Release: Grassy Knoll

[AmbitiousLemon]

A few weeks back i asked for help coding a style for my forums and Bumpaneer (http://forum.yaxay.com/member.php?find=lastposter&t=26392) from the yaxay.com forums was generous enough to help out.

All I ask is that if you make modifications to the style that you share them here.

Included are the font and .psd file for the header as well.

xml file updated to be xhtml compliant. should help load times. no javascript errors.

I am adding the full .psd files used to create the theme. This should help those of you wanting to make large modifications. Please share any interesting modifications you make, if you don't want to share the psd or xml file then at least let us see a picture of how it came out. PSD files (http://www.funmac.com/grassyknollpsd/grassyknoll_psds.zip)

Some people have been inquiring into a branding free option. I am offering a branding free option for $100. Email or PM me if you would be interested in a branding free version of the style

[Spoken word]

Freaking cool!

[AmbitiousLemon]

<a href="http://www.funmac.com/?styleid=12" target="_blank">demo here</a>

[CannonFodder]

very nice, good job.

[Tony G]

Looking good. ^_^

[Bumpaneer]

If you encounter any problems, feel free to let me know.

[xware]

very cool!

[poolking]

Very nice but where are the rest of the tools for the navbar?

Member List
FAQ

etc..

Also it has stopped my animated avatar from running.

[Souli]

Very cool Style !

[Bumpaneer]

Very nice but where are the rest of the tools for the navbar?

Member List
FAQ

etc..

Also it has stopped my animated avatar from running.
The rest of the tools were removed, you can readd them if desired. Also you animated gif doesn't run anymore because of the way the style is set up to handle transparent png's. Additionally animated avatars would be distracting if text appeared over them in the postbit.

~Bumpaneer

[Zachery]

It looks very awsome, thank you for this submission ^^

[Ryan Ashbrook]

I'm gonna use this one!

Very nice style indeed. :)

[nitr0x]

just registered, cant see it. Lackin permissions or something

[nitr0x]

works now.. wow nice work :D

[Seba99]

Thanks for posting :)

[Russell]

Very nice, just installed it myself. Nice work.

[oglsmm]

I uploaded it but the forum is all streached out funny. Any ideas?

Also where do I put the fonts?

Thanks

Attached Image shows what it looks like.

[OGT]

fonts are generally included with psd's to make additional buttons if your board requires it. they arent used in the actual style as far as i know.

[Bumpaneer]

I uploaded it but the forum is all streached out funny. Any ideas?

Did you try to change the width of the style?

[oglsmm]

Did you try to change the width of the style?

No I simply imported the style. I don't even know how to change thw width.

I went to the Upload/Download Styles and imported the XML. I told it to create a new style.

oglsmm

[Bumpaneer]

What version of vbulletin?

[oglsmm]

3.0.1

The Newest One

[imported_paul]

Very nice skin, Installing it right now!

[Bumpaneer]

Its your "All trademarks or registered trademarks..." disclaimer at the bottom. Its too long, needs to be on seperate lines. Throw some <br /> 's in there and it should solve it.

[Ryan Ashbrook]

I've installed but I get a big black block above the categories.

Example... http://forums.theglassprison.net/index.php?styleid=35

Do you see it?

Nevermind, fixed it. :)

[oglsmm]

Its your "All trademarks or registered trademarks..." disclaimer at the bottom. Its too long, needs to be on seperate lines. Throw some <br /> 's in there and it should solve it.

Excellent thanks for the help!

Now another Question, how hard is it to put the member list and other stuff back at the top?

[RMS-Chef]

Very unique style.
Well done!

[rebelsrock06]

the style looks great but theres too much to efit. I wanted it to look more like the original like the Welcome thing on the right and the stats on the bottom. There are also a lot of useful links missing. BUt overall it looks great

[MrNase]

Nice, looks like six-feet-under theme :D

[jimmyboy]

omg, this could be a very expensive style, and u offered it for free, wow, we love u so much

[mrbugan]

very cool!

[Bungie]

I want to do do that same thing with the postbit. With the tranparency. Can you tell me how to do that? You should release a modification for that feature.

