Charcoal

Hello, all!

This is a clean and straightforward near-black and charcoal colored theme. I made the effort to recolor the editor buttons and get rid of the ugly beveled fieldsets and border around the editor. Just thought I'd mention that, as I've found many dark themes neglect these areas. It might not be a big deal to some, but I'm picky as hell. lol

The attached screenshots of the theme are shown at a fixed width of 800 pixels. However, I've designed the skin to honor the "Main Table Width (pixels or percentage)" field in the theme's Style Manager. It will work fine at both fixed and fluid widths.

Included are PSDs for the generic logo and buttons.

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Installation and Editing Instructions:

Extract the contents of the charcoal-theme.zip file.

Upload the folder named "charcoal" which contains the theme's images to your forum's images directory on your web server.

Go to the "Download/Upload Style" section of your Admin Control Panel. Under the "Import Style XML File" section, browse for and import the charcoal-style.xml file. You may leave the other options at their defaults.

To change the links at the top, merely edit the code in the header template. I've commented the code to be edited. Likewise, where you see "You can put an ad, image, etc. here" just below the links code, you can edit it to insert images, ads, etc. or remove it all together (be sure to leave the containing div intact, however).

Per above, you can change your forum's width by editing the "Main Table Width (pixels or percentage)" field in the theme's Style Manager. Both fixed and fluid widths will work.

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If you'd like to hire me to do additional customization to the theme (logo, additional theme changes, etc.) just send me a PM.

I hope you enjoy it and, if you do, remember to click "Mark as Installed"!

[djhassoo]

i've try to change that with 0 to 10 but still not at right point

[djhassoo]

problem solved, problem is actually not at 1st table anywayz, Thanks

[Brueskie]

Originally Posted by djhassoo

problem solved, problem is actually not at 1st table anywayz, Thanks

Glad you got it lined out!

[glennybee]

I found a website that checks your website to see if it's XHTML valid. I don't know how significant this is but hey...

It found a few errors in the 'header' and 'footer' templates.

Nothing drastic, in fact it's probably petty to bring it up lol but I thought what the hey...

In the 'header' template, look for...

<td style="background: url($stylevar[imgdir_misc]/tdl.jpg) repeat-y left;"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/spacer.gif" width="25" height="1" alt=""></td>

and replace with...

<td style="background: url($stylevar[imgdir_misc]/tdl.jpg) repeat-y left;"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/spacer.gif" width="25" height="1" alt="" /></td>

In the 'footer' template, look for...

<td style="background: url($stylevar[imgdir_misc]/tdr.jpg) repeat-y right;"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/spacer.gif" width="25" height="1" alt=""></td>

and replace with...

<td style="background: url($stylevar[imgdir_misc]/tdr.jpg) repeat-y right;"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/spacer.gif" width="25" height="1" alt="" /></td>

Also, there are two instances of 'onChange' and one of 'onClick' which need to be changed to lower case, i.e. 'onclick' and 'onchange' in the 'footer' template.

As I said, I don't know how significant it is and the style seems to work fine with the errors.

If you visit -->here<-- you will see what I mean.

Enjoy!

EDIT:

One other thing, I've been using a 19" monitor in my home to set up the forum which is nice. When I opened it up in my work on a 15! monitor (yuk) I had to scroll to the left to see more of the forums. To fix this, go into Admin CP > Styles and Templates > Style Manager > Edit StyleVars > set Main Table Width to '100%'.

[mastertek2000]

nice looking styles but do you have a blank Logo pls

[LorinPotter]

Of all the styles I've seen, this is by far the best looking. I know, I know, it's a personal opinion.
Check it out at www.vulcanriders.us/forum

[glennybee]

I was initially looking for a chrome/silver skin but this has became my default.

You can check it out at www.digital-kaos.co.uk.

The only thing is, if I use IE, the icons at the left are out of alignment. Do you know why or how I could fix it please? (see pic)

Firefox is perfect.

Thanks
Glen

[glennybee]

Bump!

Does anyone know how I can align the first column in IE please?

Thanks
Glen

[oBEAVISo]

After installing the charcoal style i tried to upload the charcoal-style.xml but it keeps saying invalid file Specified.

Any idea how to fix this please.

[GhOsTxX]

hell yea man, this is wut i was lookin for a while