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.)

[somedevil]

Kall, thanks for this style..it's great!

Seems to be missing misc/forum_icon.gif though.

Got that one laying around somewhere?

[kall]

Originally Posted by somedevil

Kall, thanks for this style..it's great!

Seems to be missing misc/forum_icon.gif though.

Got that one laying around somewhere?

There you are.. I will update the .zip when I get some time.

[somedevil]

Thanks Kall!

[KimRUR]

Installed and love it

[melodiq]

I just installed this Skin and it's great... thnx....

[BrandiDup]

Installed along with the steel blue and green... love ALL of them. They are very nice and easy on the eyes. Job well done. Thanks for sharing with us

[ericholtman]

Great style!

Having a small problem with what appears to be missing graphics for forum and thread titles. More specifically, absolutely nothing appears in the left-hand space after you go click on a specific forum from the main page. And, when you subsequently click on a specific thread, what appear in the left-hand space is a (smaller) repeat of the thread title (which itself then appears to the right in larger letters, as expected). Suggestions as to how to fix this? Thanks!

[ericholtman]

Found the other (forums) icon in an eariler post. It looks like I'm missing the head_subscribed_icon.gif for the threads. Is this available? Thanks.

[noreturn]

Hi - gots a question. I installed the purple and installed the link to my sigma chat in the navbar but the chat will not open in purple but will open if I choose any of the other skins. I did reinstall and choose over write for the sigma chat too. But did not help. Any Ideas? Thanks.

[funinthesun]

Can this style be used on 3.5.3?