illspirit Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 In case you haven't popped into your control panel in the last few days, exerybody's favorite ex-mod (or least, depending on who you ask) has finished up his Tropical GTAF skin. While the bright colors and minimal grapical content might not be for everyone, it does provide a welcome contrast to the gloomy winter weather most of us are dealing with. Along with the previously mentioned light graphics, Cerb has put a lot of time into prodding and pruning things to help optimize the skin. Not only should it run quite effeciently on 56k (save of course for mammoth sig images and such), he's done a great job of cleaning up and 'dynamicizing' the great mass of nested tables that is IPB. So, for instance, in places on the other skins where pages would wander well off the screen at 1024x768, everything's a bit more flexible so it can all stay in view. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenMillard Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 (edited) I big thanks to Rufus for lending me his forum to make this on! I've created this skin by revising just about all of the HTML that Invision uses, removing unecessary layers of tables and indentation which has reduced the filesize of the pages you folks will be downloading by around 20%. Additionally, I've re-built all the pages to respond much better to different screen widths. Just about all the pages in this skin will happily collapse to 800 pixels wide (and often even smaller) without any horizontal scrollbar. Also, the sidebar has been set at 15% so that it will take up the same proportion of your window regardless what size you set it at, allowing a maximised 1600x1200 window to display the full titles to every link whilst 800x600 screens won't get dominated by it any more! I've made a new set of icons as well, all based around a palm tree type device. The meanings for most of the icons is explained at the bottom of topic listings in the standard legend, although there's a few things which aren't explained. If you see an icon which has the sun in the top-left corner, that means you have posted in that thread. The icons with crossed spears means that is a restricted area. As I changed the mechanical side of things so much its entirely possible that I've messed up something, somewhere. If you find a page that has gone wrong, take a screenshot of it and post that with the link to the page the problem was at in this thread, please. The more problems you find the happier I'll be! If you don't like a particular colour that I've used then just bear in mind that it is quite a colourful skin and that takes a little getting used to. But, if you still think that a certain colour HAS to change then by all means say which one - even suggest an alternative. This is far from the final version. If you want to contribute new images for the various buttons then please, please do! Currently the buttons that are in this skin are just the ones from the forum where I was putting this together at. Edited December 17, 2003 by Cerbera Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1405991 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmSixTeen Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Well, I suppose it's always great to have another option for the users. I'm off to go check it out. From your description I'm sure it does it's job very well Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1405996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
{Matty}{Vice} Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Well i can't say i am especially keen on it but i am sure some members will like it, it just looks a bit wierd tho i could probaraly get used to it... i will sick to teh #cake one for now Matty Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1406002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelman Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Mmmm, opal fruits... Pretty good, I'd say. From hearing Cerb's descriptions of it previously but having never seen it, I thought it was going to be hideous. But it's not, it's kinda, well, like a tube of Opal Fruits, or whatever they're called these days. I'll be using this for a while, see how I get on with it. Either way, it's nice to have some contrast from the darkness of afterfuture and official gtaforums skins. Only constructive criticisms I can offer at the moment are indeed the graphics, which need sprucing up a little, and the text box where I'm typing this post. The text is tiny! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1406075 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Target Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Good work. You've put alot of work into this judging by your ever-changing MSN screen name. Don't you think opal fruits is a much better name than Star burst, wheelman? y'know, you used to be able to say "Do you want an opal fruit" your answer would be "Yess, I'd love an opal fruit! Hand over that opal fruit! Thanks for that opal fruit! Please say another sentence that contains opal fruit so I can say opal fruit again without sounding like an idiot - opal fruits is a great name!" But now It's more like "Wanna starburst?" The answer would be "Nah...name's too sh*t"... Merry Crimbo Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1406109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyLeone25 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Hmm I remember seeing this over at Toad's board a while ago & I used it as a base for my test skin. Anyway it's bright colours help when your stoned/mildly drunk & it helps with the glumness of the winter season. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1406149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 hahahaha yeah its ok i guess, just doesnt seem as tropical to me, kinda faded / washed out, but i have to admit the posts do look nice. I love the hot topic icon , and the new posts and no new posts icon, fan-dabby-hooby Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1406197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenMillard Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Mmmm, opal fruits... Pretty good, I'd say. From hearing Cerb's descriptions of it previously but having never seen it, I thought it was going to be hideous. But it's not, it's kinda, well, like a tube of Opal Fruits, or whatever they're called these days. I'll be using this for a while, see how I get on with it. Either way, it's nice to have some contrast from the darkness of afterfuture and official gtaforums skins. Only constructive criticisms I can offer at the moment are indeed the graphics, which need sprucing up a little, and the text box where I'm typing this post. The text is tiny! Cheers wheels. I could boost the font size in the textboxes, yeah. Reason I have it set pretty small is so that you don't feel you have to make a new paragraph so early. I guess that's never really going to work though, as even though the text control resizes it would have to be a REALLY tiny font to mimick the width of a topic. That'll be the first revision, then. If people want a format change, like making the top of the area view (topic list) to be more like the topic view (post list) with the page links and the "new topic/reply" buttoms in a yellow row, ask and thou shalt receive. Probably. I can do other format changes, like I could change the smilie table so that it's above the message typing box so you can get more width from it...anything like that is possible. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1406198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Well, well, well. You lend your forums to somebody and don't even get a thank you, ungrateful bastards Anyway, the skin came on nicely, not to sure about the colours though Cerby. I don't think ill be using it, standard skin for me. But as it was made at my forums, its great. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1406242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natedogg. Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 It's not too spectacular, I saw this skin yesterday, but it's good to have more skins coming in now, and being made. I just stick with the X-Mas one, it's cool. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1406246 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesfleanut Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 I'm using it now, pretty horrible to look at. *back to #cake* Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1406459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sauron Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Yeah it looks kinda weird @Illy hahah its summer here Sauron06 dashes out of room before he gets banned for laughing at illy Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1406570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotten Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 ouch Rotten replaces eyeballs well.. its bright maybe you should go here.. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1406615 Share on other sites More sharing options...
