I was *so* hoping that they changed the style system in vB4. They didn't. Ugh.
 

Unfortunately it looks like they kept the same system in place, and it's beyond me why everything is so separated into a million tiny different locations. It takes *forever* to build a fully functioning custom theme because of it.

I was really hoping for something more like Wordpress this time around. 1 or 2 css files max, and all of the template files editable within a textarea format.

It seems like the system they have and have had in place now is way unnecessarily complex.

Am I alone in this thinking or? If I'm wrong about this, then I encourage someone to provide an explanation of how this system is good. I'll be the first to admit if I'm wrong or "didn't think of that" ;)

I'm kinda diggin a lot. Really enjoying the challenge of figuring out what is what.

Been trying to figure out for a little bit why when I black out postbit_background and then hover over the area it turns white...

Yeah, it's hard, its a challenge, but more importantly.... it's very fun!!!

I say keep it. Once those of us spending the time learning figure it out.. Maybe some nice skins will be released.

I Also am really keen to get stuck in and have made great progress so far. Yes I find some of the stylevar variables confusing as they don't really relate at first glance, but its great to have gone to the next level in coding.

have you had any luck in figuring out how to kill that hover to white issue? I have spent hours trying to figure it out
I guess its something really simple but alas it has eluded me :confused:

The style system has changed quite a bit, and some of those changes will allow the use of less templates in the future - however, those changes will only happen over time.

I agree with you, the system needs a lot of work. I was also hoping for something like Wordpress but they created this one where everything is scattered over a thousand places. The style manager Main CSS page is useless - not even sure why it's on 4.0 since you can't control anything on the style from there. It just causes confusion and is unnecessary.

It's there right now so admins can see what colors/backgrounds/settings they had on their old style and can copy/paste these colors/settings into the new stylevars for the new style.

Its tedious at first sight. But after playing around with it for the past week, it gets alot easier to use. Spend 1 week struggling, and the rest for vb4.0 it will be easy.

I dig it. I totally customized my websites theme from scratch to look almost exactly like the old one I had.

Anyone got an answer for how to get rid of this? or what the stylevar is for it?

Also, yeah, I do understand that this is easier to work off as we go from previous versions of vb to vb4 and yes there are a few more flexible things there.

There are also a few restrictive things that I have had to edit templates to get around
but I had to do that in previous versions as well so not much of a stress

If your talking about the White hover over the navbits/breadcrumb section, the stylevar to change it is the "lightweightbox_background". Took me a while to find that one as well :)

I just hope it doesn't stay ugly.