Steel Red Style 3.5.3

Steel Red - Like a Fire Engine!

Style Name: Steel Red for vB 3.5
Style Version: 3.5.3

Updated - Uses a Product. Uninstall your existing plugins before installing the Product.

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, Icons, Buttons and several misc images
• Some SEO elements - Navbar tweaked for better keyword density.
• Forum/Thread name in table at top of page in FORUMDISPLAY and SHOWTHREAD
• Start new Thread/View New Posts buttons in Forumbits (Forumhome and Forumdisplay)

This is the 1.0 Release of the Steel series in Red - as requested by robertwo.


Customised statusicon, buttons/misc and gradients folders included.

To install:Upload /steelred/ folder to your /forums/images/ directory.

If you want to use the Steel Icons, overwrite your existing /images/icons directory with the included ones.

Import the xml file in your Style Manager.

Import the plugin file in your Plugin manager.

Edit the forumid of the top of forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost to that of your topmost forum.

If you are running vBadvanced, add $nzbgreeting and $nzbgreeting2 to the Globalized Variables section of the vBA Admin CP area.

***Additional Instructions***

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 php_include_start template.

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(2, 3)"> 


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.

Enjoy!

Demo: here.

Oh, and it's XHTML Compliant and CSS Compliant

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

[VaaKo]

Wow
loved it!

[Azhrialilu]

'nother nice one, Kall

[gonon]

Thanks Kall. Had a look at the preview - looks pretty good. Gonna have a go @ installing now.

Thanks

[Kirk Y]

Excellent addition to my collection of Steel skins. Any idea why the navbar looks as attached?

[kall]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

Excellent addition to my collection of Steel skins. Any idea why the navbar looks as attached?

Because I am an idiot.

*edit* The vbmenu_control css style is to the /steel/ path rather than /steelred/ .. on the testbed, that gradient image doesnt exist anyway, so it just takes the red colour. Sorry about that bug.

Look at your css styles - vbmenu_control .. change the path to /steelred/.

(.zip updated)

[VaaKo]

is this style going on VB 3.5 Gold?

[kall]

Originally Posted by Lebanese Forces

is this style going on VB 3.5 Gold?

Yes, all of the Steel Styles will be updated for 3.5 Gold.

[Kirk Y]

Originally Posted by kall

Because I am an idiot.

*edit* The vbmenu_control css style is to the /steel/ path rather than /steelred/ .. on the testbed, that gradient image doesnt exist anyway, so it just takes the red colour. Sorry about that bug.

Look at your css styles - vbmenu_control .. change the path to /steelred/.

(.zip updated)

Ha ha, I figured you'd probably been staring at too many Steel Temp. CSS sheets. Thanks for the fix, now it really is red.

[theArchitect]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Your work is first class as always.