Forum Theme Alert

Just made a couple of minor changes to the current theme:
  • Darkened the text in code blocks, because the light text on a light background was unreadable.
  • Made it so that the bullets show up in unordered lists like this one, because otherwise there's not much point in using the list tag.
 
Thanks, looks better now
Can you change the color of "posted by:" in topic summary (while making a reply) too? currently it's black and almost same as background as if there were no "posted by:"
 
Yeah, there's a lot of black text on almost-black backgrounds that needs changing.  I'll probably do a second round of changes sometime soon.
 
Plombo said:
Yeah, there's a lot of black text on almost-black backgrounds that needs changing.  I'll probably do a second round of changes sometime soon.
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Don't waste too much time on it, this theme is gone the moment I can sit down and find another. Functionally it sucks all around. Doesn't have working tables, the responsive execution bites, you had to jack with css to have bullet lists etc. etc...

My choosing it was a failed experiment that I humbly apologize for.

DC
 
Good to hear, but the first set of changes took me all of 5 minutes.  I don't expect to spend more than that if I make more quick fixes to this one. :)
 
And if you choose a theme, you should consider the reseller theme, then just tamper the CSS color scheme, that way we can get the benefits of the theme,just a different coat of paint.
 
Broke down and installed the Reseller Theme. It's going to take quite a bit of customization to look right, but the mobile experience is much, much better.

DC
 
Just please not white again....  bare in mind most of us are staring at sprites and lines of code everyday.

Also sprites show up better in the forums on the gray background.  I thought the old one looked great.
 
BeasTie said:
Just please not white again....  bare in mind most of us are staring at sprites and lines of code everyday.

Also sprites show up better in the forums on the gray background.  I thought the old one looked great.
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Everything he said.
 
It looks nice on my phone here. Got myself a new phone now and I've been itching to use it for development too.

Anyway, the color though needs to be adjusted, maybe making it similar to the old color scheme with an accent of blues and saturated grays, but not too similar. We need changes too.

The left side panel has got to go here and just retain the right one for current topics.

The UI too needs to be explained, maybe in the news feed if ever these suggestions are to be followed.

I also think the avatar icons are a bit large to me, especially on a phone.
 
Good gravy guys... allow me to quote myself:

Damon Caskey said:
...It's going to take quite a bit of customization to look right...
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I hate light colored themes too - that's the whole reason I was reluctant to install this one, and I'd stated that several times in the past. Then you guys show up and browbeat me over it like I don't know any better.  :o

Don't worry, I'll change it when I've got a moment to jack around with the .css, or maybe Plombo will jump in and beat me to it. Either way it would be more helpful to give some suggestions geared toward things I haven't already made clear I'm aware of.  :P

DC
 
Okay, I understand about that.

Now about Reseller's code, does it have a variable so it actually sees if the user agent is Android or a PC?

If so, maybe it can hide the left panel over whenever we're using a mobile device and show it if the screen is allowable enough.
 
CRxTRDude said:
Okay, I understand about that.

Now about Reseller's code, does it have a variable so it actually sees if the user agent is Android or a PC?

If so, maybe it can hide the left panel over whenever we're using a mobile device and show it if the screen is allowable enough.
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Good possibility, but I can't promise anything because it depends on how they set it up. There may be a server side detection or a media query in play, or some combination of both. Something is defiantly in effect because the right bar defaults to off for mobile. I'll just have to look around and find it.

DC
 
I've also realized something.

Some forums though don't even have panels anyway on mobile, but I'm sure it's difficult to see if there's someone replying without clicking more buttons, navigating to 'Updated Topics' or 'Recent Unread'. The experience might sound counterintuitive on desktop and big screened devices, but not on mobiles I think.



And yeah, you might need to reduce the avatar to make it smaller like 64x64, it's a little distracting to see big avatars on mobile, saw it on SMFTricks:

replacing the width: 100%; in .poster li.avatar img into:

Code: 
.poster li.avatar img
{
	width: 64px;
        height: 64px;
}
 
Make bg a little darker like this:
image.jpg

and it will be great)
 
Tweaked the theme a bit to display the member group (Administrator, OpenBOR Developer) for people who have one.
 
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