to yourself, it seems fine when you look the board as member, because members cant see infration button.

I changed the button with the vb's default yellow/red card and everything turn back to normal ;)Ok - I'll look into making a smaller version of this that still matches this style this weekend (I've actually still not been able to recreate the problem myself, but oh well.)

[Shana]

Could you please upgrade this to vbulletin 3.6.2?

[Andrew]

I plan on it when I have some free time tomorrow, but for now, the 3.6.1 XML file will work fine with 3.6.2 (Just click the little override button when you go to upload it.)

[Shana]

Oh ok! Thanks :D.

EDIT:// Is there anyway to make it so the profile is on the left hand side- and not the top?

[ABeautifulBrown]

You are awesome! Amazing template!

[Andrew]

Oh ok! Thanks :D.

EDIT:// Is there anyway to make it so the profile is on the left hand side- and not the top?Yeah - It's just an option called "Legacy Postbit" that you can turn on and off from:

vBulletin Options => vBulletin Options => Style and Language Settings

[rps_1984]

Great style, it fits very well with our website :)

There does seem to be an issue with either the way we have vB setup, or your style. This problem only happens when we use the Blaze style.

See the bottom area here: http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/723/forumstyleissuews9.jpg

We're running the latest version of vB.

[Andrew]

I just updated the .XML file with a fix for your issue - Upload the new one and you should be all set (I accidentally started the second part of that table within an IF statement, so when you disabled that portion, it didn't create the tables properly.)

[rps_1984]

Works great!!

Does the Your Index link at the bottom need to stay a link? The OP says "you retain the small promotional message in the footer" which to me means the text needs to stay. The message still displays even without it being a link.

Also, I moved it down to the bottom where the other notices are at. I think it looks a little bit better when the link displays in that specific section.

Thanks again! Once our site is up I plan on sending you a PM, I don't think you have any idea how well this style fits with our overall website.

[Wunderbar]

beautiful style! Installed!

Quick question though. If I wanted to change the color scheme, how would I go about that? Probably a horribly noob question, but I'm racking my brain trying to figure that out, haha.

Also, I'm curious if you could assist with the editing of the navbar. I'd like to add a "home" button to it since I use vbAdvanced CMPS. I was looking in the navbar template, but couldn't see what exactly I needed to do. Any thoughts?

[Wunderbar]

anyone? Plz? :(

[jyajay]

Works great!!

Does the Your Index link at the bottom need to stay a link? The OP says "you retain the small promotional message in the footer" which to me means the text needs to stay. The message still displays even without it being a link.

I was asking me about the same question because this site looks like a parked page with a lot of "usual" spam links. I'd find it a better solution if I can link to a site where you present your work.

Tell us what you think about that.

[harmor19]

Great style but may I suggest you make the links darker? I changed them to "#970000" and it's a lot easier on the eyes.

[Andrew]

Does the Your Index link at the bottom need to stay a link? The OP says "you retain the small promotional message in the footer" which to me means the text needs to stay. The message still displays even without it being a link.

Also, I moved it down to the bottom where the other notices are at. I think it looks a little bit better when the link displays in that specific section.Yes - That link needs to stay in the style, but you are more than welcome to move it to another section as you did.Great style but may I suggest you make the links darker? I changed them to "#970000" and it's a lot easier on the eyes.That's a very small change, which people can do themselves after installation if they choose to do so.anyone? Plz? :(Changing the color scheme of this wouldn't be a quick or easy job, as a lot of the color comes from the images. I don't have the time right now to undertake such a project myself, unless it was a paid service request (Too much going on with school, being in Europe, and my other jobs to be doing free work right now.)

[[email protected] vbmenu_register("postmenu_1099417", true);]

nice design

[mcipdns]

Hello,

Love the design, but I have two problems I can't seem to fix:

1.) Where and how exactly do I modify the header/footer templates so that the login box and forum stats stays up throughout the forum?

2.) How would I put banner ads below the "Users currently browsing" box?

So far, I've succeeded in inserting them in all the wrong places....any help would be appreciated.

[angisson]

I was going to ask a question like the one he asked.

I am wanting to make the sidebar go through out my Teen Forums (http://www.4teensonly.com) is there a simple way of doing so?

I really think it looks better being on all the pages, so if you could help me, I would thank you bunches ;)

[Viper007Bond]

Wow, what an awesome style! Definitely gonna use this one as the default for my forum once we customize it a little bit to our liking. Thanks! :D

[JimmyN]

thanks, very nice work on this :)

[jyajay]

I noticed that on IE7 Final the footer moved to the middle of the site on pages which don't require a scrollbar:

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/1821/wijwotrrar9.th.png (http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wijwotrrar9.png)
(taken from your live demo)

[Andrew]

Yeah - My xHTML and CSS is perfect acording to the W3C validators, so I would guess that Microsoft has rewritten their own version of the HTML standards yet again. I'm only using Linux at the moment, so I can't get onto an IE7 installation to try and fix it until I get back home in December.

[Ophelia]

Has anyone had issues with 403 errors when they have installed this style? We have it installed and members are now stating that they are getting random 403 errors when they try to access areas in the forum. I've had the same issue, so I know it's happening. You'll click on say "New Posts" and it will give you a 403 error.. refresh the screen a couple times, and it goes away.

[Andrew]

Adding a style wouldn't cause 403 errors - I would assume it's more along the lines of a problem with your server.

[Ophelia]

It's only happening with this style though. If I turn it back to the one we had before this, we have no issues at all... turn it back to this style, start getting the 403 errors again.

