New site - Pause Gaming

[Sideshow]

New colour scheme is good. Menu grey is a little dark, but overall, nice!

[Bluepixie]

Cheers! We've still got a fair bit to go, but it's going well. CSS is lovely. :)

[Sideshow]

CSS is cool, but it's not lovely. For example, you've borked the main menu sidebar :)

Also, the forum isn't remembering my login. Punt Jan!

[DAve]

Yeah, it's looking good so far - as Sideshow says.

For the colours etc. it should be easy enough done to change - as long as the menus work and it validates I'm all for it!
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pausegaming.com%2F
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.pausegaming.com/

Are you planning to update the forum colourscheme too?
If so, can you create a "pausegaming" skin so it's reasonably easy to still get access to the admin area if it goes horribly wrong. I've had to manually reset the forums a few times because of just that!

[Strings]

Looks nice but it isn't remembering my login either. Or sometimes it just refuses to let me login.

And when I DO login, it doesn't alert me to any new posts etc :(

[DAve]

Looks nice but it isn't remembering my login either. Or sometimes it just refuses to let me login.

And when I DO login, it doesn't alert me to any new posts etc :(
Clear your cookies.
Clear you cache.

I've had the same problems once or twice too.

[Bluepixie]

The forum should be in full working order now. The new skin colours are not quite sorted yet, i've spotted a few things that need changed. Most of the stuff of the website works now but we still need to tackle the wiki.

[Sideshow]

The forum column width is set up wrong - you have to scroll right to fit the message body in screen. Probably an incorrect 'width: 100%;' in the CSS.

[Bluepixie]

it's working fine for me. Was res do you use again?

[Sideshow]

1024 wide

[Bluepixie]

hmmmm, will have to get Jan to look at it. I'm going down south tomorrow, so not going to have time. :(

[Sideshow]

Messing around with resizing the window: it works OK when the viewport is more than about 986 pixels wide. This means it's likely due to some absolute coordinates (which are bad practice). We'll see what Jan makes of it :)

[Sideshow]

So, yeah, when I said I was 1024 wide what I meant was I was less than 980 wide... idiot. It works fine 1024 wide.

My trawl through the CSS wasn't completely fruitless though: I made this alternate forum style, for we who like it less gothy: zip file (http://www.snakebomb.com/misc/forumstyle.zip)
Can you or Jan add it as a selectable option in the user profile?

[DAve]

My trawl through the CSS wasn't completely fruitless though: I made this alternate forum style, for we who like it less gothy: zip file (http://www.snakebomb.com/misc/forumstyle.zip)
Can you or Jan add it as a selectable option in the user profile?
And bring back the original subSilver and Guns templates too! I think this template is a little too dark for me.

[Sideshow]

The original SubSilver and Solaris should be brought back, though I think putting the old GUNS scheme in would cause unnecessary confusion. Don't worry DAve, the one I uploaded is very similar to old guns one.

If you have GreaseMonkey then here's the script:

/*
* Title: Pausegaming CSS Skin
* Description: Greasemonkey script for Firefox to change the
appearance of PG Forums
* Author: IK
* Updated: 03/09/2006
*
*/

// ==UserScript==
// @name PauseGaming CSS Skin
// @description Greasemonkey script for Firefox to change the appearance of GMail
// @include http://pausegaming.com/forum/*
// @include http://www.pausegaming.com/forum/*
// ==/UserScript==

(function(){
function addGlobalStyle(css) {
var head, style;
head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
if (!head) { return; }
style = document.createElement('style');
style.type = 'text/css';
style.innerHTML = css;
head.appendChild(style);
}

