Cesium [SMF 2.1]

Started by Bloc, August 25, 2017, 08:53:42 PM

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Bloc

Cesium is a new theme for SMF 2.1 which rewrites the CSS and several templates in SMF 2.1's default theme, to present a modern look for SMF 2.1beta3. Its developed on laptop and mobile simultaneously and utilize some different thinking in what a theme should look like on mobile/touch devices.

Main features beside this optimization, are "boardtypes": special templates that mimic functions that normally is provided by mods. Currently there are templates for "news", "galleries", "blogs", "downloads", "bugtracker" and "docs", most of them you can view in action on this site. Individual boards are selected to be part of these sections and the function also provide s a few new BBC tags that will only work within them.

This theme marks the first of a series.

You can see and download the theme at http://www.bjornhkristiansen.com/smf21 , but note its a WIP - more tweaks are needed along with display bugs still present. However, it should stable enough to be usable and for trying out.

lurkalot

Bloc, can't actually see the theme on your site as guest, just the 2.1 default.  But going by the info and screenshots it looks like you made good progress.  Look forward to seeing it in action.

Bloc

Ah, must have forgot to switch over :) Will do that now.

Dzonny

Nice work, looks really cool ;)
Note the search icon which is a bit off on my end.

lurkalot

Quote from: Dzonny on August 26, 2017, 06:27:05 AM
Nice work, looks really cool ;)
Note the search icon which is a bit off on my end.

Agreed, looks really nice.  8)  The search icon is defo off, in firefox, chrome, and edge.  It's ok in IE11 though.  ;)

Bloc

Thanks for the heads up, guys. :) I already added several fixes to my development version and will continue to enhance the theme. Should be in effect on the site too, though the released version is not updated - yet.

Anyone know when SMF 2.1 beta4 will be officially released,at least ballpark date? 

d3vcho

Probably we'll go for RC1 not Beta 4. And no, we don't know when it will be released.
"Greeting Death as an old friend, they departed this life as equals"

Bloc

Quote from: d3vcho(); on August 26, 2017, 07:49:26 AM
Probably we'll go for RC1 not Beta 4. And no, we don't know when it will be released.
Ok, thanks for the info.


- Updated Cesium to v1.0.4, several fixes and tweaks applied.

If you downloaded the first version a notice about this version will show up in "current theme settings". New version available at  https://www.bjornhkristiansen.com/smf21/index.php?topic=8.

Fussilet

Hi Bloc, How are you negotiating?

nice work ;)

d3vcho

I registered a few mins ago in your forum, Bloc. So far no confirmation email arrived to my mail, and yes, I checked the Spam folder.
"Greeting Death as an old friend, they departed this life as equals"

Bloc

Hm, I will check the email settings, might be an issue there. And yes, will approve you. :)

Alpay


Bloc

Quote from: Alpay on August 28, 2017, 02:14:48 AM
Look good :) I wish you continued on this project : https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=521771

Well, it might still be up for an actual theme - some of the elements in Cesium are taken from it. My goal now with Cesium was a 2.1 theme, while the UrbanLife concept and more importantly: code(becasue I did make some progress on that) was for 2.0. But its a good concept, I'd like to do more with it.

Bloc

Updates: The Cesium theme have been updated with several fixes and tweaks, most of them discovered when working on a new theme (...) that share the same base files/styles. It now also have an option where it checks if any other bloctheme exists, and offer to copy over the theme settings from it.

That means you can transfer those settings easily wthout having to do it manually. Note that it only works for certain settings used in blocthemes - other theme settings are ignored.

https://www.bjornhkristiansen.com/smf21/index.php?topic=8

Genma

It looks really nice, keep up the good work.

Bloc

UPDATE - v1.0.5, unregistered actions would create an error, fixed.

https://www.bjornhkristiansen.com/smf21/index.php?topic=8

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