[Andrew]

Anybody else having an issue like this ? I spent a while on my dev forums from a variety of machines that I have access to, and I couldn't get any kind of error. It could also be some sort of disagreement between the style and a mod/hack that you have installed, but again, I don't really have much insight on resolving something like that.

[harmor19]

Here is the "Thanks" image for the "Thank You" hack for the people who do not have Photoshop.

[Andrew]

Thanks for creating and posting that (No pun intended) - I'm sure a number of people lacking Photoshop will appreciate it.

[mcipdns]

But again....how would I fix it so that the control panel, and forums stats stay on the left throughout the entire forums? And how could I fix it so that banner ads could go below the forums stats?

I've tried to insert the code in the style manager, but keep putting it in the wrong place...

.... little help?

[Andrew]

Moving the sidebar into the header and footer would be quite an intensive process really, which I can't easily explain here in a post. You'd basically have to move the table that contains all that info from the FORUMHOME template into the header and footer templates. I'm also not sure if the statistics portion will work on any page besides the forum homepage, so even if you move it, that section might only work on certain pages unless you're able to right a plugin that can pull the information you need on every page. If I wasn't swamped with school and work right now, I'd be more than happy to help, but I doubt I will have any free time until the term ends in December.

As for the ads in that column, you'd just have to copy and paste one of the tables that's in the FORUMHOME template below itself and just change the title of it and the HTML content.

[Andrew]

The .XML file has been updated to vBulletin 3.6.3, but there weren't any changes in the templates.

[Ophelia]

The .XML file has been updated to vBulletin 3.6.3, but there weren't any changes in the templates.

When installing it states:

This file was created using a different version of vBulletin from the one you are running.

Your version: 3.6.2
File version: 3.6.3

[Andrew]

Yeah - You're running a vBulletin 3.6.2 installation, which is why you're getting the error. You either need to upgrade to vBulletin 3.6.3 or check the little box that says something about ignoring the file version (There weren't any changes between 3.6.2 and 3.6.3, so it will work just fine.)

[jyajay]

Hi Andrew,

I installed Firefox 2 and checked my board and your demo again - got the same thing here also. So it can't be only IE7 related. (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0)

[Viper007Bond]

Well in IE6, I have to scroll down to actually see the footer bar, even if the content is really short.

Which is odd, because it should render as it does in FF & IE7 -- at the bottom of the content rather than the bottom of the page.

[rcristel]

I installed this skin and after I added forum categories it appears that the 2nd set of forum categories are all messed up...

See the error here: http://www.playstation3forums.com/forums/

VB version 3.6.3

[jyajay]

I'd guess that you don't have a parent category for the 'Other Stuff' forum and whats under that. Just create a category for that.

[rcristel]

hmm... But the "Other Stuff" category is a main category and as far as I understand it their shouldn't be a parent category on "Main" categories...

take a peak at the screenshots as to how the categories look from vb admin...

[AnimalLover21]

im recently returning to this whole VB thing and i've just upgraded to the newest version and this forum style ties in really well with my current website design so ive installed but im either missing a mod that needs to be added or something but the left hand section does seem to align right? this is a fresh install of everything pretty much, i removed all files, redid all the new ones then it updated all my databases. can you advise as to what im missing or something i need to change? thanks

http://www.supadubs.com/forum/index.php

[jyajay]

Did you really set "Act as Forum" to no on your first forums?

[rcristel]

I'd guess that you don't have a parent category for the 'Other Stuff' forum and whats under that. Just create a category for that.

I had the "Act as forum" field checked and that seemed to be what was causing the problem. I just unchecked the box and now it seems to be working fine...

[MustangLisa]

This looks awesome, thanks!!

[sdzwb]

not bad
well done bro

[tomkh25]

skin is really cool and really good work but i have a problem

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/3990/houstonproblemkl9.jpg

how can i fix it ?

The solution for this is very simple for IE.
In the postbit_legacy is writen for this colume "width=175px".
And a small calculation, the buttons are bigger then that together. And IE is a little bit dumber then Mozilla. He can't make a new line. That is the problem.

Change this line in postbit_legacy

Before:

</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td class="alt2" align="left" width="175px" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 0px; border-bottom: 0px">



After:

</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td class="alt2" align="left" width="20%" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid $stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]; border-top: 0px; border-bottom: 0px">

Gr, Tom

[Andrew]

Thanks for the info Tom - I'll look into adding that fix to the actual style when I release the next update.

[Distance]

Installed vbimage host and the top bar where the vbimage host dropdown menu is.. its all grey?

Edit. it does this with all navbar edits?,,

[keithsan]

Thanks for the info Tom - I'll look into adding that fix to the actual style when I release the next update.

Just put your style on my main board, but its not the same...

looks to be different colors in posts as well as background:

www.thepennystockblog.com/bulletinboard

I'm assuming its something i screwed up but can't figure out what or where.

Any ideas.

[Andrew]

My guess is you uploaded the images to the wrong place - All you needed to do was upload the images folder in the archive over top of the images folder that was already there. It'll add the correct directory structure for it to work then.

[keithsan]

My guess is you uploaded the images to the wrong place - All you needed to do was upload the images folder in the archive over top of the images folder that was already there. It'll add the correct directory structure for it to work then.


I uploaded all the files in the images file directly into the immage file on my board/root.

for a second try I uploaded the blaze folder into the image section. So now under images I have a folder called blaze.

I was thinking I brought the contents to far up the ladder and should've left the blaze folder. Maybe one of them didnt upload I'll go mess around.

[keithsan]

messed around with it. couldnt fix it. re- uploaded everything again but nothing changed. I get the feeling I uploaded everything one level to far altering my original vb to look part blaze, part vb orig, and not all files were allowed to be transfered for names or whatever reason..

