[Theme] Simplicity (SMF v1.0.5 - 1.1RC2)

[bloc]

Thats right, it show only text links.

destalk, I will see if I replicate that behaviour and find the cause.

[Burpee]

Any chance for getting the BBC buttons back there instead of text-only? I prefer clicking icons to clicking unorganized text links for it .

A nice style for it would probably be to just use the standard buttons and set border="1", which should automatically adopt the link color's behaviour.

[destalk]

destalk, I will see if I replicate that behaviour and find the cause.

Thanks. But I edited my last post - it seems to only affect one user account (that I know of). I can let you have login to that user account, if you want (I know the user) if it's something that you wanted to investigate.

Not sure it is anything to worry about in general or just a freak occurance...   

[wotamix]

hi, if i wanted to replace the area where it says my web address with a logo, eg a jpg how would i do this or can't i not do it? thanks a lot great designs bloc.

If you need any flash work bloc i'll fix ya sum up.

[kindredhyperion]

I think I'm doing something wrong here...

http://www.adamnet.co.uk/files/screenshot.jpg [nofollow]

(Complete SMF newbie - I literally installed it five minutes ago)

[Matthias Heil]

Marvellous theme, thanks ever so much for your work, Bloc!

In the process of tweaking it a bit (see for yourself [nofollow]), silly me must have somehow deleted the page navigation on the left pane. Being such a dummy, I haven't managed yet to get it back. Could you please tell me where to put what (again) to have the [1] [2]... back respectively to be able again to navigate to e.g. page 2 if there are more than 50 topics in a forum (this is what I set it to in Admin)?

Thanks ever so much for your help!

[bloc]

Any chance for getting the BBC buttons back there instead of text-only? I prefer clicking icons to clicking unorganized text links for it .

A nice style for it would probably be to just use the standard buttons and set border="1", which should automatically adopt the link color's behaviour.

Yeah, I tend to agreed on using some sort of button there..the idea of pure text links is ok, but it just shows too much at once . I will probably put in the images again.

[bloc]

hi, if i wanted to replace the area where it says my web address with a logo, eg a jpg how would i do this or can't i not do it? thanks a lot great designs bloc.

If you need any flash work bloc i'll fix ya sum up.

Sure you can change that. Just find these lines:

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      echo '<table align="center" width="', isset($settings['forum_width']) ? $settings['forum_width'] : '95%' ,'" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" colspan="3">
               <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td width="15%">&nbsp;</td><td width="85%">
               <div style="position: relative; left: -20px;text-transform: capitalize; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 40px;letter-spacing: -1px">',$context['forum_name'] , '</div>
               <div style="position: relative; top: -4px;text-transform: capitalize; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;letter-spacing:-1px; "><b><span class="greyheader">Simple</span><span style="color: #b0b0b0;">Machines</span><span class="greyheader">Forum</span></b></div></td></tr></table>';


And change it to this:

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      echo '<table align="center" width="', isset($settings['forum_width']) ? $settings['forum_width'] : '95%' ,'" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" colspan="3">
               <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td width="15%">&nbsp;</td><td width="85%">

<img src="YOURIMAGE" border="0" />               

</td></tr></table>';


Exchanging the "YOURIMAGE" with a path to your image. NOTE: it changes also the SimpleMachinesForum text..if you still want that in - use this instead:

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      echo '<table align="center" width="', isset($settings['forum_width']) ? $settings['forum_width'] : '95%' ,'" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" colspan="3">
               <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td width="15%">&nbsp;</td><td width="85%">
               <div style="position: relative; left: -20px;text-transform: capitalize; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 40px;letter-spacing: -1px">

<img src="YOURIMAGE" border="0" />

</div>
               <div style="position: relative; top: -4px;text-transform: capitalize; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;letter-spacing:-1px; "><b><span class="greyheader">Simple</span><span style="color: #b0b0b0;">Machines</span><span class="greyheader">Forum</span></b></div></td></tr></table>';


[bloc]

I think I'm doing something wrong here...

http://www.adamnet.co.uk/files/screenshot.jpg

(Complete SMF newbie - I literally installed it five minutes ago)

The image does not exist...?

