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PostDec 09, 2008#91

PepperVL wrote:Oh! I see that soothe is already added, and here it isn't stretching my screen! Yay!

Only... are we adding the buttons too? The orange & blue Quote, edit, profile, PM, etc. look odd. :giggle:

Other than that I love the soothe, though. I do like that we can pick our skin for each of us. :D
I've been working on it for about an hour or so but it should be complete now. :bananadance:
I added all the buttons in the zip file.
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PostDec 09, 2008#92

cheesygiraffe wrote:
PepperVL wrote:Oh! I see that soothe is already added, and here it isn't stretching my screen! Yay!

Only... are we adding the buttons too? The orange & blue Quote, edit, profile, PM, etc. look odd. :giggle:

Other than that I love the soothe, though. I do like that we can pick our skin for each of us. :D
I've been working on it for about an hour or so but it should be complete now. :bananadance:
I added all the buttons in the zip file.
It's the skin I'm using now. It matches so nicely with the BO logo I made too. :)

PostDec 09, 2008#93

PepperVL wrote:
PepperVL wrote:Oh! I see that soothe is already added, and here it isn't stretching my screen! Yay!

Only... are we adding the buttons too? The orange & blue Quote, edit, profile, PM, etc. look odd. :giggle:

Other than that I love the soothe, though. I do like that we can pick our skin for each of us. :D
One other thing... when you get the notice at the top of the thread that there has been an edited post, it's dark writing on dark background in soothe, so it's impossible to read and just looks like a random black box.

And completely unrelated to the skins... my preview feature no longer works either.
I fixed it up in the CSS that colorizes that notice, so it should look better now, and more consistent with the rest of the theme. :)


As for your preview feature.... must be a temporary thing, works everywhere for me. :shrug:

PostDec 09, 2008#94

nwpassage wrote:First, I'm not sure if you saw my post in the Chit-Chat thread, but thanks Cherie for all your hard work! I am not good with change, but I'm sure we'll work the kinks out soon, and I *have* seen some things I quite like. :D

I'm currently using Sila, I don't love it or anything, but I personally find it the least harsh on the eyes of the themes currently available. I went through the list you posted, and my top 2 faves are: Simple Blue with it's Preview and A Dark Glass with it's Preview here.

I think I may look into what goes into designing skins myself... kinda looks like fun! ;)
Thanks Holly! :hug:

The skins are pretty much CSS-based. Let me know if you decide to try your hand at it. I can actually give you access to the Themes system here I think, so you could be like a Theme Manager of sorts. ;)

I'd like to eventually get a nicer banner or logo up there, standardize on some colors and have the theme fit that, but we're not there yet. I was thinking "our colors" are probably some form of blue... but that just always came from the fact that all our forums are always blue so who knows really. Perhaps PURPLE can be our colors? :huh:

I actually wanted to start to compile a list but I always get called away to finish something else when I start, but basically there are a whole lot of good features here that we didn't have before, or that we lost a long time ago. Things like HTML in signatures and multi-PM capability were things that we had at the InvisionFree forum but not necessarily at BookRelay before that (well the HTML sig for a little while there but you recall that was taken away with the paid software). Anyway, we did fine without it before so we'll do fine without it again. Especially since some of those other features like being able to see all of a particular user's posts are back. Everyone thought they weren't going to be able to live without that when we lost it going from BR to BO, but now it's back.

I also love how the editor actually works right now! As Pepper pointed out, you can actually highlight and bold text. Or insert code or smilies with the buttons and it'll be inserted at the cursor instead of at the end of the text field like always happened before.

As you said, a lot of people don't like change though. So I'm planning to get at least one more theme up here, one of the ones that emulates the Invision forum, before I go to bed tonight. :) Guess not! :lol:
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PostDec 09, 2008#95

nwpassage wrote:First, I'm not sure if you saw my post in the Chit-Chat thread, but thanks Cherie for all your hard work!

A Dark Glass with it's Preview here.
*drools quietly over the Dark Glass Theme*

And *thinks* Cherie, Pepper, Cheesy, .. whoever els I'm forgetting.. =) Yes.. the Notepad is what I meant (well it is notepad here.. wasn't that before) So yay.. ! *continues to muddle along*

*eyes the blog thing.. * This mean we can each have a blog here now?

Cherie and the rest of you.. great work - as for me I'll manage until you have time. *has her own website to untangle*



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PostDec 09, 2008#96

HOW TO USE FLASH IN YOUR SIGNATURE, i.e. for clocks and such

From the forum's BBCode List, you'll notice they've implemented a way to use Flash with BBCode. Since some of you may not understand where the text and numbers in that example came from, I'm going to demonstrate using a real-world example, specifically, the ClockLink clock so many of us were using in our signature.


Here's the relevant code that ClockLink gives me. Know that we can only use the Flash code, not the Javascript, which is the same as it was previously. You'll often see Flash embedded in a page using the HTML embed code like the code that they give me for the 220x22 purple digital clock I'm using:

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<embed src="http://www.clocklink.com/clocks/5009-purple.swf?TimeZone=EST&"  width="220" height="22" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
And the formatting example given on the BBCode Usage List is:

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[flash=250,210]http://www.youtube.com/v/z7SeHqxOVYc[/flash]
So I'm going to show you how to convert the first code block into something resembling the second. :)

In the original code above, the value of the src attribute, i.e. http://www.clocklink.com/clocks/5009-pu ... meZone=EST&, is what goes between the brackets. And the values for the two width and height attributes, 220 and 22 respectively, are the values after the = in the BBCode version. They should remain in the order of width,height. You can disregard the other attributes from the original source code; src, width, and height are the only ones important here.

So doing all that, this is what you end up with, which will yield you a clock like the one in my signature below:

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[flash=220,22]http://www.clocklink.com/clocks/5009-purple.swf?TimeZone=EST&[/flash]

Now everyone go get your own and convert it using these instructions! I don't want to see hundreds of rips of purple clocks in the Eastern time zone. :whip:
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PostDec 09, 2008#97

It doesn't work for me (changing clock link) but coda I was using doesn't begins with <embed src="http but with <iframe src="http so I don't know is that has something to do with not-working :shrug:

PostDec 09, 2008#98

cheesygiraffe wrote:Any suggestions on which themes I should install? I know Pepper chimed in. Anyone else?
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PostDec 09, 2008#99

zzz wrote:It doesn't work for me (changing clock link) but coda I was using doesn't begins with <embed src="http but with <iframe src="http so I don't know is that has something to do with not-working :shrug:
It looks like the clock you were using uses an Iframe instead of flash embedding, so nope, it won't work this way. Actually I don't think it will work at all, but I'll add to the list to check and see if there's a workaround for using iframes, though I doubt there is. Sowwie. :erm:
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PostDec 09, 2008#100

I am using the new purple design right now. skin which I like best cause it is better to read the boards (see the boards)

Now let me go check the spoiler
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