Layouts

[snap2000]

Nov 21, 2012 22:02:56 GMT -8 pawl said:

Nov 21, 2012 21:51:01 GMT -8 snap2000 said:

Very clever!



I'd definitely recommend changing the current item in the menu, though. The purple is much too dark and the overline doesn't work as it is.

Thanks. =]

It's one of many things I never got round actually finishing. Need to get on the desktop so I have Photoshop - on my laptop I don't have (and can't natively run) it, so I'm kinda stuck.

Also wanting to add the Posts/Threads/Last Post text to the cat bars (which I'd like to make a little smaller, too), and figure out how to individually colour the Logout and Login|Register text. Then just loads of little colour updates. Oh, and a banner. And converting the image background to a css one. And probably some other stuff. =P

ed; proper gradients, too. Maybe a base image, now that the title bars are lead header images.

Sounds great. Go for it!

It's amazing how all those changes seem so easy now. You don't need any JavaScript at all for that.

[pawl]

Nov 22, 2012 8:06:31 GMT -8 snap2000 said:

Nov 21, 2012 22:02:56 GMT -8 pawl said:

Thanks. =]

It's one of many things I never got round actually finishing. Need to get on the desktop so I have Photoshop - on my laptop I don't have (and can't natively run) it, so I'm kinda stuck.

Also wanting to add the Posts/Threads/Last Post text to the cat bars (which I'd like to make a little smaller, too), and figure out how to individually colour the Logout and Login|Register text. Then just loads of little colour updates. Oh, and a banner. And converting the image background to a css one. And probably some other stuff. =P

ed; proper gradients, too. Maybe a base image, now that the title bars are lead header images.

Sounds great. Go for it!

It's amazing how all those changes seem so easy now. You don't need any JavaScript at all for that.

It's incredible - in two evenings worth of pretending I know what I'm doing I've already managed to achieve more on my own than I could have with a week in 4.5 - this upgrade has changed the game for PB designers. =]

[snap2000]

Nov 22, 2012 8:23:53 GMT -8 pawl said:

Nov 22, 2012 8:06:31 GMT -8 snap2000 said:

Sounds great. Go for it!

It's amazing how all those changes seem so easy now. You don't need any JavaScript at all for that.

It's incredible - in two evenings worth of pretending I know what I'm doing I've already managed to achieve more on my own than I could have with a week in 4.5 - this upgrade has changed the game for PB designers. =]

It boggles my mind when so many people pop up and say that 4.5 was easier to use or that this is a step backward.

[pawl]

Nov 22, 2012 8:27:03 GMT -8 snap2000 said:

Nov 22, 2012 8:23:53 GMT -8 pawl said:

It's incredible - in two evenings worth of pretending I know what I'm doing I've already managed to achieve more on my own than I could have with a week in 4.5 - this upgrade has changed the game for PB designers. =]

It boggles my mind when so many people pop up and say that 4.5 was easier to use or that this is a step backward.

Haha, I know. I've not really touched anything PB or website related in about 3 years, so I'm a little rusty to say the least. However, even I'm not finding the learning curve too much of a problem. What's holding my back now is lack of proper CSS knowledge and a general inability to work with anything more complicated than very basic HTML, and even with that taken into account I'm impressing myself. =P

[Peter]

Nov 22, 2012 8:29:37 GMT -8 pawl said:

Nov 22, 2012 8:27:03 GMT -8 snap2000 said:

It boggles my mind when so many people pop up and say that 4.5 was easier to use or that this is a step backward.

Haha, I know. I've not really touched anything PB or website related in about 3 years, so I'm a little rusty to say the least. However, even I'm not finding the learning curve too much of a problem. What's holding my back now is lack of proper CSS knowledge and a general inability to work with anything more complicated than very basic HTML, and even with that taken into account I'm impressing myself. =P

I'm not a designer, but I can make something nice looking with just HTML / CSS.  Imagine what a good designer, and a good coder could do together.

