Site Updates (Britt)

[Jackie Lupin]

Hello!

I have come with great news. First, I want to thank you for being so patient with my coding process. It's frustrating and time consuming but I've finally worked out the kinks and I'm proud to announce the skin coding has been done! Now for each skin members select, they will have matching side tables to go with it. I've also reduced and modified the original look of the main board to make it more visually appealing and also less clunky (as far as that border around the forum goes.)

Saying that, the code is now ready for use. You can re-copy the global headers and footers as well as the main footer as those were where the changes were made. Furthermore, I know we've been expecting new buttons for staffers but the person helping me on the support boards made a slight error so I'm anticipating those sometime within the next week.

Lastly, the only thing visually you need to add is this code to the category titles. When you click modify, you're able to add UBBC codes into the line and it helps differentiate categories easier. So, the code for that is below. If you need help with any of it, let me know but I wanted to post this here for everyone to see so that way when the code is implemented, they know that they'll have a (slightly more appealing) new skin (=

I hope everyone likes them!
- Jackie

Code for the Category titles:
[center][size=6][font=times]CATEGORY TITLE HERE IN CAPS[/font][/size][/center]

Quick note: I'll be making a new banner/ad button within the next day or so. That way, we can begin our advertising again and get more traffic - people need to see we've come a long way! Not to mention some new members would be nice ♥

EDIT: Britt this is where I also mention that some of the skin coloring was modified too just so you don't overlook that.

[Professor Hermione Potter]

Yes, I saw the new Banner and side graphics. When I have a bit more time next week, I'll be able to transition this. But I've got work stuff I've got to get done this weekend and my boss put me behind since she's got me training managers at other stores this week.

[Jackie Lupin]

No problem, take your time. =) I've been pretty busy myself this weekend with work and I probably won't be back until Tuesday what with the hours I've been getting.

In any case, the staff team at proboards has helped finish our buttons! Like I said, they're not the exact same as they didn't have the original colors (and I don't know what was used on the previous ones either.) Also, she said she made them blink faster but overall, they're transparent so we can use them on any skin!

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[Professor Hermione Potter]

Okay Jackie, I was trying to update with proper links and stuff before converting the coding over. What I'm confused by is which order I need to put the pictures for the side table to make sure they match up to the correct skins.

So happy to see our little icons back, I'll make sure to upload them soon and attribute them correctly.

[Luna Weasley]

Oh! Well, there isn't exactly an order. As long as you copy the entire code, the code knows which skin to assign each set of side table graphics to. I believe the order it is in now works just fine (and may be chronological) but if not you can just copy/paste the whole thing over as fiddling with it gets tedious. Trust me, I know =p

As am I! I've missed pretty gifs vs. the default buttons they provide us with. Glad to see you like them!

[Professor Hermione Potter]

Just so you know, I haven't forgotten about this. I've been playing with the code to figure out how it works. For some reason, when you change a code now, instead of it letting me reset it by removing that one code, it's saving it and forcing me to clear everything and reloading everything just to get back to normal. So I've been playing with the code on my computer and so far no luck, that and I just got married so I was away for a little while.