PPM restyle

John Galt

As I mentioned in this thread, I use Firefox + Stylish to customise the PPM forum skin. Here's what my customised skin looks like.

Several people have expressed interest in using it themselves, so I put it up at userstyles.org . If you too like it, you can find it here. (As the description notes, it was designed to work with the ptifo skin selected, and the ptifo stylesheet blocked.)

Mind that I created it to suite my own needs, and along with recolouring stuff, it also hides or changes some of the interface elements I find distracting. Number one on that list was avatars and signatures. As I might not use all the features the forums have, some pages might look ugly or wtf-y. Use at your own risk. (And I'm aware of certain css rules stepping on each other's toes, don't tell me.)

(If anyone is curious, my desktop is 1280x1024 , with the taskbar on the right side. That explains the odd size of the screenshot.)

ORCACommander · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject:

doesn't look to bad. can you give some steps on how to unblock avatars and signatures?

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m666 · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:05 pm Post subject:

lol I still have the avatars and signatures enabled, I'm too lazy to properly disable them.

Thanks again, DCoder, for this. Perhaps the QDB link about this theme should be provided?

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Crash · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:37 am Post subject:

It looks quite well in my opinion, but I miss something on it... can't quite tell what.

John Galt · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:23 am Post subject:

ORCA: Open the style in Stylish, delete the following code (it's at the bottom), save and refresh.

Code:

.name + br + .postdetails {
display: none;
}

div.postdetails + div.postbody {
display: none;
}

M666: It's already in the original post, "expressed interest".

Style updated slightly.

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Instead of changing the style per account, why not just completely change it into more of the main site-like theme? You know, darker blue...

It doesn't look very good when some of the buttons stick out so much.

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John Galt · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:41 pm Post subject:

Because that involves Banshee, and Banshee has said that he will not do any modifications to this until phpbb3 is released and the forum gets upgraded.

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

I can't remember the old ppmsite style well, but wasn't it dark blue?

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DonutArnold · General **Joined**: 18 Jan 2005 **Location**: Finland

If I remember correctly, it was kinda dark blue & black and there was a cool picture on top...

Owen the Elf Jedi · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject:

Is there anyway to do this with Internet Explorer?

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John Galt · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject:

Yes. Step 1: Download Firefox.

... Seriously, no. Internet Options > Accessibility > "[x] Format documents using my stylesheet" would work, but that would apply to all sites, not just PPM.

Crash · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject:

Will it work with Opera you think?