vBulletin.org update: January 7th, 2007

[Guest190829]

As the New Year officially begins, many users are probably curious if any new changes will occur at vBulletin.org. The staff has spent a lot of time reading your suggestions and composing a To-Do list for the community.

Our main focus is to continue as the official modification resource for vBulletin by implementing new features which will make it easier for both the users who download modifications and the developers who code the modifications or design styles. We are here to support the entire member-base of the community.

We plan to roll out with these features throughout 2007 in stages.

Our first roll out will be this Sunday, January 7th. The site will be temporarily closed as we push out the first new features.

Many users have submitted their opinions on what color they wish the new vBulletin.org style should be, at the following poll:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=134067

We have carefully reviewed the poll and the new style will be revealed on Sunday along with some additional features.

This will be a great way to start the new year, and we thank all the members for their support and patience. It is going to be an exciting year for vBulletin.org! :)

[PennylessZ28]

You've compiled an style change that quickly?

[Shazz]

New style w00t!

You've compiled an style change that quickly?

What do you mean that quickly?

[Brandon Sheley]

ooo a new style ?

[Floris]

Looking forward to the changes in 2007; good luck staff!

[da420]

Sounds like a plan... thanks for the hard work....

[Shazz]

Who will be making the style?

[loonytune15]

i guess we will find out who made it on Sunday :)

[Floris]

[spoiler]

it wasn't me

[Shazz]

[spoiler]











it wasn't me

Whos all on the GFX team?

[VBUsers]

good to hear and good luck with the changes

[Marco van Herwaarden]

We are already working on changes for many months. The new style is one of the products of that process, and it was not created overnight.

[RedTyger]

Thank you very much indeed. :)

[sebbe]

The Smooth Blue here is my favorite style. So simple yet good looking, gotta love it! I will miss it for sure. :(

[Shazz]

So as said there will only be one style?

[Distance]

oooo what new features :p

[Paul M]

So as said there will only be one style?Yes.






(.... ish)

[Princeton]

Yes, only 1 style will be available. (More about this when the new changes are implemented.)
The new style is just a small part of the new features being implemented.

You will find numerous changes throughout the site.

Our Goals:
To create a system in which we can upgrade/extend easily. (Not just for us, but future vb.org volunteers.)
To create a more user-friendly environment.

[Snake]

Good luck to everyone! :)

[Reece^B]

Look forward to the changes. :)

[SS9267547]

Looking forward to the changes at hand. Have been waiting a long long time to see lol. :)

[Shelley_c]

Wow you lot really know how to bush the boat out. :rolleyes:

[Ziki]

Please give me the dark blue style or I'm gonna cry :(

[Transverse Styles]

I guess the site will close any time now?

[Shazz]

I guess the site will close any time now?

Um its not sunday

[Transverse Styles]

No kidding, but I assume they will use UK time since it's a UK based company

[Shazz]

Probablly sometime during the day of sunday UK time :D

[KW802]

Wow you lot really know how to bush the boat out. :rolleyes:Well, that's a saying that I haven't come across before. What's it mean?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Since our Staff is based both on UK and US, the upgrade will be done somewhere this evening UK time.

[Paul M]

The change starts at 9pm UK time tonight.

This post is timed at 12:19 uk time.

[Distance]

Sweetness when does it come back live? estimate

[Mark.B]

Sweetness when does it come back live? estimate

Having experience of major forum upgrades and changes, I would have to say "when the job is done".

It's not normally possible to give accurate estimates as you never know what might happen.

[ZeroX Prodigy]

So, in about 6.5 hours, nice. I can't wait for these changes to be implemented, they are going to be awesome!

[loonytune15]

oh well i'll go to bed and vb will have disappeared due to an unforseen technical problem thats erases the database...

or not.

[Paul M]

Sweetness when does it come back live? estimateHard to say, but I would expect a couple of hours at the most.

[kall]

The change starts at 9pm UK time tonight.

This post is timed at 12:19 uk time.
*watches Paul hurrying around the office and looks at the clock*

8 minutes to go!

[derekivey]

w00t :D

[Shelley_c]

*waits for the purplish style to surface* :rolleyes:

[Distance]

Its going to be blue? That wont the vote

1minute !!

