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.)

[Sal Collaziano]

Would somebody mind explaining the step below more robustly? I'm confused by it.

Edit the forumid of the top of forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost to that of your topmost forum.

[centris]

I think in the template its set to 1, I was unsure wither it was the category ID or the first forum within the first category which is ID 2?? Seems to run fine as is. Topmost forum indicates that its the id of the first forum, in my case 2.

[MistyMeanor]

I installed this skin, I love it! Perfect colors for my site. I have never installed any kind of anything on vb so I'm pretty proud of myself.

But how do I get rid of the little pill and yin-yang icon?
Also why are my keywords showing in the header (before you login)
And I couldn't figure out those nifty greeting ya'll are talking about?

[azmi]

the icons are great !!!
i love it - thanks for sharing :banana:

[kall]

Originally Posted by MistyMeanor

I installed this skin, I love it! Perfect colors for my site. I have never installed any kind of anything on vb so I'm pretty proud of myself.

But how do I get rid of the little pill and yin-yang icon?
Also why are my keywords showing in the header (before you login)
And I couldn't figure out those nifty greeting ya'll are talking about?

To get rid of the isons that are showing on forums 2 and 3, look in the forumhome_forumbit_level*_post (both level 1 and 2) and change the conditional from 2,3 to 999,9999 or something.

[MistyMeanor]

Thank you! Two more mini-issues...

My member link isn't working?? It says no members when there is me and another.
The keywords showing in header before you login... how do I make it not do that?

I tell ya' I have never installed ANYTHING and your instructions was so easy! I just LOVE this skin!

[th1356]

Nice style

[kall]

Originally Posted by MistyMeanor

Thank you! Two more mini-issues...

My member link isn't working?? It says no members when there is me and another.
The keywords showing in header before you login... how do I make it not do that?

I tell ya' I have never installed ANYTHING and your instructions was so easy! I just LOVE this skin!

Ummm... I don't see how this style could be at fault, memberlist-wise .. does it not happen on the Default Style?

To remove the keywords... look in the NAVBAR template and change

PHP Code:

Welcome to $vboptions[bbtitle]. $threadinfo[title] $vboptions[keywords] 


to

PHP Code:

Welcome to $vboptions[bbtitle]. $threadinfo[title] 


[oezer]

some questions?
http://www.nzboards.com/forums
if i check your board with XHTML and W3C validation..
i get this:

Result: Failed validation, 19 errors

is this style conform or not?

regards

[kall]

Originally Posted by oezer

some questions?
http://www.nzboards.com/forums
if i check your board with XHTML and W3C validation..
i get this:


is this style conform or not?

regards

Given that the URL you are checking isn't actually this style..

Yes, this style is XHTML 1.0 Compliant.