Think I'll just switch styles see If i can get a different one integrated correctly.
Maybe I can just return to the orig.

once I figure this all out, I'll upload it again as I like it.

[GFX Brands]

is there any way i can have the side bar on the opposite side?

[Andrew]

The .XML file has been updated to 3.6.4, but there have still been no template changes since 3.6.2 was released.

[GFX Brands]

The .XML file has been updated to 3.6.4, but there have still been no template changes since 3.6.2 was released.

could you tell me how to put the sider bar to the opposite side please:cool:

[Distance]

When i add a new hack in the navbar the new link in the navbar is grey

how to change this?

[Andrew]

could you tell me how to put the sider bar to the opposite side please:cool:You'd need to move that column of the table in the FORUMHOME template to the other side.

When i add a new hack in the navbar the new link in the navbar is grey

how to change this?You need to change the class to vbmenu_control_alt to get the navbar class with the transparent background. An easier way would just be to copy and paste one of the existing links and change it to what you need for the hack.

[RealRnB]

thanks for sharing

[Ghostspy]

that goes great with my site

[GFX Brands]

You'd need to move that column of the table in the FORUMHOME template to the other side.

You need to change the class to vbmenu_control_alt to get the navbar class with the transparent background. An easier way would just be to copy and paste one of the existing links and change it to what you need for the hack.


can you show me how please i really would love it to the other side:classic:

[Distance]

Hey dude i have this installed but there is a problem with one of the images..

For reputation..

Positive
http://www.epicdesignz.com/testvb36/images/blaze/reputation/reputation_pos.gif
(http://www.epicdesignz.com/testvb36/images/blaze/reputation/reputation_pos.gif)

and

Negative
http://www.epicdesignz.com/testvb36/images/blaze/reputation/reputation_neg.gif
(http://www.epicdesignz.com/testvb36/images/blaze/reputation/reputation_neg.gif)

buttons are both the same.

[Andrew]

No - One has a minus sign on it, and one has a plus sign on it.

[Distance]

I see.. my members got confused by this.. so i just replaced it with a red one, but its not exactly the same shape 0.o

[stako]

Hello to everybody,

I'm having some issues with this and another style created by Andrew, vBadvanced is the problem, all main forum pages are ok. You can check out the following links to see what I am talkin about:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1141556&postcount=168

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1142058&postcount=170

Thought I'd post these in here too just in case someone has allready resolved these for Blaze.....

Any ideas are welcome, thanks....

PS. Both styles are awesome and working 100% perfect with vBulletin forum, its just stupid vBadvanced that's causing me problems.

[stako]

Ok, problem fixed, some times you miss THE moste obvious things.....

It turns out the path (for whatever reason) in the vBadvanced page for all these images was incorrect, I just copied the images where it looks for them and now all is ok... Not exactly the best solution but it works so its ok! :)

[RFViet]

I don't want side columns, How do I get rid of them ??

[Ravencroft]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet style, thank you so much!

[Andrew]

I don't want side columns, How do I get rid of them ??It can be removed from the forumhome template, although you'll have to modify the navbar and forumhome template to put some of the things back that I moved there.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet style, thank you so much!Don't mention it :D

[Frimon86]

Cool design

[Ronak]

could i have the forumhome code without left side bar

[ben07]

How can I get this in XML vBulletin 3.6.2?

[stako]

Could someone tell me how can I add a link to the forum home in the header when someone clicks on the logo???

Thanks :)

[Luky]

How to get all online stats to the right hand column of the homepage!
Demo (http://www.alchemist-team.net/vb/index.php)
Open the template manager and in titles search: FORUMHOME and replace with this code (TAKE A BACKUP OF OLD CODE: ctrl+a ctrl+c open note pad ctrl+v)

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<!-- no cache headers -->
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
<!-- end no cache headers -->
$headinclude
<title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase></title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar

<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td width="250" valign="top" style="padding-right: 15px;">
<table cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border: 1px solid #000000;">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2"><if condition="$show['guest']">Login<else />Control Panel</if></td>
</tr>
</thead>
</table>
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-top: 0px;">
<tr>
<td class="alt1">
<if condition="$show['member']">

<div class="smallfont">
<strong><phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[welcome_x]</phrase></strong><br />
<phrase 1="$pmbox[lastvisitdate]" 2="$pmbox[lastvisittime]">$vbphrase[last_visited_x_at_y]</phrase>
<if condition="$show['pmstats']"><br /><phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase></if>
<if condition="$show['pmwarning']"><br /><strong><phrase 1="$vbphrase[pmpercent_nav_compiled]">$vbphrase[your_pm_box_is_x_full]</phrase></strong></if>
</div>

<else />

<!-- login form -->
<form action="login.php?do=login" method="post" onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password, vb_login_md5password, vb_login_md5password_utf, $show[nopasswordempty])">
<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="smallfont" nowrap="nowrap"><label for="navbar_username">$vbphrase[username]:</label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="vb_login_username" id="navbar_username" size="20" accesskey="u" tabindex="101" value="$vbphrase[username]" onfocus="if (this.value == '$vbphrase[username]') this.value = '';" class="textfield" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="smallfont" nowrap="nowrap"><label for="navbar_password">$vbphrase[password]:</label></td>
<td><input type="password" name="vb_login_password" id="navbar_password" size="20" tabindex="102" class="textfield" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" class="smallfont" align="center"><label for="cb_cookieuser_navbar"><input type="checkbox" name="cookieuser" value="1" tabindex="103" id="cb_cookieuser_navbar" accesskey="c" />$vbphrase[remember_me]</label> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="submit" value="$vbphrase[log_in]" tabindex="104" title="$vbphrase[enter_username_to_login_or_register]" accesskey="s" class="textfield" /></td>
<tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="login" />
<input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password" />
<input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password_utf" />
</form>
<!-- / login form -->

