Steel Green 3.5.3

[kall]

Steel Green - for your grassy meadow delight.

Style Name: Steel Green - The Third in the Steel Series from the team at vBEnhanced.com.

Style Version: 3.5.3

Updated - Uses a Product. Uninstall your existing Steel plugins before installing the Product.

Features:

Forum Status Icons Horizontal
Rounded top and bottom corners
Easily configured Javascript counter displaying time since forum launch on Forum Home
Greeting conditional on day of week and time of day
Custom Statusicon, Icons, Buttons and several misc images
Some SEO elements - Navbar tweaked for better keyword density.
Forum/Thread name in table at top of page in FORUMDISPLAY and SHOWTHREAD
Start new Thread/View New Posts buttons in Forumbits (Forumhome and Forumdisplay)


This is the 3.5.0 Release of the Steel series in Green.


Customised statusicon, buttons/misc and gradients folders included.

To install:Upload /steelgreen/ folder to your /forums/images/ directory.

Import the xml file in your Style Manager.

Import the plugin file in your Plugin manager.

Edit the forumid of the top of forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost to that of your topmost forum.

If you are running vBadvanced, add nzbgreeting and nzbgreeting2 to the Globalized Variables section of the vBA Admin CP area.


***Additional Instructions***

To change the 'Launch date' ticker on Forum Home, look in the FORUMHOME template, near the bottom. There is a start date field. :)

To change the greetings that appear in the navbar, have a look in your php_include_start template.

To have the Forum images show up for selected forums, go into your forumhome_forumbit_level*_post templates (both level1 and level2) and look for the condtitional that reads:

<if condition="in_array($forum['forumid'], array(2, 3)">

Change these ids to the ones you want to use.

Further on in the same template is this conditional:

<if condition="!in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(1,3,4,8))">

The array contains those Usergroup ids that we do NOT want to see the Start New Thread button.

Enjoy!

Demo: http://www.vbenhanced.com/forums/?styleid=3

*edit* fixed a bug in the navbar template that caused 'an error when attempting to log you out'. Thanks to breaume for reporting the bug.

Oh, and it's XHTML Compliant and CSS Compliant https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/10/30.jpg https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/01/137.jpg
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(If you want support, you better have clicked INSTALL...I *can* see this you know.)

[Azhrialilu]

Nice job, as always, Kall :)

[Brandon Sheley]

* Brandon Sheley installs*

not sure if i'll keep it, but i'll check it out, i may be able to use it, :) , i just don't want to do what i did last time.
get a skin that loaded to slow :(
looks good so far.. thank you :)


edit.. could u possibly share the star ranks you have ? there are missing from the zip i think..
thank you :)

[kall]

edit.. could u possibly share the star ranks you have ? there are missing from the zip i think..
thank you :)
Oops, sorry. There you are (main .zip updated).

[bing11]

so nice thank you

[badblu]

kall i have a question

on you New Zealand blue skin how are you able to get the main site section showing up on your forum page?

I am really interested do something similar to that on my website i am willing to pay for the help

[kall]

kall i have a question

on you New Zealand blue skin how are you able to get the main site section showing up on your forum page?

I am really interested do something similar to that on my website i am willing to pay for the help

Do you mean the graphical style - New Zealand Blue?

*edit* Sorry, of course you did.

Well, its basically 'Add a left column to your forums' as can be found on vb.org and vb.com in places...with a few images.

Specifically, its several hours of work and swearing at the PC. :)

[bing11]

so nice thank you

689 line not well-formed (invalid token)

[kall]

689 line not well-formed (invalid token)

What?

Give better examples please. Where are you gettign the error? What were you doing?

(I have just checked BOTH xmls. Both work. You are doing something wrong. Maybe importing the plugin as a style or a product or something.)

[badblu]

thanks kall i will try to get it to work :)

[bing11]

What?

Give better examples please. Where are you gettign the error? What were you doing?

(I have just checked BOTH xmls. Both work. You are doing something wrong. Maybe importing the plugin as a style or a product or something.)

when I install show this

XML Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at Line 689

[gsm4arab1]

thanks mr.kall good job ...

