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.)

[Blackbeard]

Stupid question, wanting to add my own logo to replace the vb1, how do i center my image, as it dont stretch across the full lenght at moment and want it to center link at your NZ board

please could you post want text iam looking for and where.

[Pion]

Styles and Templates >> Style Manager (for this skin) >> Edit Templates >> Edit header template. Replace the code between the <!-- logo --> tags with this code. It worked fine with centering my logo.

<a name="top"></a>
<table border="0" width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td width="20" height="20" align="$stylevar[right]"><img width="20" height="20" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/page_top_left.gif" alt="" /></td>
	<td align="$stylevar[left]" width="100%" style="background: url('$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/page_top.gif') repeat-x top left;">&nbsp;</td>
	<td width="20" height="20" align="$stylevar[left]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/page_top_right.gif" width="20" height="20" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" class="page">
<tr>
	<td align="center"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[titleimage]" border="0" alt="$vboptions[bbtitle]" /></a></td>
	<td align="$stylevar[right]">
		&nbsp;
	</td>
</tr>
</table>

[bi11i]

Very nice, but I've found that the included plugin doesn't work on the front page of my vbadvanced modded-board. Is there a way to get those personalized greetings to display on cmps_index.php, as well?

[Rover416]

Originally Posted by bi11i

Very nice, but I've found that the included plugin doesn't work on the front page of my vbadvanced modded-board. Is there a way to get those personalized greetings to display on cmps_index.php, as well?

Look at post 67 above you.

[Ian Montgomerie]

I am likely going to use a modified version of this on my board. I found the following issues/annoyances which I thought you might like feedback on:

1. The popup menus use the old VBulletin color scheme. Easily fixed in the css.

2. The PM inbox uses the old style buttons. I copied over the new thread buttons instead.

3. Two buttons are lacking (forcing the board to not use them, or to use the inconsistent default buttons). First, there's no button for moved post/forwarded PM. Second, there's no button for a "hot" topic which has been locked.

4. The days/hours/minutes/seconds uptime counter is not so useful for a board that has been up for years. I'm likely going to change it to years/months/days.

5. I think you went a bit too far in reducing some of the font sizes, especially the "small" font which I bumped up a bit. I use 1600x1200 and some of the text was looking positively miniscule.

6. I darkened the link colors, they weren't showing up very well against the background.

Anyway, don't know if you want to incorporate any of this or not. I'd greatly appreciate the two missing buttons, though, since I'm not that good at photoshop. :nervous:

[kall]

Thank you for the suggestions.

I have uploaded a new version of the zip with new status icons for threads and pms.

If you liked the old ones better, they are in the older zips.

[robertwo]

Erm which zip is it, I can only see ones for beta 2, 3 and 4...

[The Realist]

Installed but when I click the quick reply Icon it does not work, but if I right click the icon and pick open link it works?

Any ideas?

laters

[kall]

Originally Posted by robertwo

Erm which zip is it, I can only see ones for beta 2, 3 and 4...

Sorry all - the last .zip is for the current style.

Or... download one of the other Steel Styles, import it over the top of this one and you should be good to go.

[robertwo]

Originally Posted by kall

Sorry all - the last .zip is for the current style.

Or... download one of the other Steel Styles, import it over the top of this one and you should be good to go.

I downloaded them all, the steelblue3.5b4.zip file contains an xml file last modified 17/07/2005.. and the other ones modified even earlier.

I downloaded the Green and Purple and they work a treat though Does the blue style have the new icons (but in blue)?

Also if you don't find me cheeky for asking, any chance of a Steel Red

Keep up the good work, I really like your styles