Getting in Style!

[Fire$torm]

Just thought I would stir the pot a little......

Mr. Hankey & Teratoma, I know you two have your hands full. This is not a "gotta do this now thing."

I discovered this list ---> vBulletin 4.0 Style sets, (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=247) and hoping to jump start the discussion process :P

[Mr. Hankey]

Please feel free to look at them and make suggestions. We are running version 4.0.7

[Maxwell]

Twilight New Moon theme anyone? :-|

Actually, one style that might be useful to folks is this one for mobile device users (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=249277). I'm not one of them, but it says it makes it more small-screen friendly...

[zombie67]

Twilight New Moon theme anyone? :-|

Actually, one style that might be useful to folks is this one for mobile device users (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=249277). I'm not one of them, but it says it makes it more small-screen friendly...

That would be awesome! I frequently read the forums from my iphone.

[Mr. Hankey]

That would be awesome! I frequently read the forums from my iphone.

I will get that one added... I also just added one called carbon. It should be available for you to choose, please check it out. I will update once i have the mobile style installed.

[zombie67]

Carbon works well for people who like the black background.

[Mr. Hankey]

ok, lightweight style is installed someone please report back.....

[Bryan]

+1 on Carbon! Very nice with the bright white text

[Maxwell]

+1 on Carbon! Very nice with the bright white text
Agreed - I'm a carbon fan. And not just because I'm a carbon-based life form... :p

[zombie67]

ok, lightweight style is installed someone please report back.....

Uh, it doesn't look like the pictures here:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=249277

It is just plain text.

[KaoticEvil[SETI.USA]]

Rockin the Carbon style.. And lovin it. +10

[Mr. Hankey]

Uh, it doesn't look like the pictures here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=249277" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=249277</a><br />
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It is just plain text.<br />
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working on that... double checking the install.

[Mr. Hankey]

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working on that... double checking the install.

Try the lightweight style now....

[zombie67]

Ding! Working now. Thanks!

Now, is there a setting so that I get the forum default when on a real browser, and the simple style when using a mobile browser?

[zombie67]

Uh, no way to change the style back? Ouch.

[Maxwell]

Uh, no way to change the style back? Ouch.
Uh, ditto. I just changed to see what the issue is, and there is no way to get to another style. Or any of the advanced settings in the UCP, for that matter...

[zombie67]

From the link to the style:

Q. There is no style chooser - how do I get back to the default style?
A. Install and configure "Lightweight Style Options"

[Maxwell]

Uh, no way to change the style back? Ouch.

Uh, ditto. I just changed to see what the issue is, and there is no way to get to another style. Or any of the advanced settings in the UCP, for that matter...
Sub-optimal solution: log out, return to the page as a guest. Change the style, then log back in. I got it back to Carbon doing that...

[Mr. Hankey]

From the link to the style:

Q. There is no style chooser - how do I get back to the default style?
A. Install and configure "Lightweight Style Options"

yes, I read that too, and installed that. It provides some options in the admin settings but the lightweight style doesn't actually show the style chooser so I am not sure how you are supposed to switch back. I followed the use another not logged in window to change the style.

[Bryan]

Carbon has changed. Now getting blue text for titles which is hard to read and the "bright" white is now a dull white.

[KaoticEvil[SETI.USA]]

Carbon has changed. Now getting blue text for titles which is hard to read and the "bright" white is now a dull white.

I thought something looked different between last nite and this morning... Liked it better the other way..

[Maxwell]

Carbon has changed. Now getting blue text for titles which is hard to read and the "bright" white is now a dull white.

;387']I thought something looked different between last nite and this morning... Liked it better the other way..
Ditto here. With the blue on black, I feel like I'm staring into the abyss, it's staring back at me, and this is what it looks like...:)

[Bryan]

Ditto here. With the blue on black, I feel like I'm staring into the abyss, it's staring back at me, and this is what it looks like...:)

Whp blinked first? :D

[Maxwell]

Who blinked first? :D
Me. Had to blink a few times to make sure it was the text color and not me having a stroke... ;)

[Mr. Hankey]

Ditto here. With the blue on black, I feel like I'm staring into the abyss, it's staring back at me, and this is what it looks like...:)


That was me, I was experimenting with the style editor... I only changed the green to blue and I didn't mess with the white.

