Hello,
you should add more diffrent forum themes to the official forum, so the user can experiment with them.
Hmm, I'd like to see an unique site theme, like in that one in 2008(?). :) But it's a good idea indeed, but it's would be great to have them fully operational (I mean with a site navigation)
due to the customizations needed to run this forum [theme wise] it would be too difficult for the team to manage multiple themes, most likely you will not see any additional themes added to this forum.
Not an excuse
then do you want to help make sure all themes work with the custom changes we have here?
Well, what does the cus. team really do?!
we dont support others themes on this forum, nor do we have enough people to create themes just for sm.org right now. it is hard enough for the team to keep up with the queue at this time.
What queue?! Mod and theme approval? Give me a break...
Quote from: Illori on September 29, 2011, 07:25:33 PM
then do you want to help make sure all themes work with the custom changes we have here?
A theme doesn't have to be a brand new theme, it just has to look as one. A Curve edit is quick to do.
Meh... This site is our support and distribution site.... I see mo point in making it a demo site for multiple themes as well. There used to be a site which had installed every theme in the 1.1.x line... Don't know what happened to it though.
Quote from: Akyhne on September 29, 2011, 08:05:59 PM
What queue?! Mod and theme approval? Give me break...
Oh rly? lol! You apparently have no clue what kind of man power it takes to approve customizations...
Yeah I do. I had approval access when I was on the team.
Multiple themes would be pain to maintain. If SMF does an update that requires themes to be updated each theme would need to be updated. And as stated any custom theme work would need to be applied to those themes. Also it is a lot harder to take away a feature/theme than to add it so if the future a theme is no longer maintained and needs to be removed without upsetting a users here who would use it.
Its so easy to talk... err, I mean type :P
It would probably be manageable to do one or two variants of the default theme (ie: using the theme variant system), but not complete custom themes per se. This was actually discussed in the past, as a way of showcasing the built-in variant system of 2.0. Some people, especially those who suffer from migraines, find bright themes quite hard to use and prefer to use a darker theme.
I can't remember when a theme was last updated due to an SMF update.
Quote from: Miss All Sunday on September 30, 2011, 05:45:23 PM
Its so easy to talk... err, I mean type :P
Well for me it's easy to talk, type and make and maintain a theme at the same time. I'm actually maintaining +20 of them.
Quote from: Antechinus on September 30, 2011, 06:00:57 PM
It would probably be manageable to do one or two variants of the default theme (ie: using the theme variant system), but not complete custom themes per se.
That's actually what I suggested.
I know. It was also part of a team discussion back in 2009 IIRC.
Thank you for the suggestion. IMHO it would be a good idea to install on the forum the official themes, once we update them and/or create others for 2.0, and advance with making them available to the community as well. At least, it seems to me the first obvious candidate to be featured on the site as well. :)
Norv, the official themes ARE available as selections here, already.
Quote from: Kindred on October 15, 2011, 05:52:35 AM
Norv, the official themes ARE available as selections here, already.
Those are the outdated versions, that may be better cleared out... (they remained installed after being removed from the main package). And we don't intend to have only two-three official themes (in perspective). The point is, featuring themes doesn't have to have anything to do with a demo site or with third-party themes, that would lead to maintenance problems on the site. However, supporting normally official themes
can work, their designers collaborating with the site team, and we can look into that.
To be honest the SMF theme on the website around 2009 would be a great addition to the default installed themes.
That one was rather nice, but was custom coded for this site's code at the time so would need a bit of work to update it.
Quote from: Antechinus on October 15, 2011, 04:31:19 PM
That one was rather nice, but was custom coded for this site's code at the time so would need a bit of work to update it.
I honestly wouldnt have a problem updating it if it is in my place to.
I believe that style was removed at the rather urgent pressing of the designer, so it probably wouldn't be a good idea to post, even if it was preserved somewhere.
I want the comic theme back!
I miss the theme we had back in 2004.
http://www.simplemachinesforum.org/community/index.php?theme=3
I really wish I had all the images. I'd do a remake of that. :P
Quote from: Gary S. Ghoulsdon on October 15, 2011, 11:29:23 PM
I miss the theme we had back in 2004.
http://www.simplemachinesforum.org/community/index.php?theme=3
I really wish I had all the images. I'd do a remake of that. :P
Well, that one looks like Web 1.0.
Would be easy to make from Yabb SE Next Gen.
Quote from: Masterd on October 17, 2011, 10:18:25 AM
Well, that one looks like Web 1.0.
That doesn't matter. It looks nice graphically. That's the important thing.
Quote from: Thantos on October 15, 2011, 10:31:30 PM
I want the comic theme back!
That one was so much fun. I still remember people complaining because they clicked the link to preview it and couldn't figure out how to get back to the default easily :P
Quote from: Akyhne on October 17, 2011, 10:58:27 AM
Would be easy to make from Yabb SE Next Gen.
I do like very much the Classic themes, would it also be easy to make > New Design of Classic YaBB SE (http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=57) from Yabb SE Next gen ?
Quote from: klumy on September 24, 2011, 06:09:46 AM
Hello,
you should add more diffrent forum themes to the official forum, so the user can experiment with them.
I don't think its needed here to be honest unless of course SMF wanted to release their software with multiple themes, then that could be cool. However on a related note, it would be cool if the SMF theme site had a demo feature to show themes added to it, like how Wordpress does it... :)
Quote from: Linda.V on November 01, 2011, 10:01:24 AM
Quote from: Akyhne on October 17, 2011, 10:58:27 AM
Would be easy to make from Yabb SE Next Gen.
I do like very much the Classic themes, would it also be easy to make > New Design of Classic YaBB SE (http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=57) from Yabb SE Next gen ?
Very!