Theme/Template Generator for SMF?

[eFishie]

I would love to see a theme generator for SMF like the ones for YaBB and YaBB SE. I am lostm on this theme stuff, I suck at images, so...

Any help?

[cellDamage]

yeah that would be hugely helpful!

[HRM]

I'm Struggling with the same Thing... I love the layout of SMF but want to put it in my old forum's colors with the structure of the default new one. 
But the template thingy is quit a bit different and the ssi doesnt seem to work (by the way)  ... But it's still wonderful that you can just put up another template when you ******up a copy of it.  Just by the click of a button.
Ed

[cellDamage]

yeah its great that you can ****** up one template, and the other works fine. i do that a lot today

[Tercel]

Good if u´d made a copy before 

I´ve made a new installation  No Copy - No Fun

[Spaceman-Spiff]

you can use the YSE template generator, then use the converter that will be released in the future (or use the one in the installer)

[[Unknown]]

Hmm, Writeto said something about one in a post he made.  (I should know I've read every post on this forum and it's giving me a headache!)

-[Unknown]

[eFishie]

OK, I'm going to TRY and make an ultra-cool YaBB SE theme . . . then convert it.

I'll try making round gradient borders for tables.

My theme idea > Default Theme * 25

[Spaceman-Spiff]

OK, I'm going to TRY and make an ultra-cool YaBB SE theme . . . then convert it.

I'll try making round gradient borders for tables.

but that will only convert into index.template.php, not BoardIndex, etc

[Owdy]

Trash those YabbSE themes. This is SMF!

[eFishie]

Unfortunately for my theming abilities.

[nil]

Could a how-to guide at least be written for people only wishing to change the colors?  Any way to figure out what needs to be changed to change the color of each item.  (I've tried through trial and error and end up with mostly error )

thnx

[Spaceman-Spiff]

to change colors, all you need to do is edit the css file (can also be done via the admin center -> theme and layout settings
the main style classes are:
- windowbg and windowbg2 (the bg colors of the posts, board listing, etc)
- titlebg & catbg (the table headers)
- bordercolor (self explanatory)

[[Unknown]]

I will be writing lots of tutorials.  I'm thinking, next week maybe.  Not sure.

-[Unknown]

[HRM]

to change colors, all you need to do is edit the css file (can also be done via the admin center -> theme and layout settings
the main style classes are:
- windowbg and windowbg2 (the bg colors of the posts, board listing, etc)
- titlebg & catbg (the table headers)
- bordercolor (self explanatory)

Thanks,
Gonna try that one. And will let you know.
Ed

[Fizzy]

No disrespect or anything but I was disappointed at the "template" system.
It was kept under wraps throughout development like some secret weapon and we were told how powerful/flexible it was but when it came out it seems to be down to the coding ability of person rather than a usuable interface which I guess was what I was assuming it would be.

I'm not knocking it or anything, let's just say it wasn't what I expected. When I heard people talking about the template system being "powerful" I didn't realise that the main limitation would be my own coding ability (which I readily admit is really crap) .
I know, I know. Time to get the books out and start reading. 

[bostasp]

What else did you expect?

[Fizzy]

Something simple? 
Something user-friendly?
An user-interface maybe?
I really don't know, the whole "template system" was kept under wraps for ages.

[bostasp]

There's a *small* user-interface at the moment, I've read about a better one being added as well.

I suppose the documentation will make it more user friendly

[Fizzy]

Well I'm certainly glad to here that and i'm looking forward to that
I think I can see the potential but don;t have the knowledge in impliment what I would like.

I suffer from a medical condition called 'over-active ambition' with complications of 'under-active ability'