Square Wheels Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 I've always thought this site was a lot harder to read than the 3.4 series. I guess I gave up on it being reverting back to the easier way that it was. It seems every feature that was removed we're told no one wanted it, give me a good reason why we should keep it...I just upgraded today and people are complaining that it is too hard to tell one post from another.How can I help them and make it more distinguished between posts? Ideally every other post would be shaded, I'll settle for a faint line / bar between posts.Thanks
Izaya Orihara Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 I've always thought this site was a lot harder to read than the 3.4 series. I guess I gave up on it being reverting back to the easier way that it was. It seems every feature that was removed we're told no one wanted it, give me a good reason why we should keep it... I just upgraded today and people are complaining that it is too hard to tell one post from another. How can I help them and make it more distinguished between posts? Ideally every other post would be shaded, I'll settle for a faint line / bar between posts. Thanks I checked your community out to see what you mean(BTW your community seems like an amusing bunch lol I don't ride bikes or anything but I already liked them and idek them based on the posts I read) I am a little confused at how they can't distinguish on another. Reading this thread, I am easily able to tell you three apart very well. Although i'd love to be able to put a bar there or some type of line differentiator. Probably something with the theme(It's super light, I hate light themes).
Square Wheels Posted March 1, 2015 Author Posted March 1, 2015 I checked your community out to see what you mean(BTW your community seems like an amusing bunch lol I don't ride bikes or anything but I already liked them and idek them based on the posts I read) I am a little confused at how they can't distinguish on another. I have two sites, one very professional and serious, and then there is thi bunch of clowns. Unless you use the member icons / stats on the left as a guide, I feel it's really hard to see where on posts stops and the next starts.
Izaya Orihara Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 I have two sites, one very professional and serious, and then there is thi bunch of clowns. Unless you use the member icons / stats on the left as a guide, I feel it's really hard to see where on posts stops and the next starts. do you plan to use the ipb4 default style? I think it may just be their style.
Alexander V Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 Skins will fix this, I also aren't fond of this skin. Isn't there also a horizontal topic view?
Heyhoe Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 I think this is an issue in mobile too.Way too much clutter which detracts from the post content.
esquire Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 Part of this probably has to do with the fact that the post separators, avatar for quote,, share button, collapse button, background, the "when posted" text and avatar backgrounds (or postbit for vbers) all use the same or a very similar gray color. If you don't have a high contrast monitor, this probably all appears the same color. You can tell users that it's easy to distinguish posts in IPS 4 using the post number.
Square Wheels Posted March 2, 2015 Author Posted March 2, 2015 Any suggestions on how to fix this while we wait for new themes?
craigf136 Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 You could add the following to custom.css .ipsBox { border-color: #959595; border-radius: 3px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; } Change hex code to suit but anything that uses .ipsbox would be affected.
Square Wheels Posted March 2, 2015 Author Posted March 2, 2015 Thanks, that's beyond what I know how to do.
craigf136 Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 Login to the ACP, click customisation, themes and the select edit html and css </> button. Then click css tab and select custom, custom.css and then copy and paste the above in to the field on the left and click save (the hex code defines the colour, simply select the colour from a hex chart that will suit).If it doesn't work as intended or changes more than desired, click on revert and then save to undo any changes applied to the custom.css file.
Square Wheels Posted March 2, 2015 Author Posted March 2, 2015 Excellent, and thank you. I went with D1D1D1, it's subtle and as you mentioned ipsbox is all over the place.I detected a quirk, possibly my site? I want to leave the default theme alone, so I created Test. It shows up in the menu, and when I select it the site reverts back to Default, so I forced Test on all users.
craigf136 Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 @Square Wheels - you are welcome, if you want to border the right side of the author pane, you can also add this. .cAuthorPane { border-right: 1px solid #d1d1d1; padding: 15px 10px !important; text-align: center; }
Square Wheels Posted March 2, 2015 Author Posted March 2, 2015 OK, when is your first them going to be available, I'll buy it! I added this too. Thank you again.
craigf136 Posted March 2, 2015 Posted March 2, 2015 lol, I'm actually making a theme at the moment to be honest but the changes are based on the default style without severe changes and is a "custom" theme for our site. I could make a version available for the marketplace. The theme I'm creating will utilise a background change option but that wouldn't be available if I ever did add it to the marketplace.
Square Wheels Posted March 2, 2015 Author Posted March 2, 2015 Very nice. I know a few of my people would love a dark theme.
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