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kilobits

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Smooth Criminal said:
For those with FF who don't fancy messing with CSS, you can always install the Stylish add-on. Then head over to http://userstyles.org/ for instructions on how to add themes on a per-site basis.
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Yup.. it works in FF with stylish too.

I installed stylish, created a new style for mybb, and put the following in...
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("mybroadband.co.za"){}
.body_wrapper, .after_content {background: RGB(242, 242, 242)none !important ; }
.content, .postbitlegacy postbitim, .postbody, .blockrow, .info_subblock, .blockfoot, .vB_Editor_QR_textarea, .editor_controls floatcontainer, .blocksubfoot, .actionbuttons { background: #F2F2F2 !important; }
#usercp_nav, .blockbody {background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #F2F2F2 !important; }
.bbcode_container, div.bbcode_quote {font: 13px Tahoma,Calibri,Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif !important; }
.editor_textbox textarea {font:14px Tahoma, Calibri,Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif !important; background-color:#FFFFFF !important;}
.menubarnb { background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #738FBF !important; }
.lastphocol, .catcolumn, .inner_add, body, table, .tddetails, .tdbackground{ background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #F2F2F2 !important; }
.tableborders { background: #738FBF !important; }
#content, .popular_right_items {background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #F2F2F2 !important; }
#box_right_holder, .box_title, #box_title_holder, .box_ads, #box_center_holder_home, .inner_add {background: #F2F2F2 !important;}
.box_content { background: #F2F2F2 !important; }
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Now, just to find the perfect colour scheme and all the other variables that can be changed!

Edit: Made some changes to the "Quick Reply" font size as well as removed italics from quotes...
 
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LancelotSA said:
Let's do this in plain English as we seem to be on different wavelengths here!!

On the old forum, if I read a thread and no one else had commented in it since it was read by me it would appear in the "new posts" list in plain text and not bold. If someone had commented it would be bold.

You appeared to claim the new style does this too. My post appears to show not. If I have read a thread and in fact posted the last post then why would it appear in bold? I have read it. My comment is the last one.

The new style seems to only use the open and closed blue/grey envelope to indicate whether someone has responded since you last visited the thread.... not very noticeable.

Are we on different wavelengths?
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No, there's also this little icon that indicates news posts since you last read.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/images/buttons/firstnew.png

Admittedly, it's not as obvious as the bold/unbold we had previously, but it's still there.
 
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Rodent-Boy

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For what it's worth, I can see the line separating sigs from posts. It's not that obvious, but it's there.
 
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kilobitsperyear said:
Yup.. it works in FF with stylish too.

I installed stylish, created a new style for mybb, and put the following in...

Now, just to find the perfect colour scheme and all the other variables that can be changed!
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I got this by plugging the following code into Stylish:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document
domain("mybroadband.co.za")

{

/******************* MAIN ********************/

* {
background-color: #262626 !important;

background-image: none !important;

color: #999999 !important;
border-color: #3e3e3e !important;
}

a:link, a:active, a:visited {
color: #0771A6 !important;
}

a:hover {
color: lightgrey !important;
}

}
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Still trying to work on some of the images not displaying though :( Some of the sigs don't display properly either.
 
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Lol yeah still busying playing around with it. The colour is simple to change by modifying the hex values. Getting the images and sigs to display properly is a bit trickier. For example you'll notice the thread status envelopes don't display next to the thread titles.
 
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koffiejunkie

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killadoob said:
Really :D, used to be nice green smiley with teeth
:p pink
:eek: blue with eyes

Huge difference, unless i sit 2cm away from my screen they all look the same to me.
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The :p and :eek: looks the same to me - what's changed?

The :D is rather disastrous though - it just lacks punch. It would be great if rpm could add the old one somehow. And don't take away :eek: - it's one of my favourites.
 
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Isengard

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It's actually growing on me now. The initial shock of the massive change is what gets most people, it just takes some getting used to. I still think the reply box is too big, or at least increase the font size. :)
 
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A couple things I would like to know is how do I view all threads I have started? Also what do the different thread colours mean as when I hover over the icons a blank box comes up.
 
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killadoob

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Smileys are back yay :D

Kilo dude i got into stylish select new style for mybb then i add that code but it does nothing man? What must i select under tags and insert?
 
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Rustum

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I'll miss the previous style. It was more hardcore, and it was part of MyBB's identity for me. Even though it was a popular style used by many forums, I always associated it with MyBB. It was part of its brand.

Now it's all rounded edges, soft grey-blues. Far too 'new media'. And yes, the readability suffers.
 
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D3x

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Some guys will think it looks poo but after a few weeks you won't even remember what the old software looked like.

I think it looks ok & it will grow on people. Because it is such a light colour, some users will end up hurting our eyes by the bright colours they going to put in their sigs! :(
 
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killadoob

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Ya that one is ok but i prefer the dark blue on with threads rather.

Makes it stand out from the other colours better :D

Smileys gone back to the nasty ways i see :(
 
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Probably mentioned before, but i'm not gonna read the whole thread.

It soooooo slooooo and definitely heavier on bandwidth, thats why i liked this forum, easy on the bandwidth and lekker fast.

My great irritation is that there is no mobile version, I read MYBB every night on my cell in bed, its my replacement for a newspaper:eek:, now it doesnt even open on my cell:crying::crying:

Did i mention how slow it is
 
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