hey,

I often check the forums at work and basically my 2nd monitor, when i'm not using it for 2nd eclipse or file-manager, is showing browser-window with uth-forum (though different tab)...I switch the tab, cause "dark" sides usually look like gaming stuff, and though I don't spend soooo much time here during work I don't want my colleagues to think so...

that's why it would be awesome if you could add a white/light theme to the forum...most ppl won't need or like it and I wouldn't even mind, if it had some flaws or bugs or whatever, as long as the basic funcionality is working...

thanks,
Jezzmin

ps: just looked on google for an example theme and found two: http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/Frozen+Phoenix and http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/Artodia%3A+Air

Jezzmin wrote:I switch the tab, cause "dark" sides usually look like gaming stuff, and though I don't spend soooo much time here during work I don't want my colleagues to think so...

Don't worry, your colleagues do the same thing

Solution : use Chrome and Stylebot extension.
I already use this extension to customize a little bit the top of the forum by :
- reducing the image banner (i prefer a smaller banner)
- reducing the space used for forum link (Board index, user control panel, language choice, etc)
Thx to that, there's more space to show the usefull content.
Here is the custom css i apply on the site :

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#container {
    background: none;
}

#content_up {
    background: none;
    margin-top: -30px;
}

#content_up_left {
    background: none;
}

#content_up_left #breadcrumbs {
    display: none
;
}

#masthead {
    background-size: contain;
    height: 120px;
}

.headerbar {
    float: right;
}

html body {
    padding: 0;
}



There's more work if u want to change all the theme of course

I personally don't think that's a bad idea! We might need Blue's input on that and a volunteer to build a phpBB3 theme (however, the forum is only embedded in a Joomla installation iirc, unless you specifically address the forum's subfolder and bypass Joomla - meaning for completeness one might consider doing the same for Joomla too). While we're at the web design issues, I volunteer to take care of the horrendous amounts of HTML/CSS validation errors this site has... with permission of course :p

Horrendous amounts?

There exist other styles for the forum but they dont work on a per user basis even when phpBB3 supports it, it does not work.

Just clicking the validation link at the bottom of the page from ...wherever on the forum yields 19 HTML validation errors (18 from the herald). Only 3 for CSS, but I'd say the former qualifies as "horrendous"!

Edit:
When checking validity of the herald CSS, you just get an error page because it references a local URI as opposed to the referrer, which would yield an absolute URI for the style sheet.

Herald shows 1 HTML error which is because there is one missing "alt" property for an image and 1 CSS error due to invalidating a stylesheet property ("xfont").

YES this forum in SAP style would be nice

Most of the issues aren't in the embedded content, but in the Joomla template you use. Things such as body-exclusive elements (in this case, <div></div>) within the document head, which is an absolute no-go. Just use the validator links in the footer (http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer and http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check?uri=templates/uthgard/css/template.css for the markup and style sheets respectively) to see what I mean. The news page even has non-UTF-8 bytes blocking the validation itself.

I hope you're not offended by the fact that I'm pointing it out, but a site that actually validates without any errors will have a positive effect on search engine rankings etc. As I said, I volunteer to sort it out, I'm not bashing anyone in particular or their efforts.

rana wrote:YES this forum in SAP style would be nice

wtf is SAP style in terms of forum themes? i mean, I know that my company has "interesting" UIs ( ) but nothing to apply to forums