SC-BrushedBlue

Hello everyone!

Here I present you my very first vBulletin Style.
Since upgrading my forums to 3.5.1 I needed a new style but I wanted something original, something own and finally I came up with this.

I was aiming at something a bit eyecandy but yet easy to the eye.
(While keeping the blueish colors of the old style I had, since we got used to that)

Maybe you like it

Some features of this style that make it different to the default style:

• Borders around categories on forumhome to better seperate them from each other
• Completely new (redesigned) navigation bar
• Complete new set of status icons (for forums, posts and PMs)
• Complete new set of buttons
• There's a seperator between the sticky and the "normal" threads
• An additional navigation/breadcrumb bar at the bottom of threadview for easier navigation.
  (don't have to scroll to the top to go the a parent forum of the current thread)

Attached are some screenshots, but you can also preview it live on my own forums --> here <--

Every feedback is apreciated so that my next style may get better since I already have some nice ideas
Oh, and if you reall go to install my style let me know!

[Mastar]

How can I get my logo banner centered in the header?

[Holidazed]

Wierd. I installed this style (and btw, thank you, it is awesome) but my columns don't line up. Look at your own site at the "Last Post" column. It does not line up with the other "last post" columns. the same thing is happening to me.

BTW, mine is a parent style so it is not pulling anything from any other style.

[Darkus]

Awesome Style there Hellcat. Nice Job. Certanly going to use it on my Forums when I get the time

[seany1]

excellent job

[PtP]

Originally Posted by bitg

Wierd. I installed this style (and btw, thank you, it is awesome) but my columns don't line up. Look at your own site at the "Last Post" column. It does not line up with the other "last post" columns. the same thing is happening to me.

BTW, mine is a parent style so it is not pulling anything from any other style.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=156777

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by nievesidenshop

sorry bout that should have done that from the start..lol here ya go:

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/3466/styles1id.gif

Ah, I see!
You have quite some more stuff in your NavBar!
So all we would have to do is to implement all your additional links into the header/navbar of this style.
Well, that can be done
Is all of that put into your "navbar" template?

Originally Posted by Mastar

How can I get my logo banner centered in the header?

In your AdminCP go to Style-Manager -> Edit-Templates (of this style)

Double click on the "header" template and look for this part:

      <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr align="left" valign="top">
          <td>
            <a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[titleimage]" border="0" alt="$vboptions[bbtitle]" /></a>

Change the value that's marked in bold to read like this one:

      <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
        <tr align="center" valign="top">
          <td>
            <a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[titleimage]" border="0" alt="$vboptions[bbtitle]" /></a>

That should center your logoimage in the header.
Don't forget not to put any whitespace in the image as that might affect centering to be a bit off

Originally Posted by bitg

Wierd. I installed this style (and btw, thank you, it is awesome) but my columns don't line up. Look at your own site at the "Last Post" column. It does not line up with the other "last post" columns. the same thing is happening to me.

BTW, mine is a parent style so it is not pulling anything from any other style.

Yes, that's right.
It's because every category is now a table of its own.
But the link PtP posted explains pretty good how to set them to a fixed width to make them align to each other again.
If you have trouble with this drop me a PM and I'll send you a modified template :up:

[Kran]

So you decided to release it eh? Well I like it over at SC good job

[ahennings]

FANTASTIC!!! What a super job you did here with this skin Hellcat! Thanks a million!

[Jenkins]

yeah this skin is awesome. I have a newbie question though. I have a lot of hacks on my default style, is there a way to "Merge" the hacks into the new thread?

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by Jenkins

yeah this skin is awesome. I have a newbie question though. I have a lot of hacks on my default style, is there a way to "Merge" the hacks into the new thread?

All modifications applied to the templates in the default style to integrate the hack(s) just have to be re-done on the same templates in every other style where you'd like to use them.

If the hack has an installer that does it automatically try to re-install the hack so the new style(s) are affected as well.