Star Trek Enterprise Theme

[Sir Osis of Liver]

No offense intended, some of the formatting looked a bit off to me so I changed it.  Nice theme, though, excellent graphics.  Used it for a while on one of my 1.1 production forums, then upped to 2.0.  Also customized it for a client, don't know if it's still running.

Here.

[Bloc]

Ok, sorry, a bit defensive there I guess. Thrilled actually, that people still use these. And perhaps particulary the more "artistic" ones like Enterprise.

It could probably do with using only CSS to style things now..but it was made pre-2009 so it was all tables then. See some gaps in the graphics that wasnt there before, probably due to changed styling in default theme for SMF 2 on which it relied(which have changed since) or default styling in browsers - or both of these things.

Had an idea this year to reshape some of my earlier themes into proper responsive 2.0 themes..but for that I need a better base than default theme - and I haven't arrived there yet.

[Antechinus]

I don't think you could do Enterprise justice with only CSS. You could maybe do something sort of like it, but to get the full effect of the original is probably going to require some images. You could certainly save some though, with sprites and whatever else (CSS3, pseudos, etc).

[Sir Osis of Liver]

One of the customizations I did was removing the dropmenu that selects the upper right header image, and doing a random select that rotated images with every page load.  There was an additional starship pic (Voyager?) in the theme that wasn't an option, cleaned it up a bit and added it to the rotation.  Wonder if I still have that theme somewhere.

Found it, attached.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Can a moderator remove attachment from my previous post?  Has some code in it shouldn't be public.

[shawnb61]

Done!

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Thanks, had code in it for my PayPal button, don't know if it can be misused.  Will remove it and repost.

[Antechinus]

Aha! I was thinking of Helios. I remember Enterprise now. Having actually looked in the zip and all.

Brings back memories of my newbie days, when I'd look at Bloc's templates and think "WTF does all that stuff do?".

[Bloc]

Even Helios can be re-made using CSS(and changed HTML of course) since it was similar to Enterprise as in using-graphics-repeating-in-a-table-surrounding-the-content sort of way. It just takes some planning and of course the original backgrounds/sourrounding graphics.

Fun as it ws creating those and many others way back, I think the thrill for them is long gone. But Enterprise might still be a thing to do.

[Kindred]

We used a slightly modified version of this on fx-sabers for a while... but then changed to Studio003 (also by Bloc) since it was easier to make it fully responsive.
I did crib the code which allows choosing headers though (and applied it to the CSS entirely)

IIRC, this one requires a fair amount of work to make it responsive.

[Arantor]

I was always amused that there was a Babylon 5 option in a theme called Enterprise

[Antechinus]

Small things...

[Bloc]

Should have been a Firefly option there too..but at the time I wasn't aware of it.

[Antechinus]

We used a slightly modified version of this on fx-sabers for a while... but then changed to Studio003 (also by Bloc) since it was easier to make it fully responsive.
I did crib the code which allows choosing headers though (and applied it to the CSS entirely)

IIRC, this one requires a fair amount of work to make it responsive.

The original was 1.1.x and yes, 1.1.x is a bit of a nightmare to make responsive. Been there, done that. 2.0.x is much easier.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Is there a 2.0 version of Helios?  Found a 1.1 screenshot in an old topic, but can't find the theme.

[lurkalot]

Is there a 2.0 version of Helios?  Found a 1.1 screenshot in an old topic, but can't find the theme.

There's Helios-multi for SMF 2.0 https://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item90

[Antechinus]

Even Helios can be re-made using CSS(and changed HTML of course) since it was similar to Enterprise as in using-graphics-repeating-in-a-table-surrounding-the-content sort of way. It just takes some planning and of course the original backgrounds/sourrounding graphics.

Fun as it was creating those and many others way back, I think the thrill for them is long gone. But Enterprise might still be a thing to do.

It could be an interesting challenge optimising Helios for modern coding standards, meaning duplicating the exact look without skimping anywhere. The complexity of it might stimulate some ideas. I have thought about that from time to time, just on the basis that it may be a good puzzle to solve when there's nothing good on tv. But then, there are plenty of other interesting challenges too.

This is funny for me because it brings back memories of when I first start using SMF but didn't know any coding. I did love your themes, but they were a real bastard for newbies to administrate and modify. Almost nothing was standard SMF. Mostly simple enough once you know some coding, but not if you don't know any.

Of course you could say newbies should have enough sense to not try and modify things they don't understand, but where's the fun in that?

[Sir Osis of Liver]

That's odd, already had the file but don't remember the theme at all.  Very nice, could do some neat customizations with that.  Would be a shame if none of these themes are ported to 2.1.