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Nothing & Everything => Open Discussion => Topic started by: ober on April 10, 2005, 09:09:33 AM

Title: Styles n such
Post by: ober on April 10, 2005, 09:09:33 AM
Ok, I've looked and I've looked, but 95% of the styles available either suck ass or require payment.

SO, what I propose we do is get one person (knowledgable in both CSS and willing to create some graphics) to come up with a new style or 5.  I will be playing around with the style editor today and see if I can come up with something myself, but I want someone else to volunteer also.  I'll have to create a temp admin account for said person, because that's the only way to get to the style editor.

So... anyone wanna do it?
Title: Styles n such
Post by: A Bit of Fruit on April 10, 2005, 09:15:37 AM
*a cough echoes in the room*
Title: Styles n such
Post by: ober on April 10, 2005, 09:52:08 AM
Yes?
Title: Styles n such
Post by: A Bit of Fruit on April 10, 2005, 10:04:32 AM
nah I suck at everything, including but not limited to, life
Title: Styles n such
Post by: ober on April 10, 2005, 11:23:17 AM
If you want to do it, that's cool.. I just wasn't aware of your graphics/CSS knowledge.
Title: Styles n such
Post by: Mike on April 10, 2005, 11:30:20 AM
If given a design I could probably code it up.  But I suck at design.
Title: Styles n such
Post by: VBprogrammer on April 10, 2005, 12:01:34 PM
Just a quick logo mostly because the Vbulletin thing annoys me!
Title: Styles n such
Post by: ober on April 10, 2005, 12:09:50 PM
Looks a little blurry... can you sharpen it up?  I'll post this one tho.
Title: Styles n such
Post by: VBprogrammer on April 10, 2005, 12:11:27 PM
What size can it be, i just made it the same as the Vbulletin one.

Ok looks pretty shit but i'll fix the anti ali... (err the blurry-ness!)
Title: Styles n such
Post by: Ken Fitlike on April 10, 2005, 12:24:40 PM
Quote from: ober
So... anyone wanna do it?
If you have test board set up Ober, would it be possible to let a number of people loose on that? That way they hopefully wouldn't be able to do much damage and if anything half-way presentable comes out of it then - that would probably be a miracle.

Quote from: "Mike"
If given a design I could probably code it up. But I suck at design.
Would it be possible to start by tweaking the colours/fonts and saving that as a template?

Is this the manual:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/styles_and_templates
Title: Styles n such
Post by: ober on April 10, 2005, 12:30:03 PM
That does appear to be the manual, fitlike.

And I can't setup a test board... at least I don't think I can, I'm still trying to figure out this damn style manager.  It's f-ing crazy.  No wonder why everyone else was bitching up a storm.

By the way, I have uploaded the one free style I was able to get my hands on.  It is a bit... "red"... but whatever, it's available.
Title: Styles n such
Post by: Rob on April 10, 2005, 12:40:01 PM
Quote from: ober
It is a bit... "red"... .

Fucking hell, my retinas...
Title: Styles n such
Post by: ober on April 10, 2005, 12:42:10 PM
Can't say I didn't warn you.
Title: Styles n such
Post by: Ken Fitlike on April 10, 2005, 12:44:46 PM
Well, could I have a go - until someone comes forward who actually knows what they're doing or I get bored?

I just hope everybody likes porridge grey.

Mmmmm porridge.

edit: I seem to remember reading somewhere or other in the vb licence that you could set up a second testing forum provided it wasn't open to the public but I don't know if you set Mike up with that one so he can indulge his fetish for fiendish experiments.
Title: Styles n such
Post by: VBprogrammer on April 10, 2005, 12:57:05 PM
I'd like to see some kind of test board setup - maybe even back at whproductions? I'd be quite happy to mess around with some stuff if i knew the worst that would happen is that the test board needed to be reinstalled.
Title: Styles n such
Post by: ober on April 10, 2005, 01:00:55 PM
Well... I can try it, but I guess I'm just worried they'll cancel the license if I try and install it in 2 places.

Besides, I can't even figure out how to fucking get people to the style manager anyways, permissions suck ass with this thing.
Title: Styles n such
Post by: Ken Fitlike on April 10, 2005, 01:11:11 PM
It looks like it's part of the admin cp - what about the 'usergroups' mentioned in this manual page:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/sectionsummary

Does that offer a way to control access?

Quote from: "Ober"
but I guess I'm just worried they'll cancel the license if I try and install it in 2 places.


Quote from: "vBulletin licence"
If you have a valid license, you may set up an additional test forum in order to test code, template and database modifications. To make this clear to us and our license verification procedures, place it in a directory called 'testvb' and be sure to password protect it. It must not be accessible by the general public.
See: http://www.vbulletin.com/order/license_agreement.php

edit: If you can, set this up then you can grant permissions to it without too much concern provided it's not publically accessible and is password protected - we are after all going to be using it as intended: entirely for the purposes of  testing. I'm assuming that 'templates' refers to the style templates, which seems to be the issue of the moment.

If you're still in doubt, email vbulletin and ask for clarification.
Title: Styles n such
Post by: Rob on April 10, 2005, 01:22:44 PM
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=95

Loads of free styles here??
Title: Styles n such
Post by: ober on April 10, 2005, 01:29:40 PM
I've been in there, and made Mike an admin, and set it up so his permissions are the same as mine (as far as I can tell), but he still can't see everything I can.

And as far as the styles, I can't figure out how to get them.  I'm a member of the community, but I can't seem to download any of those styles... you need some kind of special permission.  And I can't get to it from the member section either.  I'm going to have to ask about it.