Steel Purple 3.5.3

Steel Purple People Eater - The funnest Purple Style around!.

Style Name: Steel Purple - The Second in the Steel Series from the team at vBEnhanced.com.
Style Version: 3.5.3

Updated - Uses a Product. Uninstall your existing plugins before installing the Product.

Features:

• Forum Status Icons Horizontal
• Navbar links on top and bottom. Images for each link.
• 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 Purple.


Customised statusicon, buttons/misc and gradients folders included.

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

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.

Enjoy!

Demo: http://www.vbenhanced.com/forums/?styleid=4

***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:

PHP Code:

<if condition="in_array($forum['forumid'], array(2, 3)"> 


Change these ids to the ones you want to use.

Further on in the same template is this conditional:

PHP Code:

<if condition="!in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(1,3,4,8))"> 


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


Oh, and it's XHTML Compliant and CSS Compliant

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

[centris]

Originally Posted by kall

Does changing it in the StyleVars not work?

As far as I know, no issues as yet. I will try to release a 100% Gold Certified version this weekend though.

Great stuff thanks.

[illusions]

Love the skin! Installed it...thanks

[FreDy]

I love this theme, but I would like the steel blue updated in order to look like this, with double navbar (icons in navbar), and allways like this but in blue... do you go to update the blue theme soon?

Thanks

[Rhoads]

He Kall, thanks for the beautiful styles.

I have a small problem when the language chooser activated, It's screwed up my footer on the right site (see atachment).

[kall]

Originally Posted by drl2005

He Kall, thanks for the beautiful styles.

I have a small problem when the language chooser activated, It's screwed up my footer on the right site (see atachment).

I will look into the conditionals tonight if I get time...have you tried the other Steel styles to see if they do the same thing?

@FreDy: Yup, its in this Forum, Steel Blue has been updated.

[FreDy]

Originally Posted by kall

@FreDy: Yup, its in this Forum, Steel Blue has been updated.

I've downloaded yesterday the Steel Blue Theme, and it isn't updated with the look of the purple theme... I've took a look in the Stee Blue Thread and the newest file is for vBulletin3.5 Beta 4, and the Steel purple is for vB3 RC3 or gold (I don't remember)...

Is there any link to download a newer version of Steel Blue, I like the Steel Purple but I prefer the Steel Blue colors...

Thanks in advance

[Rhoads]

Originally Posted by kall

I will look into the conditionals tonight if I get time...have you tried the other Steel styles to see if they do the same thing?

It's on all the four steel styles, but i have the time

[o0Hubba0o]

Originally Posted by kall

nzb_greeting and nzb_greeting2 .. the underscore has to be there.

You might want to change that in the first post for those of us who don't know coding that good, because you typed them out without the "_'s" in them.

I'm having two problems, one is simple for me to fix. But I have polls for sigs and they are fairly tall at times even with only 3 sigs it's taller that the background, but I just replaced the image (steelpurple/gradients/gradient_panel.gif) with a solid color to fix that.

The other problems got me stumped though, I've notice three members who's posts don't have a background to them. They're in different user groups so that rules a problem with that out. Any ideas?

[kall]

Originally Posted by o0Hubba0o

But I have polls for sigs and they are fairly tall at times even with only 3 sigs it's taller that the background, but I just replaced the image (steelpurple/gradients/gradient_panel.gif) with a solid color to fix that.

The other problems got me stumped though, I've notice three members who's posts don't have a background to them. They're in different user groups so that rules a problem with that out. Any ideas?

I don't recall setting the postbit to have a background... But I know what you mean, and it's something I have found bloody annoying about vB for a long long time. The default panel/panelsurround gradient images are far too short. To 'fix' it, you need to make taller versions of those gradient images.

The second issue.. do you mean that screenshot with a quote under the postbit? I don't know how that happened...but maybe fuller shots of the postbits would help.. or a URL.

[o0Hubba0o]

Originally Posted by kall

I don't recall setting the postbit to have a background... But I know what you mean, and it's something I have found bloody annoying about vB for a long long time. The default panel/panelsurround gradient images are far too short. To 'fix' it, you need to make taller versions of those gradient images.

The second issue.. do you mean that screenshot with a quote under the postbit? I don't know how that happened...but maybe fuller shots of the postbits would help.. or a URL.

See how the first screen shot the post itself had a background and border. I've seen 3 members now who's posts are like the second screenshot with no background or border.

Here's a link to that thread, notice the user Munkey has no background or border around his post while the rest do: http://www.graphicsanonymous.net/for...=4461#post4461

Edit: Nevermind that link now, it seems the thank-you hack is affecting them. One member had it disappear after being thanked, and one had it re-appear, not sure what's conflicting there.

But now I've got a couple member who are having problems seeing images that are being posted with the [img] tags. It's not all of them just some of them. I do know one is using IE and the other is using AOL browser.