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Dahlaine wrote:I like the 3rd one .

Same, though the gap after the W is a little odd, as you say.

I must admit I find this rather fun as I spent about 2 minutes in MS Paint making our current logo!

Good work Bal.

Changed third design but edited the gaps between the letters of W.M.D

https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/i/logo5m.png/

Balgarim wrote:Changed third design but edited the gaps between the letters of W.M.D

https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/i/logo5m.png/

I like that! I wonder if it could be beaten up a bit more though? A nice bite chuck out of the W or something!

The background colour will need to be adjusted to match the background grey of the new forum skin too.

Aye, the background colour change is a quick change.

I downloaded that font type from the internet and that is just its default look. I can edit the type as much as I want as I downloaded it on a free usage scheme, however it's always polite to mention the author. I haven't done a lot of font creation/editing before but I'm sure I can figure something out.

Any preferences when it comes to defacing the font? Just make it up and play around with it?

Squeek -

I've got a minor problem some text and BG colouring on the site. On the main page on the left hand side there is a menu bar that displays with a rather random silver background. I am looking into the code trying to find the template/HTML/.PHP file that contains it and I am failing...

I've looked in view source (I know! ) and found reference to Main.HTML, which I am currently searching the entire server for, if not, any suggestions?

Structure is based on a Portal Module loaded into PHPBB3. Simple folder structure set via Public_HTML > Home directory.

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I'll send Squeek a text and ask him to have a look for you.

What you're looking for is this block

#navigation a {
background:#ECF1F3 none repeat-y scroll 100% 0;
color:#105289;
font-weight:normal;
padding:2px;
}

background:#ECF1F3 is the silver you are seeing.
Set to #000000; for black like the rest and then play around with the color: setting to get a colour which looks nice.

Driving home so will be a while till I reply.

Code:


<!-- DEFINE $S_IN_PORTAL = 1 -->
<!-- INCLUDE overall_header.html -->

<!-- $Id: portal_body.html,v 1.1 2008/02/09 08:18:16 angelside Exp $ //-->
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.topiclist dd.posts_portal {
   float:left;
   text-align:left;
   font-size: 1.1em;
   padding:6px 5px 6px 5px;
}

ul.topiclist dt {
   float:left;
   width: 90%;
   font-size: 1em;
}

.gensmall {
   margin: 1px 1px;
   font-size: 10px;
}

small, .small {
   font-size:10px;
   font-weight:bold;
   font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

/* Container for sub-navigation list */
#navigation {
   padding-top: 0px;
   font-size: 1.1em;
}

/* Link styles for the sub-section links */
#navigation a {
   color: #105289;
   font-weight: normal;
   padding: 2px;
   background: #ecf1f3 none repeat-y 100% 0;
}

#navigation a:hover {
   background-color: #F9F9F9;
   color: #d31141;
}

/* News listing */
ul.news {
   border-top: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
   list-style: none;
   margin-left: 0;
}
ul.news li {
   padding: 5px 0 4px 0;
   border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
ul.news li.last {
   border-bottom: none;
}
ul.news {
   border-top: none;
}
ul.news li {
   padding: 0 0 4px 0;
   margin-bottom: 5px;
   margin-left: 0;
   border-bottom-color: #E0E0E0;
}

.postbody_portal {
   width: 100%;



This is taken from portal_body.php which looks to be main style sets for the portal block. I've checked the reference Main.html and Main.Php pages and nither contain any hex codes or BG colours.

I am hitting a wall here unless you think its one of these and I am just being blind...

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Line 43 or so of what you pasted, 'background: #ecf1f3 none repeat-y 100% 0;', appears to be it. My firebug must have rearranged the CSS lines somewhat.

portal_body.php seems to be your man though.
Kinda difficult to debug when all the php includes just get output as the one source, same problem you've been having no doubt.


- get firebug for firefox, it's a fantastic addon that you can right click anywhere on a page and select 'Inspect Element' for details of what's happening with it.
- either on linux, or if on windows install cygwin and then run in the directory where the site is located.
find . -name "*.php" | xargs grep <search_string>
This will help you find whatever files contain search_string, in this instance to help you track down which file is setting the background colour.

Squeek wrote:Line 43 or so of what you pasted, 'background: #ecf1f3 none repeat-y 100% 0;', appears to be it. My firebug must have rearranged the CSS lines somewhat.

portal_body.php seems to be your man though.
Kinda difficult to debug when all the php includes just get output as the one source, same problem you've been having no doubt.


- get firebug for firefox, it's a fantastic addon that you can right click anywhere on a page and select 'Inspect Element' for details of what's happening with it.
- either on linux, or if on windows install cygwin and then run in the directory where the site is located.
find . -name "*.php" | xargs grep
This will help you find whatever files contain search_string, in this instance to help you track down which file is setting the background colour.

Ill give that a try, I am a little odd when it comes to browsers as I use Safari, never tried Firefox, but if its gonna help me there is no harm!

Thanks for the tips, ill let you know how i get on today.


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Booya...

After much purging off the cache I have managed to fix that issue.

Also found a handle tool recomended by a collegue. Paint.net

www.getpaint.net awesome little tool, think of MS paint on speed.

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I've only really got one last thing to solve, unless anyone has some request / problems?

The issue I am working on now is that there is no link pack to the portal page.

Anything else let me know!

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The first post on the WMD.com homepage doesn't appear to have a left margin as the text is butted right up against the side of the message box. More of an OCD niggle though.

Balgarim wrote:The first post on the WMD.com homepage doesn't appear to have a left margin as the text is butted right up against the side of the message box. More of an OCD niggle though.

What browser you using?

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Derky wrote:

Balgarim wrote:The first post on the WMD.com homepage doesn't appear to have a left margin as the text is butted right up against the side of the message box. More of an OCD niggle though.

What browser you using?

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I get the same with Chrome.

Firefox.

Cock......

Meh, ill need to embed it, ill add that to my list

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As I said it's not a biggy, just an aesthetic point.

Balgarim wrote:As I said it's not a biggy, just an aesthetic point.

ITS NOT PERFECT!!!

I am much like you, suffer from OCD when it comes to things I do >.<

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Update :O

I've made the header image link back to the portal, which instinctively to me that should be doing that. Do you think we still need a button to say portal?

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The header is fine for me, but others may like a Portal button.

Balgarim wrote:The header is fine for me, but others may like a Portal button.

I've decided to work on that anyway.

At the moment I am working on the database trying to streamline it a bit, lots of useless queries. Once that is done ill write some buttons in.

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Balgarim wrote:Any preferences when it comes to defacing the font? Just make it up and play around with it?

Make it look like it's been attacked by rabid Murlocs. But hopefully still readable.

Button added !

Back to Database work.

I have close to nothing to do all day so if anyone thinks of anything let me know...

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Is there any way to add an option to centre text in posts? I use that quite often when making layouts.

Other than that, the new forum certainly seems faster and more stable than this one. And the new Admin thing is much better.

I've changed the avatar size restrictions which were minuscule by default.