Suite Style - Avenger Blue Style by TheLastSuperman

Introducing Avenger Blue

A vBulletin 4.2.1/4.2.2 (Confirmed working on 4.2.3! *Simply select ignore style version when installing style) Suite style from www.innovationbyinstinct.com including some of these features:

• The forumbits, search and other areas have a mouseover hover effect.
• Custom statusicons for forum_new and forum_old.png along with custom pagination and other image replacements.
• Custom toplinks i.e. "Welcome, Username Notifications etc etc" location.
• Custom Login area w/ hover effects.
• Custom Sidebar collapse image replacements etc.
• CMS Widget and Forum & Blog Sidebar styles match 100%.
• CMS, Forum, Blog compatible this is a Suite style and can also be used on Forum Classic naturally.
• Fluid and Fixed Width available!
• Perfect style for resolutions up to 1920 x 1080 or larger!

Demo?
Sure! View Avenger Blue Fixed Width OR Fluid Width Demo.
*Please Note: The Demo site has a custom CMS Layout in place therefor normal CMS layout sites will see a CMS/Articles page resembling the screenshot.

Questions and Answers

Q. So what do we have here?
A. Well that's simple! It's a dark blue style for vBulletin 4.1.4 Suite (or Forum Classic).

Q. Anything in particular that I need to know about this style?
A. Simple - I don't advertise a lot, there are no advertisements shown when I make styles however I do know due to the centering of the logo, if you currently utilize the header ad locations you'll need to make changes if utilizing this style otherwise it will not display properly. *Fix planned for the 4.1.5 version and I'll patch this 4.1.4 version then as well, basically I'll be moving the header ad locations just above the normal below navbar locations to remedy this .

Q. This is 4.1.4 style why did you not release a 4.1.5 version and will you release and keep this updated unlike other styles on here?
A. Yes, unlike some other styles in the past I've released this is branded by our company and we do plan on supporting this style indefinitely.

Q. I see two different downloads available, which one do I use?
A. Simple:

- For vBulletin 4.1.4 through 4.1.7 use the file titled - Innovation_by_Instinct-Avenger_Blue-Compressed.zip
- For vBulletin 4.1.8 use the file titled - Innovation_by_Instinct-Avenger_Blue-vB4.1.8-Compressed.zip
- For vBulletin 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 use the file titled - Innovation_by_Instinct-Avenger_Blue-vB4.2.1-4.2.2-Compressed.zip

Q. I'm using a version for vBulletin 4.1.8 or up, why is the logo not clickable?
A. Well we have navtabs w/ a Home, Forum, and Blog button so why do we need more and more of the same links? Well I know some prefer it so here is a way to make it clickable:

You can utilize the transparent 1x1px transparent image to make the logo clickable again. *Please note this is not a default feature, to make the logo clickable you must edit template header and find:

                    <div class="ablogo" align="center">
<div class="abimage"><a name="top" href="{vb:link forumhome}"><vb:comment><img src="images/avenger_blue/misc/home.png" width="960px" height="150px" alt="{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}" /></vb:comment></a></div>
</div>

Remove the <comment> codes as shown in red:

                    <div class="ablogo" align="center">
<div class="abimage"><a name="top" href="{vb:link forumhome}"><vb:comment><img src="images/avenger_blue/misc/home.png" width="960px" height="150px" alt="{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}" /></vb:comment></a></div>
</div>

This is how the code should now look:

                    <div class="ablogo" align="center">
<div class="abimage"><a name="top" href="{vb:link forumhome}"><img src="images/avenger_blue/misc/home.png" width="960px" height="150px" alt="{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}" /></a></div>
</div>

*If you use a different logo than the stock "Avenger Blue" and your making it clickable via the method above, please change the width="#" and height="#" to the correct values i.e. the same width and height as your new logo .

Q. Why is there a .zip inside the .zip?
A. Well the forums here have a max of 3.0MB file size limit on .zip files so I made it a .zip then added that one into another .zip, this reduced the file size from the 3.17MB down to 2.69MB! Now simply extract the main -Compressed .zip then extract the inside Innovation_by_Instinct-Avenger_Blue.zip and your ready to rock and roll!

Q. You have a link to your site in the footer, can I remove that?
A. You are not allowed to remove the link to our site i.e. "branding" unless you pay for a Branding Free Version. If I find someone running this without the copyright in place I will contact your host and file a DMCA complaint period the end. *Furthermore, we will not host discussions nor reply to any sort of inquiries on here in regards to paid or branding free versions so please do not bring up the subject of either in this thread.

*Click on the images below to view in a new tab/window, once in said window you can click the image again to zoom once more and see it clearer, providing a more accurate representation of the style .

