So... Levertine. A home for me to sell paid mods, and while the site is still a little rough around the edges right now, what's for sale isn't. Right now, of course, it's just Levertine Gallery, but more mods will be coming soon.
http://levertine.com/
Customisation-wise, if anyone's interested, my gallery, helpdesk, Bloc's BlueLight theme fixed up for current SMF and a minimalist storefront. More will likely be added in due course. :)
Got to hand it to you captain the mods brilliant.
As commented to you before on your site.
I just haven't said that much with regards to bloc theme
I am truly blown away and impressed with how he laid it out and the colour scheme thats gone in it.
It seems so simple and yet so powerful and stylish the way hes done it.
The guys amazing, and hes got talent.
I think i know why you choose him.
You should increase the minimum height of your body. Apart from that, it's a nice theme.
One isn't set and the theme was never designed to work that way, and the problem is there's no really good value I can actually use for that :(
Honestly it would probably make more sense to fix the background from under the footer than trying to wrangle a sane min-height.
All of Bloc's themes from back then had the same problem though :(
That theme looks brilliant, when all the fonts are in ComicSans!
As you know, my eyes prefer darker themes. Apart from that, the place looks like everything my cat does.
Nice'n'neat. :)
Quote from: Arantor on January 16, 2015, 02:46:47 PM
One isn't set and the theme was never designed to work that way, and the problem is there's no really good value I can actually use for that :(
Honestly it would probably make more sense to fix the background from under the footer...
html {background: #fff;}
Sorted. :)
And hey, you're promoting a gallery. If some pages look a bit bare, showcase the product.
Well, there was only one page I could think of where that would be a thing and that's only a short page because I only have one product to sell right now :P But I did fix the background, thanks :)
Arantor, LevGal looks very clean and useful. And I suspect the backend is impressive too, as always with your mods.
I read in another topic about comparison with other gallery mods - in my opinion features are great, but not everything is equally useful. Better to be *great* in some key features, rather than mediocre in lots of things. I espeically like that you stuck to default styles for templates - that means themes will shine in your mods(which cannot always be said for others). You mentioned you are not designer - makes great sense to allow designers to do great things with it, without having to manually change its template. I wish more mod authors thought that way.
Thanks for the comments about the theme used on Levertine.com...glad its put to good use. You could simply remove Mootols(if you havent already), I think I only used it for the menu there.
And good luck with it. :)
Thank you :)
Yes, I'd rather have fewer, but great, features rather than many features that have little use, and I was very careful to keep the custom CSS to a relative minimum so it would work well on custom themes - I did try a decent variety of themes to see if I could break it. I don't think there's anything significant I missed but if I did, I can investigate on a case by case basis :)
As for the theme... you made a great theme, simple as that :) I did remove MooTools since I couldn't get it to play nicely with jQuery, and replaced the menu with CSS using the same colour scheme... though that minification you did on MooTools was something else entirely.
lol, yes, its a minfication scheme I've used a few times - its from http://www.bananascript.com/index.php?compress and give quite a good compress ratio.
It does but trying to deminify it to work with anything... yeah. I was very impressed with how it worked though, most intense minification I've seen yet.
Quote from: Arantor on January 17, 2015, 07:33:49 AM
Well, there was only one page I could think of where that would be a thing and that's only a short page because I only have one product to sell right now :P But I did fix the background, thanks :)
Well I checked it on the login page. That's one people frequently ask about for this sot of thing, due to its minimal content.
Ahhhhh, yes, I forgot about that one. Well, I changed that in the stylesheet :)
Quote from: Bloccy on January 17, 2015, 12:08:45 PM
lol, yes, its a minfication scheme I've used a few times - its from http://www.bananascript.com/index.php?compress and give quite a good compress ratio.
Bloody hell. That's compressed alright.
I did notice this though:
Quote from: FAQThis compression tool is designed for and tested on webpages with the iso-8859-1 charset. Other charsets have not been tested and might or might not work.
Yes, but the script tag as included actually included indication of charset so worked as intended on UTF-8 pages as far as I could tell.
Ah. Good. :)
Quote from: Arantor on January 17, 2015, 12:11:58 PMIt does but trying to deminify it to work with anything... yeah. I was very impressed with how it worked though, most intense minification I've seen yet.
By the way, did you manage to de-compress the results? Not that it should be necessary, since people should supply expanded working copies for playing with.
ETA: Just thought I'd try something...
I did but it ended up being quicker to gut it and use CSS than figure out MooTools and MenuMatic ;)
ROFL. Fair enough. It's certainly very good compression though. Knocks 45% off the already-"minifed" jQuery library.
