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Former_MSE_Ian

[FONT=&quot]There are options to allow us, as administrators, to give you a list of pre-defined styles to choose from. There is no option for you, as users, to customize the look of the forums on a colour by colour basis. All you can do is choose from a list of pre-defined styles we provide.

Of course we have to support and maintain every style so the smaller the list the easier the forums are to keep running and the better the service you get .[/FONT]

custardy

cally6008 wrote: »

ugh ... no way, at least give users the choice between the two styles

edit - aint read this whole thread, clicked on link to new style and went YIKES !

give it a few days then go back to the old style

fermi

MSE_Ian wrote: »

[FONT=&quot]There are options to allow us, as administrators, to give you a list of pre-defined styles to choose from.[/FONT]

That is what was said earlier.

MSE_Ian wrote: »

[FONT=&quot]There is no option for you, as users, to customize the look of the forums on a colour by colour basis.[/FONT]

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I don't think anyone said there was in vBulletin?.

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MSE_Ian wrote: »

[FONT=&quot]All you can do is choose from a list of pre-defined styles we provide.[/FONT]

Not completely true, as I can override your CSS if I like. Not easy to do if you are not techie minded, but if I don't like the default settings in styles you provide, then I will.
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MSE_Ian wrote: »

[FONT=&quot]Of course we have to support and maintain every style so the smaller the list the easier the forums are to keep running and the better the service you get .[/FONT]

An extra style that differs from the standard by only a few lines of code that specify 3 or 4 key colours would require a very minimal effort.

Thanks anyway....

fermi

Dead easy to create a "child style" of a current one:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/stylemanager_add_child_style

bat-out-of-hell

MSE_Ian wrote: »

[FONT=&quot]There are options to allow us, as administrators, to give you a list of pre-defined styles to choose from. There is no option for you, as users, to customize the look of the forums on a colour by colour basis. All you can do is choose from a list of pre-defined styles we provide.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Of course we have to support and maintain every style so the smaller the list the easier the forums are to keep running and the better the service you get .[/FONT]

Ian, hope your in the pub right now...............after that reply, i know that is the best place for you, its the only cure after staring at code all week

SplashWellyKid

Hi,

I'm finding a lot of the new format hard-going as it's too far over on the right hand side of the screen: instead of using a proportional design, which will automatically adjust to individual PC's set-up, the design seems to assume a wide-screen & very small font.

So you lose everything after about the fourth or fifth column on the main form index & don't notice all the useful new columns (you won't think to scroll to the right as you won't know there's anything there you might like).

Similarly, when you're actually in a forum, in addition to losing everything past the likeability stats graphic, so much more can't be read in threads & it means continual scrolling from left the right to read anything that's more than half a line long. That's really frustrating & will definitely put people off from using pages.

Not everyone can change their settings or will want to (due to old equipment which doesn't work on higher resolutions; accessibility needs; general comfort for seeing the screen; using a work PC that has a standard set-up etc) so you may need to either fix some of these glitches, or consider keeping a 'proportional' options skin which will make like easier for those of us affected.

I hope that makes sense! Thanks a lot.

custardy

how small is your screen?

TractorGirl327

I can't seem to be able to add a user to my ignore list on the new format?

custardy

TractorGirl327 wrote: »

I can't seem to be able to add a user to my ignore list on the new format?

under user lists in their profile

fermi

In the old style I can double click beside a thread title to edit the title "in-line".

Like this:



With the new style this doesn't seem to work any more.