Deepmartini
Well-known member
This default theme is nice but hard to read. Where can we see some other color schemes? Can we make our own buttons? Is there an easy change color wheel tool we can use in the admin panel to make changes?
The thing about XF, is that the basic toolset/infrastructure makes it unbelievably easy to skin.
Mark my words: There will an incredible profusion of skins/themes (what are we going to call them btw? As the early users we get to make that call yes?) for XF. jQuery + CSS is an incredibly potent combo for design/layout, once the 3rd party skin/theme (I think I like theme better, less gruesome collateral images ) designers get rolling they are going to knock your socks off with options.
I've never used the term "skin". I always use "theme".There will an incredible profusion of skins/themes (what are we going to call them btw?
IPS calls them skins, Jelsoft called them styles. Perhaps XenForo should go with "themes."
And on a slightly related note, one of the things that's nice with the IPB 3 series is IPS provides a very simple skin generator to licensed customers. It basically takes the default skin and lets you recolor everything in one step. So you can very quickly generate a dark skin, a green skin, a red skin, etc. A lot of people like to simply stick with the default skin, but recolored. And I have a feeling XenForo customers might be the same... Keep the general looks in place but offer a few color variations. I'd hope to see a similar skin generator for this service.
I've never used the term "skin". I always use "theme".
I rather like 'theme' though the thought of going through the code to change all the 'style' references to 'theme' makes me want to cry...
Search + Replace?
I rather like 'theme' though the thought of going through the code to change all the 'style' references to 'theme' makes me want to cry...
Isn't the dropdown list the only place that would show up publicly? So you'd just need to change that to "Default Theme" instead of "Default Style"? Or "Default Eye Candy" or "Default Skin" or whatever.
Erich37 - the only value to me is not having to explain what a "style" is. But it's not any kind of a major issue... hell I don't even know why I'm still talking about it.
you guys are all THINKING as coders, webmasters, people who are actually living within the internet for the last 15 years.
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