[Leah]

Thanks for another great style!

I have one question, though.

In forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post:
Would it be possible to separate the forum description from the forum image? And the "search for new posts" and "start new thread" images?

So that the text doesn't appear beneath the icons?

Like on the image attached. (I tried to do that, but then the "search for new posts" and "start new thread" images got out of place.

[kall]

Thanks for another great style!

I have one question, though.

In forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post:
Would it be possible to separate the forum description from the forum image? And the "search for new posts" and "start new thread" images?

So that the text doesn't appear beneath the icons?

Like on the image attached. (I tried to do that, but then the "search for new posts" and "start new thread" images got out of place.

You want to change that bit...

*sighs*

That bit was the hardest for me to get compliant and still look good. It's a pretty delicate area.

At a guess .. add a &nbsp; after the code for the image?

[D|ver]

great style :)
i would love to install it but do you have the psd files so i can translate the buttons for my forum?
that would be great :)

[Kirk Y]

I love this style... but for some reason whenever I try to use the Quick Reply, I get an error saying that the message I entered was too short. The limit I have set on my board is 5 characters minimum, I entered 20+. It only happens on this style, my other style's Quick Reply works fine. Any ideas? I really want to use this style... but only if the Quick Reply will work.

Edit: Just realized this is for RC3, that's why it wasn't working. Upgraded and everything is now working great.

[wtrk]

looks good, works good, only one problem. my footer is a really large and not formatted right. any suggestions?

[kall]

looks good, works good, only one problem. my footer is a really large and not formatted right. any suggestions?

Does it not look like the footer in: http://www.nzboards.com/forums/?styleid=258 ?

Post a screenshot please.

[robertwo]

I noticed this and I think it is to do with the table layout in the footer, if you don't have the style dropdown enabled and the language drop down at the bottom you get some missing columns in the row above, I just added a colspan to mine.

[Brandon Sheley]

Can I ask you where you edit this ?
I'd like to add it to the other stlye,
It's awsome, at least i think so.
I looked in navbad and header but didn't see it,, I think its in navbar but can u see me where i can get the code for the welcome block on the index :)
that says this

Good Morning, Loco.
Happy Humpday!
You last visited: Today at 12:23 AM
Private Messages: Unread 0, Total 8.

thank you
and I noticed it doesn't seem to say anything other then the normal on the portal

vBa 2.0

thx agian for the style :)

oh and if you didn't understand what i'm looking for,,
its the code that say good morning/evening and happy hump day/t.g.i.f and the other days of the week..
that little part there is pimp :P

[kall]

and I noticed it doesn't seem to say anything other then the normal on the portal

vBa 2.0

Dude. Read the first post. I quite clearly state, if you are using vbadvanced, add the $nzb_greeting and $nzb_greeting2 variables to the Globalised variables (or whatever it is called) box in the vBACMPS Admin CP. :)


oh and if you didn't understand what i'm looking for,,
its the code that say good morning/evening and happy hump day/t.g.i.f and the other days of the week..
that little part there is pimp :P
They are $nzb_greeting and $nzb_greeting2. They are in the navbar template above the bit for displaying PM info. The text itself is generated by the plugin, in global_start.

[Kirk Y]

The navbit message won't show on my portal either... I have placed the two variables in the "Portal Output Global Variables" box in my CMPS Panel. It doesn't show in the navbar after I click "New Posts", either.

Edit: I figured out why the message wasn't showing on my portal. The variables in your first post are missing an underscore. They should be "nzb_greeting" not "nzbgreeting". I do still however have the problem with the message not showing up after clicking New Posts.

