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Started by Bloc, February 06, 2016, 07:45:41 AM

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Bloc

ModernStyle is a preview of a theme for SMF 2.0(and prob. will be ported for 2.1) thats light on color and use simplified layout without losing too much functionality. Basically its a rehash of the style/templates used in my SMF-inspired script at my norwegian blog site. It will support most SMF mods and have a variation of a function I have used before in themes: different templates for mimicking galleries/blogs. The goal is to set a whole category as one or the other..but we'll see if its practical or not, or if it should be board-based.

Anyway, some screenshots with more to come are attached, showing the topic template, with full-view of attached images in a lightbox manner.

Some notes:
- This theme will be free with a Mozilla Public licence
- Available on the SMF themesite(after submission and approval there eventually)   
- Demosite will be at http://www.bjornhkristiansen.com/SMF2 in due time.

Comments are welcome. :)

margarett

Features list looks great and the all-white layout is actually nice (as I'm more into dark themes)

Great works, congrats! ;)
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Ken.

Looks great Bloc and it looks like my kind of theme!  8)

Looking forward to seeing the demo and the chance to give it a run on my site.
Will it be compatible with TP?
"If you don't have a stack of failures in your shop, you aren't trying hard enough". --Richard Raffin.


Bloc

Quote from: margarett on February 06, 2016, 09:04:33 AM
Features list looks great and the all-white layout is actually nice (as I'm more into dark themes)

Great works, congrats! ;)

Thank you :) Since it simpler in css and html it will quite easy to make dark variations, something I am keen on doing rather soon.

Quote from: Ken. on February 06, 2016, 10:49:12 AM
Looks great Bloc and it looks like my kind of theme!  8)

Looking forward to seeing the demo and the chance to give it a run on my site.
Will it be compatible with TP?

:) Yes, it will. Its also CSS responsive so some adjustments for TP have to be made of course..that prob. goes for SimplePortal too.

Ken.

"If you don't have a stack of failures in your shop, you aren't trying hard enough". --Richard Raffin.


lurkalot

Very nice looking theme bloc.  I'm a bit of a dark theme guy too, so look forward to seeing a dark version in action.  Need a nice responsive one for my guitarist site.  ;)

Bloc

The theme have had some progress made, and now have a demo-site where you can check out the style. Added features are:

- A clean style for maximum content focus
  http://protendo.org/smf20/index.php

- Ability to show whole categories as a blog or a gallery
  http://protendo.org/smf20/index.php?board=8.0
  http://protendo.org/smf20/index.php?board=6.0

- Ability to control the aspect ratio of images in the gallery part, set per forum or category. All images are shown as CSS3 backgrounds for consistant viewing.
  http://protendo.org/smf20/index.php?board=8.0
  http://protendo.org/smf20/index.php?board=9.0

- original attached pictures are shown as a CSS3 full-view + attached pictures are separated from attached other files.
  http://protendo.org/smf20/index.php?topic=19.0#att15

- In the blog and gallery parts the original post can be shown on all pages.

- Example of poll
  http://protendo.org/smf20/index.php?topic=5.0

- Only one type of admin/profile/etc menu are shown, that of the sidebar variant.
  http://protendo.org/smf20/index.php?action=profile;u=1

- Responsive CSS and mininal amount of styles are used.

margarett

If this wasn't a family friend forum I would swear.

That is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most good looking, fluid and overall amazing theme I've ever seen. Period. :o
I'm blown away. Trying hard not to swear. Really hard. F............

edit: some small issues yet --> http://protendo.org/smf20/index.php?action=profile;area=statistics;u=1
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Bloc

Thanks :) Yes, its quite a few issues left tbh..but working through them. Just thought I would post the progress so far.

Bloc

- Added custom page for showing the "blogs", taken from selected categories.
- various fixes in templates/CSS

http://protendo.org/smf20/index.php?action=blogs


Biology Forums

Will this be released to the public?

However, it's simplicity can be confusing. For example, you should make the PHP argument that if the thread has 1 page only, no need to show page number. This eliminates the need for the confusing {B} and {T} letters. If you'd like, they should be replaced with arrows.

Not that my forum's styling comes close, but notice how I don't include the page numbering when it's not required: http://biology-forums.com/index.php?topic=403003.0

Bloc

Yes, it will be a public/free theme.

I quite like the B and T lol..of course I thought of arrows first, but this is more fun. As for pageindex..I guess one could do that, but its what SMF usually does so I kept it the same. 

Biology Forums

I look forward to using it! Also found this bug (shown below). Maybe you can replace "my community" with an icon of a house in tighter screens.

Bloc

Yes, thanks for pointing it out, it was forgotten. Icons will work great there.

For narrow screens its always going to be some compromises, so the question has been what to change and how much. But thats vital for me: if the theme cannot be used *properly* on a mobile phone(narrow screen) its not worth doing. What I haven't done so far is to account for those devices that are physically small - but with high resolutions. The higher the resolution + available physical size the more I can move away from the one-column-style, but without the full desktop/laptop style. (meaning still touch-optimized) Planning to use min-resolution xxx dpi for this.

Also, I haven't done submenus on a narow screen.Maybe going for a sidemenu that unfolds on top of the content, like the Gmail app does...

Wiki80

You can download the theme from somewhere ?

Bloc

Not yet, Wiki80, but its close now..I am almost done.

It will also be submitted to the SMF theme site, but the approval process might take some time so I will create another download link in the meantime, most likely on my demosite. I will post here once its active.

Biology Forums

Another thing to consider, in board view, the filters are at the bottom. Right now, that might not be problematic because the boards are empty, so it would probably be a good idea to put them at the top, perhaps?

Bloc

- The theme is now ready for use and can be downloaded at:
http://protendo.org/smf20/index.php?topic=23.msg26

- 3 variants: light, dark and blue (blue is now the DEFAULT color-variant):
http://protendo.org/smf20/index.php?theme=3;variant=light
http://protendo.org/smf20/index.php?theme=3;variant=dark
http://protendo.org/smf20/index.php?theme=3;variant=blue

Next up is testing itagainst various mods, a SMF 2.1 version and submitting both eventually, to SMF themesite.

As always, comments are welcome.

Biology Forums

Wowii! Will be using this very soon, I hope within this week once my schedule opens up

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