Suite Style - Darkness vBulletin Gaming Skin [Bluepearl-Skins.com]

Template name: Darkness

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For faster support and older versions of this skin visit the Darkness thread on Bluepearl forums

Detailed vBulletin skin installation instructions with images

Version 4.x of this template for vB4 uses no tables instead i decided to use CSS3 border-image, unfortunately Internet Explorer does not support border-image so the left and right border will not appear in IE, i added the top and bottom borders in IE with <!--[if IE]>

If you change the size of the logo (vbulletin4_logo.png) you will need to edit the header template and change the width to keep the logo centered perfectly:

In version 4.2.5 the border code was replaced to work with newer CSS3, with the older code the borders would not show in many browsers.

If anybody finds any bugs or needs support please post in this thread and not via private message. Thank you

ZIP Contents:
-Darkness image directory
-darkness.xml
-ButtonPSDs.zip
-readme_install.txt


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[doc fluty]

I just purchased VB a few days ago and was pretty intimidated. Then i started looking into customizing the forum and found this one.. and even for a noob like me it worked VERY easy

I installed in all in less than 2 minutes... everything seems to be working great.

One question i have is i am not a fan of the dark green on the area where the threads are. Is there a way to change that to white and make the text black?

Everything else can stay the same...I just want the area where the threads are and if/when your reading a post.. all with the white BG and blk text

Thank you for any help you can give

[Sean James]

Thanks for your comments much appreciated

You can change anything on this skin with ease using the system, will just take abit of exploring.

ADMINCP --> Style manager --> Stylevars

[Crotan]

Was it just me or did the Border return in your 4.1.2 version? Or was I really just far behind in updating before this?

Also the Logo image is no longer centered using this code

.doc_header {
text-align: center;
}
.logo-image {
clear:both;
float:none;
}

What did I screw up, lol?

[mmacrypt]

Ok, I'm breaking down and asking. I've done a lot with this style, been using it for over a year now and I love it. But I have NEVER be able to get my banner to work with IE. It looks great in FF and Chrome but I can't ever get it to show up in IE. I thought I was onto something today and thought about replacing the bluepearl-design-logo.png with my logo but then checked the Demo for IE and that's not what was done. I'm feeling like a bit of an idiot on this cause I can't fix it. I keep reading the notes on the first post about IE and the borders and this part <!--[if IE]> but I'm being thick as hell with this one and it's not making any sense to me. I spent the time today and read over ever post and found some similar questions but I'm being dense I guess cause I'm just not getting it.

The site is MMACrypt.comand looks great in FF but no banner logo with IE.

Thanks for any help and sorry for being stupid on this one but something just isn't clicking for me on this one.

[mmacrypt]

Ok, I went ahead and kicked myself in the head and started looking at the code again. then stuck my head in the oven but it's electric so I only got hot instead and not high but that seemed to be enough to help me "get it"

And just incase some poor stupid sucker like myself comes along, here's the solution or at least what worked for me.

In FF, I'm using a banner.jpg file but the code for IE required a png file so I also created a banner.png and now it's working fine in IE. Wow that was an arse kicker for me.

[mmacrypt]

So, I don't know if it's an error in the code that has it calling for 2 different banners or what

#darkbord {
border: 11px;
-webkit-border-image: url(images/Darkness3/darkness3/border.png) 11 11 11 11 repeat repeat;
-moz-border-image: url(images/Darkness3/darkness3/border.png) 11 11 11 11 repeat

Maybe switching these lines to .jpg would have fixed all this for me, don't know but damn, haven't been beat up like that in a while. I know how Fedor feels now

Ok, last update, but I changed the code to .jpg and that seems to have fixed it also.

[mmacrypt]

And now another issue I've having with IE but it's only IE on a XP machine. Looking at it with IE 8 on a Windows 7 machine and it looks fine. I have these scroll bars that show up on every post now no matter what the size of the window. Not sure if it's a VB issue or just this style. I looked at the default style and they weren't there but I'm just now digging in.

[Crotan]

Originally Posted by mmacrypt

And now another issue I've having with IE but it's only IE on a XP machine. Looking at it with IE 8 on a Windows 7 machine and it looks fine. I have these scroll bars that show up on every post now no matter what the size of the window. Not sure if it's a VB issue or just this style. I looked at the default style and they weren't there but I'm just now digging in.

That's strange will have to ask my members who are on IE and XP if they get the same

[Sean James]

Thanks for bringing this to my attention i will look at my test board and see if this happens in XP, as this page is not modified i am doubting this is a skin issue.

[mmacrypt]

Thanks guys, I'm mostly a FF guy but I didn't notice it until the latest upgrade to IE, not sure if I was 7 before but now I'm 8.0.6 on the XP machine. I will dig in more by Monday at the latest.

But here's what I've noticed.
Darkness has the bars
Default does not.
Call2Duty does.
BP Brown does not

Both Call and Brown are way not updated as I don't think anybody uses them, Darkness is the heart of my site. But I'm not sure if anybody else has the same issue yet. I will post asking for some input on what people are seeing after this next UFC event this sat.