Patriot

[TandyServices]

Current version vBulletin 4.0.1

USA themed style for the patriots out there ;). Light and Dark version. Zip folder includes xml file, images, screenshots and install instructions.

Even though it's finished, styles always are a work in progress in a way. Updates will follow. Comments are appreciated :)
Please mark installed if you are using this style.

Thanks,
Karlijn Tandy


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Changelog:

1.0 - Original version
1.1 - Updated to vBulletin 4 beta 4
1.2 - Fixed missing blog images
1.3 - Updated to vBulletin 4 beta 5
Fixed CMS
Fixed Blogs
1.4 - Upgraded to vBulletin 4.0 Gold
New online / offline icons
Fixed missing images
1.5 - Fixed couple of issues
Original background of dark style restored

[halkum]

Wish I could install both, but you have the graphics named the same in both packages.

:(

[TandyServices]

Oh yea, you're right, I only use the dark one myself. Give me a few and I'll fix this for you :) Glad you like them.

[TandyServices]

I re-uploaded Patriot-Light. You can now use both styles on one forum. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[SuperTaz]

Won't work with the new vBulletin CMS?

[TandyServices]

Yes it will. It needs a little bit of updating to perfect it, but it does work. Update will follow soon with improved CMS layout. Please mind that I have not yet updated this style to beta 4. Some images will not work yet, I will be updating this tomorrow.

[SİMAR]

thanks

[TandyServices]

Everything is updated again. If you want to see this on a live site, I have the dark style installed on mine; www.chambertheory.com (http://www.chambertheory.com)
Thanks :)

[SuperTaz]

Maybe I am missing something. I upgraded to your latest file and I can get the forums to show the style, but not the CMS. Is there a setting I am missing here?

[TandyServices]

The CMS only picks up one style. There are two ways to change the style of the CMS. One is to change the default style of your site through the admin panel->settings->options->Style & Language Settings. The other way (if you want your CMS to be a different style then your forums) is to go to your CMS page, then next to the header that says Front Page, you will see a little pencil when you hover over it. Click that and in the options choose another style from the dropdown menu in Section Information. Hope that helps :)

[Dilldogs]

Very cool looking Style, I love it , Thanks

[TandyServices]

Thank you :)

[johnrizz]

This style still has a few bugs that needs to be worked out!

Nice style BTW! Thanks!

[TandyServices]

Thank you :) What bugs exactly have you come across, so I can fix them? It's working fine on my end.

[johnrizz]

While scrolling down after clicking on one of the Forum Threads, your Icon Legends seem out of place! Srry about saying "few bug" I meant to say just one...

[JWL]

I have an issue, My Smilies are not showing up but they Link looks like this

http://www.cfohrr.com/http://www.cfohrr.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

Just cannot seem to figure out where to correct this

[JWL]

I have an issue, My Smilies are not showing up but they Link looks like this

http://www.cfohrr.com/http://www.cfohrr.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

Just cannot seem to figure out where to correct this

[mrstevenl]

Was this style ever made availible for 3.x series? I really like it.

[JWL]

I fixed the issue

WHEN WILL THE GOLD VERSION BE RELEASED NOW THAT WE HAVE 4.o GOLD

[TandyServices]

@ JWL: Glad you fixed the issue, I'm sorry for my late response. It wasn't style related was it? We are workind on the 4.0 Gold as we speak, I hope to have it finished either today or tomorrow :)

@ mrstevenl: No it wasn't unfortunately. If you would like to give it a shot yourself I'd be glad to help you out if needed.

[mrstevenl]

Thanks Tandy.. I am still debateing the upgrade to VB4 or not.. If I decide not to id be glad to help port it to vb3.8 with your permission and help ;)

[JWL]

@ JWL: Glad you fixed the issue, I'm sorry for my late response. It wasn't style related was it? We are workind on the 4.0 Gold as we speak, I hope to have it finished either today or tomorrow :)

I found it to be an issue I created, I had a double insert regarding the Home index, I removed it and all ok.

I have also installed the Dark Version, it has many issues. DHTML Menus keep dropping down for no reason. If you refresh the page many items become blank you have to refresh a fe wtimes. I have since uninstalled the Dark.