[Kran]

if you don't mind me asking how did you get it to have that boxy look around the forums (how their separated, yes I have an obsession with boxes :P)

[Brandon Sheley]

Dude. Read the first post. I quite clearly state, if you are using vbadvanced, add the $nzb_greeting and $nzb_greeting2 variables to the Globalised variables (or whatever it is called) box in the vBACMPS Admin CP. :)


They are $nzb_greeting and $nzb_greeting2. They are in the navbar template above the bit for displaying PM info. The text itself is generated by the plugin, in global_start.


thank you, sorry that i asked a question you answered already,
I'll check this out see if I can get things working on my other style,
I still say this style rocks :)
thx for sharing it ;)

[kall]

thank you, sorry that i asked a question you answered already,
I'll check this out see if I can get things working on my other style,
I still say this style rocks :)
thx for sharing it ;)

You should be good to go with any other style... just put $nzb_greeting ,$bbuserinfo[username](god, I wish I knew how to get that to work inside the plugin...) wherever you want it to display.

[trilljester]

Any changes to this style for 3.5.0?

[D2S05]

Edit the forumid of the top of forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost to that of your topmost forum.
Can you explain this?, I'm a newbie and don't know what "forumid" is nor the "forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost" nor the "topmust forum".

Thanks.

[Bounce]

/me installs .. thanks

[betablue]

Maybe you should add instructions how to configure Javascript counter.
Saying you can do it easily - does not really tell how to do it.

[Jack Crazy]

hi, i have a question, and i dont know if this is the right place to ask, but ill go ahead anyway.

On my forum, when I installed this skin (Great one by the way) - two of the forums have little icons next to them, a ying yhang, and a pill... how do i remove those? I dont know how they got there. you can check www.chowcow.com/forum to see it.

please advise :)

[Injektilo]

hi, i have a question, and i dont know if this is the right place to ask, but ill go ahead anyway.

On my forum, when I installed this skin (Great one by the way) - two of the forums have little icons next to them, a ying yhang, and a pill... how do i remove those? I dont know how they got there. you can check www.chowcow.com/forum to see it.

please advise :)

i have the same problem :) one of my forum displays a "pill" picture as well... thats odd aint it? :p

check it : http://www.katsekala.com/forums/index.php

[kall]

i have the same problem :) one of my forum displays a "pill" picture as well... thats odd aint it? :p

check it : http://www.katsekala.com/forums/index.php

Please read the first post in this thread, I have updated it with the instructions for all those things.

[Jack Crazy]

hi, im sorry, im really new to this, and your instructions on page one i cant seem to understand. many appologies, but im new... is there any way you can teach me step by step how to remove these? www.chowcow.com/forum i really like this skin, just those pictures are unwanted.

thank you :)

[Jack Crazy]

OKAY, never mind my last question, I FIGURED IT OUT> :)

now i have a new queestion.

if you go to www.chowcow.com/forum you can see this error im witnessing. my first two categories have issues. they are stuck together, when the rest of the categories all have spaces in between them. how do i fix this?

[Injektilo]

open up forumdisplay in your templates, and stick inbetween a <br> :)

[Jack Crazy]

exactly where? would you know?

[HUMMERh3]

I have just installed this theme onto my site http://www.orchidgeeks.com/forum/?styleid=2

but the threads and forums are all scewed to the right and the left...nothing lines up or is centered.
How do I go about fixing this problem? :bunny:

[HUMMERh3]

....

[Mr Chad]

....

looks like its your subforms that are pushing it. Try that sub forum collum hack.

[Jack Crazy]

new question: if you go to my site, it has this style installed... www.chowcow.com - i just have one question, when you read someone's post, it has pictures of little stars under their info... what are those for? and how do i get rid of them?

(click on the introductions forum becuase you wont get access to any domain forums without subscribing, syou wont be able to see what im talking about) but any forum that isnt domain name related, you will have access to.

[kall]

new question: if you go to my site, it has this style installed... www.chowcow.com - i just have one question, when you read someone's post, it has pictures of little stars under their info... what are those for? and how do i get rid of them?

(click on the introductions forum becuase you wont get access to any domain forums without subscribing, syou wont be able to see what im talking about) but any forum that isnt domain name related, you will have access to.

You can remove them in 2 ways, an easy way abd a hard way.

