Help with button graphics

[John Cooper]

I'll swap in those old ones for the main buttons - but as I mentioned, there's more other new buttons that we'll need to tweak.

Ok, I swapped in and renamed most of the old ones and they look ok. There's still some new ones that and others that I should be able to tweak. Thanks guys for your help!

I guess I should try to figure out what's wrong with the site on IE now!
-John

[hifiboom]

warps design looks great!

btw I also noticed the small pm space quite often.

A bigger pm space is welcomed.

Apart from some of the icons the migration looks quite good already.

cheers and thanks.

[Warp69]

More space, in terms of maximum # of pm's? How many would be enough? (I just bumped it to 200).

Apparently I need more than 200 then..............

I would really appreciate if you could bump the number of messages to 500.

Since John have succesfully migrated the old design - I'll stop messing around. But you can find the PSD file right here - www.relab.dk/graphics/Icons.psd

Cheers

[Fede]

Some new additions..

finished transforming..., please, John and whoever wants, let me know if you like them, and if any are missing.

cheers
Fede

P.S.: for me the number of attachments has to be raised to more than 3

[Fede]

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[braincell]

I wish you could bump up the file size in the music section to 11 megs.

[John Cooper]

Thanks Fede. I installed your latest, and it all looks good. Great work!
Thanks also Warp for your efforts. I appreciate it!

You guys rock!
-John

[John Cooper]

I would really appreciate if you could bump the number of messages to 500.

Seriously?? Time to clean out your inbox!
(bumped)
-John

[hifiboom]

I thought I need a new harddrive, but if you can raise the pm box to 200GB, that d be great. lol


no seriously new design looks great, now the icons are fine too.

Thumbs up for your work.

[kylie]

there are so-called pm icons shown when you write or answer to a pm. they still look, um, strange

[Fede]

Thanks Fede. I installed your latest, and it all looks good. Great work!

Glad you liked them, I'm not a graphic expert!

there are so-called pm icons shown when you write or answer to a pm. they still look, um, strange

...oops, didn't see... I'll have a look when I'm back at home, some other fine tunings are probably to be done...
The attachment icon seem to me being too high, resulting in thicker rows where it is displayed.
There are also mini icons at the top of the page to be addressed.
and I should fix light/shading effects on some newer small icons, they have a little shade in the opposite light direction..

btw, also the theme by Warp looks very good!

cheers
Fede

[John Cooper]

there are so-called pm icons shown when you write or answer to a pm. they still look, um, strange

Thanks for pointing those out.
Fede, these are not in the zip I uploaded. They're in another folder in the forums - not as part of the theme. They need to be fixed for transparency, like the other smilies. I'll take care of it soon.

-John

[Fede]

Fede, these are not in the zip I uploaded [...] I'll take care of it soon.

-John

ok! if you need anything else tell me. In the meanwhile I've fixed background light effect issue on smaller new buttons (20x20) like "report topic"/"warn user"... they should now look similar to other buttons, this is the zip:

images old-new.zip

(61.08 KiB) Downloaded 180 times

cheers
Fede

[valis]

Looks like I checked into this thread too late, had a bit of a hectic life the past 7 days due to some unfortunate events in our family. If you still need anything please speak up, I've been doing phpbb stuff since about 2000/2001. Handling most of the buttons if fairly easy for me using their PSD, though there's always a few variants that they neglect to include each year (easily added by hand to the psd & slicing info added).

Also, when you can't find the css it's usually because it's embedded in the tpl files.

All in all big change here for me after being away for a week!

[John Cooper]

If you still need anything please speak up, I've been doing phpbb stuff since about 2000/2001. Handling most of the buttons if fairly easy for me using their PSD, though there's always a few variants that they neglect to include each year (easily added by hand to the psd & slicing info added).

OMG, I just googled for a subsilver psd, and found one. I wish I had that before, it would obviously make the button tweaks much easier. Fede, I hope this is what you were doing!
You're right though, some of the items are missing.

Also, when you can't find the css it's usually because it's embedded in the tpl files.

Yeah, I realize that. Firebug is a great tool for figuring out this stuff!
But there's still some really strange stuff with IE going on. In the end, i'm not really sure what fixed the IE issues. I changed a lot of stuff, and then changed it back to what it was before, and it was mostly fixed - so it may be something about whitespace parsing. Sheesh, who knows!

Thanks again,
-John

[John Cooper]

ok! if you need anything else tell me. In the meanwhile I've fixed background light effect issue on smaller new buttons (20x20) like "report topic"/"warn user"... they should now look similar to other buttons

Thanks Fede! Installed, looks good.
In case you do any more work, please rename icon_topic_newest_.gif to icon_topic_newest.gif (remove trailing underscore).

Thanks again,
John

[valis]

Yeah, I realize that. Firebug is a great tool for figuring out this stuff!
But there's still some really strange stuff with IE going on. In the end, i'm not really sure what fixed the IE issues. I changed a lot of stuff, and then changed it back to what it was before, and it was mostly fixed - so it may be something about whitespace parsing. Sheesh, who knows!

Thanks again,
-John

IE6 has several bugs that can cause layout and border rendering issues. There are also differences between overall default values between browsers. The normal way for handling this these days is to use a 'css reset' stylesheet loaded at the top of your main/default css file or as the first referenced css file in your html doc, and then adding additional conditional IF IE6 / IF IE7 stylesheet declarations after your main/default declaration. Of course doing that to an existing phpbb layout is a pain in the butt! So I would tend to agree I just hack away until things (mostly) work.

Btw I use MS Virtual PC (free) with an IE6 XP Sp3 compatibility testing image to test IE6 compatibility (also available from MS for free as well as other IE/OS combinations). There's also a dll hack method available called Multiple IEs but I found that the virtual pc approach was a lot more flexible as I can use it for IE8 testing as well and don't intend to support IE versions previous to 6 in any of my efforts.

[John Cooper]

Thanks for the info Valis! You rock!
-John

[valis]

np

[Warp69]

Seriously?? Time to clean out your inbox!
(bumped)
-John

Probably, but its awesome that you increased the numbers of messages. Thank you very much.

Martin