Weird overlapping text in post

[billstelling]

Well, to be honest. you are going about skinning your site in the wrong way. You should avoid any template modifications as much as possible and use the vars and additional.css to style the site as apposed to changing the stylevars descriptors within the templates.

Also, the area you are modding is bound by % in overlapping ways and if you add an element that adds width or height it will break the layout with how the bits combine to the thread, rss, threadbit and post count.

While the shadowing is cool and I get what you are going for there, you need to learn some of the best practices for vB so as to avoid a lot of headaches in the future. One of the biggest rules, and one I can not stress enough, is you NEVER modify the base vB style.

To use the base theme as a template, add anything to addition.css so that it sees it as a changed theme.

/*new style*/

That will work just fine for what we want to do, allow for the default style to be downloaded.

After adding to the add.css you can download the xml and then upload it giving it a new name and setting it to be its own style and not a child of any other style. You can then start modding that one and your stock style will be there to use to troubleshoot any problems you might have with a mod not adding things to the menus and such due to any template modifications you might have had to make to change the layout of vB aside form vars modding and css.

You also want to copy the default images folder, rename it, and then point the images section of the vars to the new folder. As with the base style, you should leave the default graphics alone and use a newly created one for your graphics.

If you want to poke around on my test site feel free. I do heavy modifications and styling to vB and it might give you a few ideas with what you would like to do, you can check it out here.