The fact that you think it's just a stylesheet means you wouldnt be able to fix it. The way vb does css is so fucke dup it's not funny. they use StyleVars. But you could edit the same stylevar and change the color in 10 different fucking places. Places you didnt want to change the color. Then you either have to go hunt down in 40 diff css files which things are using what style vars.. or search through templates and change what class or id they are using to a new custom one and stick it in a new css file.

totally bullshit.

fuck this software.

 

Probably the only thing an Admin has ever said that I will agree with.

 

isn't their other forum styles than vb?

 

Yeah none as good though. Big forum, vbulletin or custom written are your choices.

Making progress.

 

style vars, as in no inline style, right? Declare in a stylesheet file, link into pages as needed. Thats how I (and most people) design these days. I've always found that easier to work with, unless whoever wrote it was a total dickhead. Or are you talking about something else?

 

nah not like that.

They have stylesheets (as templates) and they have things like
.stuff {
border: {vb:stylevar really_fucking_weird_name_border};
}

but when someone requests the page, it's calculated (and stored on disk as a css file and cached) and output as border: #FFFFFF or what ever really_fucking_weird_name_broder was set too.

the real problem comes when they just use something like "border_color" and use it in eleventy billion places. when I change "border_color" all kinds of weird shit happens.

then there is the reverse. I see something on the page I want to change. I need to find the exact css value that modifies that, and we know css can be nested as deep as your mom, so then I need to take that css value, search through all the damn templates and work out which one of the 6 places it's listed is the one affecting that specific widget or what ever I am trying to edit. Then I look at the stylevar and go modify that.

all in all it's a really fucking stupid idea. But style is lookin much better so once it's done, it's done.

 

While you're in there, maybe consider making the envelope icon next to each thread a link to view the thread.

 

??? What kind of mobile phone are you using? I'm using my Blackberry but I have to go to options and switch from page to view to column veiw and then the site looks much better. Maybe your phone has this option!

 

i'm on a old school droid 1 but i know the option youre talking about from my girls blackberry. i don't have that thou.



i mean it does pretty good. its just blah, little things. that the old site did well. more so than the look.


hey zate, does that tapatalk shit work on this new one?

 

not yet.. lookin into it though.