Is this something I have jusy got to get used to?

[grant.hayman]

Hi all,

New to the whole forum game but learning quickly.

I have applied some great mods to my board to add funcionality,
and then thought I'd turn my focus on design.

Problem is I load up a style that I like and all my mods are in the default style and not viewable.

I was thinking maybe merge the new style with the default style instead of creating a new one.
Maybe that will solve the problem, but before I do this I thought I had best ask if this is the best practice or do I have the new style stand alone and just redo all the mods.

Baiscly looking for best practices when updating things like mods and style templates is there a way to save me having to keep redoing the same edits over and over or is this something that goes hand in hand with owning a forum.

Thanks for reading and any hints or tricks you may be able to pass on would be gratefully appreciated.

Grant

[Kirk Y]

Any modification you make to one style will have to be transferred over manually to the other. The only exception to this rule is when you have 1 parent style and multiple child styles of this parent style (ie. Parent Style is stock vBulletin style, Child Style 1 is a green variation, and Child Style 2 is a red variation). In this instance any modifications you make to the Parent Style will apply to its Child Styles as well.

The Parent/Child setups are possible only when the differences between the Parent and Child styles are CSS only -- so don't try setting your new styles as child styles of the Default Template.

Back to the point, you'll just have to apply any changes you decide to make to one template, to all of them - there's really no reliable shortcut.

[grant.hayman]

Thanks Kirk,

I thought that might be the case but I was hoping I was wrong, Oh well lets get editing then..... again lol.

Grant