blocweb.net????

[bud01100]

Does anyone know if Bloc is still around?

His site was up now its gone again?

Thanks

[Deaks]

no idea, only bloc knows!

[Ricky.]

no idea, only bloc knows!

As always ...

[Arantor]

Eh, give it time, he'll be back.

[Neol]

He is the most strange guy I have ever seen. Ever. I hope for him he is not mentally ill. Every six months he comes with a "new, great, smf related project" and after a few months he and his "projects" simply disappear...that's all.

[Colin]

Yikes, let's not jump to conclusions. We have no idea why he left. Maybe a family member passed or another drawing issue.

[Neol]

Yikes, let's not jump to conclusions. We have no idea why he left. Maybe a family member passed or another drawing issue.

Track the last three years of his activity and you will see the same ******ing way....

[bloc]

Yikes, let's not jump to conclusions. We have no idea why he left. Maybe a family member passed or another drawing issue.

Thanks for the concern, but its less dramatic than that I am afraid.

Yikes, let's not jump to conclusions. We have no idea why he left. Maybe a family member passed or another drawing issue.

Track the last three years of his activity and you will see the same ******ing way....

The reason its been back and forth are simply that I've tried numerous times to muster some outside interest in what I do, only to gain more spammers coming to the site instead(except for a couple of people, who faithfully stayed). Its said that time makes you put things in perspective, and so I did that and gained some incetive to try again. But this time I have finally put an end to that, "blocweb" is now forever gone.

As for "new,great smf project" I have never said such a thing, I have only aired my visions on how I felt MY site using SMF, should be, in the hope someone else also likes it. Personally I feel its actually most interesting direction SMF could take at all - but alas its a *personal* opinion. If you feel I "owe" the community to release whatever I was working on, then too bad: I don't.

"Mentally ill"? The majority of users that used that characterisation of my activity(and there have been a few) show more their habit of jumping to conclusions, than any insight into my psyche.

[Itch™]

For what it's worth BlocBjoern (teehee) I actually learned a lot from you as far as theming goes and the experience with Tinyportal was awesome as well. Just do as you've always done and I'm pretty sure we'll hear from a somewhat SMF related project in the near future. You rock, dude!

[bloc]

Thanks, Itch that is really all one can ask for: to be of help and use to others.

[ARG01]

In any case, it's good to know that you are well and still around. 

[kat]

I suspect that a lot of the members who joined at around the time that I did would think of you as being THE SMF themer, Bjoern.

Personally, I regard it as a great loss to SMF that your themes are no longer available, especially Helios, for which I will forever be grateful for, especially the v2 version. I detest SMF v2 themes, other than that one and NightSky.

Helios will never, ever be surpassed, as far as I'm concerned.

[lurkalot]

Good to see you're OK bloc.

Personally, I regard it as a great loss to SMF that your themes are no longer available, especially Helios, for which I will forever be grateful for, especially the v2 version. I detest SMF v2 themes, other than that one and NightSky.

Helios will never, ever be surpassed, as far as I'm concerned.

They are available, or at least the free ones are.  bloc let us add them to our downloads at http://www.tinyportal.net  here to be precise http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=cat87

[kat]

Not so good for those that don't know about them, though.

Glad they're still available, somewhere.

[DarkAngel612]

most of the themes for 2.0 are what I call cookie cutter themes. they tend to look alike with little else but color differences. I like to be able to remove the header background image at times for our logo to appear nicer but that I found has given me problems, I assume I will need to take background image into photoshop to edit it out there.

I liked your themes in 1.1+ SMF so in my case YES you will be missed, take care of you and your family, which is #1 objective and if you should come up with some new themes then the world will be greatly appreciative...thanks for what you did.

[bud01100]

Yikes, let's not jump to conclusions. We have no idea why he left. Maybe a family member passed or another drawing issue.

Thanks for the concern, but its less dramatic than that I am afraid.

Yikes, let's not jump to conclusions. We have no idea why he left. Maybe a family member passed or another drawing issue.

Track the last three years of his activity and you will see the same ******ing way....

The reason its been back and forth are simply that I've tried numerous times to muster some outside interest in what I do, only to gain more spammers coming to the site instead(except for a couple of people, who faithfully stayed). Its said that time makes you put things in perspective, and so I did that and gained some incetive to try again. But this time I have finally put an end to that, "blocweb" is now forever gone.

As for "new,great smf project" I have never said such a thing, I have only aired my visions on how I felt MY site using SMF, should be, in the hope someone else also likes it. Personally I feel its actually most interesting direction SMF could take at all - but alas its a *personal* opinion. If you feel I "owe" the community to release whatever I was working on, then too bad: I don't.

"Mentally ill"? The majority of users that used that characterisation of my activity(and there have been a few) show more their habit of jumping to conclusions, than any insight into my psyche.

Hi bloc, thanks for replying back.

For selfish reasons I just wanted to see what was up. We love using your Helios multi theme since day 1 and your site was always fun to visit.

[bloc]

Thanks, that theme was the second I made actually, for SMF, quite some years ago. I am afraid I no longer have any major interest in making SMF themes. If anything I do like to tinker with themes based on the work I put into my fork project - but those won't work well on SMF. Besides, SMF 2.1 is moving further away from my style of theme coding than SMF 2.0 is, my preference for what a theme could do, and away from the design basework I prefer. Things like too much dependence on JQuery, further removal of elements that were inside themes before, and not enough focus on making unique themes - something I always strived to accomplish. Its basically getting harder to be creative IMHO.

So if I am to make more themes, I no longer want to yet again compromise, never fully realizing the potential inherit in the SMF theme engine as it is in SMF 2.0 currently(with finally, getting out of the mod/theme nightmare it was before, with mods using hooks instead). Its largely my reason for ever starting a fork(or two according to some ) in the first place. Its now up to the users and creators of SMF 2.1+ (or other forks), to create unique themes for those.  Unless I have a direct hand in shaping those theme-wise(thereby allowing myself and others to be more creative further on), its a waste of time for my part.

Sorry if I sound like I am ranting. I am not, I hope, just explaining my thoughts in this.

[kat]

not enough focus on making unique themes - something I always strived to accomplish. Its basically getting harder to be creative IMHO.

One reason why my forum's still v1.1.18, Bloc.

[Antechinus]

Quite honestly, I see absolutely no reason why 2.0.x themes could not be as creative as 1.1.x themes. In fact, given the more flexible markup in 2.0.x, it should be easier to change than 1.1.x.

[ARG01]

Quite honestly, I see absolutely no reason why 2.0.x themes could not be as creative as 1.1.x themes. In fact, given the more flexible markup in 2.0.x, it should be easier to change than 1.1.x.

1.1.x gives more "built-in" layout options for customizing as far as graphics go.  The same can be done with 2.0.x but not without a lot of custom code changes.