[imported_iKwak]

Nice work. How about sharing style 10 and 11. :D

[Mr. Brian]

Nice one! Thumbs up!

[Hippycrack]

I like this lay out but it does not seem to want to work with vb 3.0.3

[Bumpaneer]

What seems to be the problem?

[imported_350Chevy]

Very excellent style! Works perfectly fine with 3.0.3 without a single tweak. :)

[imported_infernonet]

Nice style, Simple but Creative ;)

[Yuneek]

Very nice, very, very nice.

[Natch]

Great job - thanks for this mod!

Please note that you might find a use for the PNG24 transparency mod I did for vB3.0.3 - link in my sig...

[why-not]

Hi


Nice style, but why all the JavaScript errors, + there are over 300 html errors just on the forum home page, the forumdisplay page has over 500 errors and not 1 page is valid XHTML 1.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/) Transitional!

IE, Netscape, Firefox work ok, because they fix errors most errors, but other browser it looks really bad. The reason why is many <tables> are not closed or not properly written....

example.... (there are many errors like below)

<td height="26" width="5">&nbsp;</tr><td>
<td height="26" width="5">&nbsp;<td>


You should fix these.....


Fataqui

[imported_d3nnis]

i love your Love Spring skin... it will be great if you can share it here :)

[incript]

really great work out there i am yet to install it tough.

[kixxer]

Hello,

First I´d like to thank you for the great style, i really love it!
I´m new into vbulletin so this question may be kind of silly, but I´ve tried to install CMPS and other hacks on my board but everythin I ever do ends up like this. (see attachment) I think I´ve done everything correct and the hacks work with other styles, but with your one the tables always go nuts.

Maybe you can help me out on this?
thanks.

[PhanTuhC]

really nice work.

[Drache]

NICE one i really love your style and your other forum styles. Could you please tell me where i can download the rest style that are in your forums?

[AmbitiousLemon]

NICE one i really love your style and your other forum styles. Could you please tell me where i can download the rest style that are in your forums?

The rest of the styles are all free styles I found here or on skinvb.com. Some of the nicer ones came from SkinVB.com whose owner seems to be banned on these forums and whose site is completely different now (no free skins :( ).

[AmbitiousLemon]

Since a few have asked I am attaching the love spring style. I did not create this style. I got this style for free from the vbskins.com website which has since been shut down. I don't have the original files (psds and such) so you will need to track down the original author to get all of those goodies.

download link (http://www.ambitiouslemon.com/tinhxuan.zip)
preview link (http://www.funmac.com/?styleid=11)

[Drache]

SWETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!! Thanks :D Can't wait to install it.

[House_of_Crazed]

I was wondering if someone has found a fix for this? :) The avatar has the grass thingy going through the middle of the avatar. I want to move the grass thingy to BELOW the avatar. :)

Take a glance at the attachment.

I've been trying to figure it out for the last few days and am coming to a dead end on everything. So, help? :) LOL

HoC

[AmbitiousLemon]

That is how it is supposed to work. The reason it doesn't look right is that it was designed for avatars that are 96px tall. it creates a cool effect where the avatar looks like it is sitting in the grass as just the bottom few pixels are behind it.

I only wrote the original html so bumpaneer might have changed it afterwards but the part you need to change looks like this:

<div id="Layer1" style="position:absolute; width:100%; height:64px; z-index:1; left: 0px; top: 156px;" class="GRASS"></div>

[House_of_Crazed]

Come here ;) Can I kiss you?? lol

It worked :)

What a klutz I am :( *laughs*

HoC

[House_of_Crazed]

How odd, I just noticed this problem just now, LOL

I'm having the same problem as the guy in this post on this thread, http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/showpost.php?p=53578&postcount=44

I've been checking the code out, and can't seem to find the correct spot for the weird stripes off to the right of the vbadvanced blocks.

Wanna point me in the right direction? LOL

HoC

[Ig@r]

Awessome style.

Unfortunately doesn't look good when using vbadvanced or article hacks :(

[House_of_Crazed]

Ig@r -

that is because the templates for vbadvanced or articles is not heavily modified. As far as I saw, every template in this style is modified.

