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Ariel
Harmonious Angel
Joined: 21 Jul 2001
Posts: 432
Location: Germany |
| Chronicles skin updates and discussions. |
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(Is it...? Seems it is.)
Surprise, surprise! We have a present for you, and only with a slight delay, after all it had to be imported from a land far, far away. What is "it", you wonder? It is . . .
A new forum theme! Yay!
It's called Chronicles and was made by Jakob Persson for phpBB2. It's a fairly popular, public skin, and you may have seen it elsewhere already. Its wonderful wooden/parchment theme make it a perfect addition to our forum skin collection.
To use it you have to go to your profile and select "Chronicles" as your board style. Naturally you can only do that if you're registered.
Enjoy!
Note: If you find anything quirky with Chronicles, please post your findings in this thread, as well as other bug reports, ideas, suggestions or general nitpicking. I've tried to make only small modifications and stay true to the original design of this theme, but of course that doesn't mean it can't be improved any further.
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Last edited by Ariel on Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:13 pm; edited 1 time in total |
Sat Dec 27, 2003 2:02 am |
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dteowner
Shoegazer
Joined: 21 Mar 2002
Posts: 7570
Location: Third Hero of Erathia |
Not bad, but we've got this special skin here that's better. Some board resident put it together and adopted most every user request that was made. "Da Vino Tea" or something like that.... 
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Sat Dec 27, 2003 2:10 am |
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goshuto
Wanderer
Joined: 29 May 2002
Posts: 1142
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I like this theme!  I do have one suggestion, though. The posts alternate between a light and a dark brown background. I find the dark brown background posts slightly difficult to read because of the "thin" black font used. Maybe not an issue when you're reading a couple small posts, but when you're reading several pages of posts, it could become tiring (for this same reason, the text we write in the posting screen is also slightly difficult to read).
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Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:09 am |
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Neo_Genesis
The Assassin
Joined: 10 Aug 2003
Posts: 3050
Location: The Netherlands |
nice, nice indeed. i only have to get used to the new colors for the administrator and moderator...
one suggestion: when you are on the main page of the forum. all the names (who is the moderator, who made the last post etc. etc.) are yellow. but the background is (almost) yellow too. maybe it would be better if the names were another color.
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Sat Dec 27, 2003 12:00 pm |
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Ariel
Harmonious Angel
Joined: 21 Jul 2001
Posts: 432
Location: Germany |
dte: Heh. Flatterer.
However, that skin you are talking about is not perfect either, and I intend to adopt user requests for other skins too. 
goshuto: I'll go ahead and fiddle around with some alternate texture orderings.
[edit]Done.[/edit]
Neo: Mm, maybe a darker color for the links would do the trick..
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Sat Dec 27, 2003 2:53 pm |
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Neo_Genesis
The Assassin
Joined: 10 Aug 2003
Posts: 3050
Location: The Netherlands |
another thing: when i am in my usergroup forum. three buttons are missing (the one for banning, giving a warning and another one).
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Sun Dec 28, 2003 9:48 pm |
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Myrthos
Spoiler of All Fun
Joined: 07 Jul 2001
Posts: 1926
Location: Holland |
As far as I know most mods are missing from the new templates.
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Sun Dec 28, 2003 10:28 pm |
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goshuto
Wanderer
Joined: 29 May 2002
Posts: 1142
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I just found out that links are pretty much illegible in this theme (on both a regular and a LCD monitor), as can be found out by trying to read the links in the 2nd and 3rd posts in this thread.
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Mon Jan 05, 2004 9:37 pm |
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Korplem
Swashbuckler
Joined: 23 Dec 2002
Posts: 853
Location: Pearl Harbor, HI |
I like it but it doesn't feel like RPGDot. It will take some getting used to...
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Mon Jan 05, 2004 9:47 pm |
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Ariel
Harmonious Angel
Joined: 21 Jul 2001
Posts: 432
Location: Germany |
quote:
Originally posted by goshuto
I just found out that links are pretty much illegible in this theme (on both a regular and a LCD monitor), as can be found out by trying to read the links in the 2nd and 3rd posts in this thread.
Fixed. The forum code worked for links when they were included in the url tags, but not for automatic, "made clickable" urls, because Chronicles uses a different style for bbcode links.
I've also finally fixed another small color bug regarding links. I hope..
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“Through the sounds of falling rain, through the clouds of bitter times
I see the pure grace of your smile, in dreams of the warmth in your eyes” - Tim North |
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Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:42 pm |
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Ariel
Harmonious Angel
Joined: 21 Jul 2001
Posts: 432
Location: Germany |
I've finally gotten around to implementing the missing mods in Chronicles, namely gender, birthday and the warning system. So if you are using this skin and would like to be congratulated every once in a year, or if you just feel strange without sex, make sure to update your profile.
Question to mods and admins: The warning buttons are only on the "view topic" pages, right? Or is anything else missing?
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