This forum really needs a new theme, as the current one is horrible IMO.
If you can integrate the rest of the site then feel free but as of now it cant be done so the theme stays. Maybe a colour change will help? Suggestions welcome.
Yes but how do you select the theme for the rest of the site? Its fine for the forum but its not as easy for the rest of the site. Unless the rest of the site stays on this theme and I simply mod the forum skin.
Well, just setting subSilver as deafult on the forum and installing some other themes in the forum would be the easy way out.
But the rest of the site, I don't really see any subSilver references besides a stripped down css file with colours and that horrible scrollbar-mod.
You could do something like :
A script to return the logged in users current css file for the rest of the site.
Of course the site needs to be similar in classes and such to the theme, otherwise the style may not be applied correctly.
This is indeed trickier than I thought.
Also, the Front page has colours hard-coded in html, why?
Edit: The front page has a lot of designcode inlined when using a separate CSS-file would be more maintainable, and more bandwith friendly.
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Its hard coded because its difficult to use a sql database for something so simple. Its not exactly built into phpbb, its just a template thats the same. Ill have a little think and see what I can do.
All I can think of so far is add templates and mod the header to have the nav bar in it at the top.
Maybe so but every time phpbb is updated I have to do it again. Thats why modding is no option. Original templates/themes with no modding or nothing. Sorry.
But the point is how will the server know which template to serve up? Its not linked directly to phpbb, its just a static page. Id have to jump into the sql database to find out which one you want, something i dont know how to do or want to mess with.
Hmm, if you didn't want to worry aboot getting the themes between phpBB and the rest of the site to be the same, how about you use some kind of CMS and integrate phpBB into it? Then, you could set the theme in the CMS to something, and phpBB would follow. Just a thought...
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i know this is out of the blue, but this site may look good with the XP watercolor theme. it looks good on my browser, i dunno, just a crazy thought, nevermind me...
i know this is out of the blue, but this site may look good with the XP watercolor theme. it looks good on my browser, i dunno, just a crazy thought, nevermind me...
Could you post a screenshot? Im going to look for some themes soon and Ill probably leave the rest of the site with this theme, the subsilver, but have the forum any theme you want.
Yeah I agree, they're both good... I prefer the XP one out of the two (even though I hate the XP theme on amy machine... odd, eh?)...
Funny, I was thinking of mentioning the possibility of a theme change, I was gonna say that sub-forums with new posts aren't particularly obvious if you're scrolling kinda fast since the icon's kinda pale...
But the point is how will the server know which template to serve up? Its not linked directly to phpbb, its just a static page. Id have to jump into the sql database to find out which one you want, something i dont know how to do or want to mess with.
argh, I was thinking of the ViperTech portal. I would help, but I've got way too much on my plate right now - working on my own phpBB theme, have real (life) work, building a shed this weekend, have my ADP project...
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