The recent changes: skins, etc.

[Cordilow]

Wow, the new stuff is pretty nice.  I'm curious about the need to enter URL's instead of forum names, though.  What is the advantage, just out of curiosity?  Even if it's just to discourage doing it a lot, I suppose that's fine with me.  Does it add some more flexibility?

Anyway, I like the skins.  I've noticed something with Darkness, though.  Some of the words in my manual stylesheet stay black and they don't show up.  They're surrounded with h3 and b tags, I think.  They show up in the mode where you edit the forum, though.  Everything else seems to work fine, so far.  Go to this URL to see what I'm talking about:
http://www.nabble.com/Creative-Works-f14604.html
Up at the top, and down on the bottom, the invisible words are there.  You can select all to see them.

Also, I'm curious if child forums can be made to inherit the same skin as the parent.  It is nice, though, that if you view the threads of child forums from the parent, they show up with the theme.

EDIT: I see the child forums do inherit the skins!  This is nice.  I guess it just takes a few minutes for it to start working or something.

[Hugo Teixeira <Nabble>]

Hi Cordilow,

Cordilow wrote:

Wow, the new stuff is pretty nice.  I'm curious about the need to enter URL's instead of forum names, though.  What is the advantage, just out of curiosity?  Even if it's just to discourage doing it a lot, I suppose that's fine with me.  Does it add some more flexibility?

I will leave this question to another member of the Nabble team, because there are some details that reside out of my scope.

Cordilow wrote:

Anyway, I like the skins.  I've noticed something with Darkness, though.  Some of the words in my manual stylesheet stay black and they don't show up.  They're surrounded with h3 and b tags, I think.  They show up in the mode where you edit the forum, though.  Everything else seems to work fine, so far.  Go to this URL to see what I'm talking about:
http://www.nabble.com/Creative-Works-f14604.html
Up at the top, and down on the bottom, the invisible words are there.  You can select all to see them.

Also, I'm curious if child forums can be made to inherit the same skin as the parent.  It is nice, though, that if you view the threads of child forums from the parent, they show up with the theme.

EDIT: I see the child forums do inherit the skins!  This is nice.  I guess it just takes a few minutes for it to start working or something.

We are glad that you liked the new styles.
Also, you can fix the H3 problems in your skin by adding the following piece of CSS to your style:

h3 { color: #eeeeee; }

You should also wrap the bottom text with <p> and </p>.
Please try that and let us know if it worked.

We will deliver more predefined (canned) styles soon.
Thanks for choosing Nabble.
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com

[Franklin Schmidt <Nabble>]

Cordilow wrote:

I'm curious about the need to enter URL's instead of forum names, though.  What is the advantage, just out of curiosity?  Even if it's just to discourage doing it a lot, I suppose that's fine with me.  Does it add some more flexibility?

This is to allow duplicate forum names.  Forum names no longer have to be unique.

[Cordilow]

Ah—cool.  That makes things nice.  Thanks!

[Cordilow]

I've found that the smileys with the Darkness theme have some white etched around them.  It seems they're not transparent gifs.  Is this easily fixable?

Can Nabble users send in new smileys to add to the list?  I don't have any off-hand.  I'm just curious.

[Hugo Teixeira <Nabble>]

This is a known issue.
Actually, they really are transparent gifs.
The problem is that pixels in those images can't have a partial translucent value.
So rounded corner usually have the white etched because they were made for white background.
Soon we will convert them into PNG-24 in order to solve the problem.

Also, users can send smileys to Nabble, but we will have to recreate them from our style.
We have to do this in order to keep things consistent and it might take some time.

[Hugo Teixeira <Nabble>]

Hi Cordilow,

We have fixed the smileys and now they work with dark backgrounds.
If you still see the old ones, please refresh your page by pressing F5.

We also have delivered two new predefined styles for forums: Moonlight and Desert.
Enjoy!

Regards,
Hugo Teixeira
Nabble.com

[Cordilow]

They work well.  The new styles are cool, too.

Thanks!

[Weigh to Go]

Hi there. I'm brand new to Nabble (I think I just sent this as an email to the Nabble admin; sorry about that...) and I have lots of questions.  I'll just start by asking one, though:  Are we able to create our own skins for our forums, rather than using the predefined skins?

[Will L <Nabble>]

Yes, you can . In "Edit this forum", there is a tab "Customize appearance". There you can select a predefined style (color, fonts etc), or you can copy and use the predefined CSS as a base to modify it to set your own styles.

Note that if you have a website, then the easiest way to make your forum fit with your site is to embed it into your site. The help article is here: http://www.nabble.com/help/Answer.jtp?id=36

After you embed it, you can use the "Customize appearance" feature to further tweak your embedded forum appearances.