Style OF SMF

[ekfaysal]

Hi
I think there is a strong competition btw SMF and PHPBB.
I have discussed with many friends about it.
News is PHPBB is released version 3 and SMF is developing its version 2.
About PHPBB i think its default theme is much improved and everyone wantts to use default coz mods works fine there.
Now if i say i m hopefull to look at a good Default theme in SMF 2 , then i m not wrong.
Please comment
Regards

[Oldiesmann]

What don't you like about the default theme in SMF 1.1 just out of curiosity?

[Herman's Mixen]

well i like the default theme as it is right now !
only use my own colored style

[shadow82x]

The smf2 style will be really impressive at least if its like to this theme

[Ðyєgσv]

This theme is excellent, and I don't see problems with it. I'm praying for it to be the default one; it's really nice

[redone]

People seldom seem to agree about themes from what I have seen in the past. Good news is your just an upload button away from changing your theme!

With so many different themes out there these days its hard to see why people discuss the default theme so much.

[ekfaysal]

well default theme counts too much for everyone coz all mod works with it
i think in default theme, u should add some more stylish, and eye catchy look that works better with every kind of forums like fun, sports, info, tech, or any other

[redone]

Most people change the default theme of the forum they own was my point really. I can say that the theme that is packaged with SMF is reviewed on a regular basis and updated where possible.

Personally I think the default theme has come a long way in a few years. I remember the babylon theme being the default theme.

[Ðyєgσv]

well default theme counts too much for everyone coz all mod works with it

I think I read somewhere some time ago that in SMF 2.0 you won't have to edit codes in the skin for a MOD to work. Am I right?

[Herman's Mixen]

yes you're right   

the topic is located here

[Rudolf]

Too many inline styles and tables.
Example of what I am saying:
Admin panel -> View members list. SMF shows not activated members in italic.

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// Show it in italics if they're not activated...
if ($row['is_activated'] % 10 != 1)
$difference = '<i title="' . $txt['not_activated'] . '">' . $difference . '</i>';

This is bad. Give the choice of how to show to the user. Maybe stupid user likes more to have them in red, because stupid user can't see it when it's italic.

Use:

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// Show it in italics if they're not activated...
if ($row['is_activated'] % 10 != 1)
$difference = '<span class="inactive_user" title="' . $txt['not_activated'] . '">' . $difference . '</span>';

and move the style information in the stylesheet. It's a bit longer but the flexibility is worth it.

This is not the most important issue but it illustrates pretty good what I mean. There are countless things like this scattered around the themes, where formatting tags are used without option to override the default formatting, or where inline style are abused. This wasn't even in the template, but a source file. Talk about separating content from layout!