Yes but when I'm knocking 99.5% off :P
Seriously, though, this is something I did a lot of in the gallery and will do it with future things I do... I can build most of the JS code I do without jQuery - the only times I included that were for the components that wanted it.
I tend to suggest http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ to people :)
Yeah true, but a ******load of mods depend on it anyway, and it's hard to get a really good menu system without js. Pure CSS menus are still a bit half-arsed.
To a point, sure, I was just trying to keep the bandwidth down for my typical userbase.
Incidentally, the things I've been noticing about mods lately are that most of them don't check to see if jQ is already loaded, and/or they'll frequently load an outdated version. Then they'll often call half a dozen js files after that, which could easily be rolled into one and thereby save a truckload of http requests every page load. That's without even getting into minification.
The CSS files are usually in a similar state.
I try to be a bit smarter about that, though in my case I have several different cases where I need jQuery (and jQuery UI) so I don't get completely into the combining/minification deal as thoroughly as I could.
But as a general thing, yes, it's kind of sad that attention isn't really paid to this.
I'm going to try that bananascript thing on all the Apocalypse js. Obviously will keep expanded copies, and test before sending the squished ones into the wild, but the reductions possible are very impressive.
Quote from: Antechinus on January 17, 2015, 02:04:06 PM
Incidentally, the things I've been noticing about mods lately are that most of them don't check to see if jQ is already loaded, and/or they'll frequently load an outdated version. Then they'll often call half a dozen js files after that, which could easily be rolled into one and thereby save a truckload of http requests every page load. That's without even getting into minification.
The CSS files are usually in a similar state.
I see a lot of sites that do that... Tons of css and js files. I don't get it. Its even easier to edit if they're all in one place.
Quote from: Antechinus on January 17, 2015, 02:33:34 PM
I'm going to try that bananascript thing on all the Apocalypse js. Obviously will keep expanded copies, and test before sending the squished ones into the wild, but the reductions possible are very impressive.
Keep the source lol. I usually do, but one time I did not - had to add all the tidbits into it again, and write the custom code from there on. It was especially tricky since it was Mootools 1.3, but remooz and menumatic needed different versions of the library, so i had to modify it sligtly to fit both.
But generally its better to mash it all togheter and get one request only, no doubt about that.
Oh yeah I'll definitely keep the originals. I do not fancy trying to decompress squashed bananas. That way lies madness.
Oh hey while you're here, I adopted that idea of yours for doing theme updates via package manager. Great idea. It makes beta testing of a theme a lot easier for everyone.
Neat :)
Of course, hardly anyone downloads the patches. The theme has been grabbed 8 times, the first patch 4 times, and the second patch 2 times. At this rate, nobody will install the third patch. :D
Quote from: Antechinus on January 17, 2015, 08:02:22 PM
Of course, hardly anyone downloads the patches. The theme has been grabbed 8 times, the first patch 4 times, and the second patch 2 times. At this rate, nobody will install the third patch. :D
Not to hijack Arantors topic further(feel free to split, moderators/Arantor)..but people want it so easy now its ridicoulous. Patches? bah, too much work. :P My themes at my site have been downloaded a whopping 80+ times spread out on 4 themes over 3-4 months. Maybe that number would be bigger is they were placed in the themesite here...but I doubt more than 5 times that figure anyway. And its not half the fun NOT being on my own server then, with support,demosite etc. all centrally located..
Def. the time is out for doing SMF theme work. You certainly won't get any satisfaction out of people actually using them. :P
Which is why I've simply gone back to the roots this year, kept my own ideas and just wrote my own darn blog-script, with theme support and no forum features in sight. 8) NOW I can finally focus on the theme stuff without worrying if it fits anything else. => http://www.bjornhkristiansen.com
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Well at the moment I'm getting satisfaction out of making it. If I decide other forms of satisfaction are required, I'll arrange something suitable.
Nice looking blog. :)
ETA: Just went and grabbed a bunch of your themes. Been focused on my one, and other stuff, so hadn't been keeping an eye on yours.
I do like the way you rewrote GenericList.template.php. I was thinking of doing something similar myself, since it's an obvious step for responsive (not sure if I'll actually do it though, what with everything else).
I also like the neat little logo upload code. I'd love to nick that for Apocalypse, since it'd go well with the banner rotation option I'm going to implement.
Feel free to use the code :)
I thought Protendo was brilliant, btw.
Sorry for the hijack also, had to throw that out there.
Would anyone using "LevGal" happen to have tweaked it so that videos are responsive? O:)