Hardwired for VB3

Well, it's been a ride seeing all you nice folks appreciate my work.

I gotta say if you read my last post in this thread you'll understand why i'm doing this...

doing what? - starting my own site silly, to distrubute my skins...and why not?
You guys gave me to confidence to do so, thankyou.

I'm not a mercenary, just trying my best is all, but if you like what i do i'll have my own site for you to come and view, it'll be an instant download system with concentrated support if you need it, custom jobs...the works.

It's a new site, so if your up for giving me some advice, i could use it i suppose, pop by or send me a PM or something, i'll be happy to listen to some good ideas and chew the cud so to speak.

Well, i hope i haven't disapointed you you all, wasn't my intension, i just hope you can support me in my desision, you've been great thus far, been a privilege to serve.

cheers

-b6

x7x7x7.com

[the wiz]

Originally Posted by Ber|Art

Looks very nice I am gooing to try it! Thx!

Can you check and see if you are having the same problems I am?

I can't revert the navbar because I edited it with some of my own links, and all the revert will do is erase what I edited.

[b6gm6n]

Just like to give a big shout of thanx to all those who appreciate my skin, hope your enjoying it.

I haven't read through the pages but HW seems popular, so i wanna make it better for you, firstly, are there any bugs or templates i've missed? any other colours you'd like me to make HW in (a bit lighter maybe) lemme know, i'll be back in a week and collect all the info.

thanx again guys
-b6

[the wiz]

Problems I'd like fixed:

The log-out problem that was talked about on the first page and vBadvanced and the trader ratings hacks do not show the side images.

Examples:

vBadvanced:
http://www.dsites.net/vb/portal.php?styleid=5

Trader Ratings:
http://www.dsites.net/vb/traderrati...p?u=1&styleid=5

Not required (but would be kinda cool), make the style in a dark red color.

[TheEnd]

Ok, I installed another style and it is missing the new thread button too. I messed with a template somewhere a LONG time ago, maybe in an old file or something that I imported to the new forums. How can I install a new template that is like the original without messing stuff op or doing a lot of work. I don't think I need what I modified because it was for an old style when I tried making one, I guess I messed with the templates too.

[the wiz]

Maybe these styles don't support your version of vBulletin correctly. Can you update it to 3.0.3?

[KW802]

b6gm6n,

Would you mind if a posted a modified version of the XML file that would take care of some problems for some people? In particular it should work fine with no modifications for the vBadvanced CMPS crowd (which included me which led me to doing the modifications) and will also eliminate the logout problem.

Edit: It now also includes the WYSIWYG smilie fix by IanR.

[the wiz]

Couldn't we just get a list of what to edit to fix the problems if we already have it installed? I don't want to have to re-install the style and the re-install all my hacks.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by the wiz

Couldn't we just get a list of what to edit to fix the problems if we already have it installed? I don't want to have to re-install the style and the re-install all my hacks.

It's a little more complicated than that because of the way that b6gm6n did the side graphics on the left & the right. Essentially he modified every template that is normally displayed the full width of the page and added in the side graphics. Even though there were no color or image changes to the template it was still touched to add in the side bars.

What I did was start with a clean slate. I imported the style and then reverted all of the templates back to their defaults. I then modified the header & footer to wrap the contents of the page display inside of another table with the three columns needed. Think of a table with three columns & one row across; the left graphic border goes in the first column, the page content goes in the middle column, and then the right graphic goes in the third column.

The end result is the same as before (as far as I can see at least) but with only two template modifications instead of the dozen or so in the original XML file. That then allows anything that is using the standard header & footer template to then be wrapped inside of the border graphics so by default add-ins such vBadvanced CMPS will automatically use the side graphics. A much cleaner & easier approach.

In regards your specific problems, I know that the guys over at http://www.lssix.com got their site working with vBa so you might be able to find out from them what modifications they made to shoe-horn in the style into vBa. For your logout problem it can be eliminated by making sure that all of your logout links in your header & footer look like http://yoursite.com/forum/login.php?do=logout&u=$bbuserinfo[userid] -- The "&u=$bbuserinfo[userid]" was added in after the initial vB3 release so when the Hardwired skin was originally created it wasn't there at the time.

Kevin

[patnyc]

This file was created using a different version of vBulletin from the one you are running.

Your version: 3.0.3
File version: 3.0.0

Has this been corrected yet?

[patnyc]

Nevermind I got it to work.

But my question is.. the Demo site he shows us shows the Posters name is on the LEFT COLUMN instead of being directly above the post. How would I Go about changing that. I am fairly new with this type of forum setup. I am very used to the older vbulletins. (2.0)