Steel Blue 3.5.3

Steel Blue - The first in the Steel Series from the team at vBEnhanced.com.

Style Name: Steel Blue for vB 3.5.4
Style Version: 3.5.4 (SEO'd)


Features:

• Forum Status Icons Horizontal
• Rounded top and bottom corners
• Easily configured Javascript counter displaying time since forum launch on Forum Home
• Greeting conditional on day of week and time of day
• Custom statusicon and several misc images
• Some SEO elements (from T2Dman's most excellent seo vBulletin hack.) in the navbar.

I will NOT provide support for the removal of features of this style. If you want to remove things, look in the relevant templates and remove them.

This is the 3.5 Release of the Steel series in Teal for 3.5.4.

Customised statusicon, buttons/misc and gradients folders included.

***Additional Instructions***

vBAdvanced Users: Put nzb_greeting and nzb_greeting2 in the globalized variables section of your vBA AdminCP - Default Settings.

To change the 'Launch date' ticker on Forum Home, look in the FORUMHOME template, near the bottom. There is a start date field.

To change the greetings that appear in the navbar, have a look in your nzbgreeting plugin.

To have the Forum images show up for selected forums, go into your forumhome_forumbit_level*_post templates (both level1 and level2) and look for the condtitional that reads:

PHP Code:

<if condition="in_array($forum['forumid'], array(999,999)"> 


Change these ids to the ones you want to use.

Further on in the same template is this conditional:

PHP Code:

<if condition="!in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(1,3,4,8))"> 


The array contains those Usergroup ids that we do NOT want to see the Start New Thread button.

Oh, and it's XHTML Compliant. And the CSS is compliant too.

(If you want support, you better have clicked INSTALL...I *can* see this you know.)

[kall]

Originally Posted by timelord726

I was just about to post asking about this myself. Any response would be most appreciated!

Actually, I rather like the customized greeting shown in the screenshots. Any chance of implementing that?

You need to import the Product that is in the .zip ..

[timelord726]

Ah, cool, thank you. Out of curiosity, is there anything else that product does?

[speedoleague]

Think I.ve got a problem I've set my site start date in the FORUMHOME template to 2005/02/26 but on the site is shows this

1 years, 318 days, 21 hours, 27 minutes since The National Speedo Swimming League Forums came online!

also got this in the adminCP

FORUMDISPLAY
Default Template Updated in 3.5.3 by Andreas
Your Custom Template Last Edited in 3.5.1 by Kall

pm_messagelist
Default Template Updated in 3.5.3 by Andreas
Your Custom Template Last Edited in 3.5.1 by Kall

I've just updated to 3.5.3 of the forum and i've all used the 3.5.3 XML on this site

[KimmiKat]

I'm having a simular problem, but in a different way. After installing the blue skin and adding the product, I'd tried to change the greeting thing on the other styles on the mboard to do the same as the Steel template, but limited success. On the non-steel skins, it works on most pages except the Arcade and Search features.

Originally Posted by Belicoso_Fino

On the thread display, the following is shown up on the nav bar area (sorry, I'm sorta new to this).

How can I eliminate the "Smoke Rings on HCF Cigar Forums. A forum for general discussion of any cigar-related topic." text?


I'd rather use the forum description box that vB supplies.

I also noticed that the username does not appear above the area on the right side above the navabar:



It should read:


TIA.

[SDTA]

Very nice; I have to go back and re-link the icons in my dummy forum, but it's good nonetheless.

Once I get all the kinks worked out, I'll launch it in production.

[kall]

Originally Posted by kylek

I have the same problem and after a lot of searching found that this was coming from my meta tag description in the vb options in the admincp, but cant figure out how to get rid of it.

It's in the navbar template.

To remove it, take out the following code:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index' AND $show['guest']">
		<!-- guest welcome message -->
<div class="navbar" style="margin-bottom:5pt;margin-top:5px;font-size:8pt">
Welcome to $vboptions[bbtitle]. $threadinfo[title] $vboptions[keywords]<br />
<phrase 1="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" 2="register.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[first_visit_message]</phrase></div>
	<!-- / guest welcome message -->
	
<else />

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'poll'">
<div class="navbar" style="margin-bottom:5pt;margin-top:5px;font-size:8pt">The poll results for <b>$threadinfo[title]</b>. <br /></div>
 
 <else />
 
 <if condition="$thread[title]">
<br/><div class="navbar" style="font-size:8pt"><b>$thread[title]</b><if condition="$pagenumber>1"> Page $pagenumber</if>. Discuss <i>$thread[title]</i>, on $vboptions[bbtitle], the best Forum in the world. $foruminfo[title].<br/>&nbsp;</div>
 
 <else />
 <if condition="$foruminfo[title]">
  <br/><div class="navbar" style="font-size:8pt">
$foruminfo[title] <if condition="$pagenumber>1">Page $pagenumber </if> on $vboptions[bbtitle]. $foruminfo[description]<br/>&nbsp;
 
  </div>
 </if></if></if></if>

[kall]

Originally Posted by KimmiKat

I'm having a simular problem, but in a different way. After installing the blue skin and adding the product, I'd tried to change the greeting thing on the other styles on the mboard to do the same as the Steel template, but limited success. On the non-steel skins, it works on most pages except the Arcade and Search features.

To add the $nzb_greeting and $nzb_greeting2 variables to these (and other error) pages, you need to add these variables to the globalised variables in various php files. (As far as I know anyway.)

Look in the php code for a line that has something like

PHP Code:

global $vbulletin, $stylevar 


and add

PHP Code:

, $nzb_greeting, $nzb_greeting2 


after it.

[KimmiKat]

Thanks, that worked beautifully! You ought to release the greeting thing by itself since it's a neat deal.

For others needing to get the greeting into the arcade (IbProArcade), the function.php file in the /arcade/functions directory is the one to change.

If you installed one or more of the Steel series of styles and also have some others, you can put the greeting on the remaining styles be looking for the following in the navbar template:

<strong><phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[welcome_x]</phrase></strong><br />

And replace it with:

<strong>$nzb_greeting</strong><br /><strong>$nzb_greeting2</strong><br />

Hope that helps...

[speedoleague]

Originally Posted by speedoleague

Think I.ve got a problem I've set my site start date in the FORUMHOME template to 2005/02/26 but on the site is shows this

1 years, 318 days, 21 hours, 27 minutes since The National Speedo Swimming League Forums came online!

also got this in the adminCP

FORUMDISPLAY
Default Template Updated in 3.5.3 by Andreas
Your Custom Template Last Edited in 3.5.1 by Kall

pm_messagelist
Default Template Updated in 3.5.3 by Andreas
Your Custom Template Last Edited in 3.5.1 by Kall

I've just updated to 3.5.3 of the forum and i've all used the 3.5.3 XML on this site

Anyone know why the data is show 1 year and is there is anything important I should change in the templates that are showing as old

[kall]

Originally Posted by speedoleague

Anyone know why the data is show 1 year and is there is anything important I should change in the templates that are showing as old

From the first post...

Originally Posted by me

To change the 'Launch date' ticker on Forum Home, look in the FORUMHOME template, near the bottom. There is a start date field.