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New theme
« on May 6th, 2011, 07:30 PM »Last edited on September 11th, 2011, 06:58 PM by Nao
Feature: New theme
Developer: Nao
Target: everyone
Status: 100% (complete; details are updated as I feel like it.)
Comment:

Gone are Core, Babylon, Classic and Curve. None of SMF's themes had our preference. So we took the (pretty good) Curve codebase and built a new default theme upon it, using HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery.
Its main goal is to be easily extensible, which is achieved through the new Skins feature. See below, as well as the 'Forward thinking' section. Wedge's theme is both beautiful and has the cleanest possible code.
Re: New theme
« Reply #16, on May 11th, 2011, 03:43 PM »
Quote from Nao/Gilles on May 11th, 2011, 03:37 PM
It's more 'wine-ish', actually. Since it's called Wine ;)
Sorry, my bad  :eheh:
Quote from Nao/Gilles on May 11th, 2011, 03:37 PM
You just create a custom.css file, put it into your styling folder, and add a few lines to rebuild the main color scheme for all parent objects (i.e. everything that was used as a parent by inherited classes.)
This should automatically be applied to your style.css and override it.
Also, if you need IE6-specific hacks in your code, just create custom.ie6.css, and so on.
Holy cr4p Nao.........
I have only just learnt to type with two fingers  :lol:

Re: New theme
« Reply #17, on May 11th, 2011, 03:50 PM »
Yeah, that is all that's needed but if you're not technical it can seem scary. As I said, we'll explain more in the future.
Re: New theme
« Reply #18, on May 11th, 2011, 04:00 PM »
We can probably build something, later on, to allow you guys to change colors more easily.
I already have plans to make it possible to customize the CSS variables without changing a line of code. Although that will be very limiting.
Re: New theme
« Reply #19, on May 11th, 2011, 04:16 PM »
 :blush:
My talents are very limited - so any help - in whatever form - is appreciated.
More than you will ever know.

Thanks gents for your guidance

cheers
billy
Re: New theme
« Reply #20, on May 11th, 2011, 04:20 PM »
Oh, I know very well :p
error handling
« Reply #21, on June 13th, 2011, 04:22 PM »
Not entirely sure where to put this question.

Any chance of creating 404 etc error handling pages using Wedge theme rather than those crappy server side ones?

Thanks
Billy
Re: New theme
« Reply #22, on June 13th, 2011, 05:23 PM »
Wedge does it already. As does SMF save for non php files.
Re: New theme
« Reply #23, on June 13th, 2011, 05:33 PM »
indeed, but I was going to stick a copy of it in root folder.
currently,  www/mysite/forum/404 is in smf theme - all well and good,
but get crappy text 404 from www/mysite/404

Ill cross that bridge Nao in due course
cheers
Billy

Re: New theme
« Reply #24, on June 13th, 2011, 05:43 PM »
Wedge already does it from its own folder... doing it higher up requires some ninja/voodoo.
Re: New theme
« Reply #25, on June 13th, 2011, 07:59 PM »
 :lol:

Im all out of ninja moves.
I know you two have it all under control  :eheh:

Re: New theme
« Reply #26, on August 19th, 2011, 07:45 PM »
I'd love to support your fresh approach with a few new themes as I did with SMF 1.1.x
Re: New theme
« Reply #27, on August 19th, 2011, 09:24 PM »
Quote from padexx on August 19th, 2011, 07:45 PM
I'd love to support your fresh approach with a few new themes as I did with SMF 1.1.x
I loved some of your themes.
Re: New theme
« Reply #28, on August 19th, 2011, 09:32 PM »
I have to say, I never really looked at 1.1.x themes before, but I gotta say, I just took a look at your work and it does look pretty good. I'd love to see any more themes you work on. :)
Re: New theme
« Reply #29, on August 20th, 2011, 12:02 PM »
I am glad to see you are moving away from the SMF themes, good going  :cool:
Re: New theme
« Reply #30, on August 22nd, 2011, 05:59 PM »
Thanks! Just as curious as everybody else to try the "new" theming system. Keeping fingers crossed for easier (and more fun) theme creation :-)
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