[bloc]

Marvellous theme, thanks ever so much for your work, Bloc!

In the process of tweaking it a bit (see for yourself), silly me must have somehow deleted the page navigation on the left pane. Being such a dummy, I haven't managed yet to get it back. Could you please tell me where to put what (again) to have the [1] [2]... back respectively to be able again to navigate to e.g. page 2 if there are more than 50 topics in a forum (this is what I set it to in Admin)?

Thanks ever so much for your help!

First, your changes look really well! I like the look of it as of now...great job.

The page index on messageindex...where all topics are, should be in the messageindex.template.php file , underneath the "description" section, and it just one line(which you can put anywhere if you like really):

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        echo $context['page_index'];


[Matthias Heil]

Thanks ever so much, Bloc - you're my star!
http://www.matthiasheil.de/fm/index.php?board=45.0 [nofollow]

I've spent many hours on tweaking the Wordpress, SMF and Coppermine themes. I'm quite happy with the consistencies I was able to squeeze in...-)

[bloc]

yes, I noticed the same look everywhere. I can imagine the work getting them all to "fit".

[Matthias Heil]

OT: As Wordpress is letting me down speedwise, I only wish I could transfer my blog data to SFM, and then move over to your portal solution... just dreaming...-)

[bloc]

A blog....is something I could imagine go into TP. I have to think a bit on that. Gallery on the other hand is planned.

[kindredhyperion]

I think I'm doing something wrong here...

http://www.adamnet.co.uk/files/screenshot.jpg [nofollow]

(Complete SMF newbie - I literally installed it five minutes ago)

The image does not exist...?

Oops...

http://www.adamnet.co.uk/files/screenshot.JPG [nofollow]

[bloc]

That is one strange theme... it looks like a mix of the default and Simplicity..?

[kindredhyperion]

But why though... I think I did everything right. I chose the file that I downloaded in the from a file box and pressed the button. Why is this happening?

[bloc]

Usually it works like this:

- you choose the theme archive with the "browse" button.
- clear the bottom box where it says themexx, so that it isn't a copy of default that get installed instead.
- press install..after a while the message "simplicity theme is installed". Then you can choose that theme to be the default, while still doing this the chosen theme is of course the original one.
- Simplicity will appear with its own files/graphics.

Somewhere along here it got wrong, so you partly use index.template.php from the default, and partly the other template files from simplicity. Have you tried to just replace the index.template.php from the simplicity archive and ovwerwrite the one in your themes/simplicity folder...?

[Matthias Heil]

A blog....is something I could imagine go into TP. I have to think a bit on that. Gallery on the other hand is planned.

A Wordpress convertor would definitely come with that one? 

Seriously - I sometimes wonder why we tend to reinvent the wheel so many times when there is no real need for it. Do you think the gallery you are going to implement will be a serious competitor to, say, Coppermine, in terms of functionality? Please don't get me wrong, this is no criticism of your exemplary work. The only thing I cannot sort out is why it isn't easier to bridge scripts like, say, Wordpress, SMF and Coppermine to make it one unity. I myself lack the knowledge, especially when it comes to databases etc., but non-dummies maybe would be able to achieve something like that?

Anyway, I will keep an eye on that project...-)

[pollyx]

Bloc,

first, let me say, you did a wonderful job with the Simplicity Theme! It was love at first sight and I will move over my phpbb Forum to SMF + simplicity as soon as all my tweaks, modifications and test are done. (Making a test migration from phpbb to SMF + Simplicity was painless and easy, by the way).

Just one thing makes me feel somewhat uncomfortable: Opposed to the SMF Default theme, Simplicity generates huge amount of W3C and CSS validation errors, no matter which validator is used.

O.K., I know that this is work in progress and I have no religious opinion about W3C conformity whatsoever. But since even your bloczone website shows some of the same errors., do you have any plan to look over some of the HTML conformity issues? I think beauty, simplicity and quality would make a perfect fit.

pollyx
IP Security Forum [nofollow]