More Noticeable Notifications?

[Inked_Mono]

I was wondering if anybody has a way I could make notifications a bit more noticeable. Right now, when there's a notification waiting, it looks something like this:

http://i.imgur.com/YsTSBXr.png

Without, it looks like this:

http://i.imgur.com/Q1fiMhq.png

Any suggestions or ideas?

[HM666]

Depends on what/how you want it to look exactly and what you have in mind. Obviously you can add some CSS to probably change the color of the notifications when you have one or make them bold and stand out in some way. What exactly did you have in mind?

[Lynne]

Try a search on "noti*" in vB4 Mods/Titles only and there are several options.

[Inked_Mono]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Try a search on "noti*" in vB4 Mods/Titles only and there are several options.

I've tried the search, but no results seem to show up. "noti*"

Originally Posted by HM666

Depends on what/how you want it to look exactly and what you have in mind. Obviously you can add some CSS to probably change the color of the notifications when you have one or make them bold and stand out in some way. What exactly did you have in mind?

Is there any way to remove of the forced font change and perhaps add a background of sorts when a notification is received?

Something like this, perhaps: http://i.imgur.com/z6t9ms9.png

EDIT: I figured out how to add a background. Look for the "toplinks_hilite_background" in the stylevars and pick a color from there. Still an issue with the changing font, however.

No Notifications: http://i.imgur.com/7iSJiK0.png
Notifications: http://i.imgur.com/EgAvpVf.png

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Inked_Mono

I've tried the search, but no results seem to show up. "noti*"

Perhaps you are typing something wrong (or including the quotes?), but I get 49 results when doing that search.

[HM666]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Perhaps you are typing something wrong (or including the quotes?), but I get 49 results when doing that search.

I got nothing too, so I see where he is coming from. Did not add the quotes and I copied and pasted your suggestion.

As for the font and changing it or the color of it I believe that all those links at the top fall under the CSS of toplinks so if you changed the color of toplinks it changes all of them, so you would need to single out just the word notification and add the CSS you want to use to the additional.css template.

[Inked_Mono]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Perhaps you are typing something wrong (or including the quotes?), but I get 49 results when doing that search.

I'm wondering if perhaps you're not using version 4.x? I know it's silly, but HM has reported the same result. I eventually found it through the StyleVARS.

Originally Posted by HM666

I got nothing too, so I see where he is coming from. Did not add the quotes and I copied and pasted your suggestion.

As for the font and changing it or the color of it I believe that all those links at the top fall under the CSS of toplinks so if you changed the color of toplinks it changes all of them, so you would need to single out just the word notification and add the CSS you want to use to the additional.css template.

As mentioned above, I've managed to change the color of the notification background, however - and for reasons unknown - it still changes the text, as if to till the set box allowance and remain within it (i.e not stretch out to comp for the ":1").

[HM666]

On my default skin I do not have that problem so what exactly do you mean by changing the font. What changes exactly and where? Can you provide a link to the site and test login with a notification already ready? To do that just send that test account a PM from your admin account and then do not check it with the test account before posting the login.

[Inked_Mono]

Originally Posted by HM666

On my default skin I do not have that problem so what exactly do you mean by changing the font. What changes exactly and where? Can you provide a link to the site and test login with a notification already ready? To do that just send that test account a PM from your admin account and then do not check it with the test account before posting the login.

Website: http://heroes-rsps.com/forum/forum.php
Username: Testaccount
Password: vbulletin

Please let me know if you can figure anything out.

[HM666]

Originally Posted by Inked_Mono

Website: http://heroes-rsps.com/forum/forum.php
Username: Testaccount
Password: vbulletin

Please let me know if you can figure anything out.

That is happening because somewhere you have a different font size for the hover effect. So look at your stylevars and see in the toplinks portion if there is a different font size for the hover on the font. Change the font size to be the same as it is when its not hovered and it should not have that funky roll over effect happening.