[pawl]

Nov 22, 2012 8:39:14 GMT -8 Peter said:

Nov 22, 2012 8:29:37 GMT -8 pawl said:

Haha, I know. I've not really touched anything PB or website related in about 3 years, so I'm a little rusty to say the least. However, even I'm not finding the learning curve too much of a problem. What's holding my back now is lack of proper CSS knowledge and a general inability to work with anything more complicated than very basic HTML, and even with that taken into account I'm impressing myself. =P

I'm not a designer, but I can make something nice looking with just HTML / CSS.  Imagine what a good designer, and a good coder could do together.

Little sad to say, but I'm actually really looking forward to finding out. =]

[My Display Name]

I decided to change mine a little and went with a drop down navigation that offers "resources" and shrunk the banner. The only real problem I face is that the nav tree keeps overlapping the dropdown and as you can see some of the arrows are really messed up and the text isn't aligned, but I'll fix it!


Edit: The only thing that keeps overlapping the dropdown now is the arrows from the Nav Tree. I did away with the arrows as they were ugly anyway  (the dropdown arrows)

[taylor40]

Have completely re-designed my site.. chuffed to bits with it....

[pawl]

Nov 23, 2012 9:12:02 GMT -8 taylor40 said:

Have completely re-designed my site.. chuffed to bits with it....

The new custom page designer is superb, no? About a million times easier than using the old portal codes, and the inbuilt widgets are a dream for non-coding people like me, who had to try and pull other codes apart to achieve the same results. =]

[taylor40]

Nov 23, 2012 10:25:41 GMT -8 pawl said:

Nov 23, 2012 9:12:02 GMT -8 taylor40 said:

Have completely re-designed my site.. chuffed to bits with it....

The new custom page designer is superb, no? About a million times easier than using the old portal codes, and the inbuilt widgets are a dream for non-coding people like me, who had to try and pull other codes apart to achieve the same results. =]

It's brilliant... up till now we've had to have a website as well as the forum.. This will save us money as well as being much better and easier. And the money we save will go toward making it ad free and thus even better looking.... Win win me thinks 

[pawl]

Nov 23, 2012 10:30:57 GMT -8 taylor40 said:

Nov 23, 2012 10:25:41 GMT -8 pawl said:

The new custom page designer is superb, no? About a million times easier than using the old portal codes, and the inbuilt widgets are a dream for non-coding people like me, who had to try and pull other codes apart to achieve the same results. =]

It's brilliant... up till now we've had to have a website as well as the forum.. This will save us money as well as being much better and easier. And the money we save will go toward making it ad free and thus even better looking.... Win win me thinks 

Definitely - the forum I'm considering starting up again used to have a (rather spiffy, I must admit) website which was linked to a non-PB forum I moved away from PB for. The reason I moved away was mainly so that I could integrate it with the site. The v5 set up means that I can essentially rebuild about 99% of the old website in-forum, and I'm sure the tiny bit I can't do (commenting on articles with your forum profile, and a site-based user content gallery) will be possible either via updates to the software or 3rd party plugins.
Only just realising myself quite how powerful v5 could be, and it's still in relatively early stages for users. =]

ed; actually, thinking about it, the article comments might be possible. Without looking, I seem to remember there's a widget for displaying posts on a page. Whether that already works for threads (or could be expanded for threads) I don't know, but combined with a hidden board that would actually be a fairly easy workaround, I think. See, powerful! =P

[Patrick [ASE]]

I believe this thread was started so people can show off their layouts and occasional comments.
Maybe a general layout discussion thread would be good

[pawl]

Nov 23, 2012 11:37:54 GMT -8 Patrick [ASE] said:

I believe this thread was started so people can show off their layouts and occasional comments.
Maybe a general layout discussion thread would be good

Sorry, got a bit carried away maybe. Definitely worth a go. =P

[wing]

Hi Moon, nice work

[Speed33]

Here is one I have done


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