The hard way: open template: postbit. Look for <if condition="$jointime (or something similar..it's the <if> that surrounds the bit with 'star.gif' paths) and remove the whole conditional.

The easy way: Disable the plugin called nzb_postbit_stars (or whatever it is I called it). :)

[fishkorp]

looks good, i'll try it out.

[Moncal]

Great job, Kall! My members love this style. One question though, the quick register box is interferring with logins when a guest views the forum homepage. So I would like to axe it. Where can I find it? I've looked everywhere I can think of.

[kall]

Great job, Kall! My members love this style. One question though, the quick register box is interferring with logins when a guest views the forum homepage. So I would like to axe it. Where can I find it? I've looked everywhere I can think of.

The.. Quick Register Box you say..

I don't remember adding one of those (mainly because they interfere with logons in my experience)... can you give me a screenshot?

[Hemmelig]

Oops, sorry. There you are (main .zip updated).
How do I make the stars appear?

[Moncal]

The.. Quick Register Box you say..

I don't remember adding one of those (mainly because they interfere with logons in my experience)... can you give me a screenshot?
Sure

edit: I found it. It was in the 'first_visit_message' phrase. Quick Register has been appropriately axed. :devious:

[HUMMERh3]

Okay I still have not figured out how to get rid of the pill images...I have replaced them with other images but I do not know how to completely delete them from showing up. The directions are NOT very clear, Can someone please tell me how i.e what templates should be modified and what code needs to be removed?

Thank you

[HUMMERh3]

Also how do you get rid of the WHITE spaces between the different forums? on the main forum page?

[kall]

Also how do you get rid of the WHITE spaces between the different forums? on the main forum page?

The answer to the first question: "forumhome_forumbit_level*_post" means 'Both forumhome_forumbit_level2_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post.'

Look in those templates for an array that has 2,3 in it. Change those numbers to 999,998. Assuming you don't have any forumids that are 999 or 998, the images will not show.

The answer to the second question is: Look on vbulletin.com - Quick Tips and Customisations - Add a space between each category. I won't be posting instructions for that, as it's a base feature of this style.

[maroceve]

Hey guys ;)

Has anyone made any french buttons for this style ? :)

Thanks

[baerwurz]

Hi, very nice Style!

But I have one problem:

To change the greetings that appear in the navbar, have a look in your php_include_start template.

I have no php_include_start template?

So where i can find it to change the language into German?


I hope you can help me!

Andr?

[HUMMERh3]

The answer to the second question is: Look on vbulletin.com - Quick Tips and Customisations - Add a space between each category.

I found the thread (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=156783)
However this tells you how to add spaces...I want to get rid of the spaces.
Could you please tell me just what to delete from the Forum Home Template?
Thanks

[Sandibeck]

Has anyone made any german buttons for this style or is it possible to get the psd file for the buttons ?

[TheFinney]

Hi, amazing and clean style...

But, since my members don't like full-screen, I made it to 750px, but in the forum, only the header is 750px, the rest is still filling the rest of the screen, hence looking very weird (check the screenshot).

Any help is appreciated as to where I could fix this. Thanks! :)

[pran]

I like the postbit -- how did you make the stats look so good (right side)?

[Sandibeck]

No chance to get the psd File for the buttons ? or a german version ?
Thx for help ...

[nasser71]

thanks

[funinthesun]

Can this style be used on 3.5.3?

[listerine]

This could be just something I messed up but I'm missing the icon "forum_icon.gif" from "/images/steelgreen/misc/forum_icon.gif".

[trilljester]

What's changed in the 3.5.3 version of this style? I've updated my board to 3.5.3 quite some time ago.

[kall]

What's changed in the 3.5.3 version of this style? I've updated my board to 3.5.3 quite some time ago.

Bugger all. Some people are too lazy to update from the announcement thread, so I basically release a new .xml for them. :)

@listerine: Sorry, it has been re-added to the .zip.

[PollyTX]

Hi kall, just wondering if you have a version of this for 3.6.0?

[red-dna]

great skin:D

[La M@lice]

cool merci

[sentinal]

thanks