LoA - Breakout Poll Bar Images

I've been working on new poll bar imagery for our forums, and I'm going to release some of the sets I've completed if you want to change your poll bar images.

How To:

1) Download and UnZIP

2) Enter your FTP > Forum > Images > Polls

3) Transfer Unzipped folder of images to Polls folder and hit overwrite all

Breakout

This poll bar set up was themed after Arkanoid actually, which is a game based on the famous Breakout title. So I kept the Breakout title so as to not weird everyone out. I found a flash game today that used a color gradient from dark to light to dark, or split gradient again. Instead of the white blazing center of the Ultima Poll Bars, this has a nice blending feel with an interior color of the same family of colors as the darker color with it.

This is the sixth release of the poll images, I hope you find what you wanted for a poll bar display for your forum.

I have enclosed 10 images in this set. Dependant upon how many bar colors you use, please choose the images you'd like and simply renumber them for your FTP folder. The colors used are in this order:

1. Green
2. Red
3. Black
4. Teal
5. Orange
6. Pink
7. Blue
8. Gold
9. Purple
10. Light Gray

This one I like to but I don't know if it's as good as the others. This was the closest I could get to an interior gradient with the minimal pixel space allowed. One thing to note is that if you keep the shorter pixel height of 10px with this one, the black border I gave it will look like a drop shadow indifference to the taller poll bar images via the template change.

No Live Demo's

Screenshots

Let's try linking this time since screenshots are not turning out well:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...smallarray.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...bobigarray.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../bosmallia.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...66/bobigia.gif

-- wondering if I should increase my DPI to 300 instead of 72 for these screenshots

Alternatives

Flag Poll Bar Images
Ultima Poll Bar Images
Flat Pastel Poll Bar Images
Gradient Poll Bar Images
The Dark Poll Bar Images
Bevel Poll Bar Images

FAQ

Will you add options to this? No

Will you stroke them or add a border for me? No

Why are they 20px in height? Because if I release them at 10px and you opt to enlarge your poll bars similar to I did, vBulletin's expansion will cause lines to appear in certain images. Yet if you use a smaller px in height, such as the normal 10px that is set up in your templates, the images collapse properly with no damage or inconsistency that I noticed.

What if I made my polls a different size in height? Again, the images work on normal templates using 10px height, there should be no problem here. If you opt to make your poll bar gif image height something odd like 13px or larger than 20px, you might need to look at your images and make sure there is no problems with it.

I want to resize your image, can I? Yes, if you really feel the need to. But I highly recommend either using the standard 10px in height or 20px to give your polls more of a visual appearance. The 20px amount will not stretch the table.

How do I make my polls taller on the forums? Go to Admin CP > Styles & Templates > Search In Templates > search for " pollresult " > Choose the pollresult option, NOT pollresults table and NOT pollresults > In the coding there are 3 spots that say 10px, you need to change all 3 to whatever height you want. In my attachments and my board I am using 20px.

How do I make my polls go farther to the right like yours? That requires a PHP coding change, I'd just wait until vBulletin repairs it and releases it for 3.7 or something else. If they don't and if you want to know right now, then ask me. Remember you change your PHP files at your OWN risk.

How did you get 10 different poll options to show? This requires a PHP coding change as well, and it really isn't necessary for everyone. 5 options is probably good, and normal forums come with 6, if you want to know I could tell you, but again you changing those documents is at your OWN risk.

Looks good, but I'd like to rearrange there order, how do I do that? Simple, you need to renumber them and don't change the file name. So if you want bar3-l to be in the number 2 location, rename it bar2-l. L means left side, R means right side, and just the bar3 for example means the middle section that naturally expands on the poll display.

Terms of Use

These images can be used by licensed owners of vBulletin only.

They cannot be sold or be included in an original design by a company that makes skins/styles for forums/websites.

These images are not to be redistributed on any other site other than vBulletin.org.

Copyright Legion of Angels 2008