[projectego]

Looks like the transition is complete... awesome work guys! :)

[smacklan]

arggg...fixed width? Will there be a fluid version available?

[smoknz28]

Look'n good. :up:

Just getting use to the new style.

[Azhrialilu]

*cries* the default style..or pretty much anyway... how unbearable. *runs off sobbing*

[RedTyger]

arggg...fixed width? Will there be a fluid version available?

There is, you can switch in your UserCP > Options.

Looking great, even more interesting that the theme are the new odds and ends around. Thank you very much for all your work, looking forward to exploring what's new.

[XtremeOffroad]

New style looks Great.

[Paul M]

arggg...fixed width? Will there be a fluid version available?
Check your options in usercp.

[Delw]

Yeah I like it a lot, the only thing is why do people use narrow boards? aye I am going blind and need glass's ;)

Nice job

[Shazz]

Good job!
Nice colors

[sebbe]

Looks really good guys. Only thing left is Postbit Legacy :D

EDIT: NVM, was possible to change in options! GREAT!

[transitbus]

Looks great now that I turned off fixed width. Good job guys.

[Logikos]

Could you make the logo a clickable link back to the forums? Makes navigating so much easier. :)

[Adrian Schneider]

Looks great... good job everyone involved. Are there any plans for a legacy postbit?

[Mr_Snob]

New Style Looks Very Great..

[Chroder]

Looks okay, good job. I'm sure I will get used to it in a bit :D

Though I think you should make the style options more apparent (ie fluid width, colors). Most people expect them to be in the footer, I wouldn't have known unless Danny told me about the options in the ucp.

[da420]

Looks great... good job everyone involved. Are there any plans for a legacy postbit?

Check out your Options in the User CP...

[Ascor]

waouuu very nice, great work :D

[Valter]

I like new style. Very nice job!

[Blaine0002]

Vewwy purrdy.

[yellow_spider]

Excellent job , very nice :)

[Transverse Styles]

Now it uses the default images...

[Neal-UK]

Amazing, the new look is brilliant!

[Adrian Schneider]

Check out your Options in the User CP...
Thanks found it... I was expecting it to be with the other Misc. options.

One thing you may want to fix: under the "New to Site?" area in the footer, the "Review Our Site Rules" link points to the sitemap.

[simsimt]

Quite professional. Obviously a great care was taken with regards to site usability & information architecture besides visual look & design.

Great job. :thumbsup:

[Bounce]

Will there be just one style colour choice...

I used and liked the green :D

[Shazz]

Will there be just one style colour choice...

I used and liked the green :D

You can find 3 more colors in the usercp

Alot of stuff is located there on this new style :D

[zetetic]

Check your options, peeps. You can change the width and colors in there.

I think the new format is cool. It'll take some getting used to, but change is good.

Thanks for the work, staff.

Is the user-customizable timeformat/dateformat option available as an add-on here? I really want that.

[akanevsky]

With all due respect to Princeton, the new style sucks. At first I thought that the site was hacked, but unfortunately, turns out that it's the style (and I am not saying that it would be better if the site were hacked, I'm saying that it would be better if the style was hacker's). The color scheme is not balanced and there are control elements that make everything look stacked up.

I sincerely hope that this is not the final version of the style and that you guys are going to work on improving it. Or, could there be an option of switching to the previous style?

[Bounce]

You can find 3 more colors in the usercp

Alot of stuff is located there on this new style :D

WOW, thanks mate, thats better :)

Superb design Vb.Org :D

[Shazz]

With all due respect to Princeton, the new style sucks. At first I thought that the site was hacked, but unfortunately, turns out that it's the style (and I am not saying that it would be better if the site were hacked, I'm saying that it would be better if the style was hacker's). The color scheme is not balanced and there are control elements that make everything look stacked up.

I sincerely hope that this is not the final version of the style and that you guys are going to work on improving it. Or, could there be an option of switching to the previous style?
lmao, If you used the fluid version in usercp Its really not that bad at all
And the color scheme looks sort of cool as well

I like it

[akanevsky]

mao, If you used the fluid version in usercp Its really not that bad at all

Already tried all four colors, both fluid and non-fluid. I am happy for you if you like it, but I do not. The design now looks no different - overall - than that of any 3rd party unofficial amateur hacking site...

