nx:media - new skin

[Ellie]

So... I've been working on a new forum skin for my website; it's SMF based with TinyPortal.

The only think I'm unsure about is what to do with the menu at the top, hell, I'm not even sure how to edit it. Oh and the colour of the ads will take a few mins to change to what they should be.

But anyway, the new skin... It's blue-grey and white based, as you can probably tell. I moved things around, rearranged the portals a bit, resized the width of the forum to be % based (previously it was like... 700 pixels), got rid of the top bar and replaced it with a poorly coded table for a banner, so that the banner resized as the page resizes, etc.

Here's the new site:

http://forums.vengeance-rpg.com

Opinions? Good? Crud? Utter shite?

 

[shadownexusruler]

i like the new theme for your forum although there's some that might disagree

 

[___]

The only major complaint I have is that the top nav is overlapping your left column in a weird way, bump it over so it's hanging in your content area only and it'll look a bit more organized.  Other than that it's a typical "I <3 Gradients" template which is really neither bad nor good till you start mixing it up with shiny buttons. ; )

 

[djzalzer]

Please, PLEASE just edit template_menu() or whatever it's called.  I just hate seeing the tabs with no background when you could clean the whole thing up by just editing that template.  If you don't want to do that, at least change it from the default-looking small caps.

 

[Schnooble]

This looks pretty clean and professional, one problem i have is the banner is a bit off quality, and the other is the Validated Icons at the bottom they way they are crossed over the sidebar.

nice skin though :]

 

[Ellie]

This looks pretty clean and professional, one problem i have is the banner is a bit off quality, and the other is the Validated Icons at the bottom they way they are crossed over the sidebar.

nice skin though :]

Ah, I missed that, I have an uber-wide screen resolution so they don't cover it for me. I'll fix that when I have time.

Please, PLEASE just edit template_menu() or whatever it's called.  I just hate seeing the tabs with no background when you could clean the whole thing up by just editing that template.  If you don't want to do that, at least change it from the default-looking small caps.

Like I said, I wasn't sure what to do with the menu.

Although... Nphyx does raise a good point about the lack of uber-flashy-buttons.

 

[djzalzer]

Well, about the menu, here's my advice/tutorial(?).

edit the template in your admin panel.  Click to edit index.template.php.  Search for "template_menu()" (it shows up twice on the page, you want to edit the second one)

Edit the tabs so instead of this

// Show the [home] button.
  echo ($current_action=='home' || $context['browser']['is_ie4']) ? '<td class="maintab_active_' . $first . '"> </td>' : '' , '
            <td valign="top" class="maintab_' , $current_action == 'home' ? 'active_back' : 'back' , '">
              ' , $txt[103] , '
            </td>' , $current_action == 'home' ? '<td class="maintab_active_' . $last . '"> </td>' : '';

  // Show the [help] button.
  echo ($current_action == 'help' || $context['browser']['is_ie4']) ? '<td class="maintab_active_' . $first . '"> </td>' : '' , '
            <td valign="top" class="maintab_' , $current_action == 'help' ? 'active_back' : 'back' , '">
              ' , $txt[103] , '
';

  // Show the [help] button.
  echo' <li>[url=', $scripturl, '?action=help]' , $txt[119] , '[/url]
';

(and then of course in your CSS would have something like this)

.menu li {display: inline;}

Don't hold me on any of this code because I just wrote it up off the top of my head... but you get the idea.

This would give you the same menu (easily shiney-buttoned up with CSS) except without all that nasty fluff on it.