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.)

[Mr Chad]

Originally Posted by nealparry

any idea how to get rid of the two images (Pill and yin-yang) in the first two forums?

Yea why are they there?

[luster]

How do we add years to the counter?

[AndyA]

Originally Posted by chatbum

Yea why are they there?

I have the same problem, how is this fixed.

[kall]

@all: If you can't be bothered reading the first post for the Additional Instructions, why do you expect to get an answer?

[AndyA]

I can read them but it doesn't mean I understand them all. :squareeyed:

[my3shadows]

I finally upgraded to 3.5 today and got the steel skins installed and I love them! But can someone help me get it to where my columns all line up?

I had the steel skin installed on the old version too and had the same problem, but managed to get them lined up eventually, but since the templates are so different in this new version, I'm not having any luck this time. I especially don't like how the top table under the nav bar is squished on the right side. If you look at my forum home, I think you'll see what I mean.

Obviously, I've changed it a bit to reflect Halloween, but that's just images and css.

If anyone can help, I'd sure appreciate it!

edited to add...I've already tried the column width percentage changes recommended on vb.com and it doesn't seem to affect things hardly at all...

[sub_ubi]

How many queries do the plugins add?

[b6gm6n]

Very Nice style, reminds me of the Aria skin from vbstyles!

-b6

[pcoskat]

I really like Steel Blue! Just a couple of questions...

Is there a Steel Blue with 'side bar' forthcoming?

Also, is there a way to eliminate that 'banner like' box that appears with the 'forum description'? (ie: In this link , can I eliminate the box that says 'Kall's Kitchen Let's talk about Food baby!
Food-related topics, Recipes etc') http://www.nzboards.com/forums/kalls-kitchen/

Lastly, what is the little 'snail' image next to the 'meow' in the postbit of this post:
http://www.nzboards.com/forums/21010-post3.html

[Politika]

In the 3.0.X version of this skin you had a new post sign at the top... is it possible to insert it in this skin too? It was seeable under the private messages sign and showed between brackets how many new posts there were