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A Sneak Peak: Digg, A New Vanilla Theme
sjeeps
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Another elegant, blog like, and this time, a digg style Vanilla theme! And another attempt to bring in a fresh, appealing and a scannable design to the boring traditional forum look.
Theme highlights:
As usual, your comments, suggestions and critics are always welcomed!
Theme highlights:
- Bright, strong colours that can make your site look updated, eye-catching and modern.
- Some round corners that help keep your forum from looking like some clunky Commodore 64 application.
- Friendly and oversized fonts
- Stylish pagination
- Left side simple navigation.
- I hijacked the guest sense add-on idea, made a sign in and apply for membership links looks like it but without using the extension.
- Your users can digg the discussions or topics and your site stays in business!
As usual, your comments, suggestions and critics are always welcomed!
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@Krak
"One thing I can ask for, is please make sure the discussion excerpt addon works flawlessly with this theme!"
First, I tested the Discussion Excerpt" add-on by Jim with the default vanilla theme and there were errors due to missing
<ul> and </ul>before and after:
<li id="DiscussionExcerpt" style="overflow:hidden">'.$PageList.' ...</li><li class="DiscussionExcerpt">'.$PageList.' ...</li>So I added that to it and changed the style.css from:
.DiscussionExcerpt { margin:0 0 24px 8px; font-size: 90%; color: red; /*#555*/ }To:
.DiscussionExcerpt { margin:0; padding: 0; }The result was great and there were no errors
So Jim, could you please fix that missing [ul] tag?
Thank you!
Digg is Digg, that's why it looks like Digg, if it's not Digg, it's... er... not Digg, no matter how well it's done.
Sorry if that bursts your bubble sjeeps.
Posted: Monday, 10 September 2007 at 1:07PM
The Digg site is so well known that people won't be able to help but notice and that would detract from the content.
You obviously have talent and skill as well as an eye for detail mate, why don't you come up with your own fresh and original look?
Posted: Monday, 10 September 2007 at 1:55PM
Doesn't look exactly like Digg now does it? I wouldn't call that a copy or a clone except for maybe the little yellow boxes. And I would say sjeeps has made a few with a "fresh and original look":
http://lussumo.com/addons/?PostBackAction=AddOn&AddOnID=313
http://lussumo.com/addons/?PostBackAction=AddOn&AddOnID=316
http://www.ventswap.com/
Its clean, minimalistic and I happen to like it. So imo its awesome. I didn't post that everyone must think this is great. I did.
I'd be willing to bet I can count the discussions you have posted that do not mention Windows or Mac on at least one level or another on two hands or less. Get off it dude. HTF did you even bring an OS into this one?
But to each his own. I think its nice, simple and works.
I didn't mention either OS per se, I simply mentioned how inane and vacuous it was to mimic either one, but had you actually read my post fully and not gone off half-cocked at the trigger words you'd know that.
In your own words "I don’t think I need to keep typing."
Posted: Monday, 10 September 2007 at 2:48PM
I've done some changes around and got rid of the yellow boxes so it doesn't "attempt to mimic" Digg
I only tested it with "Category Jumper" and "Discussion Excerpt" extensions so far but it should work with most extensions.