Pete Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 Well it's by no means complete but the bright colours of the default IPB skin were doing my head in. I've basically saved myself some time by downloading a dark blue skin from t'internet and have wrapped the header and footer around it. Some of the colours will change over the next few days/weeks as I'm aware it's still a little off-colour from the main site pages and the fonts are a bit small (I'm nearly 25, I'll be needing reading specs next!). *Note to self - install the skin from t'internet next time as adapting it takes all of ten minutes* Vitezsype 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 Text size increased. I can see again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimli Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 My eyes are reborn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 That's very soothing after the default. Like bathing my eyeballs in some sort of cool cream, without the stinging and blindness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azrael Strife Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 That's very soothing after the default. Like bathing my eyeballs in some sort of cool cream, without the stinging and blindness.Couldn't agree more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 Excellent! I had to change to the new one manually however. Isn't it supposed to happen automatically? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stun Grenade Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 I love the new skin Slaughter, I think thats normal unless you go through every member in the admin controls and switch it there. Unless there is a quicker method... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 There's an option to convert all users to a given skin at once. I assume someone has since used it, as I didn't have to change myself over. At a glance, the only thing left to do is to change the button images. Looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 There's an option to convert all users to a given skin at once. I assume someone has since used it, as I didn't have to change myself over.Guilty as charged. For those of you who don't like this skin *gasps*, you can always switch it back. Ahhh, back to the "mood-lighting" as I call this skin. Easy on the eyes it is. Nice job, Pete! - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 I used it to start with, however I don't know why it didn't work for you Slaughter. It's possible that if the skin is set in a cookie for an admin it would override any choice I made in the ACP. Everyone else was probably set to just see the default skin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 I like this new skin far better than the one before. If it was called a skin at all. Great change! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 My only complaint with the revived skin is that I lose a bit of the left side of the screen when I'm not using the full width of the screen (I like to have my bookmark panel on the side - see). It wouldn't worry me if I had to scroll the screen to see everything - it's just that horizonal scrollbars won't let me scroll to the extreme left when using the new skin. It's odd. Even with a fixed screen width, the page should't be doing this. The site is now known to me as Rategy Ore! Uh, never mind. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 This is certainly much easier on the eyes than the default board skin. Sort of makes lingering here, say, a full minute again a possibility. :: Now all we need is a little tonal change and we'll be feeling right at home once more, Pete... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 Cheers guys. Long way to go yet thoug NKF - when I make my browser narrower the horizontal scrollbar comes up fine even with Firefox's bookmarks sidebar on and I can scroll fine. What browser/version combo are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 That's the funny thing. I am using Firefox. It's just that about an inch of the left side of the screen is chopped off. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 What's your screen resolution and version of Firefox (Help -> About in FF should give you the number). Most intriguing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 I'm using 1024x768 and my Firefox version is ... ooh, looks like the copy on this computer needs an upgrade. 0.8. Still, I don't think the forum's using any snazzy new-browser-only martial arts for its formatting. Oh well. Actually, one solution is to open up a new window just for this forum and switch it to fullscreen while browsing normally in another window. I suppose I can live with that. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 0.8 is a VERY old version. Mine is 1.5.0.7. Why don't you try and upgrade and see what happens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 It might help - I do have a more updated version lying around somewhere. It's just that 0.8's been very kind to me for quite some time, which is why I haven't been inclined to update these past few years (shows how well it's built, I guess). Still, a wide page shouldn't be breaking the scroll bar. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 If you upgrade, you might as well do the sane thing and install Opera . It's quite a bit faster than Firefox IMO, and the mouse gestures works much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azrael Strife Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 0.8 is a VERY old version. Mine is 1.5.0.7. Why don't you try and upgrade and see what happens?Mine is Beta 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki-tat Chung Posted October 3, 2006 Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 If you upgrade, you might as well do the sane thing and install Opera . It's quite a bit faster than Firefox IMO, and the mouse gestures works much better. If you're willing to give Trident a go again, you could always try out Maxthon. I've been using it for years now, before the whole Firefox craze began. It's one of the first browsers to use mouse gestures, and most of the features are built in. I've personally tried out FF, and even after spending hours looking for plugins, i just couldn't get it to function at the same level as Maxthon. In any case, that's my 2c =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nimd4 Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 There is no Lo-Fi Version display available (any skin)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kret Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 The Lo-Fi version option is located and the center-bottom of the page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nimd4 Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 Sure, thanks for the reply! What I meant to say is - it isn't functional (with any skin, any browser). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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