[Theme] Chat Bubbles

[spaceant]

My first post, and I hope to start off with a bang

Half inspired by an unrelated project I was working on, and half inspired by Joseph Fung's Comic theme, the Chat Bubbles theme was born.

Many of the images were replaced (I've made custom buttons, post icons, etc for this theme). These images may NOT be used outside of this theme without my permission and/or depositing $800 kajillion billion septillion US Dollars into my Paypal account. (In the event of the latter, be sure to include your mailing address so that I can send you a free T-Shirt)

Some things to note:

[EDIT]: The list feature is broken !
- Some options/features are not used on my site (such as karma, etc), so may not be tested with this theme. If it breaks the theme, let me know and I'll see what I can do to fix it.
- The buttons have a shadow effect, and as a result, use a matte color of #999966. This makes changing the .titlebg or .catbg background colors rather cumbersome, so I suggest you keep the ugly brown color
- User signatures are NOT shown to preserve the look of the chat.
- Thanks goes to [email protected] for the member stars images.
- Thanks goes to SMF team for any images not replaced.
- Refer to this post on how to install the theme.

suggestions for using this theme:
- use inline links for the navigation menu
- set a limit on avatar size

If there any questions/comments/concerns, please drop me a line at [email protected]. Now onto the screenshots!

Display.php output (what a post looks like)


Buttons used for the theme


Custom post icons too!



Get file here!

[Cypher7]

Tremendous work! really, really nice job. I'll definitely be installing that one!

great stuff here

[bostasp]

Wow. Good work, excellent use of the template system

[[darksteel]]

WOW !!!!!!!!!!!

[nave]

fantastic theme! i'm going to offer it for use for my own members.

[Owdy]

WOW

edit: what lang and theme files you changed? They are all there now, they dont need to. Just changed ones .

[spaceant]

Thanks for the feedback

I *think* the only file i changed was Settings, but I'll need to double check to be sure. I'll update the zip file later and remove the extraneous lang files.


Also, I can't say I've tested the installation of the theme too much.. can some people let me know if it installs ok? Thanks!

[Owdy]

How about theme files, what you have changed? Same goes to them

[spaceant]

wow that's a tougher question... I'll need to check the timestamp of the files to be sure. It will make for a smaller file for sure...

How about the javascript and the css files? (fonts-compat.css, script.js) If those are unchanged, can I delete them too?

[Owdy]

Leave them. Amazing theme man!

[spaceant]

Ok, I've updated the zip file, removing the extraneous files. Thanks Owdy 

[Owdy]

Are you sure those are right files? Theme changed. Now there are links to /spacegenie.php etc.

[spaceant]

Gah, sorry, I put my own version of index.template.php into the zip instead of the generic one

Fixed now, sorry about that

[Owdy]

That was also cool theme

[[Unknown]]

Suggestions:

Remove fonts-compat.css.  That file only needs to be in the default theme. (by default, of course.)
Remove all the js files.  By default, unless you've changed the paths to them, those files only need to be in the default theme.
Also the same for wireless.css.
Ask for translations, if possible, so your theme can be more internationalizable.  Wouldn't it be cool to see it used on a Japanese forum?
Login template looks to be stock; it would be best to remove this template so your theme will be more likely to work in later versions.

As well, I recommend you look for a good file compare program - I recommend diff, WinDiff, or ConTEXT.  This will help you compare the files for differences (easier than timestamp imho..) and keep up with any changes made in RC1. (there are a lot, trying to get them out of the way for post-RC.)

-[Unknown]

[andrea]

Nice theme spaceant. The screenshot looks cool.

[King]

WOW  

[Tomer]

- Refer to this post on how to install the theme.

Hmmm someone is actually using my FAQ.

Great theme dude!

[Grudge]

That is an excellent theme. It's really nice to see someone taking full use of the theme system - mind blowing excellence!

[ferdz]

how about a theme for beta 6?