</if>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

<br />

<table cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border: 1px solid #000000;">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2">Forum Statistics</td>
</tr>
</thead>
</table>
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-top: 0px;">
<tr>
<td class="alt1">
<div class="smallfont">
<strong>Forum Members:</strong> $numbermembers<br />
<strong>Total Threads:</strong> $totalthreads<br />
<strong>Total Posts:</strong> $totalposts<br />
<strong>Online:</strong> $totalonline (<phrase 1="$numberregistered" 2="$numberguest">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase>)<br />
<strong>Members Online Now:</strong> $activeusers
<br />
<strong>Most Members Online:</strong> <phrase 1="$recordusers" 2="$recorddate" 3="$recordtime">$vbphrase[most_users_ever_online_was_x_y_at_z]</phrase><br />
<strong>Members Visited Today:</strong> $whotoday<br />

</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top">
<!-- main -->

<!-- guest welcome message -->
<if condition="$show['guest']">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[welcome_to_the_x]</phrase></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><phrase 1="faq.php?$session[sessionurl]" 2="register.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[first_visit_message]</phrase></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
</if>
<!-- / guest welcome message -->

$forumbits

<!-- /main -->

<!-- what's going on box -->
<table cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border: 1px solid #000000;">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2">$vbphrase[whats_going_on]</td>
</tr>
</thead>
</table>
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-top: 0px;">
<!-- today's birthdays -->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_birthdays')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
$vbphrase[todays_birthdays]
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getday&amp;day=$today&amp;sb=1"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/birthday.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_birthdays]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$birthdays</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<!-- end today's birthdays -->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_events')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_events" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_events].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<if condition="$show['todaysevents']">$vbphrase[todays_events]<else /><phrase 1="$vboptions[showevents]">$vbphrase[upcoming_events_for_the_next_x_days]</phrase></if>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_events" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_events]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/calendar.gif" alt="$vbphrase[calendar]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$upcomingevents</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_key')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_key" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_key].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
Forum Key
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_key" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_key]">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" class="alt2">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="33%" align="center"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_new.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_new_posts]" border="0" /><br /><div class="smallfont">$vbphrase[forum_contains_new_posts]</div></td>
<td width="34%" align="center"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_no_new_posts]" border="0" /><br /><div class="smallfont">$vbphrase[forum_contains_no_new_posts]</div></td>
<td width="33%" align="center"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old_lock.gif" alt="$vbphrase[a_closed_forum]" border="0" /><br /><div class="smallfont">$vbphrase[forum_is_closed_for_posting]</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tr>
<td class="tfoot" align="center" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>">
<div class="smallfont"><strong>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]do=markread">$vbphrase[mark_forums_read]</a>
&nbsp; &nbsp;
<a href="showgroups.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[view_forum_leaders]</a>
</strong></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<!-- end what's going on box -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>

$footer
</body>
</html>

This needs to ahve the mod, Visitors today. in Blaze, find the visitors today file by searching for $whotoday and replacing all contents of that file with nothing. Don't delete it, just empty it :D

P.S It may look better if you remove 'Most users ever online was ' from that most users online phrase, but it may not look as good on other themes, so trial and error is the way to go!

I hope you like my minor mod for this skin, i suck at PHP!

This skin rocks.

EDIT: Oh and i did try to add members who posted today aswell, but it made it look realy bad as it repeated alot of names, it also looked fake.

[unenergizer]

I really like this one Andrew. Great Job! It would be nice if I could creat styles as popular as yours! Great work!

Andrew B.

[ben07]

Could someone provide the XML for vb 3.6.2?

[Luky]

Could someone provide the XML for vb 3.6.2?
Time to upgrade my friend!

[Andrew]

I only support the current version of vBulletin with my styles, so I don't save the previous versions of the .XML file unfortunately. If somebody doesn't have them, then you might have to upgrade or try and import the newer version of the style and check for error (A lot of times it will still work - You just might have to do a couple of quick template edits to get it to 100% functionality.)

[got3n]

Nvm Fixed.

[ben07]

Ok, I've upgraded and I was hoping if you could help me with one more thing.

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5391/image3kk5.jpg
How do I move the Control Panel section to be moved liked the one pictured below?

[TexasBlake]

Last night I began making the change after 4 years of phpBB to vBulletin. I was VERY excited to see this theme, as it is almost identical to the color scheme on our main index webpage: www.texasbbqrub.com


However. I'm having a problem with the forum right now. it seems like it is not displaying the footer or header backgrounds. Unless template.html goes somewhere, but in one of the posts in this 11 page thread I read that it's jsut for personal use.

Here is the vBulletin site I am working on http://www.texasbbqrub.com/forum/

Anyone have any pointers? I'm pretty new to vBulletin and I wanted to get the theme set up before I do anything else so I can see how it looks. Thanks in advance.

[Andrew]

Somewhere in your vBulletin options you have a trailing forward slash after your forum URL. If you look at the source code it's looking for http://forum.texasbbqrub.com//images/blaze/header_background.gif, which has two forward slashes at the end of the URL.

[TexasBlake]

Perhaps the subdomain is part of the problem too. Either the subdomain isn't set up correctly or it is still taking time in DNS because http://forum.texasbbqrub.com goes straight to my index and not to the forum. Thank you. I will try to remove the trailing slash and see if that fixes it.