I certainly look forward to the updated Light. It is an awesome style....

[TandyServices]

Thanks Tandy.. I am still debateing the upgrade to VB4 or not.. If I decide not to id be glad to help port it to vb3.8 with your permission and help ;)

Sure if you can get it working there you can have it and put it up..

[TandyServices]

I found it to be an issue I created, I had a double insert regarding the Home index, I removed it and all ok.

I have also installed the Dark Version, it has many issues. DHTML Menus keep dropping down for no reason. If you refresh the page many items become blank you have to refresh a fe wtimes. I have since uninstalled the Dark.

I certainly look forward to the updated Light. It is an awesome style....

As soon as Webgirl can get back online she will update and make sure everything is working right.. She is sort of in a snow storm and has very bad internet right now.. Thanks all

WebGuy

[JWL]

As soon as Webgirl can get back online she will update and make sure everything is working right.. She is sort of in a snow storm and has very bad internet right now.. Thanks all

WebGuy

Ya yippe, Man I am waiting for the update

Thanks for the info, Merry Christmas all

[TandyServices]

Sorry for the delay all, nobody told me there was gonna be this much snow ;)
Merry Christmas!

Karlijn

[JWL]

Good Work Man, Thanks for the Christmas Present :up:

[JWL]

Blocks do not show up in the Partiot Dark Style

Work Perfect in Light

I have then enambeld HTML on the left they wil not show in Dark Style

I have enabled Style Choice so youy can see what is going on

www.cfohrr.com

[TandyServices]

Ok I think you mean there's an image missing. I'll jump right on that and update the style in a bit. Thanks for pointing that out.

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Edit:
Issue is fixed. If you already installed the 1.4 version of this style, you will only need to overwrite the files in the next folder: images/statusicon/USA/
If you didn't upgrade yet, please follow the install instructions.

[JWL]

Ok I think you mean there's an image missing. I'll jump right on that and update the style in a bit. Thanks for pointing that out.

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Edit:
Issue is fixed. If you already installed the 1.4 version of this style, you will only need to overwrite the files in the next folder: images/statusicon/USA/
If you didn't upgrade yet, please follow the install instructions.

Humm

What I mean By Blocks is the image below, they do not show up in the Dark Style. Thanks for the Style, It is very clean and easy on the eyes :up:

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Come to think of it, there is no TAB or << arrow tab tp close the block either

[JWL]

Any Update on the Release that fixes the missing Images as well as the DARK style issues listed above :up:

[JWL]

Reporting a bug

Seems the Style does not like 1600x1200

My video card blew this morning so I got me a new ATI Radion HD4350

Seems it runs out of style see the Upper Right Side

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[TandyServices]

Sorry for the delay in answering. Looking into whats listed above. Thank you for your patience :)

[chingon]

Hello, great style I installed the light one. I was wondering if you can tell me how to make the fonts for the user name larger. The style made them very small. When you look at a thread, like this one right now, it's the clickable name right by the users avatar. Thank you (we are a bunch of old guys on my forum).:)

[Ksb2050]

I don't personally need this skin, but I wanted to drop by and say I love the concept behind it! Looks great!

[JWL]

Hello, great style I installed the light one. I was wondering if you can tell me how to make the fonts for the user name larger. The style made them very small. When you look at a thread, like this one right now, it's the clickable name right by the users avatar. Thank you (we are a bunch of old guys on my forum).:)


Pull DOwn the StyleVar Visual Dictionary. This will ID the Var to change....

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/entry.php?2398-StyleVar-Visual-Dictionary-for-Forum-Blog-and-CMS-%28PDF-Documents%29

[chingon]

I've been using that, I had to change some code though to do it. Got it though.

[TandyServices]

Styles are updated.
@chingon, glad you got it solved. I apologize I didn't respond sooner.
@ JWL, let me know if you are still having issues with the blocks after updating.

Thanks all :)

[chingon]

No problem, thank YOU for the hard work.

[airborneCAL]

There is no xml file in your dark zip file.

[airborneCAL]

Also, why is there an "Arcade" link in my navbar with the Patriot Dark style? I don't have an arcade - how can this be removed?