[Princeton]

Thanks found it... I was expecting it to be with the other Misc. options.

One thing you may want to fix: under the "New to Site?" area in the footer, the "Review Our Site Rules" link points to the sitemap.
thank you ... fixed

[Criticize]

This thing looks awful. I would really put "vBulletin.org" in the header rather than "vBulletinMods" that is dumb. Atleast the skin that Alex made had custom buttons, good work I guess but I am not really impressed with it at all. You should have hired 4 of the best custom skin designers to do a collab.

[Transverse Styles]

Yea, I wish the old Smooth Blue design was left on... oh well.

[akanevsky]

This thing looks awful. I would really put "vBulletin.org" in the header rather than "vBulletinMods" that is dumb. Atleast the skin that Alex made had custom buttons, good work I guess but I am not really impressed with it at all. You should have hired 4 of the best custom skin designers to do a collab.

I agree. At least that would help everyone identify which site they are on. Cause right, by design, I cannot tell. :(

[Shelley_c]

Afterall being a modding site you would think that would extend with the images being custom aswell as the style. It's default gone bad. very bad. Abonrmally bad my worse nightmare being surrounded by default images. Look that default "new thread" button is moving ever so closer better switch to fluid.

*looks at the smilies*

[Code Monkey]

Looks like a plain old default style with some window dressing to me. That being said, there seems to be a lot of pretty cool new features behind the curtain.

[derekivey]

The Do Your Research Before Hiring! (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/announcement.php?a=37) link gives me an invalid announcement page...

[Code Monkey]

The "view first unread post" link at the top of threads does not seem to be working. Looks like it's just a link to the thread.

[sebbe]

The "view first unread post" link at the top of threads does not seem to be working. Looks like it's just a link to the thread.

Works for me.

[Andrew]

I miss the old dark blue style already :(

[Paul M]

Could you make the logo a clickable link back to the forums? Makes navigating so much easier. :)It is clickable, and links back to index.php

[Adrian Schneider]

It is clickable, and links back to index.php
That got me, too. The text is, but not the vB. logo itself.

[simsimt]

I can't imagine there will be anything vB stock, maybe things are still in the works?

As I said, I like the new change, but there are some good feedback that should be listened to.

[sebbe]

The redirecting pages are still using the width of the fixed style even if set to fluid in User CP. Minor fix but still, looks bad.

[d8tabyte]

NICE

Very nice style!

[toonysnn]

Wow...! Very nice updates :D

[TCattitude]

Cool update.
Congratulations for the coding, design and all the people behind this awesome work.

vb.org is back to life!

[Eagle Creek]

Aaah?? This sytle?!! I want to have the blue one back, but I guess that won't happen. But can you guys put at least a LIQUID style into it??

With all respect for the efforts but.. I have a large screen resolution, but I only use 50% right now.. I think it's enoying :(.

[Shazz]

Aaah?? This sytle?!! I want to have the blue one back, but I guess that won't happen. But can you guys put at least a LIQUID style into it??

With all respect for the efforts but.. I have a large screen resolution, but I only use 50% right now.. I think it's enoying :(.

You can change from fixed to liquid in edit options

[Guest190829]

Aaah?? This sytle?!! I want to have the blue one back, but I guess that won't happen. But can you guys put at least a LIQUID style into it??

With all respect for the efforts but.. I have a large screen resolution, but I only use 50% right now.. I think it's enoying :(.

Look in your Profile Options :)

[Eagle Creek]

Default Style Width
If you prefer a liquid (wider) layout, over the fixed-width layout, you can now switch by checking the option below.

I just found it.. I like the new skin, I really do!

When I go to, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/index.php, I don't see the modification forums... Where did they go???

[Guest190829]

I just found it.. I like the new skin, I really do!

When I go to, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/index.php, I don't see the modification forums... Where did they go???

You can access them in the tab "Mods" in the header.

[Eagle Creek]

Wow... The skin, the functions, the... everything man... It's very VERY nice and I already like it. I know I discovered not even 50% of it I guess, but I still like it.

Well done everybody who worked on this!

[zetetic]

Is the user-customizable timeformat/dateformat option available as an add-on here? I really want that.
Yes, I'm quoting myself.

