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Themed Vanilla 1 this weekend - my impressions
I have held off theming Vanilla 0.9.2 waiting for Vanilla 1. So when it seemed like Vanilla 1 was imminent and the theming section was relatively stable I jumped on it.
here is the current result: Theme Test (note: not IE compatible)
I wouldn't quite call it polished and finished yet, but its usable. It was very fast to theme and only required a couple small template edits. Took about 2 hours (though I was doing other stuff at the time).
As great as that is (in terms of time), I think theming could be aided greatly by releasing a developers theme that has the CSS greatly commented, and borders and background colors exagerated so its easier to figure out which block is which. Since any nice theme will use the same colors in many places, it makes it slightly difficult to know what exactly applies to what when using an existing theme to develop your own.
I also just wanted to send the word to everyone waiting for Vanilla 1 to start theming, that its quick and easy to set up a test forum from svn and get your theme developed pre-Vanilla 1.
here is the current result: Theme Test (note: not IE compatible)
I wouldn't quite call it polished and finished yet, but its usable. It was very fast to theme and only required a couple small template edits. Took about 2 hours (though I was doing other stuff at the time).
As great as that is (in terms of time), I think theming could be aided greatly by releasing a developers theme that has the CSS greatly commented, and borders and background colors exagerated so its easier to figure out which block is which. Since any nice theme will use the same colors in many places, it makes it slightly difficult to know what exactly applies to what when using an existing theme to develop your own.
I also just wanted to send the word to everyone waiting for Vanilla 1 to start theming, that its quick and easy to set up a test forum from svn and get your theme developed pre-Vanilla 1.
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It's also good to hear it IS easy.
my main point though was just to let everyone who hasn't tried it yet that it is easy to theme vanilla now, and we should all get started before Vanilla 1 launches. i.e. i showed you mine now show me yours.
You can view it by putting in the custom style URL.
main points of interest are tabs down the left instead of across the top, a pseudo-table discussions page with headers, and tabbed pagination with some hover effects. Its based on an early CSS file so anything IE, account profiles and search are broken, but should be getting that fixed sometime.
Yeah, that would be great.
Anyway here it is: live install
And no, I haven't tried fixing it for IE users yet.
As for the colors. I think people just want to get away from blue. If you are going with light colors and want to avoid blue (since it is over used and cliche) then yellows oranges and greens are next to present themselves.
I have another site I am working on that is orange/peach based and I wanted to use the same general CSS/XHTML on it as I am using on AL. So I couldn't make AL orangey. That sort of just left green. And them lemon part necessitates yellow. And green and yellow go well together.
Probably not the colors of design I would have chosen were it not for these other considerations. I like the design for the other site better actually. I think the colors are less contrasty. The strong green background on AL is a bit much. Makes a good first impression, I think but for a high volume forum I think it would be annoying. I am hoping the other color scheme I am working on will be more pleasing to the eyes.
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