welcome to the new forum!

rtil · September 10, 2011 05:30 AM

thanks

it's gonna take a while to get it 100% done but i'm happy with how it's turned out so far.

W.A.S.I.M. · September 10, 2011 11:01 AM

dunno if its been mentioned before but i think the new player looks dope as fuck

funzop · September 10, 2011 03:20 PM

this looks very nice gj

DrRumack · September 10, 2011 07:11 PM

peach givin me the double-wink

funzop · September 10, 2011 08:34 PM

i think she likes u dude u should go 4 it

redmongoose · September 11, 2011 04:51 AM

I would like my jailbot reinstated and I would also like a special award to be given to each person that drew a redm that says 'account validated for non-skrullery' I can make the icon if you want me too

GhostingFish · September 11, 2011 05:36 AM

wow! I leave for 2 weeks and I come back to this? I only been online like every day before by brake. Sorry to hold you guys back so much!! :P

W.A.S.I.M. · September 11, 2011 05:12 PM

wow!

Blordow · September 12, 2011 10:57 AM

How long did it take you to edit the css? I'm having a hard time editing mine, getting nowhere and just confused as to what i'm actually editing. GUH there must be an easier way of changing the colours surely?!

rtil · September 12, 2011 11:08 AM

Quote from: Blordow on September 12, 2011 10:57 AM
How long did it take you to edit the css? I'm having a hard time editing mine, getting nowhere and just confused as to what i'm actually editing. GUH there must be an easier way of changing the colours surely?!

well it took me a few days because i didn't just change the colors but also tried to make the layout almost completely tableless which required that i edit the source templates as well, but let me just lay out how i make editing css templates easy on myself and save hours of time.

there's no doubt css files obviously get large after a while and are pretty much impossible to navigate by hand. smf's is like 2000 lines long or something. however it's no problem for me because of my workflow. you just need 2 programs - firebug (or if you use chrome, chrome dev tools) and notepad++.

with firebug, you can select any element on a page with the element selector (2nd button on the top left), and it will show you where the element is in the html, the style of the element, what stylesheet that style is on, and the line # where that style is located in the css file. then you can edit the style live in firebug to see what changes you'd want to make to it.

in notepad++, i use nppFTP plugin to connect it to my ftp and start editing the css file directly. notepad++ is a dream for a web dev. it has syntax highlighting for every web language, and with the ftp plugin you can see your changes right after saving.

so, i just copy my style changes from firebug, ctrl+g to find the line that firebug told me the style is on, and paste it right into the stylesheet in notepad++. save, it loads the file back into the ftp, and the change is made. refresh, restyle, repeat.

i could go into a lot more detail but that is the basic jist of it. if you want, i could explain it to you while you do it on skype or something, because honestly trying to explain it in text if you don't get it the first time is frustrating.

Blordow · September 12, 2011 11:43 AM

thanks, yeah I get it. I downloaded firebug and it's helped me find the elements I needed. still a lot of work to be done, but if I get stuck I'll hop on skype tomorrow sometime :]

rtil · September 20, 2011 09:21 PM

i'm gona unpin this for now. when i feel like the forum is close to completion i'll make a news thread listing all the new features and stuff.