var newStyle = ''+
'body {' +
' background-color: #FFFFFF;' +
' scrollbar-face-color: #DEE3E7;' +
' scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFFF;' +
' scrollbar-shadow-color: #DEE3E7;' +
' scrollbar-3dlight-color: #D1D7DC;' +
' scrollbar-arrow-color: #006699;' +
' scrollbar-track-color: #EFEFEF;' +
' scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #98AAB1;' +
'}' +
'font,th,td,p { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif }' +
'a:link,a:active,a:visited { color : #B70013; text-decoration: underline;}' +
'a:hover { text-decoration: underline; color : #E70023; }' +
'hr { height: 0px; border: solid #6b0000 0px; border-top-width: 1px;}' +
'.bodyline { background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px #FFFFFF solid; }' +
'.forumline { background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 2px #000000 solid; }' +
'td.row1 { background-color: #EEEEEE; }' +
'td.row2 { background-color: #DDDDDD; }' +
'td.row3 { background-color: #EEEEEE; }' +
'td.rowpic {' +
' background-color: #6B0000;' +
' background-repeat: repeat-y;' +
'}' +
'th {' +
' color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 11px; font-weight : bold;' +
' background-color: #6b0000; height: 25px;' +
'}' +
'td.cat,td.catHead,td.catSides,td.catLeft,td.catRi ght,td.catBottom {' +
' background-color:#6b0000; border: #000000; border-style: solid; height: 28px;' +
'}' +
'td.cat,td.catHead,td.catBottom {' +
' height: 29px;' +
' border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;' +
'}' +
'th.thHead,th.thSides,th.thTop,th.thLeft,th.thRigh t,th.thBottom,th.thCornerL,th.thCornerR {' +
' font-weight: bold; border: #000000; border-style: solid; height: 28px; }' +
'td.row3Right,td.spaceRow {' +
' background-color: #DDDDDD; border: #000000; border-style: solid; }' +
'th.thHead,td.catHead { font-size: 12px; border-width: 1px 1px 0px 1px; }' +
'th.thSides,td.catSides,td.spaceRow { border-width: 0px 1px 0px 1px; }' +
'th.thRight,td.catRight,td.row3Right { border-width: 0px 1px 0px 0px; }' +
'th.thLeft,td.catLeft { border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; }' +
'th.thBottom,td.catBottom { border-width: 0px 1px 1px 1px; }' +
'th.thTop { border-width: 1px 0px 0px 0px; }' +
'th.thCornerL { border-width: 1px 0px 0px 1px; }' +
'th.thCornerR { border-width: 1px 1px 0px 0px; }' +
'.maintitle,h1,h2 { color: #000000;' +
' font-weight: bold; font-size: 22px; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;' +
' text-decoration: none; line-height : 120%; color : #FFFFFF;' +
'}' +
'.gen { font-size : 12px; }' +
'.genmed { font-size : 11px; }' +
'.gensmall { font-size : 10px; }' +
'.gen,.genmed,.gensmall { color : #888888; }' +
'a.gen,a.genmed,a.gensmall { color: #888888; text-decoration: none; }' +
'a.gen:hover,a.genmed:hover,a.gensmall:hover { color: #000000; text-decoration: underline; }' +
'.mainmenu { font-size : 11px; color : #000000 }' +
'a.mainmenu { text-decoration: none; color : #000000; }' +
'a.mainmenu:hover{ text-decoration: underline; color : #000000; }' +
'.cattitle { font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px ; letter-spacing: 1px; color : #000000}' +
'a.cattitle { text-decoration: none; color : #FFFFFF; }' +
'a.cattitle:hover{ text-decoration: underline; }' +
'.forumlink { font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; color : #C70013; }' +
'a.forumlink { text-decoration: none; color : #C70013; }' +
'a.forumlink:hover{ text-decoration: underline; color : #E70023; }' +
'.nav { font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; color : #C70013;}' +
'a.nav { text-decoration: none; color : #C70013; }' +
'a.nav:hover { text-decoration: underline; color:#E70023;}' +
'.topictitle { font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; color : #000000; }' +
'a.topictitle:link { text-decoration: none; color : #C70013; }' +
'a.topictitle:visited { text-decoration: none; color : #C70013; }' +
'a.topictitle:hover { text-decoration: underline; color : #E70023; }' +
'.name { font-size : 11px; color : #C70013;}' +
'.postdetails { font-size : 10px; color : #000000; }' +
'.postbody { font-size : 12px; color: #000000;}' +
'a.postlink:link { text-decoration: none; color : #C70013; }' +
'a.postlink:visited { text-decoration: none; color : #C70013; }' +
'a.postlink:hover { text-decoration: underline; color : #E70023}' +
'.code {' +
' font-family: Courier, "Courier New", sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #333333;' +
' background-color: #FFFFFF; border: #000000; border-style: solid;' +
' border-left-width: 1px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px' +
'}' +
'.quote {' +
' font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #333333; line-height: 125%;' +
' background-color: #FFFFFF; border: #000000; border-style: solid;' +
' border-left-width: 1px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px' +
'}' +
'.copyright { font-size: 10px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #444444; letter-spacing: -1px;}' +
'a.copyright { color: #444444; text-decoration: none;}' +
'a.copyright:hover { color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;}' +
'input,textarea, select {' +
' color : #000000;' +
' font: normal 11px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;' +
' border-color : #000000;' +
'}' +
'input.post, textarea.post, select {' +
' background-color : #FFFFFF;' +
'}' +
'input { text-indent : 2px; }' +
'input.button {' +
' background-color : #DDDDDD;' +
' color : #000000;' +
' font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;' +
'}' +
'input.mainoption {' +
' background-color : #DDDDDD;' +
' font-weight : bold;' +
'}' +
'input.liteoption {' +
' background-color : #DDDDDD;' +
' font-weight : normal;' +
'}' +
'.helpline { background-color: #DEE3E7; border-style: none; }' +
'@import url("formIE.css");' +
'';




//Apply Styles
addGlobalStyle(newStyle);
})()

[Sideshow]

You can call the two PauseGaming skins 'Light side' and 'Dark side' :)

[DAve]

The original SubSilver and Solaris should be brought back, though I think putting the old GUNS scheme in would cause unnecessary confusion.
That's fine, I just would like a fairly neutral light colour. What about using the red colour as the main colour and black as the highlight?

[Sideshow]

Screenshot (except I've negatived the logo in the zip file)
http://www.snakebomb.com/misc/shot.jpg

[Bluepixie]

Looking good iain. I've just sent you the admin stuff so you can get it uploaded to the server. Light Side and Dark Side are good names, go for it! :)

[Sideshow]

Jan, WTF is wrong with the ftp?! I log in with the admin account, and I can see all the folders but I can't upload anything.