In order to get this to work with the various hacks, you're going to have to modify the templates for the hacks in this style.

HoC

[JamesHenry]

I can see soldiers running across the top and a helicopter flying over...


...mmm :D

edit

Well im editing now as we speak, here is a sneak peak ;)

[JamesHenry]

Apparently, the skin doesn't work with 3.0.3. :(

[House_of_Crazed]

It does.

You need to choos "Ignore Style Version" when you upload.

HoC

[JamesHenry]

It does.

You need to choos "Ignore Style Version" when you upload.

HoC

Ah, im new to this vB stuff :cool: ;)

[TheEnd]

Clean, I like it. Maybe some different forum icons for the new thread and old thread on forum home. Just a thought.

[Ber|Art]

Very Cool, lets try this one too, thx a lot for sharing it with us :)

[Warlord]

Looks nice.. *clicks install*

Think I'll install this and tweak it just a bit.

[AmbitiousLemon]

All I ask is that if you make modifications to the style that you share them here.

Also if any of you got things working with forum additions such as vbadvanced or other forum hacks I am sure everyone would appreciate if you would share your modifications.

[Warlord]

Looks like it's already set up for vBa CMPS... well sorta.

[Warlord]

Ok, well I guess not so much, lol.

[Bumpaneer]

Hi


Nice style, but why all the JavaScript errors, + there are over 300 html errors just on the forum home page, the forumdisplay page has over 500 errors and not 1 page is valid XHTML 1.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/) Transitional!

IE, Netscape, Firefox work ok, because they fix errors most errors, but other browser it looks really bad. The reason why is many <tables> are not closed or not properly written....

example.... (there are many errors like below)

<td height="26" width="5">&nbsp;</tr><td>
<td height="26" width="5">&nbsp;<td>


You should fix these.....


Fataqui

Style has now been updated to XHTML Transitional compliance.

Check the first post for the updated package.

[Bumpaneer]

For the people having problems with vb additions, check the way $spacer_open and $spacer_close were used in the grassy knoll templates. they are to start and end the white box. so usually they are included in the navbar and footer templates. you may have to take them out of other templates so it looks correct.

[AmbitiousLemon]

Bumpaneer has updated grassyknoll. I updated the attachment on the first post. The new version is now xhtml compliant. The load times should be greatly improved. There are no more javascript errors. New posts are now italic so that they are more noticable. To update you only need to upload the .xml file (everything else is the same).

All thanks should go to bumpaneer.

Regarding the trouble with forum additions Bumpaneer told me the following:

the way $spacer_open and $spacer_close is used is different than vb default.
i use them to open and close the white boxes you see on the pages
$spacer_open appears under the navbar and $spacer_close right above the footer.

hope that helps.

Also my only request I made when posting this is that if anyone has made some interesting modifications that they share these as i have shared the original. If you have gotten a forum addition to look good with grassy knoll please share what you changed and post a screenshot. I am sure others would find that helpful.

looks like bumpaneer posted while i was writing this, more info in his posts

[Schorsch]

Hello,

your style is looking fantastic !!! thank you!!


just one thing, is it possible that the thread text doesn't collide with the avatar images?

thanks :)

[Bumpaneer]

I think you need to look at some photoshop tutorials then :D

[Schorsch]

hello,

thanks I already got this part

I edited my above post (new question :D )

do you know a solution for that?

[Schorsch]

here my second question,

I installed v3Arcade (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?&threadid=60377) a couple of days ago, on my first style it is working ok, now I installed your great looking style, after that I imported the arcade templates.

but it doesn't look ok (see attachment) :(

do you know how I can fix that?

