List of larger forums with just color / EXTRA.CSS changes

[Marcus]

A great idea to keep update hassles down to a minimum is to not change the style at all. Currently I know one forum of this kind:

forums.digitalpoint.com

Do you know more forums that rely 100% on stock style and only add/change it by template from addons?

 

[Matthew Hawley]

@MattW z22se.co.uk

 

[CTXMedia]

All eight of mine are stock XF with colour/logo changes to give them their own identity; with CycleChat being the biggest amongst them @ 2.5M posts.

Having struggled (or had to pay) to upgrade fully customised themes with other forum software, as well as having them broken by core updates, I decided that with XF I would limit the changes to CSS styling and very minor template changes so as to minimise the impact as the software evolved (minimal add-ons too for similar reasons).

 

[Paul B]

Mine's not big but it's just SP changes and EXTRA.css additions.

With 1.2 though, issues are much less reduced due to the template merging and template modification features.

 

[Sheratan]

I use stock style. It helps a lot when you upgrade your forum.

My forum

Well it's not a big forum anyway.

 

[Moshe1010]

I use stock style. It helps a lot when you upgrade your forum.

My forum

Well it's not a big forum anyway.

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/5859/owm.png

Chrome 27 OSX

 

[Matthew Hawley]

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/5859/owm.png

Chrome 27 OSX

I can confirm this.

 

[Moshe1010]

It's a known bug though that I've reported, and it was fixed in 1.2.

 

[Sheratan]

Strange. One of my forum member are using Mac but he don't have any problem about that.

 

[Moshe1010]

Strange. One of my forum member are using Mac but he don't have any problem about that.

It's more of a browser issue.

 

[Sheratan]

It's more of a browser issue.

Disabled it... for a while.

 

[RobParker]

All eight of mine are stock XF with colour/logo changes to give them their own identity; with CycleChat being the biggest amongst them @ 2.5M posts.

Having struggled (or had to pay) to upgrade fully customised themes with other forum software, as well as having them broken by core updates, I decided that with XF I would limit the changes to CSS styling and very minor template changes so as to minimise the impact as the software evolved (minimal add-ons too for similar reasons).

Are you aware that your advert breaks the layout on an ipad? The top advert is too wide and overlays the sidebar, blocking the sign up button.

 

[CTXMedia]

Are you aware that your advert breaks the layout on an ipad? The top advert is too wide and overlays the sidebar, blocking the sign up button.

Yeah, something I plan to address in 1.2 with Adsense responsive ad code.

 

[DRE]

A lot of what's done in EXTRA.CSS can easily be done in Style Properties. Get to learn the Style Properties system very well you won't regret it. Most of my site's only changes is in Style Properties and Extra.css (which mostly just covers the customization of other addons).