The forums look a little different.

[Llorean]

I'll admit it. I made a mistake. In an attempt to fix some bugs we've been experiencing, I tried to upgrade our forums. I didn't realize that our theme would be overwritten. I'm working on how to restore its appearance to something like what it was before. It won't be exact. But, as the saying goes, "Please pardon our dust."

[Mr. Brownstone]

THE SKY IS FALLING.

[psycho_maniac]

i knew sometnhing looked different, but i thought it was just that i was looking at a different screen for along time. good thing i clicked on this post to see whats going on

[Llorean]

The colors are slightly off, there's no link bar on the left to the main Rockbox pages.

The "New Topics" button *was* missing, but I've resolved that one at least. I'm working on the rest, as well as considering some other useful upgrades.

[midkay]

I actually kind of like this.. a nice little change.. we're just missing the link bar at the left.

I like the colored names on topics/replies, though, for one.

[Llorean]

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out the best way to do the bar at the left.

[mnhnhyouh]

I often use the link to the latest cvs builds that was on the left. Otherwise I dont mind the lighter colour at all.

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[Llorean]

Well for now, it's still there if you go to http://www.rockbox.org/ , it's just not here on the forums.

[lareneg]

Ok:

You put the whole forum in a div, float it to the right, then put that bar in a div, and float it to the left. BACK UP BEFORE TRYING!


Suggested by Christopher Hutchinson of http://www.userbars.co.uk

[Llorean]

The problem with floating them, is that if you try to make height 100% on the floating left one, I belive it's unreliable in some browsers (at least in my recenet experiences with such things). I think the old method used tables, which I'm not particulary a fan of doing (just some obsessive compulsive part of my brain that feels tables are for data) but would work as a last resort.

[lareneg]

:-/ Surely you must have a backup of the site somewhere, pardon me if I'm rude but it's rather silly not to... When I made a site I had a version on my own computer as well as the server... lol...

There might not be any other choice but to use tables... lol...

[Llorean]

I'm not looking for the old way it was done. I'm trying to come up with a possibly better method.

It's not a "I can't fix it myself" issue. The tables method as well as the CSS boxes method (which is what you'd be do by floating a div) have both already been mentioned by me. I'm just trying to fish for anyone who's got a better way to do it. I do believe the old method cause our page to not validate as XHTML 1.0 transitional, and I personally would like to try to improve on that.

[ryran]

Hey nice job fixing the font on the new topics button!
Also, I love the new quickedit for posts. At least, I think it's new.

[Rincewind]

Llorean, you could try to set the left margin of the div containing the forum to for instance 150px and position the link bar on the left with position: absolute. For an example of this you can look at a site I did, where I embedded a Wordpress Blog in similar way. It should work with a percentage width, too, but I was lazy and made it fixed.
http://www.rib-ev.de/blog

when you want to do the float thing, it should work in IE if you use 99% instead of 100%.

[Llorean]

Well, it's definitely going to be fixed width. The idea is to mimic the homepage at Rockbox.org in appearance (in regards to the left bar) but hopefully end up standards compliant and still work in all browsers. Isn't that fun?

I also need to figure out the best way to play with things without kicking the forums into maintenance mode every five minutes. I may just run a local copy of SMF for a little bit to tinker with the themes.