THANKS,
Schorsch

[AmbitiousLemon]

I installed v3Arcade (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?&threadid=60377) a couple of days ago, on my first style it is working ok, now I installed your great looking style, after that I imported the arcade templates.

but it doesn't look ok (see attachment) :(

do you know how I can fix that?


read posts 54 (http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/showpost.php?p=55239&postcount=54) 55 (http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/showpost.php?p=55239&postcount=55) 67 (http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/showpost.php?p=55239&postcount=67) 68 (http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/showpost.php?p=55239&postcount=68)

[Schorsch]

read posts 54 (http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/showpost.php?p=55239&postcount=54) 55 (http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/showpost.php?p=55239&postcount=55) 67 (http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/showpost.php?p=55239&postcount=67) 68 (http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/showpost.php?p=55239&postcount=68)
that's good to know. but for me as hacking noob not very useful :(

can you tell me what to change in order v3arcade is looking good?

thanks

[Schorsch]

heyyy :)

I wrote $spacer_open in the top of arcade_header template and now it looks allright!!

do I need $spacer_close somewhere else?

regards,
Schorsch

[Bumpaneer]

Probably at the bottom, above the footer.

[Schorsch]

oki thanks for your support and your great style :)

cu
Schorsch

[imported_sammyman]

How does one make the watermark looking avatar appear in the bottom right corner? That is SO COOL! Anyone have a code for just that?

[Bumpaneer]

Sorry, you'll have to look at the templates and figure it out, as its different for different browsers.

[Gio]

Very nice style

[imported_sammyman]

Do you know if there is a good way to put an ad down the side of this style? That would be cool, but I have had problems doing it. Any ideas?

[AmbitiousLemon]

Probably at the bottom, above the footer.

actually we include $spacer_close in our footer so as long as you have the footer in there $spacer_open will be closed.

[AmbitiousLemon]

I added a link to the psd files so you guys can play some more

PSD files (http://www.funmac.com/grassyknollpsd/grassyknoll_psds.zip)

[Bumpaneer]

I can give this a look over when I get some time, could you post an image of what you want it to look like?

Do you know if there is a good way to put an ad down the side of this style? That would be cool, but I have had problems doing it. Any ideas?

[sensimilla]

one of the top 5 skins I have ever seen... a real Mac user work!

[sensimilla]

sorry I should read all posts before asking stupid questions..

[havefun]

i like it, thx 4 the nice style :)

[kompakt]

nice skin, how did you get the avatars on the background of each post? Is this part of the skin or a mod installed? I'll try installing this skin later and see how it works out. Thanks

[sensimilla]

nice skin, how did you get the avatars on the background of each post? Is this part of the skin or a mod installed? I'll try installing this skin later and see how it works out. Thanks

there is a hack that allow You to do it on every skin if You like it...

[sensimilla]

i have fixed it for shoutbox and arcade easily with $spacer_open, but it seems not to work with CMPS >> see the attachment..

http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/attachment.php?attachmentid=4441

I would appreciate any help, thanks in advance

[imported_takamine334]

anyone have their header about 8 million pixels width?

I installed, but I have to scroll left and right to view the whole board.

[imported_takamine334]

<a href="http://everydayjones.com/BitTorrent/index.php?s=&styleid=5" target="_blank">http://everydayjones.com/BitTorrent/...p?s=&styleid=5</a>

Whats up with that?

[kompakt]

I too was able to fix it for the arcades. Not for CMPS or the shoutbox though :(

http://www.hagasny.com/forum/home.php?styleid=12

[kompakt]

also, one more thing... any idea on a navigation bar for this theme?

[mfowler70]

I figured out how to make this style work with vbadvanced CMPS. What you need to do is add $spacer_open to the bottom of your header template.

[AmbitiousLemon]

[b]Some people have been inquiring into a branding free option. I am offering a branding free option for $100. Email or PM me if you would be interested in a branding free version of the style[b]

[Aeolian]

awesome!!

[sphero]

holy ...one of the best i've ever seen so far! Thanks, good job!

[sphero]

I have a small problem with this one.
Look here:
http://www.linkshell.de/newhope/showthread.php?t=21

The text overrides the Avatar (not sure if it was meant this way), i want it more to the right (the text) so that it wont override anymore.
I also want the User-Title and the User-Icons (Stars w/e) under the Username.
Everything else is fine.

Can anyone tell me which template/s i have to modify to get back a more 2.xxish look?

Thanks in advance for your help :)