World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King [3.7.x]

WRATH IS COMING!!!

It's been a very long time since I have released anything on vB.org and felt I should do something again for the crew here. This time, it's a style that I've recently finished for my World of Warcraft Guild for the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion release.

Unfortunately, I'm not the best on downsizing images so the style is abit big, therefore I cannot simply attach the download to this post. The download link will be at the bottom of the thread here, it is hosted on my own server that I also host my guild's website on, I know that's probably not a huge consolation for those afraid of maliciousness on the web, but it's the best I can do for you guys right now.

Assistance Requested:
Because of my lack of graphics downsizing ability I've provided the buildfiles in PNG format so that someone better than me can make the graphics work better and keep the transparencies looking good can post the fixt files, if you choose to do this I would be greatly appreciative. As it is it's close to 4 megs downloaded when the site is first loaded. If the users are using a cache on their browsers and you have your board set to not force an image reload then the hit won't be too bad, but it's still pretty heavy, so feel free to adjust the images so that the hit won't be as bad. If someone can get the images to be smaller filesize and still keep a good appearance with the style I am willing to negotiate a donation for the use of the fixed images.

What's Provided:
The theme backgrounds and CSS stylings are provided, along with the buildfiles. I have also provided dark matte vb original icons, and modified buttons that fit the theme. All of these are provided in a quick access folder that resides under the images directory so that there is no mixup with your other styles.

Very simple installation:

1. Upload all the folders and their contents within the "Upload" directory to your forums directory keeping the tree intact.
2. Login to your AdminCP and upload a new style and import the Wrath-style.xml from the archive.
3. Load your forums and change the style to "Wrath".

Done.

Misc. Information:
This style is compatible with VbAdvanced CMPS, see attached images.

I would suggest that if you have made any template changes in another style that you want to keep to make this style a child of the style with the template changes.

I have tested this on 3 boards, however you use this style at your own risk. Support is will not be given as I simply do not have the time anymore, I am releasing this to the community at large because I feel there might be a want for it prior to Wrath of the Lich King Releasing.

This style was designed for a screen resolution of 1024x768 or better, and is only compatible with CSS 2.0 compliant browsers such as Firefox 3 or IE 7. I recommend using Firefox personally. This style will not render properly (the two arthas images and the page footer (the ice block) will not show up at all) if using an older browser, but it will not break the forums for those users that are behind the standards in the tests I have done thus far.

If you find a problem with the style where it will not validate, I will do my best to fix and update, but that's as far as my support of this style goes as it validates for XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.1 on my boards and again, I simply don't have the time to dedicate to full support of the style for everyone.

As folks requested PSD format for the build files I have included both PNG and PSD format files for those that want them. When exporting to the final format make sure to export as a PNG and keep the same file names. I have split the archives so that you only download what you want.

[3drage]

Excellent style I love it. How do you modify the guild bank link for the armory?

[3drage]

Hey Jim question for ya, what are you using as the main page to your guild site? I'd like to set up something similar but not sure what to start with.

[3drage]

Originally Posted by 3drage

Excellent style I love it. How do you modify the guild bank link for the armory?

Actually nevermind on this question, I have it covered.

[Cloudrunner]

Originally Posted by 3drage

Excellent style I love it. How do you modify the guild bank link for the armory?

The link itself is in the header template.

Change:

<a href="#">Guild Bank</a>

to

<a href="http://www.wowarmory.com/guild-bank-contents.xml?r=<yourRealmName>&n=<yourGuildName>">Guild Bank</a>

[Cloudrunner]

Originally Posted by 3drage

Hey Jim question for ya, what are you using as the main page to your guild site? I'd like to set up something similar but not sure what to start with.

That is vB Advanced CMPS. It can be found here: http://www.vbadvanced.com/products.p...fo&productid=4

It is was I use as well and is very easy to setup. It is a free addition, but the other products there are not.

[soothius]

Looks really good installing this style now!

[soothius]

Love it!!!

Just some quick questions though.

How do i change the name "The Astral Order" to the name f my guild and can the guild bank be easily changed to display another link to something like arcade?? Thank you very much for this!!!

[3drage]

Originally Posted by Cloudrunner

That is vB Advanced CMPS. It can be found here: http://www.vbadvanced.com/products.p...fo&productid=4

It is was I use as well and is very easy to setup. It is a free addition, but the other products there are not.

Thank you Cloudrunner, that's exactly what I've been looking for I'm glad I came across this site today.

Originally Posted by soothius

How do i change the name "The Astral Order" to the name f my guild and can the guild bank be easily changed to display another link to something like arcade?? Thank you very much for this!!!

soothius, you have to modify the logo.png graphic to reflect your guild name. You'll need a program like gimp or photoshop to modify it. Make sure you do it with a transparent background, otherwise it'll look odd.

As for the link to guild bank, as Cloudrunner helpfully pointed out it's just an a href link in one of the headers when you edit the style. You can edit it to be whatever you want.

[Cloudrunner]

Originally Posted by soothius

Love it!!!

Just some quick questions though.

How do i change the name "The Astral Order" to the name f my guild and can the guild bank be easily changed to display another link to something like arcade?? Thank you very much for this!!!

In the buildfiles folder is a .png file you can edit to be whatever name you want. As was stated you need gimp, photoshop or fireworks to do this. Of the three gimp is free.

After you edit that file you'll need to export the resulting image as a PNG (I suggest PNG32 with a dark matte to keep the transparencies nice and pretty) into the folder /images/styles/wrath/misc/backgrounds/ keeping the original file name.

In the Wrath style in your admincp, choose all style options and then in the header template block is the link, you can change the link and/or name of that to be whatever. The limitation is the characters in the link. Too many characters and your text will over-run the blue and gold iced background.

[mrwuss]

Thank you for the PSD files Cloudrunner!