Updated Forumhome screenshot for 4.1.8:

ForumHome:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/..._ForumHome.png

ForumHome Mouseover effect:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/..._MouseOver.png

CMS:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/..._Fixed_CMS.png

Blogs:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/...Fixed_Blog.png

ForumHome w/ Sidebar Active:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/...ctive_Open.png

ForumHome w/ Sidebar Closed:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/...ive_Closed.png

Search Input default colors:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/...nputColors.png

Search Input active/hover colors:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/...olorsHover.png

Postbit colors:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/..._PostStyle.png

New Post icons on forumhome, please note that forums with new posts show a white icon, the old post remains as a grey color:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/...umNewvsOld.png

Login Area when logged out:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/...eLoggedOut.png

Login Area when logged out Hover effect:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/...edOutHover.png

Login Area when logged out Help/Register Hover effect:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/...OtherHover.png

ForumHome New Appearance:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/...rumHomeNew.png

ForumHome New Category Description Hover:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/...ptionHover.png

ForumHome New Hover Effect:
http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/...meNewHover.png




Donations from:

• Eurobeat2
• Kat-2
• -

Thanks for your support, it's certainly not required however I appreciate the sentiment .


Notes & Update Information can be found here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....82&postcount=2

Restrictions:
This style is not meant for use on http://www.carbonracecars.com otherwise have at it!

*IMPORTANT*

To install the style:

1) Upload the contents of the UPLOAD Folder.
2) If for example you want the Fixed style installed then import the file:
*Please note, if you do not use the vBulletin Suite and have the Forum Classic version you only need to install the file vbulletin-style_Avenger_Blue_Fixed-Forum.xml.
a) Import the vbulletin-style_Avenger_Blue_Fixed-Forum.xml file first.
b) Merge in the vbulletin-style_Avenger_Blue_Fixed-CMS.xml (Options when uploading a style allow you to merge into a existing style, choose to merge this into the new style you just created using the Forum.xml.
c) Merge in the vbulletin-style_Avenger_Blue_Fixed-Blog.xml into the style, this has now updated the style for all three major products and the installation is complete!
3) Enjoy!

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Andur1l

TheLastSuperman: you da man! Thanks a lot for the update, it fixes everything beautifully. A few hours of my manual socialgroups fixing down the drain, but oh well, yours look so much better.

Don't know if one of my style changes, a plugin or something else broke it (cause I can't remember if it was ok when I initially updated the style), but I had to manually set margin-top: 10px to body_wrapper for the empty space between header and body to appear. Otherwise they were just cramped together. And, of course, had to fix some things in the microclassifieds external css for everything to look normally there .. that plugin is just a design mess of all kind of sorts.

Again, thanks a lot. An incredible style that will be the basis for our new homepage upgrade.

Thanks for the info, not sure why the margin-top was required though .

Originally Posted by Andur1l

Sorry to be bothering you again so soon TheLastSuperman, but could you point me in the right direction for correcting this ..

This is a random user profile in Firefox/IE:

http://www.shrani.si/f/2T/fL/24yg7p4Q/ksifirefox.jpg

And this is the same page in Chrome:

http://www.shrani.si/f/1S/Ql/35ayHZdL/ksichrome.jpg

At first I thought my changes or some plugin was messing it up, but it seems it works correctly in other browsers .. even tried it on different computers if there was something in my cache making problems, but it looks the same there.

Chrome's inspect element tells me the weird color of the text is #333, but I can't find that value anywhere ..

Now this ^ is quite baffling as I don't see this myself using Firefox and Chrome on Windows 7 (all my styles are on staging sites in Localhost via Apache/PHP etc) however sometimes different people have different results but do me a favor and shoot me a site link via PM or post it so I can view the issues on your site directly.

Originally Posted by Markos

Hi my editor input box is still white in firefox and IE not tried chrome was this fixed ??



and another thing the editor buttons i had to add new ones from a different style so i could see them proper

Thanks Mark

It is supposed to be white... I believe at one point I tried to make it dark but never followed through with it 100% although it's also dependent upon your editor choice from "Settings". As for the editor icons... I have a newly recolored set of all the stand alone editor images and the sprite, I will include that in the next release .

Originally Posted by mitch84

thank you for this update but on the cms I can't read text in comments because colour font is white and background too
edit:
and in my profil I can't read too, tabs are dark

I'm in the CMS now and just left a comment... it's not showing a white background for me, same as asked someone else for above - do me a favor and post a link to your site or pm me that info .

Originally Posted by GaryT

For some reason this new version won't install. Just to make sure it wasn't me I installed a couple other styles and they worked. I get the following:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@area51gamers.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Do whatta hunna whosa saidda whatts? I'm not sure what happened here, I can only ask you try it again to see if it was something momentary that caused this to come up as I have never received that error when installing a style and I've installed my fair share over the years.