[Bryan]

The bright white is back ... excellent! I like this one :cool:

[KaoticEvil[SETI.USA]]

Me. Had to blink a few times to make sure it was the text color and not me having a stroke... ;)

I thought it might have been my monitor cable.. The ends are all screwed up.. Sometimes my entire display has a yellow tint, sometimes blue..

[Fire$torm]

Me love carbon long time....... :P

Edit: TY Mr. Hankey. "You Rock Dude!!!"

[STMahlberg]

Love the Carbon. :cool:

[joker]

Are we going to get back to the black background like we had over at the old forums? All this bright white kills my eyes.

[DrBob]

Are we going to get back to the black background like we had over at the old forums? All this bright white kills my eyes.Try the "Carbon" style. Not as easy on the eyes as our old fora but not as bright as the "Default" style here.
You can select it at the bottom of most pages or set it on your "settings" page.

[Mike029]

I'm going carbon as well. The more choices the better though.

[zombie67]

Whoa! Carbon always looked to me like plain black. Just now it started looking like carbon fiber (with various textures and shades of grey), not black. Has it always been like that? And now my browser is just showing it correctly? Or has something changed?

[KaoticEvil[SETI.USA]]

It's always been like that..

[Bok]

I'm not sure the Carbon theme is fully compatible with 4.0.8.

It might need to be reloaded.

[Mr. Hankey]

I'm not sure the Carbon theme is fully compatible with 4.0.8.

It might need to be reloaded.

Yep, I just noticed that myself. I will see if it has an update or just needs a fresh upload.

[Beerdrinker]

Ahhhh...

Carbon style fits my eyes alot better than the deafult...That were too brigth for me.....

[JerWA]

I agree the default is too bright, too much pure white lol. Could be tweaked just a little to fix that.

I guess I'm alone in thinking the carbon theme is horrible.=))

[DrPop]

And I guess I'm the only one who likes white background and black text. Just seems so much easier to read (to me).

If I could ever lean how to do stuff like this, I think it'd be fun to do a USA red, white, and blue theme.

[KaoticEvil[SETI.USA]]

And I guess I'm the only one who likes white background and black text. Just seems so much easier to read (to me).

If I could ever lean how to do stuff like this, I think it'd be fun to do a USA red, white, and blue theme.
A lot less strain on the eyes to read light text on a dark background.. That's why DOS and things of that sort were colored like that :)

[Mr. Hankey]

I agree the default is too bright, too much pure white lol. Could be tweaked just a little to fix that.

I guess I'm alone in thinking the carbon theme is horrible.=))


And I guess I'm the only one who likes white background and black text. Just seems so much easier to read (to me).

If I could ever lean how to do stuff like this, I think it'd be fun to do a USA red, white, and blue theme.

If you guys find a full CMS theme you like that supports 4.0.6+ version of vBulletin I would be happy to install it having choice is a good thing. There is always a risk during the upgrade that they won't look quite right (like the current carbon) and we need to wait for an update from the creator. Also there are supposed to be big changes coming in the 4.1 version that make custom themes easier.

[Crazybob]

I see that spaces are not supported yet when posting.:(

[Mr. Hankey]

I see that spaces are not supported yet when posting.:(

What do you mean?

[Crazybob]

When I post the new members, I like to move any previous team affiliation out to the right almost in a column. (wish I could do a column) When I try to do that here, it doesn't recognize the spaces. The old board was that way untill a MOD was put in.

[Mr. Hankey]

When I post the new members, I like to move any previous team affiliation out to the right almost in a column. (wish I could do a column) When I try to do that here, it doesn't recognize the spaces. The old board was that way untill a MOD was put in.


I am still looking around, but so far I am not having much luck trying to fix this..... hmm.

[Mr. Hankey]

Ok what I have found so far is not helpful... check this info out:


Actually it is your browser that is stripping the spaces...

The HTML specification specifies that the user-agent is supposed to ignore whitespace. Because of this, a browser will only produce one space or carriage return even if there are multiple of each together. In order to get around this, the <pre> tag was created. It specifies to the user agent that all text should be shown as formatted.

So I can actually use columns in my text by doing this and using the <pre> tags in an html block. I may be able to create a custom bbcode to do this...