meathead Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 You got my hopes up for nothing! i thought you made the old school skin. Yeah, its a pritty craptastic. No offence or anything. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1407056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierce Brosnan Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 Where's the banner saying GTAFORUMS.COM? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1407086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
meathead Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 Where's the banner saying GTAFORUMS.COM? There isnt meant to be one. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1407090 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demarest Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 I enjoy the light-weightedness of this one. But I won't be using it as the light colors is just not me AT ALL. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1407373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenMillard Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 ouch Rotten replaces eyeballs well.. its bright maybe you should go here.. I don't see why people are pretending it's bright; all the colours are fairly desaturated. There's only one or two pure colours and they are just used for links. And the topic started out so well. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1407586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 ouch Rotten replaces eyeballs well.. its bright maybe you should go here.. I don't see why people are pretending it's bright; all the colours are fairly desaturated. There's only one or two pure colours and they are just used for links. And the topic started out so well. Still no thank you, bastard. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1407706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenMillard Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 ouch Rotten replaces eyeballs well.. its bright maybe you should go here.. I don't see why people are pretending it's bright; all the colours are fairly desaturated. There's only one or two pure colours and they are just used for links. And the topic started out so well. Still no thank you, bastard. I big thanks to Rufus for lending me his forum to make this on! I've created this skin by revising just about all of the HTML that Invision uses, removing unecessary layers of tables and indentation which has reduced the filesize of the pages you folks will be downloading by around 20%. Additionally, I've re-built all the pages to respond much better to different screen widths. Just about all the pages in this skin will happily collapse to 800 pixels wide (and often even smaller) without any horizontal scrollbar. Also, the sidebar has been set at 15% so that it will take up the same proportion of your window regardless what size you set it at, allowing a maximised 1600x1200 window to display the full titles to every link whilst 800x600 screens won't get dominated by it any more! I've made a new set of icons as well, all based around a palm tree type device. The meanings for most of the icons is explained at the bottom of topic listings in the standard legend, although there's a few things which aren't explained. If you see an icon which has the sun in the top-left corner, that means you have posted in that thread. The icons with crossed spears means that is a restricted area. As I changed the mechanical side of things so much its entirely possible that I've messed up something, somewhere. If you find a page that has gone wrong, take a screenshot of it and post that with the link to the page the problem was at in this thread, please. The more problems you find the happier I'll be! If you don't like a particular colour that I've used then just bear in mind that it is quite a colourful skin and that takes a little getting used to. But, if you still think that a certain colour HAS to change then by all means say which one - even suggest an alternative. This is far from the final version. If you want to contribute new images for the various buttons then please, please do! Currently the buttons that are in this skin are just the ones from the forum where I was putting this together at. This post has been edited by Cerbera on Dec 17 2003, 23:32 I added the thankyou yesterday, prick. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1407950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 I didn't see that bit Anyway, nice skin. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1408136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenMillard Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 I didn't see that bit Anyway, nice skin. I probably should have mentioned that I'd added it in. I wonder if any of these people who've hinted that they might be making a new skin will actually get round to making it? Will you lend them your forum if they do, Rufus? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1408148 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exkabewbikadid Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 Nice work, cerb. Not exactly my choice of colors, but I'll have to say it does feel more effecient than the other skins. I tested it out at different resolutions and it works well. Although I'm using the GTAF X-mas skin right now. It's got a cool retro feel to it that can't be beat! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1408335 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bond996 Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 I never hated cerb. I loved him after I saw the pictures ... The skin looks pretty good. I think that the skin should be appreciated more for a mechanical aspect, rather then a perty-ness one. The code is probably very hot. unfortunaetly, hashcake is too good to pass up cerb. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1408424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 I like the new forum skin, the bright colours and the excessive orange colour which I likes. However, it doesn't go well with my writing colour on the forum. Excellent work Cerb, this is probably my new favourite skin. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1408563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenMillard Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 =-' date='Dec 19 2003, 03:15'] I like the new forum skin, the bright colours and the excessive orange colour which I likes. However, it doesn't go well with my writing colour on the forum. Excellent work Cerb, this is probably my new favourite skin. Whew, getting positive feedback again! The post background colours (.post1 and .post2) can be any RRGGBB colours. If you can suggest colours that would still fit within the skin then we could try them out? Xcommunicated, glad you appreciate the mechanical side. Are there any forums you've found that I've missed out? Just yesterday I realised that I hadn't re-skinned the "Search for Usernames" form from inside the PM messanger. Bond, I do have to agree with you, #cake is a much tamer bet that Tropical. However, it doesn't have the optimisations that Tropical does and you have all sorts of fidly background images to load on every page to get the curvy borders. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1408937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 Yea, if anyone needs some forums to make a new skin on, just give me a PM and you can use mine. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1408946 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenMillard Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 Yea, if anyone needs some forums to make a new skin on, just give me a PM and you can use mine. I don't mind them just using a new CSS file and image pack with the Tropical skin I've made. With these large forum systems you either make a rather epic overhaul for a fairly modest facelift. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1409014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
meathead Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 Yea, if anyone needs some forums to make a new skin on, just give me a PM and you can use mine. Well thats very nice of you...I see tp is making one, well whoever is workin on that, good job, looks great Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/121315-yet-another-forum-skin/#findComment-1409020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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