New Theme for Principia Discordia Forum

[Reverend Jeremiah]

Holy Crap Reverend, Your Alive!!!! I haven't seen you in months!

Yeah, Im back. I had to take a LONG trip for work and net access was difficult and expensive for me to get at the time.

as far as the CSS, I have done the same method of editing the sheet on my arcade and I have seen no problems of white screening, so it isnt the editing method. Apparently there is some kind of administration problem with word press or perhaps I have left out a code on the CSS. Honestly, I have never seen anything like this before. It works for me on one computer, but every other computer cant see it.

[Dr Goofy]

Well it is good to see you back even if it is a different place!

I have had similar problems to that but mine was mostly the css update didn't take on the tomcat server.

[Reverend Jeremiah]

Well it is good to see you back even if it is a different place!

I have had similar problems to that but mine was mostly the css update didn't take on the tomcat server.

Well, I wanted to help TCOG with their wonderful site...they wanted to make me a reverend but I was more interested in helping the look of the site (thats why my signature bar says "custodian"). I love the absurdist/atheist/nutty sites out there and they inspire me to get creative. I have done a shitload work for this site so far, but for some reason only I can see it  and it is REALLY pissing me off.

I have got some SWEET plans for a custom template for THIS forum, but I really want to get this sandbox template done.. and it is at 90% right now.

Shout out to 000

do you have a test site with Word Press / sandbox on it? I can zip up the style sheet and post it for you. I honestly cannot understand why I am the only one who can see this style when I KNOW I am uploading it to the test site and it is public code.

[Dr Goofy]

Yea that and Matt is never around to update the main site and I do not think Loki has permissions.You could always stop by we are in need of a rebuild over there.

Joined your site as well but have not popped in.

I have seen this error before but for the life of me can not remember the fix!

[Reverend Jeremiah]

Yea that and Matt is never around to update the main site and I do not think Loki has permissions.You could always stop by we are in need of a rebuild over there.

Joined your site as well but have not popped in.

I have seen this error before but for the life of me can not remember the fix!

I was willing to help them update the entire forum. Im damn good at forum software, especially SMF... I would love to see TCOG look a bit "cleaner" if you know what I mean. The original TCOG images were a bit fuzzy and I cleaned them up, and I also know that his forums software has revolving mods that he can get those banners revolving. A revolving banner makes a forum MUCH more interesting.

My site is based on a forum but I didnt choose the software for the forum. Yeah, its nice, but I do a shit load of coding and flash work and I offer shitloads of downloads on my site. So I need the forum mostly for easy made pages and support.

I have a revolving header on my arcade (currently under construction as of 12-10-08) with 44 (YES, I SAID FORTY FOUR!!!!) revolving banners with different quotes under them.

Here is a link to a post where I organize my slogans, and I am always open to new slogans as long as they are short and sweet.

http://jesuschristarcade.com/index.php?topic=94.0

[Jenne]

http://jesuschristarcade.com/index.php?topic=94.0

"Being a Hindu deity means having hundreds of arms while refusing to help anyone."

[Reverend Jeremiah]

"Being a Hindu deity means having hundreds of arms while refusing to help anyone."

LOL, thank you, that is one of my original quotes. More to come soon...

[Faust]

Shout out to 000

do you have a test site with Word Press / sandbox on it? I can zip up the style sheet and post it for you. I honestly cannot understand why I am the only one who can see this style when I KNOW I am uploading it to the test site and it is public code.

post the final version in this thread and i will try it out.

[Triple Zero]

Shout out to 000

do you have a test site with Word Press / sandbox on it? I can zip up the style sheet and post it for you. I honestly cannot understand why I am the only one who can see this style when I KNOW I am uploading it to the test site and it is public code.

yeah i do.

is this the CSS that you made?

http://principiadiscordia.cosmicforums.com/wp-content/themes/sandbox/style.css

because it does load (it's linked in the page's HTML's HEAD section, after all--did you test that?), but it's full of CSS syntax errors and declaration errors. my browser (Opera) and Firefox both choke on the first "background" declaration, which has the elements in the wrong order. tried fixing that, but there were more errors after that (that look like typos?). what browser did you use to test it? Internet Explorer can be rather .. forgiving on malformed code.

[Reverend Jeremiah]

Yes, that is the main style sheet and yes I used IE. The background images I just directly linked and planned on rooting them eventually. Im no syntax purist like yourself. I am more than likely wrong on something as I never took a class on CSS. I can see where sandbox can be easier to use, but frankly I dont care much for it.

I hope what I did helps you out. So instead of you having to build the entire thing you can just step in and correct my syntax, add a few things and be done with it that much faster.  ... if not, then oh well.. at least I tried.

Once you get the word press up and running (no rush, of course.. I will be working at your pace or less  ) Ill be more than happy to help you put all of the pages of the book together. You just start one page, that way you show me EXACTLY how you want the code to look, then I just build all of the pages for you and zip them up and hand them back over to you. That way you can spend your time setting up and transferring your blog material.

and once all of that is done I will make a new theme for this forum to resemble (not 100% of course) the theme of the wordpress.

[Faust]

I'll have a look at the theme on page one tonight and test it. Please dont be disappointed if it kicks up errors, a lot of themes we have tried here do that.

[Triple Zero]

Yes, that is the main style sheet and yes I used IE. The background images I just directly linked and planned on rooting them eventually. Im no syntax purist like yourself. I am more than likely wrong on something as I never took a class on CSS. I can see where sandbox can be easier to use, but frankly I dont care much for it.

well, I admit that I can be somewhat of a purist / perfectionist at times.

but in this case, it's not so much me, as the browser software our visitors are using, that get "hung up about this syntax thingy"--that's why Nigel, Faust and me couldn't see anything. Not everybody uses IE, see

I hope what I did helps you out. So instead of you having to build the entire thing you can just step in and correct my syntax, add a few things and be done with it that much faster.  ... if not, then oh well.. at least I tried.

Yeah, I'll see which bits I can use, thanks!

Once you get the word press up and running (no rush, of course.. I will be working at your pace or less  ) Ill be more than happy to help you put all of the pages of the book together. You just start one page, that way you show me EXACTLY how you want the code to look, then I just build all of the pages for you and zip them up and hand them back over to you. That way you can spend your time setting up and transferring your blog material.

awesome, thanks for the offer!

reminds me I still have my hardcopy of the PD lent out to some guy that I hardly ever see (nor really care about enough to make an appointment with to meet up... )

[Faust]

posting from discordian theme

[Reverend Jeremiah]

Wonderful, just let me know when you are ready and I will happily help you. Doing all of the pages of both books will be a good weeks worth of work - if not more.

Right now I will be working on a new SMF template for this forum (because we obviously can no longer use the one I made a few days ago because it will clash with the new look.) that will closely resemble the style sheet that i was messing around with for the last couple of days.

Now, I am obviously NOT going to make the main wrapper of the forum to be 800px. Thats just WAY to small. Im thinking that keeping the template width the same as it is now would probably be best (besides, I like big forum templates... anything less feels constricted). I should be done with the forum template..oh..Im going to take my time a bit so give me about a week.

What would really help is if you could give me a list of all of the packages/mods you have on this SMF forum so I can ensure that nothing changes when the new template is installed.

[Faust]

ok i only clicked three links and i got 6 errors:
in Themes.template.php
Theres an Undefined index: use_tp

and another in the same file: Undefined index: width
These will need to be corrected before i can allow the theme for general use. sorry mate