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

[dtdesign]

Woohooo ! Got it together finally.

I thought I had the images in the wrong folder - when I checked the url of the broken images - it's telling me that the images should be in forums/images/etc/etc/imagename - I can't figure out why it's suddenly change to forums from forum.

Is this something wrote into the code ?

[b6gm6n]

Originally Posted by KW802

For item #1, use the attached XML instead of the one that comes in the zip file. I redid it so that the only two templates modified are the header & footer and I also fixed some HTML problems to make it more WC3 compliant.

thats my alternate hardwired to a tee, no template changes, just header & footer!



-b6

[KW802]

Originally Posted by dtdesign

Woohooo ! Got it together finally.

I thought I had the images in the wrong folder - when I checked the url of the broken images - it's telling me that the images should be in forums/images/etc/etc/imagename - I can't figure out why it's suddenly change to forums from forum.

Is this something wrote into the code ?

Go ACP --> Styles & Templates --> Style Manager --> Hardwired --> All Style Options and then look for a section named "Image Paths", that's where you need to change it from "/forums..." to "/forum...".

[KW802]

Originally Posted by b6gm6n

thats my alternate hardwired to a tee, no template changes, just header & footer!



-b6

Yeah, once I realized what the original author did I was a bit taken back. To his credit it's a really nice looking style and his first VB3 style but he should've looked at some other styles first to see how they did certain things.

[b6gm6n]

Originally Posted by KW802

Yeah, once I realized what the original author did I was a bit taken back. To his credit it's a really nice looking style and his first VB3 style but he should've looked at some other styles first to see how they did certain things.

I am the original author, and looking at other peoples to see how they did things? i mean did they to? - it's a style, and thats exactly what it was meant to be.

I'd like to know what exactly phased you? - all i did was make a style, i did'nt place any fancy code in there...just did exactly what other people do...hopefully my 'credit' is still intact wrtting this

-b6

[KW802]

Originally Posted by b6gm6n

I am the original author, and looking at other peoples to see how they did things? i mean did they to? - it's a style, and thats exactly what it was meant to be.

I'd like to know what exactly phased you? - all i did was make a style, i did'nt place any fancy code in there...just did exactly what other people do...hopefully my 'credit' is still intact wrtting this

-b6

Hey, you're still with us!

As I mentioned above it's a really nice looking style but people had problem with it because of the way it was implemented. To clarify that, in the original version the header was seperate from the body which was seperate from the footer so there were three unique areas. That meant that nearly every template that would be displayed between the header and the footer had to be modified to have the outside graphic borders and to set the width. For people using various portals that also caused problems for them because then they'd have to modify the portal template to do the same thing.

If you take a look at the modified version that I posted the same effect was achieved by wrapping everything inside of an outer table so that the side graphics are specified in just one spot, the header. By doing that none of the other templates, except for the footer, had to be touched so they were all reverted back to the defaults. The footer was then touched to close the table that was opened in the header. The end result was the exact same look & feel of the original but with only two templates modified.

The other problem that came up was that stuff in the original version's 'header' area was causing the page to fail validation. To clarify that, the body & head tags should not have been in there and the CSS style could've been placed in the "Additional CSS Definitions" section.

Please, do not take my comments earlier as an insult as it was not meant to be. My earlier comment was more of a 'heads-up' that when working on styles sometimes it's good to look at other styles to see how certain things were implemented rather than starting from scratch.

[Sirius Black]

I love this style - I used the PSD's and created a red and black version of it for on my site. Mad props to you man for the great style - Hope to see future ones just as good !!

[dtdesign]

Is there any chance of getting vborgtop_01 as a psd ?

[Sirius Black]

Originally Posted by dtdesign

Is there any chance of getting vborgtop_01 as a psd ?

In the archive I downloaded there was one - The filename was vbulletinorg3.psd

[the wiz]

So when are you going to release the new hardwired skin?