_________

Edit: Also once of the recent css changes made a border appear around the first article on the CMS (some may notice this, some not) however point being it will be sorted in the next release.

[EuroBeat2]

Great to see this extraordinary theme updated. There are still several problems (at least in USER PROFILE). I am attaching image taken from User Profile.

1. Please notice that the names of Recent visitors to this user profile page is not contained in the box (tested in Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer).

2. When looking in ABOUT section of user profile some info are not displayed in BASIC INFORMATION area. (I am providing two snapshots one from your skin vs the default info. User info was grayed out).
Other sections of ABOUT such as: Contacts or Statistics are not affected.

Can you fix them?

Thank you

EB

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by EuroBeat2

Great to see this extraordinary theme updated. There are still several problems (at least in USER PROFILE). I am attaching image taken from User Profile.

1. Please notice that the names of Recent visitors to this user profile page is not contained in the box (tested in Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer).

2. When looking in ABOUT section of user profile some info are not displayed in BASIC INFORMATION area. (I am providing two snapshots one from your skin vs the default info. User info was grayed out).
Other sections of ABOUT such as: Contacts or Statistics are not affected.

Can you fix them?

Thank you

EB

I need a link to your site otherwise I can't reproduce that issue i.e. here's a current 4.1.4 Test Site Screenshot:



I can take a screenshot in 4.1.5, 4.1.6, and 4.1.7 and they will all look the same... I'm simply not seeing that issue currently.

[EuroBeat2]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

I need a link to your site otherwise I can't reproduce that issue i.e. here's a current 4.1.4 Test Site Screenshot:
I can take a screenshot in 4.1.5, 4.1.6, and 4.1.7 and they will all look the same... I'm simply not seeing that issue currently.

I see. i wrote you PM. My site is forums.eurodancehits.com

EB

[TheLastSuperman]

I'm trying to take a look although currently it's not up?

Unable to connect

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at forums.eurodancehits.com.

The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

And on top of that your site is not too likeable by Malware Bytes Anti-Malware it threw up a warning and blocked access to your site - this may be something you want to have looked into.

[EuroBeat2]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

I'm trying to take a look although currently it's not up?
And on top of that your site is not too likeable by Malware Bytes Anti-Malware it threw up a warning and blocked access to your site - this may be something you want to have looked into.

I am not sure what you are talking about. My site is music oriented and doesn't offer any downloading. There is nothing to be warned about. Can you tell me what have you use to check it out? I have no problem accessing my site from any computer. Something must be wrong.

UPDATE: I downloaded the aforementioned program and indeed it blocks access to my forum. I also owe other domains (currently without contents) with other IPs and they are blocked too. I am not sure what to say. My site has been on line for last 10+ years and is legitimate. There must be problem with malware program, or otherwise i have no clue. You can goodle "eurodance" and my site comes second.

And here is the NORTON report on the site.

EB

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by EuroBeat2

I am not sure what you are talking about. My site is music oriented and doesn't offer any downloading. There is nothing to be warned about. Can you tell me what have you use to check it out? I have no problem accessing my site from any computer. Something must be wrong.

UPDATE: I downloaded the aforementioned program and indeed it blocks access to my forum. I also owe other domains (currently without contents) with other IPs and they are blocked too. I am not sure what to say. My site has been on line for last 10+ years and is legitimate. There must be problem with malware program, or otherwise i have no clue. You can goodle "eurodance" and my site comes second.

And here is the NORTON report on the site.

EB

I'm not sure but wanted to let you know as Malware Bytes is used by quite a few, I unblocked the site but still received the Unable to Connect Message and I just tried again with the same results.

[EuroBeat2]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

I'm not sure but wanted to let you know as Malware Bytes is used by quite a few, I unblocked the site but still received the Unable to Connect Message and I just tried again with the same results.

I disabled the program and I could access the site. I also posted message to malwerebytes who make the program to check all my domains in question. There are other people whos sites been listed and they shouldn't. This is pretty upsetting to me. Thank you very myuch for helping.

EB

[TalkTemplate]

Hi, I just stumbled upon your problem while updating our forum skin DarkVision. The problem I encountered was similar and requires an update with the css templates usercp.css and userprof.css.

I recommend you alter the css settings to match this skin's color scheme.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by impulse8

Hi, I just stumbled upon your problem while updating our forum skin DarkVision. The problem I encountered was similar and requires an update with the css templates usercp.css and userprof.css.

I recommend you alter the css settings to match this skin's color scheme.

Shoot me a PM w/ what you changed if you don't mind otherwise I'll have a look tomorrow - I hard coded some css into the profile as it was not being parsed correctly via additional.css although why is it showing fine on my test site? That's what is so baffling to me, see my screenshot above...