[TexasBlake]

Got it to work Thanks! I didn't think to check the page source because I didn't know if the header and footer would be reflected. Beautiful!

[gnurb]

I'm using this on my new iphone forum (http://iphoneunderground.com) thanks alot!!!

[Rocket 442]

First I'd like to say its a great theme, and looks very professional.

I am having a problem with my site showing the footer_background.gif on the index ONLY. It shows in the UserCP as well as forums and threads, but not on the index. The Header background shows however. I don't have any modifications or anything else installed besides this style.

I'm not good at all with coding, sorry.

[Andrew]

Could you link me to the site, so I can see the issue firsthand ?

[Rocket 442]

<a href="http://www.fbodyonline.com" target="_blank">www.fbodyonline.com</a>

[Andrew]

Where you put that forum sponsors section into your homepage you closed the table containing it twice. That involuntarily closed the main table, which is why that background isn't showing up I think.

[marco22]

Hi Andrew. I would like to know how did you manage to get the google adsense in there. I cant get it working. I want to pud a banner that rotaes in there. 468x60 :) before i decide to keep this

thanks

[Andrew]

I just put it directly in the empty table cell that's located in the header template.

[marco22]

can you please paste the code here. i would really appriciate it, i cant find the cell :(

[marco22]

Andrew Can you please tell me where to put that on my header. I canr figer it out

[marco22]

Hi this is the top part of the header in this template. Can anyone tell me where to put the google adsense or a banner 468x60 so it appears same as in the demo from epic designs. Demo here (http://www.epicdesignz.com/testvb36/?styleid=6)

<!-- logo -->
<a name="top"></a>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="fullheight">
<tr>
<td height="105" style="background: url($vboptions[bburl]/images/blaze/header_background.gif)"><img src="images/blaze/logo.gif" width="340" height="105" border="0" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="31" style="background: url($vboptions[bburl]/images/blaze/navbar_background.gif)" align="center">
<!-- nav buttons bar -->
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="95%" align="center">
<tr align="center">


Your help is very much appriciated

[Andrew]

Here ya go - Things have been busy here, which is why my hacks are marked unsupported (Too much going on with school and work to be able to provide full support for them):

<!-- logo -->
<a name="top"></a>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="fullheight">
<tr>
<td height="105" width="340" style="background: url($vboptions[bburl]/images/blaze/header_background.gif)"><img src="images/blaze/logo.gif" width="340" height="105" border="0" /></td>
<td height="105" width="100%" style="background: url($vboptions[bburl]/images/blaze/header_background.gif); padding-right: 15px;">
<!-- Put Your Advertisement Code Here -->
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="31" style="background: url($vboptions[bburl]/images/blaze/navbar_background.gif)" align="center">
<!-- nav buttons bar -->
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="95%" align="center">
<tr align="center">

[TexasBlake]

The easiest way would be to revert the FORUMHOME template and then reapply the category spacing template mod to it from this thread (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123530&highlight=category+spacing).

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. But I'm trying to get the log in stuff on the top.


I go to my styles and templates. Go to FORUMHOME and push the revert button. Then I go to that Category Spacing mod and do what that says.

My log in box completely disappears. I've done this 4-5 times now to see if maybe I'm missing something in the directions. But I'm just trying to follow what your quote says.

Here is what FORUMHOME looks like:


$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<!-- no cache headers -->
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
<!-- end no cache headers -->
$headinclude
<title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase></title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar

<!-- main -->
<if condition="$show['guest']">
<!-- guest welcome message -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[welcome_to_the_x]</phrase></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>">
<phrase 1="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" 2="register.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[first_visit_message]</phrase>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
</table><br />
<!-- / guest welcome message -->
</if>
$forumbits
$forumhome_markread_script
<!-- /main -->

<br />
<br />

<!-- what's going on box -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2">$vbphrase[whats_going_on]</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<if condition="$show['loggedinusers']">
<!-- logged-in users -->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_activeusers')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<a href="online.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[currently_active_users]</a>: $totalonline (<phrase 1="$numberregistered" 2="$numberguest">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase>)
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="online.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/whos_online.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_whos_online]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%">
<div class="smallfont">
<div style="white-space: nowrap"><phrase 1="$recordusers" 2="$recorddate" 3="$recordtime">$vbphrase[most_users_ever_online_was_x_y_at_z]</phrase></div>
<div>$activeusers</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<!-- end logged-in users -->
</if>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_stats')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_stats" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_stats].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_stats" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_stats]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/stats.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>" border="0" /></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%">
<div class="smallfont">
<div>
$vbphrase[threads]: $totalthreads,
$vbphrase[posts]: $totalposts,
$vbphrase[members]: $numbermembers<if condition="$show['activemembers']">,
<span title="<phrase 1="$vboptions[activememberdays]">$vbphrase[within_the_last_x_days]</phrase>">$vbphrase[active_members]: $activemembers</span>
</if>
</div>
<div><phrase 1="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$newuserid" 2="$newusername">$vbphrase[welcome_to_our_newest_member_x]</phrase></div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<if condition="$show['birthdays']">
<!-- today's birthdays -->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_birthdays')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
$vbphrase[todays_birthdays]
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getday&amp;day=$today&amp;sb=1"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/birthday.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_birthdays]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$birthdays</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<!-- end today's birthdays -->
</if>
<if condition="$show['upcomingevents']">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_events')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_events" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_events].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<if condition="$show['todaysevents']">$vbphrase[todays_events]<else /><phrase 1="$vboptions[showevents]">$vbphrase[upcoming_events_for_the_next_x_days]</phrase></if>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_events" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_events]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/calendar.gif" alt="$vbphrase[calendar]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$upcomingevents</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</if>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="tfoot" align="center" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><div class="smallfont"><strong>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]do=markread" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[mark_forums_read]</a>
<if condition="$vboptions['forumleaders']">&nbsp; &nbsp;
<a href="showgroups.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[view_forum_leaders]</a></if>
</strong></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
<!-- end what's going on box -->

