Question about Black Rain v 2 for SMF 2.0

[Waylon]

I have a question about the "Black Rain v 2" theme  for SMF 2.0.

It's a beautiful theme and we plan to start using it on one of our sites (which I'd be glad to provide a link to once the theme is in place).

I'd like to make two minor changes to the theme, one of which I've managed to do, the other which I haven't been able to figure out.

The first change was to move the strip of nav buttons up into the news fader area, which we never use. That was done with a simple position:relative style setting. (A sleazy way to do it, but it seems to have worked fine.)

The other issue is the one I haven't been able to figure out. I'd like to collapse the area where the strip of nav buttons used to be. This is the area directly above the breadcrumb trail and below the news fader area (outlined in yellow in the attached image).

The attached image should show what we've done, and what we want to do. How do we collapse this area?

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[willemjan]

I would like to take this challenge. Can I get an link to your site?

[Crip]

hi ,
I wouldn't know how to collapse that area , i do know you'd have to do it "if possible" in your (index.template.php) ---

[Crip]

Go for it willemjan .

[Waylon]

I would like to take this challenge. Can I get an link to your site?

I sent you a PM with the URL.

[willemjan]

Ok, in index.css find: ul.linktree
It's padding is: 1.5em 0.5em 0.5em Change that to: 0em 0.5em 0.5em

Also in index.css find: #tabs6
Delete it's height.

That is all I can do.

[Waylon]

I'll give that a shot, and thank you!

Ok, in index.css find: ul.linktree
It's padding is: 1.5em 0.5em 0.5em Change that to: 0em 0.5em 0.5em

Also in index.css find: #tabs6
Delete it's height.

That is all I can do.

[willemjan]

I noticed that it works for you?

[Waylon]

Thank you! Yes, it worked perfectly.

We made some minor changes to the theme, in case you'd like to have a look:

http://gt5cheats.com/forum/index.php

Repositioning the tabstrip buttons was the main layout change (we never use the news fader so we reused the space for the buttons).

A few icon changes and a few color changes, but that's about it.

The one thing I noticed is that when I get a popup PM alert, clicking "Okay" to open it in a new window doesn't work (no new window opens). Is that something relatively easy to fix?

I noticed that it works for you?

[Crip]

Looks really nice Waylon

[Maxx]

Yes that looks super !

regards,
Maxx

[Waylon]

Yes that looks super !

Thank you!

Is there a way to fix the popup PM alert not working?

[ZarPrime]

Waylon,

That PM alert not working is usually because of a browser setting, available of course by your members in their own browsers.  For instance, I get those PM alerts all the time but they don't work because I have popups turned off in my browser.  However, it does alert me to check my messages.

ZarPrime

[Crip]

JavaScript basically as well

[Maxx]

There is an email popup alert at the SMF site, not certain if it's up to date though, I'm using it but have not received a PM yet, after the update to SMF 2.0..We need to give folks and chance to get their mods and themes updated!

regards,
Maxx

[Waylon]

I have popups allowed in my browser (Firefox) and yet it won't open a new window no matter what. (??)

Waylon,

That PM alert not working is usually because of a browser setting, available of course by your members in their own browsers.  For instance, I get those PM alerts all the time but they don't work because I have popups turned off in my browser.  However, it does alert me to check my messages.

ZarPrime

[ZarPrime]

Do the popups work in the SMF default theme (Curve)?  In other words, is this only happening with the Black Rain v2 theme?

ZarPrime

[Waylon]

Do the popups work in the SMF default theme (Curve)?  In other words, is this only happening with the Black Rain v2 theme?

I'll check this shortly. There's another thing that users have reported to me (please attached image.).

After entering a user name in the registration form and moving to the next field, the username field goes white. The name is no longer visible.

The people at the SMF forum seem to think it's a CSS issue in the Black Rain style sheet.

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[Crip]

I can get you the code for that Reg. , only two lines -- Alrighty?

[Waylon]

I can get you the code for that Reg. , only two lines -- Alrighty?

Thank you, that would be great.

[Waylon]

I can get you the code for that Reg. , only two lines -- Alrighty?

Thank you, that would be great.

Any luck on this so far?

[Crip]

thanks for the reminder -- code fix coming up ASAP!

[Crip]

Change the background-color Here: css/index.css

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.valid_input
{
background-color: #f5fff0;
}
.invalid_input
{
background-color: #fff0f0;
}


You can go like:

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.valid_input
{
background-color: #222222;
}
.invalid_input
{
background-color: #232323;
}

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[Waylon]

Outstanding, worked like a charm.   

Thank you very much, Crip, and thanks again for creating such a great theme!

Change the background-color Here: css/index.css

Code Select Expand


.valid_input
{
background-color: #f5fff0;
}
.invalid_input
{
background-color: #fff0f0;
}


You can go like:

Code Select Expand


.valid_input
{
background-color: #222222;
}
.invalid_input
{
background-color: #232323;
}

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[Crip]

Pleasure bro'

[Waylon]

One more tweak you may want to do...set a dark background for the signature edit box.

If it's not changed then the text is white-on-white and people can't see anything in the edit box, even though their signature text is actually there. Had a few people baffled on my board for a while, lol.

[Crip]

Understood bro'