Forum Images

I think the forum images should be closer to what they looked in older Bungie.net. The current images are nice, but they feel very casual with the unique style of the community.

 Here's an example of what I am talking about.

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We are steadily moving toward b.old, and while some things will likely be implemented (like those banners) other things will not. It's more a question of fair use of the images; I didn't make them, after all, and I don't want to get into trouble for copying them exactly. Perhaps a recreation of the banners, eventually, like what I made with the forum icons.

Stuff like the side-column for pinned threads and ads won't be added, though.

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Yeah, I was talking about re-creating those images, and design. So I guess, you are going for a similar design to Bungie.net during Halo 3?

Perhaps a recreation of the banners, eventually, like what I made with the forum icons.

Stuff like the side-column for pinned threads and ads won't be added, though.

We are steadily moving toward b.old, and while some things will likely be implemented (like those banners) other things will not. It's more a question of fair use of the images; I didn't make them, after all, and I don't want to get into trouble for copying them exactly. Perhaps a recreation of the banners, eventually, like what I made with the forum icons.

Stuff like the side-column for pinned threads and ads won't be added, though.

But let's say a user of this site made a script to replicate b.old and released on a third party platform like Stylish and distributed it freely to everyone else, that would be alright eh?

Fuck yes that would be alright; I just don't want to get my hands in it.

Yeah, I was talking about re-creating those images, and design. So I guess, you are going for a similar design to Bungie.net during Halo 3?

Yes; I'm a fan of that look over any of the others.

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Scripting, as in JS and CSS? I can handle those. I have some experience in web design.

Hmm I wonder who else is good at scripting besides Solonoid.....

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It's alright, but it's just a huge amount of work. Because I would have to take whatever we have from archived pages of Bungie.net, re-write it (Bungie.net's style code was a mess), and finally re-implement it to comply with the current theme and SMF. Which would mean each time Cheat would apply a change, I'd have to rush through everything and fix it.

I think it would be better, if we started a GitHub project for it, rather than suggest people with the ability to take onto such a large, and time consuming task on their hands alone.

Well maybe you should look into making that theme eh?

EDIT: I hope this doesn't come off as me being facetious

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It's alright, but it's just a huge amount of work. Because I would have to take whatever we have from archived pages of Bungie.net, re-write it (Bungie.net's style code was a mess), and finally re-implement it to comply with the current theme and SMF. Which would mean each time Cheat would apply a change, I'd have to rush through everything and fix it.

I think it would be better, if we started a GitHub project for it, rather than suggest people with the ability to take onto such a large, and time consuming task on their hands alone.

Well maybe you should look into making that theme eh?

EDIT: I hope this doesn't come off as me being facetious

The site structure won't likely change too drastically; maybe a bit of styling/color changes and updates to the forum banners.

The mobile theme just uses media queries to re-size everything, which you could probably check out by using "inspect element". How much are you looking to change, anyway? CSS styles can only do so much when the site runs in PHP.

Doesn't matter what the site runs into. CSS can change the styling of pretty much everything. PHP is there to ensure that the content is pulled and shown, and HTML is just a silly thing to have a certain structure with which to interwove everything into.

The issue really happens, in case, for example, that there's a hot topic, but from the code perspective there's no icon loaded for a "hot thread" and therefore, with CSS, I can't really show an icon for a hot thread if the forum doesn't give out which one is a hot thread.

Right now, the issue would be basically overwriting certain things that are handled in the way SMF handles themes. Therefore, it would be much easier for me to just write a theme for SMF from scratch based on old Bungie.net and some nice touch for icons, rather than do the work of both finding ways to manipulate the current theme, and to make them work and look like a website from 2008.

Again, with hot threads the sample is that the hot thread icon is loaded through an image tag in HTML. I would have to inject using CSS to hide the image tag after the specific class of the table and then overwrite it with a background image that I would will to simulate the icon of Bungie.old. Here's the code for this sample;

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td.icon2 .windowbg img {
    background: url(hot_thread.gif); /* New hot thread image */
}
That's code just for the CSS. I would have to translate into a javascript  source file, which is then loaded through Greasemonkey and effectively injects itself with the current theme.

The mobile theme just uses media queries to re-size everything, which you could probably check out by using "inspect element". How much are you looking to change, anyway? CSS styles can only do so much when the site runs in PHP.

And I'm just sitting here barely understanding anything because I only took one year of Web Design. 

What you don't understand exactly? Maybe it's the way I explain things.

And I'm just sitting here barely understanding anything because I only took one year of Web Design.

What you don't understand exactly? Maybe it's the way I explain things.

And I'm just sitting here barely understanding anything because I only took one year of Web Design.

Nah that was to be taken as a joke, you're fine.