Army Style

I used the colors from another site but the style was made from the beginning by me. I take no *real* credit for it.

EDIT: Images are now included in the style. I spent all morning editing them. Most of them should blend well with both light and dark colored styles.

There is nothing particularly good about this theme. I got the idea from another website. It has some nice colors and it's pretty good for a military website. The forum statusicon images are the logo to my site.

You will need to make your own header, however. When the GAT finishes the banner, I will release it as well.

Variants Coming Soon
Navy
Marine Corps
Soviet
Desert
Air Force

NOTE: All images with the exception of a few came from this style. I would like to apologize for not citing you sooner.

[mholtum]

Originally Posted by christianb

I had a crazy idea of doing a military ranking system (which would be profile-related rather than theme-related). Basically how it would work on a site like this would be that members would choose what branch of service they were in, their rank & rate/MOS/etc., and then choose which medals/ribbons they have earned (based on the honor system here) and it would display in the postbit/legacy or memberinfo.

Christianb - shoot me an email and I can help you with this. I had something similar setup once. It is not that tough..

[davidw]

Originally Posted by nexialys

not really related to the style release christianb...

LOL, that's why I wrote this:

Originally Posted by christianb

... (which would be profile-related rather than theme-related).

[Nick King]

I have a usergroup based rank system. I'll be glad to share it with you but it's more of a tutorial than a hack. I'll post the whole shebang in the tutorials forums. The advantage is each rank is it's own usergroup so they have to ask for promotions (or apply using a form) and the promotions officer changes their primary usergroup. Certain ranks have certain privilages. Very neat. Displays rank in postbit as well.

For awards, I had the same thing applied except instead of usergroups, it used profile fields. That proved to be a huge hassle compared to YetAnotherAwardsSystem hack.

Because the ranks are hard coded into the postbit template, you can make variations of a style where if a user selects the Blue - Marine Corps style, they see the same style but Marine Coprs equivilant ranks.

Sorry for the off-topic.

EDIT: I have included the images with the style.

[davidw]

I've seen that awards system (and I used them at one time before - pretty cool) - the thing I'm possibly going to develop would go good with this (and other military themes). I just wish that one could use javascript onchange command in the profile (it might be possible - havent' checked). What the theory would consist of is a user chooses their branch of service (via profile), then chooses (based on previous choice for javascript) a rank, a rate/division/MOS/etc., and then chooses which medals and ribbons they've earned. When I saw this theme, it made me think of something I thought about at the VA hospital last week - former Navy here.
Sorry for the original and continued off-topic posts.

Now, for the regularly-scheduled thread discussion.

[mholtum]

Originally Posted by christianb

I'v former Navy here.

Navy? Oh I am sorry..


Retired Army here...


Hooah!

[Nick King]

I'm in NJROTC (Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corpse). I would probobly go Navy but second choice is Army.

Originally Posted by christianb

I've seen that awards system (and I used them at one time before - pretty cool) - the thing I'm possibly going to develop would go good with this (and other military themes). I just wish that one could use javascript onchange command in the profile (it might be possible - havent' checked). What the theory would consist of is a user chooses their branch of service (via profile), then chooses (based on previous choice for javascript) a rank, a rate/division/MOS/etc., and then chooses which medals and ribbons they've earned. When I saw this theme, it made me think of something I thought about at the VA hospital last week - former Navy here.
Sorry for the original and continued off-topic posts.

Now, for the regularly-scheduled thread discussion.

If you or anyone ever develops a good rank system I'll be the first to download.

[mholtum]

Those images really made a difference! http://www.ravensrealm.net/?styleid=40

[Nick King]

I see that there are alot of problems with it because you made it a child style of disturbed.

What I did was install all my hacks on one template (vbulletin basic) and made it unselectable. Then added the child styles below it. For advanced styles like Disturbed, you may need to use a template merger. I forgot the name of it. It's available here for 3.5.

[mholtum]

The only thing that is from the Disturbed theme is the header and I still use some of the buttons, untill I can create some custom ones) that and I modified the width of the tables a little. Other than that it is the way it should be.

I am still seeing exactly what I want to do with it.

[Nick King]

I'm glad you like it. Thanks.