[TandyServices]

Oops, sorry about that. It is there now, thanks for pointing that out.

[rollerman]

I don't seem to be getting the flag in the background, which is sort of the whole point of the skin.

Any guesses? I've re-downloaded and re-installed the skin, to no avail. Same thing on both the light and dark skins.

Thanks.

[JWL]

I don't seem to be getting the flag in the background, which is sort of the whole point of the skin.

Any guesses? I've re-downloaded and re-installed the skin, to no avail. Same thing on both the light and dark skins.



Thanks.

Odd, has been perfect for me accept for some missing images in both dark and light

email_go.gif / png

Also the Light version is still have the same Pagination issue as reported in post 32 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1943670&postcount=32), the Style Turns to Black in the upper right header

[rollerman]

I don't seem to be getting the flag in the background, which is sort of the whole point of the skin.

Any guesses? I've re-downloaded and re-installed the skin, to no avail. Same thing on both the light and dark skins.



Thanks.Odd, has been perfect for me accept for some missing images in both dark and light

email_go.gif / png

Also the Light version is still have the same Pagination issue as reported in post 32 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1943670&postcount=32), the Style Turns to Black in the upper right headerBah! I found it. Gotta be careful about that directory structure.

For future reference for any one else: make sure that your path is: root/images/misc/USA. It's easy to accidentally make it root/images/misc/misc/USA, and then the XML won't be able to find the graphics.

[TandyServices]

Sorry all, I've been having issues again to get online. My husband is able to, but unfortunately he wasn't involved in making these styles.

@ rollerman, glad you figured it out. I'm not sure why you mention it would be easy to put in an incorrect path? If the install instructions are not clear, please let me know.

@ JWL I will look into those images, they are supposed to be there. As for the "bug" you mentioned, I am not able to reproduce it. Is there any other reason why it might be showing like that? For example, do you have any mods installed that would have effect on the header?

Thanks guys :) And I apologize for the delay
Karlijn

[JWL]

Sorry all, I've been having issues again to get online. My husband is able to, but unfortunately he wasn't involved in making these styles.

@ rollerman, glad you figured it out. I'm not sure why you mention it would be easy to put in an incorrect path? If the install instructions are not clear, please let me know.

@ JWL I will look into those images, they are supposed to be there. As for the "bug" you mentioned, I am not able to reproduce it. Is there any other reason why it might be showing like that? For example, do you have any mods installed that would have effect on the header?

Thanks guys :) And I apologize for the delay
Karlijn

No Header mod installed, Resolution on my PC is 1400x1050 It does not happen on my Laptop :confused:

Also both images for the Side Bar tab is missing, I had to copy this over form default
tab-collapsed-left.png

[rollerman]

Sorry all, I've been having issues again to get online. My husband is able to, but unfortunately he wasn't involved in making these styles.

@ rollerman, glad you figured it out. I'm not sure why you mention it would be easy to put in an incorrect path? If the install instructions are not clear, please let me know.

@ JWL I will look into those images, they are supposed to be there. As for the "bug" you mentioned, I am not able to reproduce it. Is there any other reason why it might be showing like that? For example, do you have any mods installed that would have effect on the header?

Thanks guys :) And I apologize for the delay
KarlijnIt's probably my FTP more than anything else. Unless I'm extra-careful in my file selection, it will just assume that I want to move the whole folder, which then creates a new sub-folder on the server. Hence, I get root/images/misc/misc instead of root/images/misc/USA.

I think your instructions are fine. It's just an easy mistake for a rookie like me to make, that's all.

[JWL]

It's probably my FTP more than anything else. Unless I'm extra-careful in my file selection, it will just assume that I want to move the whole folder, which then creates a new sub-folder on the server. Hence, I get root/images/misc/misc instead of root/images/misc/USA.

I think your instructions are fine. It's just an easy mistake for a rookie like me to make, that's all.

What FTP Client you using?

Normally the FTP client of you drop a folder in say that looks like this

root
----Folder1
------------Folder2

Will build it accordingly, I suggest you check your option on your client, CuteFTP, WS_FTP or even FileZilla works really well.

