Plain, Blue, Green & Purple!, Finished... Enjoy!

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very hot, thank you. you ever think about making a dark i-bulletin skin?

Stanley clicks <INSTALL> !

Is there anyway to make hyperlinks stick out more? In the gray style it is very hard to see them.

Thanks, and great work!

By default, in topic view, the profile information are located on top of each reply, how do you put it at the left, like on your screenshot ?

Edit the css yourself, experiment!

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ACP > Style & Language Settings > Use Legacy (Vertical) Postbit Template (set to YES)

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Thats ok, but wouldn't look right with the graphix! - if i made a dark skin, it'll need dark graphix to go with it! - Not in this distro! :)

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Thank you for this quick reply

Very nice. Thanks.

http://www.joebar.be - wheres my x7x7x7.com link on the footer, nice! :)

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I seem to have an error in my member list. The don't get the drop down box that allows for searching member names. IE gives off an "Done, but errors on page". Please see attachment for error details. I have quite a few mods installed on the board, but the memberlist template is untouched. Tried it in IE 7 and Firefox 1.5 neither worked.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Revert the templates.

Please click install if you would like some support from me! - It's the Christian thing to do!

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That it is :), another admin on our side actually downloaded and installed this style. I assumed they had already pressed install, but it doesn't hurt to add another.

Great skin, thanks for all your work.

I've installed it and done some of my own tweaking and I had some questions for you. I'm a skin customizing newb, so forgive me if these questions are pretty basic.

How can I make the usernames that are displayed in a thread bigger and bold?

Goto the main CSS (Additional CSS Definitions) at the bottom of the page and find .bigusername (see below)

.bigusername {
font-family: Verdana;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: bold;
}

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Hey B6;

Just want to say thanks again for the stye! By the way, I have a quick question;

When people visit the Forums Main page and enter their 'username' and 'password' I notice that there's a little check box to the right of it and it defaults to 'checked'.

I'm assuming that this check box is the 'remember me' option. The only thing is, even if I leave it checked, when I log on, it 'un-checks' for a split second then it logs me in.

This isn't really a big deal, but I notice that after like an hour or two of innactivity, I have to re-login.

Any suggestions?

Thanks again,

Joe

Try this :

ACP > Cookies and HTTP Header Options > Time-Out for Cookie
Sounds like a vB setting for cookies anyways, you using 3.5 final?

The login template i used just removed the phrases and remakes the login table...thats it, shouldn't be any problem with that as it's basically the default!

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Hey B6!

Sorry for the newbie questions and thanks again for your help! I followed your instructions and I'm going to 'bump up' the amount of seconds for the cookie expiration, it's currently at 900 seconds.

Also...yes, I am using 3.5 Gold.

Joe

Hi,

I have tried install the styles, but all the styles are not getting any images.

Pls help

Click <install> and you'll get some help from me :)

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Haha.. ok already clicked on it. :)

And I have solved the issue, by the way, I have another problem here.
Under the user postbit, the IP icon is missing. px.gif

I search for this gif, but its not available.

The attached is the 'ip.gif' which is in my distro and should be in yours, its the icon/graphic your referring to.

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Any ideas about this one b6? :ermm:

Ymeaga1n, PM me your forum url and i'll take a look, but i think you have busted your footer template, some javascript is missing maybe, or the header include...maybe a mod is causeing this problem...

check the attached, you mean this right?

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Thanks it works fine. ;)

wow.. very nice!

*installs*

An odd thing happened...it started working. I'll talk to the other admins and see if they modified anything. Once I find out I will post here for anyone else that might have the same issue. Thanks for your assistance though.

Just to let you know that iB works on 3.5.1, only the navbar and postbit templates need to be reverted, this is ok as i only added a <br /> here and there!

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B6;

Thanks so much for the update. Here's a newbie question/concern:

I've never managed a forum until now, we went live yesterday and now have about 150+ members (hopefully still growing).

My concern is, I plan on upgrading to 3.5.1 at some point this weekend, but that would mean I have to close the forum momentarily.

- What are some tips on doing this?

- What's a good way to prepare ahead of time?

- Also, I did do some slight tweaking as you might recall, how can I be 100% sure, if these updates to the templates will affect my customization?

Thanks again for help, I spent so much time getting this all right, I wouldn't want to mess it all up for the sake of upgrading.

Thanks again,

Joe

What do you mean reverted? (not native english here :D )

Hi joe, i would do what i do...post a warning to your members in an annoucement just to give them advance notice when the board will be down, yes close the board and you should be ok while you upgrade, some templates may not need to be reverted, check the 3.5.1 update thread for more info on this.

the I-Bulletin skin only needs to have 2 templates reverted to fall inline with 3.5.1, they are the navbar and postbit templates, 3.5.1 will tell you what template need to be reverted, this does not effect the way I-Bulletin works or looks, so you'll be ok, good luck

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Check this post for more info on the templates that need to be reverted, simply meaning to take the template to it's default state.

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This is very cool. I have installed all the colors.

Any chance of making a black one? or a Earth Tone one?

Also, when posting a message, there is a grey box inside of the message box? It does not cause problems, but it looks wierd. Also, it confuses my users when they quoting a previous post. Can it be removed?

Is that grey box like my screen shot?

ACP > vBulletin Options > Message Posting Interface Options (just enable standard controls) and see what happens, i would revert the postbit_legacy template on IBulletin and see what happens!, you may also have a mod installed which is doing this...

and no i wont be making anymore skins for IB...

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Yes it is

I will check this out and get back to you.

I do not think it is a mod I have installed. I have done zero file edits in my vbb and none of my other styles are doing this. However, all of the IB styles are doing this.

I imported the style per the instructions and it appears to have worked. My icons are all appearing as missing though now... How to I resolve that?

Thanks!

B6, thanks for the info! A few final questions...and yes, newbie as usual;

1.) If I have to upload 3.5.1 to my server, isn't that essentially replacing/writing over the current installation? Also if I do this, wouldn't that like erase the 'ibulletin' folder that is inside the 'images' directory? Also I have other folders with extra smilies and icons, will these also be 'written over'?

If the answer is yes to this then, I guess what I need to do is this:

- Delete my 'forums' install folder

- Upload the new 3.5.1 forums folder and rename it to match my current install

- Upload all of the 'extra' folders including the 'ibulletin folder' and put it back in the 'images' directory

- Then run the upgrade?

2.) Also I went into ACP >> Style Manager >> and checked out the 'navbar' and postbit' templates. Remember, I did slightly 'tweak' the ibulletin style to fit my purposes:

the 'navbar' template is in the orange, color...which I guess this isn't a big deal, it was just that the template is inherited from a parent style.

What concerns me is the 'postbit' template, this shows up in the 'red' color, which means that I customized it. If so, I guess I need to compare it with the original one, see what I did and then 'redo' the change after the upgrade?

Thanks for your help!

Joe

Upload the icons into the default icon directory in the images directory, try that!

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