Steel Red Style 3.5.3
 

Steel Red - Like a Fire Engine!

Style Name: Steel Red for vB 3.5
Style Version: 3.5.3

Updated - Uses a Product. Uninstall your existing 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 1.0 Release of the Steel series in Red - as requested by robertwo.


Customised statusicon, buttons/misc and gradients folders included.

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

If you want to use the Steel Icons, overwrite your existing /images/icons directory with the included ones.

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:

Change these ids to the ones you want to use.

Further on in the same template is this conditional:

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

Enjoy!

Demo: here.

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

(If you want support, you better have clicked INSTALL...I *can* see this you know.)

Wow
loved it!

'nother nice one, Kall :)

Thanks Kall. Had a look at the preview - looks pretty good. Gonna have a go @ installing now.

Thanks :)

Excellent addition to my collection of Steel skins. Any idea why the navbar looks as attached?

Because I am an idiot. :)

*edit* The vbmenu_control css style is to the /steel/ path rather than /steelred/ .. on the testbed, that gradient image doesnt exist anyway, so it just takes the red colour. Sorry about that bug.

Look at your css styles - vbmenu_control .. change the path to /steelred/. :)

(.zip updated)

is this style going on VB 3.5 Gold?

Yes, all of the Steel Styles will be updated for 3.5 Gold.

Ha ha, I figured you'd probably been staring at too many Steel Temp. CSS sheets. Thanks for the fix, now it really is red.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Your work is first class as always.