Steel Blue 3.5.3

Steel Blue - The first in the Steel Series from the team at vBEnhanced.com.

Style Name: Steel Blue for vB 3.5.4
Style Version: 3.5.4 (SEO'd)


Features:

• Forum Status Icons Horizontal
• 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 and several misc images
• Some SEO elements (from T2Dman's most excellent seo vBulletin hack.) in the navbar.

I will NOT provide support for the removal of features of this style. If you want to remove things, look in the relevant templates and remove them.

This is the 3.5 Release of the Steel series in Teal for 3.5.4.

Customised statusicon, buttons/misc and gradients folders included.

***Additional Instructions***

vBAdvanced Users: Put nzb_greeting and nzb_greeting2 in the globalized variables section of your vBA AdminCP - Default Settings.

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 nzbgreeting plugin.

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(999,999)"> 


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 the CSS is compliant too.

(If you want support, you better have clicked INSTALL...I *can* see this you know.)

[robertwo]

I tried to install the updated version for beta 4 but things didn't go too well. The upload didn't seem to replace any of the images bits i.e. /images/steel/buttons and so forth in the image paths section of the style like the previous version for beta2/3 did.

I tried a different approach to merging the new style with the beta 2 version of the style and this had better results but the logo image at the top now shows a white box with rounded corners around it (Much like the actuall forum display)

It just seems to modify all that is should.

[kall]

My apologies..on my testing server, these are /images/ rather than /images/steel .

Either manually update your style var paths in AdminCP - Style Manager or download the zip again and merge it into the style. I have fixed the zip.

[timelord726]

Hi Kall, me again. I'm experiencing another problem on my site. This strange empty bar appears under my "Show Printable Version" under "Thread Tools." Any idea as to what might be causing that?

You can see it clearly in the picture I have uploaded below.

Thanks in advance for any assistance offered!

EDIT: Oh dear, another problem has cropped up! The "since forums came online" counter on the main page jumped back drastically! It was well over 350 days and now it's a mere 24 days! How can this be fixed?

[kall]

Ahh. Umm, that's probably something left over from something custom.. I don't know why it shows on the latest style tho.

That other thing, read the install.txt , it tells you where to look in the FORUMHOME temlplate.

[dodgez]

When I try to import the xml's it just sits there. Then if I check the Style or Plug-in Manager I see it in there but it doesn't work. What am I missing here? What's 'postbit'?

[kall]

Originally Posted by dodgez

When I try to import the xml's it just sits there. Then if I check the Style or Plug-in Manager I see it in there but it doesn't work. What am I missing here? What's 'postbit'?

Please read the vBulletin Manual. You don't appear to understand the basics of style importing.

[Ian Emu-UK]

Originally Posted by kall

Please read the vBulletin Manual. You don't appear to understand the basics of style importing.

Thanks for the style, I like it, I like it alot

Now all I have to do is convince my mate to do a decent logo that matches the style.

[dodgez]

Originally Posted by kall

Please read the vBulletin Manual. You don't appear to understand the basics of style importing.

lol, thanks

[Reaktor7]

compliments to the chef, very nice skin.. all your little finishing touches have made it the best skin i have seen for a while, very attractive.

Great work kall, and hopefully you keep pumping out good skins

[yessir]

Originally Posted by kall

Please read the vBulletin Manual. You don't appear to understand the basics of style importing.

Any chance we could get the .psd? I'd like to make use a different font to match my logo.