purple flowers

[adbrad]

spoke to you on simple machines.org see my post there here i attach the psds i told you bout.
i can't attach main block as file size is to big

[admin]

Sorry I'm still working on the theme here.  Anyhow how big is the main_block file??  Maybe I can ask about increasing the limit here.

[adbrad]

its 252kb
how did you make the post back ground so its blue at top at white at bottom

[admin]

That should fit I don't see why not.  Anyhow as for the color it is a simple gradient.  But I am having some issues.  Not sure how your coding skills are. But this is my issue.

http://community.smfhelper.info/index.p ... w.html#new

I keep getting template parse error so I'm doing something wrong but I can't figure out what.

[adbrad]

the max file size says 192kb

[admin]

Maybe if you zipit.

[adbrad]

it is zipped

[admin]

It says 128k for me.  Anyhow I can't do anything without both the menu_gfx and the main_body.  I need both.

[adbrad]

i can add it on my thread in simplemachines if you like and you can download it from there or pm me your email and will email it to you.

[admin]

In "admin" on the left it says "attachments and avatars".  Under "attachment settings" set everything to zero.  I knew it had to be somewhere.  Now try it again.  Both should upload.

[adbrad]

ok here they are

[admin]

Neither of those have any purple in them.

[adbrad]

no theese are the originals for editing

[admin]

I already have those.  What I don't know is how to edit those.  I'm no good with photo  shop.  If I could borrow the already edited ones from lab-lovers then I could try somerthing.  But I'm no good with photoshop.

[adbrad]

i don't have the psds for lab lovers i could make them but you'd have to give me a bit of time. or i can give you the image which is in png format.
or i could give you a simplified version of the psd and tell you which layers need to be edited

ETA: here are the psds for lab lovers i just created them.

[admin]

I don't even own photoshop.  PNG is fine.

[adbrad]

here are the png files i updated them earlier from the psds i made so they are good graphics not my bodged ones

[admin]

OK, I'll see what I can do.

[admin]

Oh and I also need you frame_repeat.png

[adbrad]

don't use that as i just have a plain backgroun i removed it from my css but if you need i will attach
also could you tell me how to get the gradient on post back ground

[admin]

windowbg 1, 2, and 3.  And yes please attach.

[adbrad]

how did you make the gradient as when i add them in my css i can only add solid colors not gradient i don't have images for window bg 1,2,3
also here is frame repeat

[admin]

They are not code.  They are images.  You have to make those.

[adbrad]

ok so what dimentions do i need to make them and how do you get them to expand with the posts i can do it in photoshop also what do you name the image.

[admin]

/* Alternating backgrounds for posts, and several other sections of the forum. */
.windowbg, #preview_body
{
color: #000000;
background: url(../images/theme/whatever.png) repeat-x;
}
.windowbg2
{
color: #000000;
background: url(../images/theme/whatever.png) repeat-x;
}
.windowbg3
{
color: #000000;
background: url(../images/theme/whatever.png) repeat-x;
}

[adbrad]

thanks but what size did you make the original image

[admin]

1x100.  And add #ffffff before the image like background: #ffffff url(../ to stratch it out so it repeats and doesn't stop after certain ammount of text.

[admin]

By the way.  What is the name of your theme called on lablovers?  The name of t he folder the theme is in??

[adbrad]

i just called it purplecurve i only have images and index.css in there

[admin]

It's comming along.  I just can't figure out how you got the topics list to all be one straight color.  For me the last topics on the list of topics in each froum becomes white if I add it to windowbg.  It doesn't change just the posts.  Even with the mod and content section it doesn't work.

[adbrad]

not quite sure what you mean.
also made some changes to my forum layout take a look

ETA: also a tip, if you want your last post section the same as the rest find the following in index.css and add the url in place of the none

Code: Select all

.topic_table td.lastpost
{
   background-image: none;
}


[admin]

That doesn't help.  If I say none last post remains white.  And if I say

background: url(../images/theme/blue.png) repeat-x;

It uses frame repeat blue color not my blue gradient like the other colums.  I wonder why.

[admin]

See even if I switch to orange.png it still goes back to blue.  Does not show orange.

[adbrad]

the code needs to be like this

Code: Select all

.topic_table td.lastpost
{
   background-image: url(../images/theme/blue.png) repeat-x;
}

it worked on my forum click the link to see

[admin]

Still not working for me.  See my attachment.  What am I doing wrong.

