Cool new themes for Sci-Fi Board

Any problems, requests or comments regarding the site can go in here.

Cool new themes for Sci-Fi Board

Postby Jynks on Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:48 am

There is a cool new style that would be cool for this board called

"Whatisreal"

http://www.phpbb.com/styles/demo.php
<---------- Top 20 Scifi Captians -------->
1: Capt. Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds 2: Captian Kirk 3: Capt. Matthew Gideon 4: Han Solo 5: Capt. Janeway 6: Admiral William Adama 7: Capt Jean-Luc Picard 8: Dr. Hans Reinhardt 9 Freeman Lowell 10 Zaphod Beeblebrox 11 Capt. Dallas 12 Cpatian Sheredon 13 David Bowmen 14 Admiral Ackbar 15 Capt Begimum Sisko 16 Turanga Leela 17 Capt. McCrea 18 Susumu Kodai 19 Flash Gorden 20 Commander J. J. Adams And the Wrost Capt. Carmen Ibanez
User avatar
Jynks
Modding the Machine
 
Posts: 1857
Joined: Mon Apr 19, 2004 8:16 am

Postby Bassline on Thu Oct 06, 2005 5:43 pm

looks ok if a bit bright for my eyes (possibly change the blue for an alternate colour?) :o and the content of the threads needs centering as it is showing to be aligned on the left of the screen atm :)
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Bassline
Modding the Machine
 
Posts: 735
Joined: Mon Apr 19, 2004 4:47 pm

Postby spudthedestroyer on Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:25 pm

I have to say its rather annoying, it looks hi-tech and all but the graphics are intrusive, the text is unreadable, and its just not very practical.

A "wide" design theme would be great, the two none-standard themes are rather cramped and centred.

I'm using galaxian, i know some people are using solaris and some subsilver. I wish i had the time to design one, but unfortunately right now despite appearances i'm completely swamped... i haven't even had chance to touch the frontpage php beyond tweaks... same goes for the forums, and what with uni starting back up and my final year project... argghh! :lol:

Never have time to do anything i want to do :(

errr. anyway, yeah, i think although its a nice technical demo of html skills, i think its rather intrusive, inpractical and very hard to navigate. Just call me Luke BuzzKiller :)
ImageImage
ImageImage
User avatar
spudthedestroyer
Rear Admiral Lieutenant General
 
Posts: 4398
Joined: Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:47 pm
Location: Royal Britannia

Postby Jynks on Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:25 pm

lol. Yea, with a colour change mabey it would be all right.. I do like the "sticky" background image with the "overlay" look though. I'm using Solaris.. I really like the colours, but yea it is a bit cramped.
<---------- Top 20 Scifi Captians -------->
1: Capt. Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds 2: Captian Kirk 3: Capt. Matthew Gideon 4: Han Solo 5: Capt. Janeway 6: Admiral William Adama 7: Capt Jean-Luc Picard 8: Dr. Hans Reinhardt 9 Freeman Lowell 10 Zaphod Beeblebrox 11 Capt. Dallas 12 Cpatian Sheredon 13 David Bowmen 14 Admiral Ackbar 15 Capt Begimum Sisko 16 Turanga Leela 17 Capt. McCrea 18 Susumu Kodai 19 Flash Gorden 20 Commander J. J. Adams And the Wrost Capt. Carmen Ibanez
User avatar
Jynks
Modding the Machine
 
Posts: 1857
Joined: Mon Apr 19, 2004 8:16 am

Postby spudthedestroyer on Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:38 pm

keep a scout out though, i'm not happy with any of scifi's threads to be honest. They all have their flaws :(
ImageImage
ImageImage
User avatar
spudthedestroyer
Rear Admiral Lieutenant General
 
Posts: 4398
Joined: Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:47 pm
Location: Royal Britannia

Postby Jynks on Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:22 pm

same
<---------- Top 20 Scifi Captians -------->
1: Capt. Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds 2: Captian Kirk 3: Capt. Matthew Gideon 4: Han Solo 5: Capt. Janeway 6: Admiral William Adama 7: Capt Jean-Luc Picard 8: Dr. Hans Reinhardt 9 Freeman Lowell 10 Zaphod Beeblebrox 11 Capt. Dallas 12 Cpatian Sheredon 13 David Bowmen 14 Admiral Ackbar 15 Capt Begimum Sisko 16 Turanga Leela 17 Capt. McCrea 18 Susumu Kodai 19 Flash Gorden 20 Commander J. J. Adams And the Wrost Capt. Carmen Ibanez
User avatar
Jynks
Modding the Machine
 
Posts: 1857
Joined: Mon Apr 19, 2004 8:16 am

Postby dinky on Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:03 am

I think "whatisreal" looks better than solaris, which is far more "sci-fi" than anything else on here (imo). would be a lot easier to read if the tables were centered instead of left align. but that can't be difficult to make so can it?
Life ducks, and you sigh.
User avatar
dinky
"Beyond Simple"
 