<!-- icons and login code -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" border="0" width="100%">
<tr valign="bottom">
<td>
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_new.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_contains_new_posts]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_no_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_contains_no_new_posts]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old_lock.gif" alt="$vbphrase[a_closed_forum]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_is_closed_for_posting]</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<if condition="!$show['guest']">
<!-- member logout -->
<td align="$stylevar[right]"><a href="login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout&amp;logouthash=$bbuserinfo[logouthash]" onclick="return log_out()"><phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[log_out_x]</phrase></a></td>
<!-- end member logout -->
</if>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- / icons and login code -->

$footer
</body>
</html>

[Eclipsed830]

Is their an easy way of removing that side bar, and having it like the normal VB? If not, how much would you charge to make this happen?

[Andrew]

It's not so much that it's not an easy change, it's just a time consuming change when it comes to reworking the templates. If you're interested in paying to have it done, send me a PM, and we can work out the details. I just have too much going on right now to take the time and do it for free.

[dadimes]

Hey,
Nice Style, I really like it :)

One question, is there any way to have the banner centered in teh page?

Thanks

[kohz87]

great theme, just wondering if there will be blue color version lol

[Andrew]

Hey,
Nice Style, I really like it :)

One question, is there any way to have the banner centered in teh page?

ThanksI assume you're referring to the logo ? If so, then all you have to do is change the alignment of it's table cell to center.

great theme, just wondering if there will be blue color version lolDoubtful - I just don't have the time right now to start recoloring things. If you have Photoshop and a couple of hours, it's really not that hard to do on your own, as I've included all of the .PSD's.

[dadimes]

I assume you're referring to the logo ? If so, then all you have to do is change the alignment of it's table cell to center.


Yeah. Thanks, I can't believe what a n00b question that was lol

[2 FN LOW]

could you please tell me how i set the option off for user to upload images to my forum...

Allow [IMG] Code Yes
Can Upload Images for Signature Yes
Can Upload Animated GIF for Signature Yes

allowing [IMG] is fine with me, i dont mind signature pictures...I however do not want to allow the option to upload them to my server...How do i shut this off? Is this a part of your template or is it a VB thing that should be asked on their main forum?

[2 FN LOW]

Also....Seems like im having a problem with the sections...I created to main sections with a few sub forums...I then went to create a 3rd section with some more sub forums and it seems as if a table doesnt want to forum around it like the rest...I can add sub forums to the other 2 sections with no problems but when i try to start a new section i get nothin but problems..

heres a screen shot of what im talking about...anyway to fix this or do i need to stick to 2 sections only?

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/4974/notableszr0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[GGamers]

same as what i get? please help i do liek this skin

[Marco]

Just chiming in to say this style is great! I'm using it at my forum, although I've modified it to my liking:

http://forums.totallyre.com/

Thanks so much for providing this nice, free style. :)

[Phoxtrot]

I also recieved the same error as the other two people, although I appreciate the skin it is very pretty
Update:Fixed my issue, turns out I made the forum a forum instead of a catergory, by the way the skin is awesome

[Pixelrage]

is it possible to add an adsense box to that left bar? Great job on this skin.

[Raize]

I know this is a long shot, but none of the background images in this style are showing when I install on vb 3.6.4 Anything I can check or do to make them work? The link to the image seems valid (I went to page source and pasted the link to header_background.gif in a new browser window and it showed up no problem).

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2007/03/1.jpg

I really like this skin so I'm willing to pay someone to fix this for me. Email or msn at simonr604@hotmail.com

[hokar86]

whuao very good works ;)

[oceanizer]

Great style! I'm really loving it, even though I modified a lot to make it more of blue-themed.

One problem that I have though, I can't get "Last Post" column to have same width on IE. It works fine on FireFox and Safari, but for some reason, the width goes really wide on IE. Does anyone know the solution for this?

Screenshots are attached. Thanks in advance!

[cobaltcoupe]

Hey guys! I'm kind of new to this, and I love this theme ... I installed it and now some of the links in the navbar are not working ... also, im trying to add forum to the navbar ... can someone please help me out and let me know how to fix it? Thanks guys.

My Site: www.cobaltcoupe.net (http://www.cobaltcoupe.net)

[ro_manuel]

If, Anyone Is Having A Hard Time To Integrate AddonChat with this Style please PM and I will have it fixed quickly. This Style is missing something that the AddonChat is asking for editing and adding. So basicly its impossible to integrate the chat. The only thing you will see is the button "Chat Room" but when clicked would not do anything.

[713JunctionP]

how the heck do I install this into my vbulletin 3.6.5??? PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!

[ansuk]

Great skin - thank you! Can anyone advise please how to make the logo clickable?

[raiderlax]

Great skin - thank you! Can anyone advise please how to make the logo clickable?

To make logo clickable edit this in your header tempate in "Common Templates"

<a href="http://yoursite.com"><img title="Logo" src="images/blaze/logo.jpg" alt="Logo" border="0" height="86" width="576"></a>


Make sure to change the width/height.

[raiderlax]

how the heck do I install this into my vbulletin 3.6.5??? PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!

If you need help PM me.

