What's your favorite message board theme?

Post by **Ringo Flinthammer** » 09 Nov 2004 01:47 am

In case you haven't discovered it yet, this board comes pre-loaded with three dwarf-inspired message board themes.

Which do you like best?

(In case you don't know what we're talking about, go back to the Profile page -- link up top -- and scroll 2/3 down to see a drop down menu with all three themes. Yes, you must be registered to see any other than Friends in Low Places.)

Widge · Post by **Widge** » 09 Nov 2004 06:25 am

They're all fantastic, I voted for Foundations of Stone though. I'm a sucker for a good black/red theme.

Love the beer mug smileys, btw.

Post by **Clouseau** » 09 Nov 2004 08:07 am

I'm hooked on TKB, looks great.

Shulzan · Post by **Shulzan** » 09 Nov 2004 09:01 am

Post by **Ringo Flinthammer** » 09 Nov 2004 09:12 am

Widge wrote:Love the beer mug smileys, btw.

Pedi/Beli pulled out all the stops on them. I think this is the first board with a designated STFU smilie as well ...

Murdakin · Post by **Murdakin** » 09 Nov 2004 11:09 am

I liked FiLP and TKB both almost the same, chose FiLP for the mountains.
FoS was cool but the forums were too narrow, like only 1/2 the screen or 2/3rds or something.

Vashanti · Post by **Vashanti** » 15 Nov 2004 11:24 am

Definitely the Foundations of Stone.

Edit: on second thought, that theme is a bit narrow...

Widge · Post by **Widge** » 15 Nov 2004 12:50 pm

Vashanti wrote:Definitely the Foundations of Stone.

Edit: on second thought, that theme is a bit narrow...

That's one of the things I love about it! $:\$

Post by **Beli Flinthammer** » 15 Nov 2004 01:35 pm

Nothing I can do about the size of FoS. That is how the original creator made the theme. It's best for those who have a resolution of 1024x768! And no worries, we might add a few more themes later on when creativity strikes.

Riverdane · Post by **Riverdane** » 15 Nov 2004 02:33 pm

As much as I like the Foundations in stone theme, specially since I run 1024x768 on my flatscreen, I found the bullets-system and whatnot easier on the eyes in FiLP, so am going to stick with that one, baby blue and all...=p

Post by **Ringo Flinthammer** » 15 Nov 2004 03:19 pm

If there's anything people would like to see in future themes, let us know. We're not up to custom-making our own top to bottom yet, but there's a lot out there we can tweak and add our own touches to.

Having said that, Beli has a few more surprises up her sleeve for the coming weeks and months ...

Post by **Beli Flinthammer** » 15 Nov 2004 04:55 pm

Post by **Ringo Flinthammer** » 15 Nov 2004 05:02 pm

Herb · Post by **Herb** » 16 Nov 2004 12:04 am

surprises = good.

bring 'em on

Murdakin · Post by **Murdakin** » 17 Nov 2004 05:02 pm

On the theme width in FoS... I had the same prob on my board as well.. I use E107, a modified PHPBB.. dunno if yours is the same as I'm a board newb but if it is I think I might have a fix for you... If you're interested lemme know and I'll look up how I fixed mine.

Post by **Ringo Flinthammer** » 17 Nov 2004 05:12 pm

We can probably copy FoS over to a FoS2 and make one skinny, and one not, so that everyone's happy. I'd love to see the fix you guys did.

Murdakin · Post by **Murdakin** » 19 Nov 2004 06:54 pm

It had to do with custom headers done to one of the .php files. I'll look it up and post.

Murdakin · Post by **Murdakin** » 19 Nov 2004 07:05 pm

Ok on mine what I did in the theme.php...

There's a section for Header and Footer

Header on mine starts with:
$HEADER =
Had to mess with it to find the ending, but basically I copied from $HEADER = all the way down to before it has $FOOTER = and then pasted it right above $FOOTER = and renamed $HEADER to $CUSTOMHEADER.

After that I deleted the (MENU=1) section of it.

Do the same thing with $FOOTER = and copy it again and replace it with $CUSTOMFOOTER = etc. etc.. on mine it had (MENU=2) which I deleted from the custom one.

Then in the next section, which on mine showed // [newsstyle]

I put this:
$CUSTOMPAGES = "forum.php forum_post.php forum_viewforum.php forum_viewtopic.php search.php";

So how I did all this was with alot of trial and error, I DLed the theme.php and made a copy of it and renamed it to themebackup.php and left it alone, I then would do changes to the theme.php, upload to see if I broke anything, if I did I'd reupload the themebackup.php in it's place to unbreak it until I got it right...

Sorry for the laymans terms and vagueness of it but I was really flying blind doing this on the fly. I don't know if ANY of it will help but I figured I'd post it so you could give it a shot, if it didn't work, only time and patience was lost

Post by **Ringo Flinthammer** » 19 Nov 2004 07:10 pm

Hmm, that's probably enough to remind me of how to (probably) do this. I've hand-configured message boards back in the stone age (WebBBS, if you still remember that kind) and it used similar tags.

Thanks.

Murdakin · Post by **Murdakin** » 19 Nov 2004 07:10 pm

Crap there was also something I did with one of the width's as well I think... I can't remember

But basically the menu's which I don't know if you have or not would take up 15% on the left and right of the theme and 70% was left for the rest... I think I had to change some of the widths to 100% in the custom headers and footers to adjust for this... again sorry for the vagueness

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