Back to Basic (0.0.1)

[MissNK]

B A C K   T O   B A S I C   (0.0.1)
by missNK

Hello there,

Welcome to my basic theme. My main goal was to make this theme as user friendly as possible. Most of the new content (such as the tabbed box on the homepage) are made accessible through the Visual Editor. Things which are only changeable through the Layout Templates all got comments to make them easy to find an to change. I tried to achieve an overall flat and modern look. This theme contains four different avatars (default, forum staff, no posts and access denied), various icons, a tabbed welcome table and a slide menu. The board lists, user profile, mini-profiles and the info-centers al got a redesign to fit the theme.

(live preview for members available here)

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Rules
I've put a lot of effort in this theme, so please be so kind to follow them!

• You cannot remove the credits on this theme. Not the ones in visible on the forum, neither the ones that might be in the layout templates. 
• My main goal with this theme was to make it easy excisable / changeable. You are free to change the colours and fonts as long as they are accessible through the Visual Editor. To ensure user friendliness I've added various items to the Visual Editor. You can find them on the bottom of the page, underneath the title 'Theme Related Objects'. Feel free to change the colours and such to your likings.
  
• Although I wanted to make this theme as user friendly as possible, you are not allowed to use this theme as base for your own work. Basically you have no permission to access and change anything in the Layout Templates and Style Sheet at all. However, you are free to access the Home Template and adjust the texts of the tabbed box and the menu to your own preferences (see requierements for more information). You are also free to change the avatars of this theme. For everything else, you have to contact me first. Please, I will probably say yes anyway and help you to accomplish whatever you like.
  
• Do not re-upload this theme in any way. I am the only one who will provide this theme for download.
• If you have any questions, ask! You can send me a pm or reply on this thread.
  

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Requirements
There is one adjustment you have to make yourself.

Homepage
The contents of the menu and tabbed box are only adjustable via the layout templates. To do this go to the home template (Themes > Layout Templates > Home).  You will find the editable content between the lines 21 and 156. Don't be scared off by the code, I've placed comments <!-- an example --> pretty much everywhere to clarify things. As long as you only change the black text which is not between { } - tags, you should be all right.

Pictures
Throughout the theme I've used four pictures which are not 'easily' editable. You are, however, still free to change them through the Layout Templates. First you have the 'No Posts-' and 'Acces Denied-'avatar from the Boards. You'll find them on the Board List Template (Themes > Layout Templates > Board > (tab) Board List) line 30 and line 32. Change the url (<img src="something.png" />) to the url of your avatars.
Same goes for the Forum Staff-avatar (of your welcome's message, if enabled). You'll find this url on line 41 of the Mini-Profile Template (Themes > Layout Templates > Mini-Profile).
Finally we have the chat-toggle picture in the Forum Wrapper (Themes > Layout Templates > Forum Wrapper), you can change the url in line 59. For all four pictures I've added a comment to clarify where they are.

Default Colors
Aside from the black and whites these are the default colours of the theme:
#9fb783 #dbe4d1 #7a204a #ceb5c1

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Credits
Providers of art and templates used in this theme.

Images

• Various icons from flaticon

Templates

• Paul's Board Layout Mod
• Semi-transparant background
• Tabbed box by Call Me Nick
  
• Menu by thecodeplayer
• Move Shoutbox (plugin build in)
  

Adviced Plugins (Library)
Optional, theme works perfect without!

• Sticky Thread Divider
• Welcome Header Below Ad

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Download

[Former Member]

I really like this theme! I have it installed on my forum.It has an air of the 1950's about it.Great job. I also have the Vintage Rose on my forum. Keep those themes coming.

[owezone]

I am also really loving this theme but I have a few things that do not seem to want to work with it.

Mini-Mini profiles; the mini-mini profile avatar shows "undefined" on random posts,

Custom profile fields not showing in profiles or mini profiles,

Collapsible info center does not collapse,

News bar not showing (I am using the v4 plugin) I do see $[news] surrounded in comment tags but I do not know what to do with it. That was an easy fix.

Date registered and last online not showing in member list

When using the shoutbox the send button is hidden behind your CHAT image

I just wanted to post this so that you know, I am going to continue to work to try and figure it out in the mean time.
thanks

odra.us

[kamikal]

Hello MissNK ,



I have a problem with editing using Advanced Styles and CSS (Visual Editor) with the Back to Basic Theme 



Regarding Forum > Body (Content) > Containers > Title Bars > Text:

The default of Font Family was Impact, Charcoal, Sans Serif




However, upon changing it to the other fonts, the visual preview failed to update and upon saving nonetheless, the font eventually became:







and the Editing area for Font Family fails to save whenever I try to change the font again,

despite the fact that clicking "Save Theme" or "Save Changes" shows to be successful:



It seems to be happening also to changing the Link Fonts of the Navigation Tree Container and other areas where the default is Impact.


Can you please advise me as to what to do to fix this problem?