[raiderlax]

I know this is a long shot, but none of the background images in this style are showing when I install on vb 3.6.4 Anything I can check or do to make them work? The link to the image seems valid (I went to page source and pasted the link to header_background.gif in a new browser window and it showed up no problem).

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2007/03/1.jpg

I really like this skin so I'm willing to pay someone to fix this for me. Email or msn at simonr604@hotmail.com

If you want help, I'll help you PM me.

[raiderlax]

is it possible to add an adsense box to that left bar? Great job on this skin.


Yup put this code in your "FORUMHOME" template after one of the </table> boxes, the code:

<table style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>

<td class="tcat" colspan="2">Adsense</td>
</tr>
</thead>
</table>
<table class="tborder" style="border-top: 0px none;" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" width="100%">
<tbody><tr>
<td class="alt1">
<div class="smallfont">



ADSENSE CODE HERE HERE HERE HERE




</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>

[blogtorank]

Nice design and very clean!

Thanks

[cobaltcoupe]

Hey guys. I installed this great template and I want to put my own logo on the top. Now behind where it says "Insert Logo Here" I noticed that it's not black. Does anyone know the color code for this so I can make a logo that blends in to the background?

[raiderlax]

Hey guys. I installed this great template and I want to put my own logo on the top. Now behind where it says "Insert Logo Here" I noticed that it's not black. Does anyone know the color code for this so I can make a logo that blends in to the background?

#343434

[cobaltcoupe]

#343434

Thank you. And do you know how big the top banner can be as far as width is concerned?

[raiderlax]

Well it really depends on how you want it, change the width/height of the image as well as where it is located on the sever. Find this in the "header" template in the common templates.

You decide with and height.

[cobaltcoupe]

Well it really depends on how you want it, change the width/height of the image as well as where it is located on the sever. Find this in the "header" template in the common templates.

You decide with and height.

Can you please be more specific? What do I have to change to allow a bigger logo? Sorry, I am new to this.

[raiderlax]

In your "header" template under common templates you'll see this <!-- logo -->
<a name="top"></a>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="fullheight">
<tr>
<td height="86" style="background: url($vboptions/images/blaze/header_background.gif)"><a href="http://site.com"><img title="Logo" [B]src="images/blaze/logo.jpg" alt="Logo" border="0" height="86" width="576"></a></td>

See the bold width and height, you can change that to what your logo's width and height is as well as where the logo is situated aswell in the bold

height="86" width="576

If ya need help I could change it for you or just give me the code, it depends on what you want your logo to be size wize:)

[cobaltcoupe]

In your "header" template under common templates you'll see this <!-- logo -->
<a name="top"></a>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="fullheight">
<tr>
<td height="86" style="background: url($vboptions/images/blaze/header_background.gif)"><a href="http://site.com"><img title="Logo" [B]src="images/blaze/logo.jpg" alt="Logo" border="0" height="86" width="576"></a></td>

See the bold width and height, you can change that to what your logo's width and height is as well as where the logo is situated aswell in the bold

height="86" width="576

If ya need help I could change it for you or just give me the code, it depends on what you want your logo to be size wize:)

Ok, thank you very much.

[raiderlax]

No problem.:)

[verrin]

Where do you upload this to and what folder? I've had problems with this skin before. I uploaded last time and it installed properly. Now I have uploaded it again with a fresh install and I have issues with my navbar and banner that come default with this skin: They are not appearing.

[raiderlax]

You upload the folder "blaze" to your images folder, what vb are you running?

[713JunctionP]

Ok, I installed this style and I love it! However, I have three important questions:

1) How can I add the whole PM box that's on the left side of the screen to show up on the top right (inside the same box with the root folders like the pm box is on default style)? The PM box showing up on the left is fine as-is for the forum home page but once you leave the homepage to view threads/posts I would like the PM box to appear inside the root folder box on the top right like the default style, that way, users don't have to go all the way back to the forum homepage everytime to check for new PM's.

2) I noticed that there have been plus signs (+) after each username that's logged in (stats box at the bottom). Is there a way to stop it?

3) How do you add banner(s) to the VERY TOP RIGHT like you have in your demo?

THANKS IN ADVANCE! :up:

[Luky]

Ok, I installed this style and I love it! However, I have three important questions:

1) How can I add the whole PM box that's on the left side of the screen to show up on the top right (inside the same box with the root folders like the pm box is on default style)? The PM box showing up on the left is fine as-is for the forum home page but once you leave the homepage to view threads/posts I would like the PM box to appear inside the root folder box on the top right like the default style, that way, users don't have to go all the way back to the forum homepage everytime to check for new PM's.

2) I noticed that there have been plus signs (+) after each username that's logged in (stats box at the bottom). Is there a way to stop it?

3) How do you add banner(s) to the VERY TOP RIGHT like you have in your demo?

THANKS IN ADVANCE! :up:
You act as if you just bought our product, you didnt, you bought JELSOFT's product, but i see you edited that bit out of your post :P

[713JunctionP]

You act as if you just bought our product, you didnt, you bought JELSOFT's product, but i see you edited that bit out of your post :P

so um...any help?

[blogtorank]

THANKS IN ADVANCE! PLEASE MAKE THIS CUSTOMER HAPPY! :up:You never know he may be a supporter of the skin by donating to designer :rolleyes:

[avalanche]

Thanks for the great script! Everything installed fine!

[trustice]

I know this is a long shot, but none of the background images in this style are showing when I install on vb 3.6.4 Anything I can check or do to make them work? The link to the image seems valid (I went to page source and pasted the link to header_background.gif in a new browser window and it showed up no problem).

