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Sean C. Smith
Posted: 06 July 2005 08:34 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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I’ve pretty much finished making a forum theme for the logical blocks template set. It does look slightly different but, still flows nicely from a logical blocks site.

I had some trouble getting the header section wrapped with white like it is in the blog template, so I left it as is. Additionally I wanted to use the tabs for links next to the breadcrumb trail, but couldn’t figure that out. I didn’t want the breadcrumb to be tabbed, but rather on a second seperate line, formatted as is.

EFL Geek is my logical blocks based site. You can see my forums here. I have a couple of more things to tweak and once it is completely finished, if there is interest I’ll make a zip file available for download.

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Posted: 06 July 2005 08:36 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Looks great.  I hope you’ll link to it from a wiki page.  =)

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Posted: 06 July 2005 08:38 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Sure, once I get a coupe of things tweaked - one of which is I can’t figure out where to change the link color in the private message box at the top…

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Posted: 06 July 2005 08:39 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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I’d have to login to see that.  That’s such an effort. ;p

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Posted: 06 July 2005 08:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Change

.privatemessagebox{
background:        #CCC url(http://eflgeek.com/themes/forum_themes/geek/images/pm_box_bg.gif) repeat left top;
padding:3px;
border-top:3px solid #4E548F;
border-left:3px solid #4E548F;
border-bottom:3px solid #4E548F;
border-right:3px solid #4E548F;
border-style: groove;
color: #333;
}

You could also specifically declare a attributes for it, I didn’t see any.

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Posted: 06 July 2005 09:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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If you want to download this theme it is now available. In addition to the kinks mentioned above, the pm box and mini-login screw up the banner a little in IE. I’ve got some other things to work on now and a 1 week trip to Singapore this weekend, but I will try to figure it out later. You can see the theme in action at EFL Geek Forums. The zip file includes the default logo, not the one I am using and a text link with the forum name on top of the logo.

Logical Blocks Forum Theme

In the future any changes will be automatically added to this zip.

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Chris Curtis
Posted: 06 July 2005 09:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Be sure to submit it to EE Design when you’re done, too.

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chad.weinman
Posted: 07 July 2005 10:08 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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nice work!

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CharlesG
Posted: 07 July 2005 08:52 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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Thanks, Linguist!  I’ve uploaded the theme to EE Design <a href=“http://www.eedesign.org/index/eed/comments/logical-blocks-forum-template/”>here</a>.  smile
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Posted: 07 July 2005 09:17 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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TL: Looks great!!
I still have to get off my butt and do a style for the CP! I’m missing my pink!

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Posted: 31 July 2005 04:40 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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I fully agree with MelodramaBabs and the others:
eflgeek.com…forums is very nice, indeed!

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How many hours did it take to make the new forums theme?
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Sean C. Smith
Posted: 31 July 2005 05:04 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]  
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It’s been a while and I dont’ really remember, but I think it was somewhere around 5 hours. Someone with better CSS skills would probably be able to do it faster.

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Posted: 01 August 2005 01:31 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]  
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Thanks for your answer. I hope that encourages lots of forum holders to give theme customization a try.
I’ll try too.
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Posted: 23 January 2006 10:09 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]  
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I just uploaded the theme to my themes/forum_themes directory—there are now 2 folders: default and LB-forum.

Unfortunately when I click on the “theme preferences” I only get the “Default Forum Theme” showing.

Any thoughts on what could be wrong? I’m running EE 1.4.1. Thanks.
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Sean C. Smith
Posted: 17 June 2006 12:06 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]  
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Just updated this theme to include the tabs - previously I hadn’t figured out how to get them there.

you can see the entry at EEDesign

Additionally this logical blocks now has a wiki theme to match.

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Posted: 03 July 2007 06:46 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 15 ]  
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Well… doesn’t work for me… All I’ve got is error message

Unable to locate the following forum theme file: LB-forum/theme_javascript.php

Any idea where to get that file?
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