Smilies & Forum Graphics

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

BTW? The logo being huge on Default is not directly my doing. The FILE is 771x161, which is several times the size needed. I don't know WHY it changed, but something to do with the fix Solver did this morning, perhaps combined with fiddling around I did while I couldn't change anything in it. If I had access to every function I should, I would have uploaded/overwritten it with a 332x65 copy three weeks ago; a large logo file makes the pages load slower the first time, and I've gone to considerable time and trouble making all the custom logo versions as small as possible.

-We'll get this. Appreciate your patience.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

...It was a lot of work, especially for a theme I considered ugly, but I believe I've restored Dark now. The Style Manager doesn't group this and that together at all intuitively - there's a bar on the root I swear I've spent over a day put together tracking down for various themes to make the color match the rest, and I still couldn't go straight to it...


I'd sure be grateful if folks were to speak up and tell me what theme they're in once they've tried a few.

I move around a lot, because of course I have to to tweak this and that - but I seem to be settling on Laughing Out Loud when I'm not working on a theme; it's got a lot of the familiarity of Default, but bigger text w/ tighter top-spacing.

[BlackCat]

No offense, but it would be nice if the dark view would be readable - that bluish thingy isn't good

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Offense. Dark Blue? Old Dark that I spent half the day rebuilding?

I get white-on-black. Too bright/contrast-y? I can adjust one or the other, if I knew what you were talking about in which theme.


Look - the interface is a mess. Forum themes interfaces are always awful. I missed some things. I MUST have missed some, flailing around learning what does what to what - I will fix as they come to my attention. -Better manners would be a plus...

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

...I had quite a time putting the Default theme back together -but, and this is a BIG plus- in the process, I figured out a fix for the avatar display size problem. I've applied it to all the themes I made -that's everything after Dark- Plus Pink. I'll get it applied to all those vBulletin mostly color-named themes in the next day or so. As even more gravy, now I can make the vBulletin logo five pixels high on those where there was no practical way to hide it - or just put back the stock Poly logo at a decent size...

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Well.

All the themes have the big avatars with no border now, and the vB logo is invisible -or close- on all, replaced, mostly on the traditional left, in all the themes where the background made that impossible.

-Note that if you're used to the trick of clicking on the logo to go up to the root, it still works - in two cases in the generic vB themes, I centered the Poly logo - and in most of the original BU creations w/ background image centered logos, it's an invisible vB on the left side, where you're used to clicking. In the case of the old-school Flash Gordon theme, click on the green ray-gun.

Enjoy.

[Kidlicious]

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

[N35t0r]

Civ 2 best civ

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

-I tend to think so.

It's what I'm playing now, and I got me a case of One More Turn - I'm checking in between turns right now.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

-Seems legit...

[giblets]

It's 1760 BC and you're already modern?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Like I said, legit.

-I won that game last week. I've been fooling with cheat mode to make the other civs fight and see who wins. Somewhere in there, I reset the date.

Don Baltimore does pr0n, for that matter.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

25 themes, around 500 smilies since early February, and this draws a response. Gotta love this place.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Apolyton just got nuked. I am not making this up.



-Insert Aeson administration joke here.