<pre>
test test test
</pre>

[Mr. Hankey]

Ok, I created a custom bbcode and I used it to edit your post take a look here:

http://http://setiusa.free-dc.org/vbforum/showthread.php?193-Welcome-New-Members-for-November-2010!&p=743&viewfull=1#post743 (http://http//setiusa.free-dc.org/vbforum/showthread.php?193-Welcome-New-Members-for-November-2010%21&p=743&viewfull=1#post743)

The bbcode is [wht] for white space you just include that block around the line which you want to have space in and it should work. In the post above I used the tag 3 times

[Fire$torm]

Ok, I created a custom bbcode and I used it to edit your post take a look here:

http://http://setiusa.free-dc.org/vbforum/showthread.php?193-Welcome-New-Members-for-November-2010!&p=743&viewfull=1#post743 (http://http//setiusa.free-dc.org/vbforum/showthread.php?193-Welcome-New-Members-for-November-2010%21&p=743&viewfull=1#post743)

The bbcode is [wht] for white space you just include that block around the line which you want to have space in and it should work. In the post above I used the tag 3 times
If I understand the above correctly, the tag is to be used instead of the tab code from the old board.

Test Test Test Test

Sweet fix Mr. Hankey. Kudos!

[Fire$torm]

Crud! I discovered a bug (at least for me) with the white space code.
When I try to add the following to a post

PL - Team Total - Team Day - Team Week - Team Month - Team RAC - Team
01 - 3,163,185,064 - 05,098,615 - 30,902,522 - 116,529,196 - 4,516,307 - SETI.USA
02 - 2,916,291,784 - 04,565,884 - 32,255,830 - 115,120,428 - 4,538,841 - L'Alliance Francophone
03 - 2,534,329,274 - 06,042,146 - 34,482,217 - 103,315,706 - 5,052,512 - SETI.Germany
04 - 1,797,743,420 - 08,228,606 - 51,078,387 - 197,432,494 - 7,404,845 - Sicituradastra.
05 - 1,195,367,623 - 04,700,464 - 28,222,202 - 094,166,886 - 3,757,320 - BOINC@Poland

I get a double carriage return in the parsed text:

PL - Team Total - Team Day - Team Week - Team Month - Team RAC - Team
01 - 3,163,185,064 - 05,098,615 - 30,902,522 - 116,529,196 - 4,516,307 - SETI.USA
02 - 2,916,291,784 - 04,565,884 - 32,255,830 - 115,120,428 - 4,538,841 - L'Alliance Francophone
03 - 2,534,329,274 - 06,042,146 - 34,482,217 - 103,315,706 - 5,052,512 - SETI.Germany
04 - 1,797,743,420 - 08,228,606 - 51,078,387 - 197,432,494 - 7,404,845 - Sicituradastra.
05 - 1,195,367,623 - 04,700,464 - 28,222,202 - 094,166,886 - 3,757,320 - BOINC@Poland

Any ideas?

[Maxwell]

Start the first line of data immediately after the /wht tag on the same line...

Edit:

PL - Team Total - Team Day - Team Week - Team Month - Team RAC - Team01 - 3,163,185,064 - 05,098,615 - 30,902,522 - 116,529,196 - 4,516,307 - SETI.USA
02 - 2,916,291,784 - 04,565,884 - 32,255,830 - 115,120,428 - 4,538,841 - L'Alliance Francophone
03 - 2,534,329,274 - 06,042,146 - 34,482,217 - 103,315,706 - 5,052,512 - SETI.Germany
04 - 1,797,743,420 - 08,228,606 - 51,078,387 - 197,432,494 - 7,404,845 - Sicituradastra.
05 - 1,195,367,623 - 04,700,464 - 28,222,202 - 094,166,886 - 3,757,320 - BOINC@Poland

[Fire$torm]

Start the first line of data immediately after the /wht tag on the same line...

Edit:

PL - Team Total - Team Day - Team Week - Team Month - Team RAC - Team01 - 3,163,185,064 - 05,098,615 - 30,902,522 - 116,529,196 - 4,516,307 - SETI.USA
02 - 2,916,291,784 - 04,565,884 - 32,255,830 - 115,120,428 - 4,538,841 - L'Alliance Francophone
03 - 2,534,329,274 - 06,042,146 - 34,482,217 - 103,315,706 - 5,052,512 - SETI.Germany
04 - 1,797,743,420 - 08,228,606 - 51,078,387 - 197,432,494 - 7,404,845 - Sicituradastra.
05 - 1,195,367,623 - 04,700,464 - 28,222,202 - 094,166,886 - 3,757,320 - BOINC@Poland

I tried that and it generates a single CR. It shouldn't give any CR's. It also seems that the white space code can cancel other bbcode tags if the [wht] tag is wrapped by other tags like [b]......

