HM - what's funny is you would have told me it wouldn't look good, but I would have never believed it unless I tried it and saw it myself.

I was trying to get the skin to look exactly like my NavyDEP.com site, but just with a different wallpaper background.

I think its an awesome skin that will work really well once I get everything hammered out....

Are you going to try and bring this style into compliance with the release of vB 4.1.10, the next version that is currently in beta testing? I see a lot of changes are happening with the style vars.I sure hope so.

Yes, this will be made compatible with 4.1.10. However, not til final 4.1.10 though ;). I will not be updating these styles for the alpha/beta releases.

I started reviewing the stylevar changes last night, and there are quite a few changes that will need to get fixed before working correctly on 4.1.10. As far as templates and css, I'm not sure about that one yet :)

Thanks. I made several changes that are unique to my board under past releases of your style and I still admire your theme a great deal so I hope you can make the changes a lot easier than I could. I will if I have to but I'm not a coder, only a manipulator or modifier of written code. A lot easier to manipulate / modify someone elses code for sure. Again, thanks.

Once 4.1.10 goes gold then I'll be making the jump from 4.1.7pl2 to 4.1.10

Well, I spent pretty much the entire day rewriting / reworking / fixing this for 4.1.10, so, by the time 4.1.10 comes out of beta/alpha stages, this should get released the same day 4.1.10 does ;) (providing nothing else gets screwed up lol)

I was amazed at how much it screwed everything up when I updated my test site :eek:

That sure sounds like good news. I'm looking forward to getting the updated code into my hands on my test site as well and then over to my main site. Thanks for all you're doing. I for one am appreciative.

Very cool.

Quick question: is it possible (and reasonably easy to do) to have the white background for the text actually be sort of translucent, so that one can see the background picture behind it? The one downside to this style for me is that one cannot see the planes, boats, etc except on the very edges.

Thanks.

No, not really (as far as I know). I tried something similar when I was creating this style and it screwed up other areas of the style.

On a side note, I just upgraded U.S. Military Life to 4.1.10 Beta 1. Feel free to poke around and please report any issues you may notice. There have been several changes in this version.

You could also try adding this to your additional.css....

I just posted a new poll here for opinions on a header rework :) Please vote for which one you like the best ;)