Common Adjustments

[elli]

For those of you who have made themes for v5, you probably change quite a few things in the default theme to achieve your final result. In the stylesheets as well as in the layout templates, there are a few undesirable styles and bugs, such as the double right border in the message list. I also tend to remove the gradients, text shadows, and rounded borders. What adjustments do you make most often?

I'm curious as I'm building a base theme to use as a starting point for commissions and premades.

(I would also like to take this time to remind the staff how great documentation for v5 would be hahaha — Tim Camara pls)

[Kami]

Ooh good OP. Let's see. Generally speaking I will:

- remove topics/replies column from home page
- remove board name | topic | replies | last post row
- remove the rounded borders
- condense the information in the info centre

[elli]

Those are good ones. In my skeleton so far, this is what I've done.

- Reorganized stylesheet with more descriptive comment headers
- Moved styles to more logical sections to make them easier to find
- Removed rounded corners, box shadow mixins + all references in CSS
- Deleted Visual Editor objects because I hate them
- Added Smangii's ClearUBBC icons
- Adjusted code spacing in layout templates
- Moved navigation tip holder outside of navigation item anchor to make it easier to style when inline with the parent navigation item
- Styled #navigation-menu li as position: relative to contain tip holder
- Styled tip holder with cursor: pointer to show it is clickable
- Removed unused span wrapping "Welcome $[current_user.name]." in welcome message
- Moved $[footer] outside of the forum wrapper so ads and footer content don't disrupt the inner spacing of the wrapper if it has a background color/image
- Gave $[footer] a parent div #footer so that it can be contained and spaced more easily
- Styled #footer with @wrapper_width and center margin
- Removed legend and board stats from Board List layout template
- Removed legend from Home layout template
- Removed 1px top/right border from table.list cells
- Removed title-wrapper and bbcode classes from category headers so that they can be centered properly
- Removed "Board, Threads, Posts, Last Posts" from Board List layout template
- Changed @default_forum_text_font_size from 10pt to 13px
- Changed some @button_background variables to @empty
- Set @banner_text_font to @default_forum_text_font_family to be consistent
- Set @nav_bar_button_font to 100% @default_forum_text_font_family to be consistent
- Set @nav_bar_bubble_font to 80% @default_forum_text_font_family to be consistent
- Set @welcome_text_font to 100% @default_forum_text_font_family to be consistent
- Set @nav_tree_font size to 80%
- Made news the same height as the nav tree
- Simplified footer styles
- Rebuilt info center with less nested tables
- Set .banner-container to width: 101% to fix an odd bug in Chrome where 100% doesn't span the full width the wrapper for some reason

[Kami]

Ooh A+ on adding the clearubbc icons, I love them. Everything else sounds awesome too. What about a more noticeable divider between the MP and the post content? [example]