Thoughts on new News Page

[ladyofdragons]

I'm having trouble changing the font size - I changed the stylesheet as suggested and it had no effect. I've switched it back, just in case it had an effect somewhere it wasn't supposed to!

In postnuke there are two native stylesheets to a theme. you must change BOTH files in order to be sure that all the changes are applied (I know, it's kinda dumb.). The problem is the difference in stylesheet rendering with different browsers, so the actual rendering process probably pulls from both style.css and styleNN.css, you'll need to make the same changes in both sheets, but make sure that styleNN.css uses the older Netscape CSS vernacular.

Hope that helps. Just some tips from your friendly neighborhood postnuke guru.

 

[Morrus]

Yeah, I edited them both. Didn't help.

Incidentally - do you know of any decent themes out there? They need to be themes which match all my icons and grpahics, though (e.g. dark themes).

 

[hong]

I think the new page looks pretty cool, actually. As to the font size problem, to everyone grousing: get a bigger monitor.

I do have one question, but it's not directly related to the news page itself. Every time a spiffy new feature gets added to EN World, it seems like there's a separate registration process to go through.

Is it possible just to use the one username/password for all features (messageboard, D&D/d20 reviews, news, etc)? It'll save having to register 'hong' umpteen times....

 

[ladyofdragons]

Yeah, I edited them both. Didn't help.

Incidentally - do you know of any decent themes out there? They need to be themes which match all my icons and grpahics, though (e.g. dark themes).

themecentral.com is a good source. There's a theme, giga_insetable, that very closely mimics your old theme except for some borders around menus. but if you want i can fix that for you if you'd like. feel free to contact me via email at ladyofdragons@dndresources.com if you want to continue off-board (or on board, no matter to me)

 

[Morrus]

I do have one question, but it's not directly related to the news page itself. Every time a spiffy new feature gets added to EN World, it seems like there's a separate registration process to go through.

Yeah, it's annoying as heck, isn't it?

The problem is, they're all independently obtained software applications, each designed as a single coherent object. Interfacing the registration is akin to buying Diablo and NWN and asking "can I just use my Diablo character in NWN?" - the answer to which is yes - but you have to rewrite a lot of NWN!

Of course, it's not as complicated as the computer games example, but it's still very difficult and still involves rewriting published software applications... and I wouldn't even know where to begin!

 

[ladyofdragons]

Yeah, it's annoying as heck, isn't it?

The problem is, they're all independently obtained software applications, each designed as a single coherent object. Interfacing the registration is akin to buying Diablo and NWN and asking "can I just use my Diablo character in NWN?" - the answer to which is yes - but you have to rewrite a lot of NWN!

Of course, it's not as complicated as the computer games example, but it's still very difficult and still involves rewriting published software applications... and I wouldn't even know where to begin!

actually, it's not that complex. it's just adding in a call during the registration process to write a new record to the vBulletin database right after it writes the new record to the postnuke database. I've done it for phpBB, but never for vBulletin (seeing as vBulletin licenses are expensive I don't own one). it does take some php knowledge, though.

 

[Morrus]

There's a theme, giga_insetable, that very closely mimics your old theme except for some borders around menus.

That's actually the theme I'm using right now!

Lots of themes there, though - great site!

 

[Ravellion]

I prefer the easy, personal, and familiar old way of doing the news page. I even disagree on the statement that this new way is more functional - not to me it isn't.

Rav

 

[Morrus]

I prefer the easy, personal, and familiar old way of doing the news page. I even disagree on the statement that this new way is more functional - not to me it isn't.

It's certainly more functional from the administration point of view. Vastly so, in fact - I actually managed to go into town today and do some shopping!

 

[pennywiz]

I actually managed to go into town today and do some shopping!

Did you pick yourself up something nice, like I told you to do, sweet cheeks?