Download: Esquire (FREE!)

[Geoffro73]

I am still experiencing a lot of freezing issues with this skin on my forum, many members are complaining of pages freezing up etc :(

Are many other people having this problem???

Can anyone please give some advice???

[R1-Limited]

I am still experiencing a lot of freezing issues with this skin on my forum, many members are complaining of pages freezing up etc :(

Are many other people having this problem???

Can anyone please give some advice???

I have been tracking some issues with my site loading heck - a slow. trace route is showing nothing, ping time is normal, yet the site pages seem to take forever and just loads slow. I have enabled the Stock IP.Board and testing that via IE. So as it is, I love this skin, but it looks more like I will not be using it.

[Planetby]

Just installed this skin again as I keep being drawn to its clean look :)

However some area's don't seem to be playing ball with me (see screenie's):

Arcade:

Donate:

Tutorials:

Index page:

In fact every header except the forum category headers are missing :(

Any idea's Tom as I really want to use this skin.

Thanks, John

[Tom Christian]

The category headers are custom coded so any ones which aren't making use of the custom ones will appear like that.

If you give me the URL to your board I can offer you a quick simple fix.

Basically, rather than just a white invisible background (as it is now) I can tell you how to add a repeating blue background with one CSS edit. (which will fix ALL of the headers.)

[Planetby]

Thanks Tom PM sent with details

[najaru_1]

for maintitle you can change in ipb_style.css

body .maintitle {
background: url({style_images_url}/_custom/sidebar_header.jpg) repeat-x left -42px;
color: #fff;
}


and

/* Maintitle */
body .maintitle {
font-size: 15px;
font-weight: normal;
border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;
-moz-border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px;
padding: 8px !important;
margin: 0 !important;
overflow: hidden;
}

probably Tom has better solution ;)

[Planetby]

Thanks naj :) Tom very kindly popped over and sorted it out, Think I need new glasses :lol:

[Tom Christian]

My solution if anyone wants it:

ACP > Look & Feel > Esquire > CSS > skinground_general.css

Find:

/* Maintitle Bars */

.main_cat_heading {

	background: #0370dc  url({style_images_url}/_custom/cat_header.jpg)  repeat-x 0 -36px;

	height:36px;

}


.main_cat_heading .mch_link {

	color:#fff;

	display:block;

	float:right;

	font:bold 11px tahoma;

	padding-top:2px;

}


.main_cat_heading .mch_l {

	/*padding:0 6px;*/

}


.main_cat_heading .mch_r {

	background:url({style_images_url}/_custom/cat_header.jpg) no-repeat right -72px;

}


.main_cat_heading .mch_r_blank {

	background:url({style_images_url}/_custom/cat_header.jpg) no-repeat right -108px;

}


.mch_desc {

	position:absolute;

	right:35px;

	top:10px;

}


.cat_text {

	background:transparent;

	border:0;

	color:#fff;

	font:bold 11px tahoma;

	margin:0;

	padding:0 2px 7px;

}

Replace With:

/* Maintitle Bars */

.main_cat_heading {

	/*background: #0370dc  url({style_images_url}/_custom/cat_header.jpg)  repeat-x 0 -36px;*/

	height:36px;

}


.main_cat_heading .mch_link {

	color:#fff;

	display:block;

	float:right;

	font:bold 11px tahoma;

	padding-top:2px;

}


.main_cat_heading .mch_l {

	/*padding:0 6px;*/

}


.main_cat_heading .mch_r {

	background:url({style_images_url}/_custom/cat_header.jpg) no-repeat right -72px;

}


.main_cat_heading .mch_r_blank {

     /*background:url({style_images_url}/_custom/cat_header.jpg)  no-repeat right -108px;*/

}


.mch_desc {

	position:absolute;

	right:35px;

	top:10px;

}


.cat_text {

	background:transparent;

	border:0;

	color:#fff;

	font:bold 11px tahoma;

	margin:0;

	/*padding:0 2px 7px;*/

}

Open ACP > Look & Feel > Esquire > CSS > ipb_styles.css Find:

/* Maintitle */

body .maintitle {

	color: #fff; 

    	font: bold 12px tahoma;

	border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;

	-moz-border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;

	-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px;

	-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px;

	padding: 11px !important;

	margin: 0 !important;

	overflow: hidden;

    	position: relative;

}

Replace With:

/* Maintitle */

body .maintitle {

background: #0370dc url({style_images_url}/_custom/cat_header.jpg) repeat-x 0 -36px;

height:14px;

	color: #fff; 

    	font: bold 12px tahoma;

	border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;

	-moz-border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;

	-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px;

	-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px;

	padding: 11px !important;

	margin: 0 !important;

	overflow: hidden;

    	position: relative;

}

And if you have shoutbox installed, add this anywhere in skinground_general.css:

#category_shoutbox.maintitle {

height: 14px !important;

}

[Planetby]

Copied so I can remember it just incase lol, memory like a leaky bucket these days ;)

Thanks for the help Tom and taking the time to nip over to my place

John :)

[Tom Christian]

Copied so I can remember it just incase lol, memory like a leaky bucket these days ;)

Thanks for the help Tom and taking the time to nip over to my place

John :)

No problem John. Glad it's sorted :)

[R1-Limited]

Will this be updated for 3.2?

I hope so, it is a great skin, I would even pay for it if you enhanced it and offered support....

[Tom Christian]

Will this be updated for 3.2?

I hope so, it is a great skin, I would even pay for it if you enhanced it and offered support....

I have no intention of upgrading it at the moment I'm afraid.

I have one more skin in production that will be released in the next few weeks and then I'll no longer have any time to work with the IPB system as I'm moving back to University for my final year. (still supporting the new 3.2 skins though).

[R1-Limited]

I have no intention of upgrading it at the moment I'm afraid.

I have one more skin in production that will be released in the next few weeks and then I'll no longer have any time to work with the IPB system as I'm moving back to University for my final year. (still supporting the new 3.2 skins though).

Bummer Tom, I was going to say even if you migrated this to a fully supported PAID Skin, I would buy it if updated. I like the skin, but I suppose it is in accordance to demand.

Good luck in school