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Features | IV is a slick, tech'y skin with glassy elements, shadows and gradients. This is a work in progress and is no where near finished. You are welcome to use it and I'll work on it over time. As of now it works in
IE browsers pre version7 screw things up pretty bad, however I'll soon begin creating special CSS specific to pre IE7 so the page will still render as something presentable and acceptable. A lot of use of background images to create illusions of shadows and things like the panel roll up widgets have been used. The header navigation elements are fixed on the page with a z-index of 100 so they appear to act like frames, remaining in place while the content scrolls up under them. Version Notes (from here on I'll post notes) version 0.1.0 - officially a beta now. |
Things I'd like to do but can't seem to find a way
- I'd love to know how to change the stars for ratings and if there is some way.
- I thought I had it figured out but i guess not, if anyone knows how to use the main_nav c1 c2 extra divs to add sides let me know.
- also I know I'm really hacking things more than the skins system might be designed for however. The YouTube Object / Embed items float over the divs I've set with z-index of 100 this should be enough to make those divs float over anything... so I also went back and set the z-index of the object, embed and the entire blog post ID to a -100 z-index this should really FORCE the embed below the other divs yet some how it STILL floats over them????? HUH?
Edward O'Rourke IV
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soon as I have it mostly finished for firefox I'll then go back and do hacks and fixes to semi support IE :- if possible.
I tried just adding my own stars to see if it picks them up but it doesn't
I'd also like to know how to edit this page too it's not in the dev kit and I don't see a way to get it to follow all my css it only follows some of it.
but it would be great if we could edit those as well if we're really going to be able to make mods like this.
you may also want to consider allowing more than one css set up....
main, pre IE 7 and IE 7 or better so we can make special CSS for them rather than using CSS hacks that I'm using now lol
like using underscores to address IE6 and *to address IE7
it would seem to be a lot more efficient if the header would address multiple css files directed at that broswer.
I know I'm asking for a lot but just putting thoughts out there
I've brought up some of this to JV so maybe in the future we'll have the ability.
my main concern was the images are meant to be on a light background.... it doesn't work well on anything much darker and forget doing a fully black skin.
Any tips you have would be appreciated. It might also be fun to see who's using the skin if that would be possible.
what specific image problems?
it's more than just simple skinning I've gone and really changed things most would never bother trying to change. so with that I'd say it will take more time to really work out the kinks.
but it's nice that people will might use it once it's complete.
Lot's done on the skin lot's to go too....
Maybe by the weekend I'll ge to hacking out some fixes so it at least renders somewhat normal in anything below IE 7
It should be looking ok in everything else at this point.... overall I'm happy and I've managed to really stretch what the skin system was meant to do >:) hope I didn't hurt it too much JV ;)
Any way night everyone leave me feedback and suggestions so I can keep makin progress on it
Thanks for the feedback and help testing.... I want to be sure everything works as best it can.
http://www.woyano.com/vie.../4779/Heres-my-screenshot
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http://www.woyano.com/sit...ts/4/7/8/4782-scrnsht.JPG
have you changed anything about your browser? plugins? text size?
Is this problem using Firefox or IE? It's mentioned in the notes that it's not working in IE pre version 7 yet. IE below version 7 is pretty wacky and doesn't play by the rules... so once I have the style complete for all other borwsers I would be going back and simplifying it for the old IE browsers.
FireFox on all platforms should be displaying the skin correctly.
Hope this helps
Oh wait. I am having some problems with other skins and Firefox, the problems simply aren't as blatant. It could be something to do with fonts, I suppose.
(Got it. It's screen resolution. My default's 800x600, the skins here only work 100% in 1024x768. Oh well... sorry about that).
Screen size and font size are always 2 things I always ask when someone says a site doesn't look right. sadly I can't adjust your screen set up :)
I'm judging by the default sizes in the default css they are mostly targeting a screen of 1024 X 768 since most of the widths they specify and over 800 this would be outside the viewable area on a screen set to 800 X 600
I just went with the flow of what they had set up I didn't go wider :) but I didn't plan for smaller either.
Maybe I'll do one a bit different that can squish up better one day.
Cheers!
Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)