Epic

This style was developed by my firm Epic Designz as a promotional tool for a new site called YourIndex. This style is free to be used on any forum provided that you retain the small promotional message in the footer (We made it as unobtrusive as possible.) The package includes the full set of PSD's, so you can make changes to suit your board or apply the same layout to non-vBulletin portions of your site. If there are any problems with the style, please report them to me in this thread, so I can get them resolved as quickly as possible.

Update 11/22/2006 Version 1.60
* XML file updated to vBulleitn 3.6.4

Update 11/9/2006 Version 1.50
* XML file updated to vBulleitn 3.6.3

Update 11/5/2006 Version 1.40
* Fixed an incorrectly named button.

Update 10/9/2006 Version 1.30
* XML file updated to vBulletin 3.6.2

Update 9/17/2006 Version 1.20
* XML file updated to vBulletin 3.6.1

Update 8/26/2006 Version 1.10
* Fixed the URL's in the header and footer.

Installation Instructions: Click Here

[Andrew]

I messed with it for a couple of hours at work the other day, and I can't for the life of me figure out why that's occurring in Internet Explorer. The coding is done in the same manner as all of my other styles, which don't have this problem, so I'm pretty much stumped right now.

[blueberry]

Andrew something that i noticed... maybe it can help you in finding out a solution.. apparently, the style dispalys the header quickly and then waits to load the whole page and then displays it at once... so if the page have images or anything else, the delay will be longer.. because nothing will be displayed before the whole images load and then displayed at once... Hope this helps??!!

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by blueberry

Andrew something that i noticed... maybe it can help you in finding out a solution.. apparently, the style dispalys the header quickly and then waits to load the whole page and then displays it at once... so if the page have images or anything else, the delay will be longer.. because nothing will be displayed before the whole images load and then displayed at once... Hope this helps??!!

See - That's why I don't think it's a problem with the style. The largest image for this style is 6Kb, which shouldn't be slow to load even on a dialup connection. Plus, the style works fine in pretty much every browser but IE, which is why I'm thinking it's more of a browser issue along the lines of how IE is rendering the page.

[MattWales]

First I have to say.

GREAT LOOK

I am using this for my site at www.wbkids.com

My Nav bar works with the default style and shows the links I added.

But does not work for epic.

Please help.

thanks

matt

:up: :up:

[Pete C]

Tested and removed. Another style that will not display a shoutbox - I guess not every forum requires this, but a shoutbox is a VERY popular addition on a great many forums . . . it would be nice if these limitations were made clear on styles which do not support it.

No doubt it could be made to work with some heavy code modding, but the sublety of the style would suffer in my opinion.

I've also noted that on many styles where a shoutbox (vbshout v2.0 & vbshout v2.1) will not work readily, several other popular hacks fail to display as well - eg: SHOUTcast display, Photoplog etc. I didn't test them on this style . . no shoutbox support is sufficient reason to uninstall, although I have to admit I'm disappointed - it really is a nice looking piece of work.

[Kiint]

Been using this style on www.bluedragons.co.uk for quite a while now but have now run into a problem while upgrading to 3.7.6, There were a few table problems with the page being broken up but managed to fix them but my main problem is with the memberinfo page like here:
http://www.bluedragons.co.uk/forums/member.php?u=1

The box at the bottom is meant to have tabs where you can select each part, like About me, Statistics, Friends etc which works fine in the default template, yet I can't find out what isn't right in the Epic template to get it working right.

I've turned off all other mods to make sure they are not conflicting with it and have installed the default template for memberinfo yet I'm missing something somewhere else but don't know what I'm looking for. I'm guessing it is something to do with styles but again...i still don't know what i'm looking for,

any help is appreciated as I love using this style.

[Kiint]

Fixed it.....

There was an outer table which for some reason would stop the code from working right....removed this and the page suddenly worked.

This template needs a complete rewrite for 3.7+ as a lot of functionality is missing like the new navbar menu's etc. I've manually copied them in myself but for the average user this would be a daunting task.

[Andrew]

I'd do it, but I just don't have the time for free work anymore. Between school and my paying design job, there just aren't enough hours in the day...

[Kiint]

Originally Posted by Andrew

I'd do it, but I just don't have the time for free work anymore. Between school and my paying design job, there just aren't enough hours in the day...

I know that feeling very well.

Thanks for any work that you can do, it will be appreciated.

[Kiint]

There are quite a few changes with this style once you have upgraded to 3.8, bear this in mind if you are upgrading.

An upgrade of Epic would be nice if you ever get the time