[adbrad]

try the attached the code was in the wrong place

[admin]

It works but your index.css still says orange.png.  And I don't see any other blue.png except for the windowbg and the last ones so I don't see what you did.

Modify it one last itme.  Remove orange.png and replace it with what ever used to be there.  And instead of blue.png replace it with orange.png so I can see where you put it.  Then reuplaod the modified index.css here so I can see it.

[adbrad]

here the new one see where i put place url here that is the part you need to edit

[admin]

I'm still not seeing it.  Can you just replace the blue.png with orange.png so I can see where you put it.

[adbrad]

its towards the bottom of the file

[admin]

Ya, I still don't see it.  Can you just rewrite it with and orange.png instead of blue.png so I can see.

[adbrad]

not quite sure what you mean.
just the post background or the bg1 2 3 as well

[admin]

No just the last post background.

[adbrad]

rewritten file included

[admin]

Ok, thanks.  But now it won't change to orange.

[adbrad]

can you attach the file you want it to display .

[admin]

Same index.css you attached.  When you changed it to orange my last post should be orange now.  It's still blue.

[adbrad]

i meant the png so i can check the file name

[admin]

http://www.activeboards.org/Themes/them ... orange.png

[adbrad]

try this one made a few more edits

[admin]

Still not oranging.

[adbrad]

strange it worked for me i just created a nother pic and put in last post background and it changed try changing the image size to 1x100 and see if that works

[admin]

Ok, fine 1 more time.  Attach a final copy of the index.css that you used here that worked for you.

Oh, and by the way how do you like the new mustard yellow look.

[adbrad]

i don't have access to your files on my site i changed that bit of code and the last post on the forum changed not sure what is up wwith yours. i checked all the lastpost code and nothing seemed out of place.

prefered the blue to be honest but it did inspire me to try out a new theme

[admin]

This is the current css.

http://www.activeboards.org/Themes/theme9/css/index.css

And how do you like the new mustard yellow look?

[adbrad]

this is where your code is missing

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.topic_table td.lastpost
{
   

/* Styles for (fatal) errors.
------------------------------------------------- */


should have url in there

the css in that post is not the one i got.

[admin]

Ok, I'll look into this.  Also do you know the code select the box the code is in here is got a white or lite grey sort of background to it.  What controls that in the css.  Like the code you told me to look at I can't read it cuz it is white and so is the background.  So what controlls the background do you know?

[adbrad]

attach the correct css file and i'll try and edit it as if i do it here the same thing will happen.

and i prefer the blue theme me self

[admin]

http://www.activeboards.org/Themes/theme9/css/index.css

[adbrad]

upload this and see if it works

[admin]

That just makes last post black and code select is still grey.  That's alright I'll just use another theme.

[adbrad]

this is where your code is missing

Code: Select all

.topic_table td.lastpost
{
   

/* Styles for (fatal) errors.
------------------------------------------------- */


should have url in there

the css in that post is not the one i got.

i wonder

made the quote bg black if its not diplaying the image its either to big or does not exist have you tried making the image smaller

last try

i normally edit the css in the admin panel as it shows on the preview panel what its changing.

[admin]

I think I'll just stick with 5th theme.

The problem is the css you gave me syas

images/theme/orange.png

but when I right click and view image for the background it says

Themes/theme9/css/..images/theme/orange.png

But there is no images folder in the css folder.

[adbrad]

strange but on the plus side the css changed the quote background and fixed the issues with the chrome browser.
not sure why its calling it from css and not images.
can you please upload this one to correct some issues with the quotes. also noticed i missed a / out the url maybe thats why it was trying to call from css

[admin]

Yes it works now except the sticky is not repeating.  I'll see what I can do.

Edit now black no bg.

[adbrad]

ok try this one you had locked bg and had the url twice and no url in locked bg2

[admin]

No it's still black.  In your profile on the left under look and layout on the top change.  Change it to theme 9.  Notice sticky topic here is half black and mustard yellow and the bottom post is all mustard yellow so no it did not fix.

[admin]

latest

[admin]

aaa

[adbrad]

the theme seems broke you have black links which means you can't see the navigation links or the copyright at the bottom which is breach of your smf licence on theme 9 this is

[admin]

I will fix this soon.