November 13, 200520 yr I'd like to suggest that the Admins consider implementing a custom made board style - in the Tip.It fashion! Perhpas something relating to the site design to maintain consistency? At the moment, if you go to your profile and scroll down, you will see a drop down menu of board styles: - Chronicles - Invision Blue - xmen - subSilver and 7 other clones If this is something that can not be done 'in-house' than perhaps the community can be involved? Perhaps a competition format or just opening up to submissions and ideas initially? I'm sure there are many talented people around. And while we're talking about board styles, is there a mod that could make a drop down menu on the Forum Index perhaps in a top corner or a bottom corner so users can switch between the styles at will? Not only will this inform users of their availability, but also increase awareness of their existence so more users can take advantage of this service being available.
November 13, 200520 yr I can make buttons :P Good idea, I've been wanting a TipIt skin for a while. When it's made, maybe set it as forum default?
November 13, 200520 yr Oh yeah! That would be amazing. I have always liked forums that are built directly into the website layouts too, if that would be possible it would even be better. :D Check out RuneScript and RuneTracker!
November 13, 200520 yr Yeah, I REALLY want this to be a possibility. I know Matt has offered to do it time and time again only to be shot down :(
November 14, 200520 yr I can help out with the graphics (bit of a gfx wiz :P) and also a tad on the CSS and overall editing of the template
November 14, 200520 yr I offered to do one for free years ago (i get paid to make custom forum themes) but the staff were not interested. Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12
November 14, 200520 yr Author Years ago? A lot of things happen have happened since then so the situation is rather different I assume. *awaits Admin reply after they deliberate*
November 14, 200520 yr Excellent idea, I've talked to admins in the past about this at great lengths to no avail. IMHO if one is made, it should be made the default one, and then if users want to change they can use their profile. Where the bloody hell are you?
November 14, 200520 yr As for having a drop down in the corner or something for quick theme changing, heres the closest thing. Basicly it will add a style command so that the theme can be changed via a url http://forum.tip.it/index.php?s=subSilver http://www.ktauber.com/phpBB2mods/change_style/ I used to use it on my old phpBB portfolio site Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12
November 14, 200520 yr got bored at lunch so heres a paintmash lol Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12
November 14, 200520 yr Author The words 'slow down' come to mind hehe. It does look nice, and in that case, we'd need to make sure that the normal site themes also work with this forum board style.
November 14, 200520 yr The words 'slow down' come to mind hehe. It does look nice, and in that case, we'd need to make sure that the normal site themes also work with this forum board style. Wouldn't be too much of a problem, it would only be the main background colour thats different really. Just a cookie telling the forum which CSS file to look at. The key thing would be linking the forum theme and the site themes together so you dont have to do it manually. I dont know how the style changer mod manipulates the main phpbb cookie off heard but it shouldn't be too difficult to set up. Jeppe is quite the expert in things like that ^_^ Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12
November 14, 200520 yr I for a fact know that they're thinking of deleting several (if not most) board themes for logical reasons. They might delete them all, and just add one custom tipit theme? I'd want something nice however, after using subBlack for years I can't stand to see something too bright. It'd seriously make me quit. :P :P
November 14, 200520 yr Author ... I can't stand to see something too bright. It'd seriously make me quit. :P :P So I take it you use the black site theme rather than the default blue?
November 14, 200520 yr They should ban everyone using subBlack anyway ^_^ MS Simplicity ftw. :D Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12
November 14, 200520 yr subBlack owns thy Matt. ;) And E: Noes, I use the default theme as it somehow doesn't want to save it. Then again, on the main site it only changes the color of something hardly visible, it's not the background I'm staring at. Actually, come to test it, I think the black theme on the homepage looks horrific. =X It somehow ruins the style. I must admit, I don't frequent the homepage -that- much, compared to forums.
November 15, 200520 yr I have some icons that I made like a year ago haha... (For any curious people, they're rune rocks for new posts and empty grey rocks for read, with rune pickaxe for announcement and hammer for sticky... hmm now that I'm just thinking here, could have iron (grey) pickaxe for unread announcement, but I dunno what for unread sticky... Meh anyway it's more just like ideas at the moment... I don't have anything for popular either.) Where the bloody hell are you?
November 15, 200520 yr Sounds like a cool idea but emm.. maybe a bit too runescapey? I mean, there's loads and loads of people who come here for non-rs related boards..
November 15, 200520 yr I have some icons that I made like a year ago haha... (For any curious people, they're rune rocks for new posts and empty grey rocks for read, with rune pickaxe for announcement and hammer for sticky... hmm now that I'm just thinking here, could have iron (grey) pickaxe for unread announcement, but I dunno what for unread sticky... Meh anyway it's more just like ideas at the moment... I don't have anything for popular either.) It'd probably be better as a rune pickaxe for unread and iron for read :P More flashy and noticeable I just posted something! ^_^ to the terrorist...er... kirbybeam.
November 16, 200520 yr Sounds like a cool idea but emm.. maybe a bit too runescapey? I mean, there's loads and loads of people who come here for non-rs related boards.. Well then it would just be a general theme..maybe we could base it off of the tip.it site design? That way it matches the site and isn't too Runescapey, but is still relevant.
November 16, 200520 yr (For any curious people, they're rune rocks for new posts and empty grey rocks for read, with rune pickaxe for announcement and hammer for sticky... hmm now that I'm just thinking here, could have iron (grey) pickaxe for unread announcement, but I dunno what for unread sticky... Meh anyway it's more just like ideas at the moment... I don't have anything for popular either.)It'd probably be better as a rune pickaxe for unread and iron for read :P More flashy and noticeableErm yeah that's what I meant sorry, got confuzzled while I was typing it. Where the bloody hell are you?
November 16, 200520 yr Author Sounds like a cool idea but emm.. maybe a bit too runescapey? I mean, there's loads and loads of people who come here for non-rs related boards.. Well then it would just be a general theme..maybe we could base it off of the tip.it site design? That way it matches the site and isn't too Runescapey, but is still relevant. Thats what I think would be best too :)
November 16, 200520 yr Valid point about the runescapeness of it. I still think most of the people who access the forums would be Runescape players though... Where the bloody hell are you?
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