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Ok, as you're all aware, I was keeping a Bug Report thread for my Forum Skin, dubbed 'Chrome' for quite some time. I was also expecting some progress to be made with the coding behind it as well. I have a few important things to mention here.

First, 'Chrome' is being renamed to Cobalt. I'm sure you won't mind this considering that when talking about the skin it will be easier to distinguish between the skin and Google's lightweight browser.

Secondly, Pembie seems to have disappeared off the face of the Earth for quite some time, and I've had no contact with him either. Taking this into account I know that LV has the code files for the skin uploaded to TheRealN server. What this means is that if you're experienced in coding phpBB skins, I would like you to contact LV, get the code files off him and start working on fixing the bugs, but let me know first.

Here's the Bugs so far if you need it.

• Search Box Stretches Abnormally.
• Usernames have a dark box around them.
• Long locations do not text wrap.
• NUMA Profile Maps is broken.
• Post Reply window is wider than skin itself.
• Forum Headers are misaligned by 1px to the left.
• Announcement Images are strangely squashed.
• Width of the forum is too narrow. Needs to be dynamic.
• Links are hard to identify.

I FOUND ANOTHER BUG PHP IS FOR FAGS LEARN A REAL WEB SCRIPTING LANGUAGE

Just kidding.
I'm actually looking forward to seeing the fruits of this project, and half-sorta-but-not-really wish I had more patience with PHP to contribute to these sorts of things.

Chase wrote:• Width of the forum is too narrow. Needs to be dynamic.

Awesome. I'd prefer a full stretch rather than this pre-set one. Just seems like my 22" monitor is being wasted.

Give me until Friday to get through finals and move back home, and I will gladly dive into this. (I was going to offer anyway, but it seems you actually need help now)

Smartalco that would be amazing! Good luck with your finals and thanks for the help!

Quick addition. Can you edit the links so they have lines underneath them? That would be a good addition.

Template coding actually involves very little PHP. It'll mostly be CSS and phpBB's templating format which just looks like HTML with variables thrown in. You can see everything you'll need to work with here, and an example of the templates after:
http://forum.therealn.com/styles/Chrome/theme/
http://forum.therealn.com/styles/Chrome/template/

We're in luck, Pembie has surfaced and is going to be finishing the new version sometime this week. :)

Awesome. One thing I've been thinking though is that when you remove the box from around the usernames, you are going to have the same problem that was there in the first place with not being able to see some of the usernames properly. I think it may look better if you were to change the usergroup colours to something a little darker maybe?

Yes some of the usergroup colours cannot be seen easily in this skin. Maybe have the colours change dependant on what skin you're using, and make it client side, so that it doesn't change for everyone every time someone changes their skin.

Just make the colors dependent on the skin and leave it at that. How many people are really changing skins often enough that this would get confusing anyway?

Polls maybe? I'd bet that the majority are using chrome, so change the usergroup colours to fit chrome and leave it at that.

Can anyone explain why the main index images are blurred, I don't get it.

The original image is 24x24px, currently your image tag has the width and height set to 23x22px

Ah I get it, I discussed it with LV, the image sizes in the imageset.cfg need to be edited.

So whoever I talk to first shall fix it.

Problem solved.

Chase wrote:Long locations do not text wrap.

Is it possible to fix this? Overflow: hidden or auto? Can you make long strings of text with no spaces linebreak?

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