Time got away from me completely on skinning both of my forums, but I've made a weak attempt to personalise it a little bit by adding the logo and a strapline to the title. I plan on colouring everything too but I'm working on quite a number of other projects just now. In a couple of months time (and assuming WoW hasn't died out by then) I'll need to talk to the WoW admins about a plugin for the site which will manage WoW activity. I know nothing about the game, but I plan writing ...
Crumbs. I'd forgotten just how horrid it is to style forums so I've decided to do it all offline and just 'surprise' you all when it's done. Because the the size of job it may take a while, so please be patient! Any suggestions about styling would be warmly welcome. Just post them here in my blog - everything will be considered. Possibly. On a plus side, vBulletin 4 seems to be better for accessing styling options - it's just a pity there are hundreds of them. :-/ ...
Okay - so now the forum is up and running, it's my intent to manually skin it from top to bottom. I'm going to hand-draw / alter icons and get a colour scheme up. I'm also going to design a banner for all the pages and perhaps reinvent the Badacid Logo in a 3D package. So... as per my forum post, I'd like some images of characters from games - close up screenshots from in-game of characters that I can use in the web design. It doesn't matter what game (fps ...
Thought I'd give a little insight into why this silly upgrade took yonks to complete. Here's what I did....Backed up mySQL data using SSH Downloaded web / sql data to local Set up a working offline copy of the forum Installed new forum Attempted to import just what I needed Didn't work Scrapped it Rebuilt new forum with intent of only importing relevant stuff Got right to the end before realising importer didn't take attachments over Gave up Uploaded files to live webserver Went ...
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