If you want help, I'll help you PM me.


It's the same like I got after the first day on my board. I'm running 3.6.5
Can you please post the solution for the problem with the missing background of the navbar if you were able to fix it?

[Jeffler]

Help me out? I need the original forumhome code again. I did something wrong :S

[raiderlax]

Re-download the style and find it.

[cobaltcoupe]

Hey, how do I add the Private Message box where it usually is in forums. Its the box that has New Private Msg written in it in this picture. Does anyone know how to add that to this template?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=52277&d=1155943218

[amitpatel_3001]

It says you are using version 3.6.5 and this theme is for 3.6.4 :(

[raiderlax]

It says you are using version 3.6.5 and this theme is for 3.6.4 :(


It will work, make sure you have "Ignore Style Version" as Yes when uploading the .xml file

[CSN-Carl]

Excellent skin - thanks!

How can I change the main font colour? I want to change it to black, I've attached a screenshot of what I mean.

Thanks,

Carl

[raiderlax]

Excellent skin - thanks!

How can I change the main font colour? I want to change it to black, I've attached a screenshot of what I mean.

Thanks,

Carl



Have the first or second alternating colors set as "#000000" for the font colors found in "Main CSS"

[JonV]

After reading 16 pages i`m surpriced no one have my problem.

Just inst this Sweet skinn and almost everything works GREAT.

The Java dropdown box from navbar or when clicking a user name dont come.
The menus work great with default skinn but not with Blaze.
Any tips ?

And how do i ad a "block" on the left side containg a banner.

[Drix]

Hi!

Love the style, and tried to follow your instructions on how to implement an Adsense beside the logo. The problem is that it's too close to the logo, i would want it to aligned to the right.

This is my header code:
<!-- logo -->
<a name="top"></a>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="fullheight">
<tr>
<td height="105" style="background: url($vboptions[bburl]/images/blaze/header_background.gif)"><a href="http://www.freakshow.no"><img src="http://www.freakshow.no/forum/images/blaze/logo.gif" alt="Logo" border="0" width="400" height="105" /></a>

<!-- Advertisement Code Here -->
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-9563329202702130";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
google_ad_format = "468x60_as";
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel = "";
google_color_border = "CCCCCC";
google_color_bg = "434343";
google_color_link = "666666";
google_color_text = "333333";
google_color_url = "666666";
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
<!-- End Advertisement Code Here -->

</td>
</tr>


See what i mean here: http://www.freakshow.no

[c4p1r00s1]

Hi!

Is this template gonna update to the latest version of vbulletin 3.6.6 ?
after i upgrade im having problem with the template.

can someone help me out here.

Thank you so much

[goorgoor]

i have the 3.6.5 and get this error while uploading the xml file: Invalid File Specified

[Raize]

To make logo clickable edit this in your header tempate in "Common Templates"

<a href="http://yoursite.com"><img title="Logo" src="images/blaze/logo.jpg" alt="Logo" border="0" height="86" width="576"></a>


Make sure to change the width/height.


Anyone know exactly where that code goes? The header template for this style is much different from the default header template.

[Red Matrix]

Guys, the developer doesn't support this skin any more.

[Red Matrix]

Anyone know exactly where that code goes? The header template for this style is much different from the default header template.

in your HEADER template.

[Raize]

Hey Red, my question was about where IN the header template? (amongst the lines and lines of code)

I know that the style isn't supported anymore but I am hoping someone who has made this mod on this style already can help me out. P.S. thanks for grey blue skin from AF it served me well for over a year :)

[Red Matrix]

NP Raize. To answer your question, you can open up your "Common Templates" and expand your header window. Look for your logo text: <img title="Logo" src="images/blaze/logo.jpg" alt="Logo" border="0" height="86" width="576">

and all you gotta do is add this (<a href="http://yoursite.com">) before, and </a> after.

[cobaltcoupe]

Hey guys. Just wondering how to add the login box to the navbar and so the PM's show up in the same place as well. This will be a huge help to my members so they can see their PM's throughout the site. Here is a pic to show you guys what I am talking about and where I want this added.

[TLM]

Guys, the developer doesn't support this skin any more.

To bad this is one of the nicer free skins out there, cant someone update it to work with 3.6.7.

[CSN-Carl]

Can anyone else update this? It would be a shame to see such a great skin go to waste.

[713JunctionP]

To bad this is one of the nicer free skins out there, cant someone update it to work with 3.6.7.

I just upgraded from 3.6.5 to 3.6.7 and I was using Blaze on the last version before I upgrade. Everything stayed the same. Had no problems.

[cobaltcoupe]

How do I add another header with more links above my logo? Does anyone have the code too?

[JonV]

Anyone wont to tell me how to place the "boxes" on the rigth side ?

[JonV]

I assume you're referring to the logo ? If so, then all you have to do is change the alignment of it's table cell to center.





Where or how do i do this.
Yes i know it`s not suportet but i`m realy Stuck.

Cr Desperate

[rant boss]

I have installed this skin, and like it very much.

I am having one problem that I hope someone can help with. The "New Post in Forum" icon on the main page does not change to "No New Posts in Forum" icon the first time a user reads the new post...it only changes after the user goes back in a second time.

Can anyone help determine how to fix this?

Thank you

[TLM]

Since the developer doesn't support this skin any more.

Cant someone step up to the plate and update it to work with all the new versions vBulletin puts out.

I'd like to know why all the new updates always miss's up all these styles.

Cheers

[Shazz]

The style only had about 3-4 templates to revert on the 3.6.7 PL1
Even though I don't see how the navbar template needed reverting