I found something else that needs attention. bbcode colors. Many colors are not currently accepted like dimgray, slategray etc. I have tried both "Color Names" and Hex codes. :(

P.S. I will give this a rest for the night and pick it up again tomorrow.

Edit: Found some links to bbcode color lists
Named Colors (http://www.cloford.com/resources/colours/namedcol.htm)
BBcode Color List (http://absitomen.com/index.php?topic=331.0)

[Crazybob]

Sweet. Nothing against BJ, but when looking for MODs before, it took a while to get things straightened out. You guys are right on top of it. Hat's off to you!:)

[Fire$torm]

I would like to make a suggestion for the forum. The forum could use an automatic image re-sizer plugin/mod like BBR - Resize Images with lytebox v3.22 (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=230411&highlight=thumbnail).

[Mr. Hankey]

I would like to make a suggestion for the forum. The forum could use an automatic image re-sizer plugin/mod like BBR - Resize Images with lytebox v3.22 (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=230411&highlight=thumbnail).

Not yet updated for 4.0.8 author is working on it.....

[Mr. Hankey]

I found something else that needs attention. bbcode colors. Many colors are not currently accepted like dimgray, slategray etc. I have tried both "Color Names" and Hex codes. :(

P.S. I will give this a rest for the night and pick it up again tomorrow.

Edit: Found some links to bbcode color lists
Named Colors (http://www.cloford.com/resources/colours/namedcol.htm)
BBcode Color List (http://absitomen.com/index.php?topic=331.0)

Hmm all colors should be working??

slategray
dimgray
orangered

[Fire$torm]

Hmm all colors should be working??

slategray
dimgray
orangered

Hmmmm, I see it is working.... now. When I posted that awhile ago those colors wouldn't work for me :mad: I guess it was just bad karma.

[Fire$torm]

I did some checking for updated VBulletin Styles.

Carbon - No update for VB 4.1.5

Darkness - 4.1.5 update (Link (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=231670))

DarkVision - No update for VB 4.1.5

I would like to suggest adding the following Free Styles:

GrayFolio (Black) - 4.1.5 update (Link (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=245720)) - Live Demo (Link (http://www.vbinspired.com/vb4test/forum.php?styleid=16))

Black Stealth - 4.1.5 update (Link (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=246396)) - Live Demo (Link (http://www.vbinspired.com/vb4test/forum.php?styleid=21))

(Yes, I am a BIG fan of dark themes.)

[STMahlberg]

I did some checking for updated VBulletin Styles.

Carbon - No update for VB 4.1.5

Darkness - 4.1.5 update (Link (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=231670))

DarkVision - No update for VB 4.1.5

I would like to suggest adding the following Free Styles:

GrayFolio (Black) - 4.1.5 update (Link (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=245720)) - Live Demo (Link (http://www.vbinspired.com/vb4test/forum.php?styleid=16))

Black Stealth - 4.1.5 update (Link (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=246396)) - Live Demo (Link (http://www.vbinspired.com/vb4test/forum.php?styleid=21))

(Yes, I am a BIG fan of dark themes.)

I like the dark themes as well; the ones with the white bodies and or background kills my eyes.

I really like the Black Stealth. :D

[Bok]

Added both of those styles and they should be user selectable.

They should get some new logos rather than using their defaults, if someone would like to create or suggest a Seti.USA specific logo for each style I'll add it in..

[STMahlberg]

Added both of those styles and they should be user selectable.

They should get some new logos rather than using their defaults, if someone would like to create or suggest a Seti.USA specific logo for each style I'll add it in..

Sweet! Now I can see all of the little icons when posting. Thank you. ^:)^

[Fire$torm]

Added both of those styles and they should be user selectable.

They should get some new logos rather than using their defaults, if someone would like to create or suggest a Seti.USA specific logo for each style I'll add it in..

Thanks Bok. I have some time today so I'll toy with the logo.

[Fire$torm]

How is this for the Black Stealth Style?

Short
524

Long
525


Question: Why does the forum show a graphic as a thumbnail in a post when it would easily fit full size??

[Bok]

Updated the logos with the ones you posted. I think it looks good.

As for why it's in thumbnail, it's just a setting within vBulletin. Not sure if it can be overridden though I thought it could. I'll have to research that a little.

529

EDIT: Switched a setting to only thumbnail if there is more than one image.