ARCHITECTURE: Theme changes

[Joeno]

Okay, you asked for it, now here it is! Sick of the red? Sick of those Eeveelutions? You can be rid of them (well, soon you can be).

I have just fixed theme changing, after reworking some CSS to make everything work properly. A simple second theme, where I didn't even change the button, can be found by going here.

But Joeno, you may ask, I like that grey (or gray), I want to use it everywhere. How can I?

Simple. Click the Customize link at the top of every page, and expand your general settings. Or, well, go here.

But Joeno, you may say, I don't like any of these themes. What can I do?

Get banned for disliking our work I mean, create your own! A testset with some basic instructions (which will be expanded at an indeterminate moment in the future) can be found here. This will be documented more fully at some point in the future, but take this as your chance to experiment with things.

The people to thank here? Psythor laid the foundation when he created the original version of the architecture, and he obviously did the web design. I just patched some things and moved some CSS definitions around.

Now get web2.0-ing and submit your content for us to use.

Theme changes only apply to the site. The forum code isn't as easily converted, and so forum theme changes will probably not be implemented for some time.

[Dragonpika]

Ooh, the grey is nice. Are you going to make a new banner and menu bars for it at some point? Or is it just a sample?

It's a lot of fun messing around with the testkit, it's so tempting to cover the test page in a Rattata skin. Because I have a life like that =]

Unfortunately I don't appear to be able to open the sample page in IE without unzipping the folder. Is there a way of doing it?

[Ledyba]

What. No ALEX skin?

[Dragonpika]

Hey, I need a bit of practice, right? ;]

I promise once I get the hang of it [read: once I get the test page to open in IE] I'll make a lovely emo Alex skin for you, Rex.

[Lorem Ipsum]

The people to thank here? Psythor laid the foundation when he created the original version of the architecture, and he obviously did the web design. I just patched some things and moved some CSS definitions around.

Orly? Yeah, Psythor created the foundations of the site, and full credit to him for that. But, if you have an entirely new architecture of the site that you need to work to for new styles, then it takes a lot more than "patching some things up". Believe me. I write CSS for my website. Stop playing yourself down D:

I think I have an idea as well for a skin...

[Ledyba]

I promise once I get the hang of it [read: once I get the test page to open in IE] I'll make a lovely emo Alex skin for you, Rex.

That'd be the best thing ever.

In fact..

[Superficial Mycosis]

i miss the really old themes =c
*hugs the late halloween theme*

[Joeno]

Ooh, the grey is nice. Are you going to make a new banner and menu bars for it at some point? Or is it just a sample?

It was just something thrown together to test. Maybe someone will make some images for it, but when I would, it'd be ugly.

Unfortunately I don't appear to be able to open the sample page in IE without unzipping the folder. Is there a way of doing it?

You need to unzip the folder, it needs access to some other files. Zip-files aren't intended to be used when zipped, that is only useful for looking at its content, not serious use.

Orly? Yeah, Psythor created the foundations of the site, and full credit to him for that. But, if you have an entirely new architecture of the site that you need to work to for new styles, then it takes a lot more than "patching some things up".

You obviously don't know how the code division works on this site.

Psythor wrote the foundations of v9 as well. This new architecture is his, the code to support the styles is his, and all I had to do was patch some lines of code so they were also using dynamic code. They were previously kept static to get some stuff working.

Psythor DID write the large part of this. I am NOT the sole coder of v9. You do NOT need to tell me what to take credit for, as I know that extremely well, and quite obviously, I know this far better than you do.

You don't need to act as a motivational trainer, so don't bother doing it.

Skipped this bit

I write CSS for my website. Stop playing yourself down D:

Psythor wrote all of the CSS used on the site. I have awful colour coordination. All I did was a bit of copy-pasting, and for the new theme change a few colours.

[Dragonpika]

You need to unzip the folder, it needs access to some other files. Zip-files aren't intended to be used when zipped, that is only useful for looking at its content, not serious use.

Ah, okay. I'll just have to pester Alex to let me use his computer to rezip the file for submission then =] Thanks.

[Lascif]

Do we send our themes by email?
Or by pm?

[Dragonpika]

Which bit of the script relates to the background of the whole page? At the moment I'm ending up with a big ugly white box under whatever the article is, which shows up when I change other colours.

[Joeno]

Do we send our themes by email?
Or by pm?

You can't send zip-files, images or CSS-files through PMs in a usable way.

Which bit of the script relates to the background of the whole page?

You'd need to use the body tag, but I don't think we can easily support different background colours for the content areas without breaking other things. A light, close to white colour might work, but black is almost certainly out.

[Mushroom]

I think I'm ready to submit my theme. Should I send it to admin@pkmn.net?

EDIT: Sent anyway

[Joeno]

Yes.

You also only need to send the /theme/ directory, nothing more. (You aren't allowed to change more anyway)

[Lascif]

Iv'e made a theme(not sure if it's good)should i send as an attachment?