Posts: 2905
Joined: Sat May 08, 2004 7:00 am

Postby spudthedestroyer on Fri Oct 07, 2005 5:31 pm

nope not hard at all to center, i just can't read the text since its transparent :lol:

There'll be a tag div align="left" (or similar) and you just change it to center.
ImageImage
ImageImage
User avatar
spudthedestroyer
Rear Admiral Lieutenant General
 
Posts: 4398
Joined: Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:47 pm
Location: Royal Britannia

Postby dinky on Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:26 pm

scrolling through it, the only problem I found with the transparency was the earth on the left corner. center should eliminate that.
Life ducks, and you sigh.
User avatar
dinky
"Beyond Simple"
 
Posts: 2905
Joined: Sat May 08, 2004 7:00 am

Postby spudthedestroyer on Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:37 pm

This theme has been installed.

It is under whatisreal in your profile
ImageImage
ImageImage
User avatar
spudthedestroyer
Rear Admiral Lieutenant General
 
Posts: 4398
Joined: Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:47 pm
Location: Royal Britannia

Postby dinky on Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:53 am

whatisreal looks great. but I'm having second thoughts about the layering. I've gotten used to the tables stuck on the background. looks cool though.

y'all need to update to gif avs with transparant backgrounds. :P
Life ducks, and you sigh.
User avatar
dinky
"Beyond Simple"
 
Posts: 2905
Joined: Sat May 08, 2004 7:00 am

Postby d0c on Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:44 pm

i set it back to solaris, since i am used to the collors,fonts etc.... if you spud could fix the logo up there to be more sci-fi oriented than horror and the news showing new sci-fi posts instead of the horror posts this would be good...
User avatar
d0c
The Ninth Passenger
 
Posts: 930
Joined: Mon Apr 19, 2004 10:23 am

Postby Jynks on Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:14 am

same here doc... btw.. the news portal at the top has gone alll wierd now :(
<---------- Top 20 Scifi Captians -------->
1: Capt. Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds 2: Captian Kirk 3: Capt. Matthew Gideon 4: Han Solo 5: Capt. Janeway 6: Admiral William Adama 7: Capt Jean-Luc Picard 8: Dr. Hans Reinhardt 9 Freeman Lowell 10 Zaphod Beeblebrox 11 Capt. Dallas 12 Cpatian Sheredon 13 David Bowmen 14 Admiral Ackbar 15 Capt Begimum Sisko 16 Turanga Leela 17 Capt. McCrea 18 Susumu Kodai 19 Flash Gorden 20 Commander J. J. Adams And the Wrost Capt. Carmen Ibanez
User avatar
Jynks
Modding the Machine
 
Posts: 1857
Joined: Mon Apr 19, 2004 8:16 am

Postby d0c on Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:59 pm

and will something be done about it... i guess not..
User avatar
d0c
The Ninth Passenger
 
Posts: 930
Joined: Mon Apr 19, 2004 10:23 am

Postby spudthedestroyer on Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:50 pm

gone all weird now?


:o
Anymore specific.... weird how? theme? when? which? whom?

looks exactly as it did yesterday, in all the themes so your going to have to tell me.

Perhaps your using a lousy browser and need to clear cache or something. Looks the same here as yesterday.
ImageImage
ImageImage
User avatar
spudthedestroyer
Rear Admiral Lieutenant General
 
Posts: 4398
Joined: Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:47 pm
Location: Royal Britannia

Postby Jynks on Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:14 pm

Well I only noticed it when I visited my folks who run a low res desktop.... might have somthing to do with it... .. .

Image
<---------- Top 20 Scifi Captians -------->
1: Capt. Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds 2: Captian Kirk 3: Capt. Matthew Gideon 4: Han Solo 5: Capt. Janeway 6: Admiral William Adama 7: Capt Jean-Luc Picard 8: Dr. Hans Reinhardt 9 Freeman Lowell 10 Zaphod Beeblebrox 11 Capt. Dallas 12 Cpatian Sheredon 13 David Bowmen 14 Admiral Ackbar 15 Capt Begimum Sisko 16 Turanga Leela 17 Capt. McCrea 18 Susumu Kodai 19 Flash Gorden 20 Commander J. J. Adams And the Wrost Capt. Carmen Ibanez
User avatar
Jynks
Modding the Machine
 
Posts: 1857
Joined: Mon Apr 19, 2004 8:16 am

Postby spudthedestroyer on Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:23 pm

Yup, that's a client side thing. hit refresh, your css file needs refreshing... you've got one cached and your not using the latest one.

It actually looks like this:
Image
If refreshing doesn't work, you need to delete your browsers cache.

If that doesn't work, go here:
templates/Solaris/Solaris.css

and hit refresh to force it to update


Its nothing serverside that can be done, its your browsers fault. Normally ie is to blame when this happens, very suprised firefox is doing it.
ImageImage
ImageImage
User avatar
spudthedestroyer
Rear Admiral Lieutenant General
 
Posts: 4398
Joined: Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:47 pm
Location: Royal Britannia


Return to Site Help & Development

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 11 guests