Anyone...? Anyone...? Bueller...?

[Kirk Y]

Wow... talk about overwhelming, I'll be half an hour finding everything that's changed. Not too bad I say, it reminds me a lot of vBulletin.com. I especially like the "Red Rum" style... lol, who came up with that title?

If I had to suggest something, it'd be that some custom buttons are made -- no offense to the stock buttons. ;)
Also, I think our User Titles could use a little work... they look really bland.

PS: Is there some thread that explains all the new features? Like what is this "Donation Options" field in our UserCP?
PSS: It's nice to see that we can now use colors! Yipee!

[Paul M]

PSS: It's nice to see that we can now use colors! Yipee!LOL, I knew someone would notice that eventually. :)

Yes, I'm quoting myself.

Anyone...? Anyone...? Bueller...?As far as I know, no, I've never seen it released.

[Booth]

I really like it and far prefer it to the old look site :)

I think the header works far better than the default VB header. Wish my site was like that, who designed it?

[zetetic]

As far as I know, no, I've never seen it released.
Doh!

Okay I'm not above begging but I'd rather just bribe you. Whatdya say? :D

[Ntfu2]

I have to agree, im not that impressed. I wanted to browse around and see how everything looked, but its not all that great.

No custom buttons, Not a big deal but then what took so long to roll it out? Most the variations are simple CSS color changes that a 12 year old could have made. Good idea gone horribly wrong. I really dont see that many additions or changes that were talked about unless i'm missing them some where?

On a positive note though, glad to see changes finally happening and the community being listened to!

[Kirk Y]

I think the changes to the Modification Thread layouts most wowed me.

[Brandon Sheley]

the new style looks good :)

great job to the staff

[Distance]

Will you lot stop moaning!! You can clearly see they have been workin there ass off

I love it!!

[Darat]

Overall very nice . Really like the header, breadcrumb and navbar customization.

[TrIn@dOr]

Very nice, but where is the "Show installed hacks" link? :D

[Eagle Creek]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/vborg_miscactions.php?do=showinstalledhacks" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/vborg...installedhacks</a>

In the profile dropdown.

[TosaInu]

Looks nice.

[captainslater]

Nice new style. Congratulations to the whole team for the changes :)

[Hoffi]

Really good looking Style that looks more professional.

Great!

[Billspaintball]

When I first read the announcement about a new style my initial thoughts were that there was a lot of other stuff that should have been done first.

Now that Ive seen it, Ive changed my mind.
Besides being batter layed out, better presented and having a nice logical structure, it is soooooo much faster for me.
Easy 4 times faster for page loads! :D

Made a painful browsing experience fun again :)

[simsimt]

Shouldn't the 'V' in the logo be small? vBULLETIN MODS that it should be.

[quasan]

no fullscreen mode??

[peterska2]

User CP > Options > Down the bottom is the option to use a fluid width instead of fixed width.

[cyberphr]

It'll be hard to get used to, but I like it. :)

Large images stretch the post outside of .page, maybe the scroll hack would be useful? :p

[WoodiE]

I LOVE IT! The new design is just wonderful. I really like all the user options, set it the way I want it, very nice!

How hard is it to give these same options to users on my board?

-Michael

[I, Brian]

Feels a bit...cramped.

[akanevsky]

Feels a bit...cramped.

Yeah.

[Shazz]

Feels a bit...cramped.

Change the width in usercp :confused:

[Gaia]

I love the new design/look. Good job with it.

[Talisman]

Now that the exclusive vB.org "dark blue" design has been discarded, can we <finally> get permission to use it at our own forums -- either for free or by purchase?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Nope. All our styles have been modified a lot to work with our specific modifications and would not work on standard boards.

[Talisman]

Nope. All our styles have been modified a lot to work with our specific modifications and would not work on standard boards.

That wouldn't matter at all, Marco. I don't need it in a ready, fully installable form anyway. I'd reassemble the whole design to adapt what you had here into another base style structure in a custom.. hybrid thing. So, basically, a quick download of the graphics (or some of the graphics) to use as a guide/reference while making my own set and to apply that color scheme to my own "default-turned-custom" templates is what I'd end up doing with it.

I just can't do even that much without first getting permission from you guys.