SMF Theme Making Tutorial

[MadScout]

Yeah yeah, i guess so

Patrick

[MadScout]

Version 2.0 has been released today!  Basically the only changes are that A.M.A. took the time to create a stylesheet for the tutorial, added in a new title, and arranged it in a more professional layout for easier navigation.  The content is still the same, but a special thanks goes out to A.M.A. for the excellent creation of styles for this tutorial. Thanks a million A.M.A.! It makes the tutorial much more fun/easier to look at!

Patrick

[Dem0n]

Very nice job  both of you.

[warp]

Excellent tutorial! Thanks for taking the time to write this it will be very helpful! 

[MadScout]

You're Welcome

BTW: Any suggestions on things i should change?

Patrick

[Prone]

Shouldn't this be stickied?

Great job there!

Keep it up and thanks for sharing
Phil

[MadScout]

Oh, i wasnt even aware that it wasnt stickied.  Well, there is nothing that i can do about that.  I guess a Mod or Admin will have to sticky it for me

Patrick

[A.M.A]

It is already there in this sticky topic: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=16843.0

[MadScout]

Bah, ok then.  I see you are a mod now too A.M.A.!

Patrick

[blunt]

So, noob question coming here...will the skins that people like Andrea made, work on a forum that I downloaded today?  I downloaded the latest one, which was SMF 1.0 RC2.

Had a few minor headaches, but I've got it up and running, and I'm itching to change the theme now.  I've skinned a vB forum before, but this looks a bit different.

[[Unknown]]

RC1 themes should be compatible with RC2.

-[Unknown]

[blunt]

RC1 themes should be compatible with RC2.

-[Unknown]

Great, thanks for the prompt reply  

BTW, congrats on the software - I only got my hosting package today at just before noon (UK) and I've since downloaded SMF, uploaded it on the ftp and set up all the forums, which I think's pretty good going for a first attempt at installing a Board of my own.  So it goes to show that it's simple enough to use, and pretty well thought out, if a noob like me can do it

[gusto5]

im confused how to change the font size of the forum description.

[CapriSkye]

im confused how to change the font size of the forum description.

with default style.css you can't just change the description. you can try to add this in style.css

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.windowbg2 td
{
font-size: 20pt;
}


and see if that gets what you want, else you'll have to make your own tag in the theme.

[gusto5]

never mind. my hopes were to make the description smaller than the forum title, but i guess you cant do that

[CapriSkye]

never mind. my hopes were to make the description smaller than the forum title, but i guess you cant do that

there's another way actually, in your description put this

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<span style="font-size:9pt">your board description</span>


some basic html inside description is allowed.

[Anguz]

Thank you for writing this, Patrick. It's helpful to see the graphics next to the styles. I downloaded it, alway like to have a local copy of things, and made a CHM with it. Am attaching it here in case someone wants it. If you don't want this version of it, let me know and I'll remove it.

[MadScout]

Sure thing!  I would also have no problem if you guys wanted to include that in your installation package as well.  Im sure plenty of people would find it as a useful resource.

Patrick

[happytutor]

Thanks Patrick!   

[SaltedWeb]

 

Long time user PHpbb, short time user. SMF.
Your tutorial made it seem as if I had done this for a year.

Thanks
Newbie SMF user.

Paul