[JWL]

Karlijn

Just wanto to report a possible issue with integrating VBadvanced. what happens is VBadvanced will hook into the blockhead_background making the style look like this
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With out VBadvanced the style is hooking normally to forumhead_backgound

Anyhoot, I am working on getting VBa configured and will go live with it sometime today. Let me know if you would like to take a gander....

Thanks for your work on this

[rollerman]

What FTP Client you using?

Normally the FTP client of you drop a folder in say that looks like this

root
----Folder1
------------Folder2

Will build it accordingly, I suggest you check your option on your client, CuteFTP, WS_FTP or even FileZilla works really well.Core FTP is what I'm using at the moment.

The sneaky part is that if I select all files in a folder, and I do it too quickly, it includes the folder itself. So while I'm trying to get:

root
----- folder 1
----------File 1
----------File 2
----------File 3
----------File 4
----------File 5

I can accidentally get:

root
----- folder 1
----------folder 2
---------------File 1
---------------File 2
---------------File 3
---------------File 4
---------------File 5


I didn't much care for cuteftp. I may give WS or firezilla a shot.

Anyway, no big deal either way. Just a rookie mistake that I need to watch for, and I figured I'd warn other rookies of the potential pitfall there.

[venom2124]

Great style thanks

[EcoCav]

When installing the XML it says its for 4.0.0 not 4.0.1 (though your post says it works on 4.0.1.

I ignored the version, and install it anyway. The only thing that changed was the logo on the top of the forum, and the icons with several red X's linking to (/statusicon/USA/ and images/misc/USA/). .. All images and folder are installed just like the install.txt says. All the colors of the forum look like the normal vbulletin forum.

[rollerman]

Minor glitch in the dark v1.5: the path to the subforum .png is incorrect.

According to what I see, the path is /images/statusicon/USA/subforum_old-48.png, when it looks like should be /images/statusicon/USA/subforum_old.png.

ETA: Same thing with subforum_new.png

Also, for no readily apparent reason, the thread_hot-30 .png does not show up on Chrome. Works fine in IE. Not sure what that's all about.

[rollerman]

Found another: root/images/misc/USA/blog/pencil_add.png should be .gif

[Kingdombuilder]

This is a sweet design... Great job...

[rollerman]

Found one more glitch: icons for threads in which I have posted do not show up at all. It's an empty element in the xml.

[rollerman]

Minor glitch in the dark v1.5: the path to the subforum .png is incorrect.

According to what I see, the path is /images/statusicon/USA/subforum_old-48.png, when it looks like should be /images/statusicon/USA/subforum_old.png.

ETA: Same thing with subforum_new.png



Also, for no readily apparent reason, the thread_hot-30 .png does not show up on Chrome. Works fine in IE. Not sure what that's all about.Found another: root/images/misc/USA/blog/pencil_add.png should be .gif
Found one more glitch: icons for threads in which I have posted do not show up at all. It's an empty element in the xml.Any updates on this?

[rollerman]

Minor glitch in the dark v1.5: the path to the subforum .png is incorrect.

According to what I see, the path is /images/statusicon/USA/subforum_old-48.png, when it looks like should be /images/statusicon/USA/subforum_old.png.

ETA: Same thing with subforum_new.png



Also, for no readily apparent reason, the thread_hot-30 .png does not show up on Chrome. Works fine in IE. Not sure what that's all about.Found another: root/images/misc/USA/blog/pencil_add.png should be .gifFound one more glitch: icons for threads in which I have posted do not show up at all. It's an empty element in the xml.Any updates on this?Two weeks and no response.

Uninstalled.

[JWL]

Two weeks and no response.

Uninstalled.

Sad indeed, I liked the Theme as did many others.

I have installed Pixels awesome themes

[TandyServices]

Sorry all. Karlijn has not had Internet for a while now. She is the one that makes the styles. Until she can get back on line the style will not be supported. If someone else would like to take her place that would be fine.

[JWL]

Karlijn has not had Internet for a while now

Must be Charter :eek:

[Idawg]

Any news on this style being upgraded for the latest greatest vbulletin?? 4.1.12?? With CMS/Blog support??