5punky Kickstarters

[Dog Pants]

Phew. Taken me a few hours but through trial and error (and use of the colour 00ff00) I've managed to change the calendar's stylesheet to look more like the theme. This web design stuff ain't easy. I've also made the links to the forum/wiki work without that nasty redirect, and I've removed the comments boxes from the About page. It's not quite ugly any more, but it is pretty bland. Any suggestions from anyone?

EDIT: In fact, for the About page, can anyone remember where that thing Cashy made is? I'm sure someone linked to it recently.

[buzzmong]

EDIT: In fact, for the About page, can anyone remember where that thing Cashy made is? I'm sure someone linked to it recently.

[Dog Pants]

Rah! I've adjusted that accordingly and stuck it in. Anyone fancy making some images? I do like the bloke with the sword. It doesn't always have to be Grimmie, by the way

[Grimmie]

Aww

[Dog Pants]

Oh! Don't get me wrong, your drawings would be perfect, but I figured we gave you enough to do as it is.

[Grimmie]

Any excuse to draw.

[Mr. Johnson]

I might have to give that a go, maybe I can do it sneakily in class and say it's practice!

[Dog Pants]

Yay! That looks great. I need to find a way of formatting it in an interesting and aesthetically pleasing way now.

[Dog Pants]

I tried to add a background image to the FP, but it obscures the text. The theme seems to be missing the colour block under the content. Could someone more web savvy suggest how I can remedy this, or even the correct term for it so I can google it?

[deject]

I was just thinking about maybe re-writing my dice rolling app as a phpbb mod but I have no real PHP or phpbb modification experience. I could probably port the logic over pretty easily, but as far as how it would integrate into the forum I'm utterly clueless. Anyone know of where I could find some good tutorials on that sort of thing?

There's this, obviously: https://www.phpbb.com/mods/author-introduction/

but I was hoping for better instruction than that.

[deject]

Also, fuck these coding guidelines, seriously.

https://area51.phpbb.com/docs/30x/codin ... lines.html

Some of it makes sense, but a lot of it is just bullshit. Increments and Decrements have to be put on their own line? WTF? Some seriously confusing single and double quote usage going on in their "correct" version as well.

[buzzmong]

Actually, their quoting guidelines are spot on.

PHP is a tad odd, essentially anything within single quotes 'like this' is handled verbatim, whereas double quotes means PHP will sub out variables for the correct value.
If you were to set a variable ($name) to say "Ivor Biggun", depending on how you code the output makes a difference:

'My name is $name' = My name is $name
"My name is $name" = My name is Ivor Biggun

That's specifically relating to output though, if you're shunting variables around different functions, then you don't need to use quotes at all.

If you're looking at learning PHP, then w3schools is a very good place to start.

[deject]

Actually, their quoting guidelines are spot on.

PHP is a tad odd, essentially anything within single quotes 'like this' is handled verbatim, whereas double quotes means PHP will sub out variables for the correct value.
If you were to set a variable ($name) to say "Ivor Biggun", depending on how you code the output makes a difference:

'My name is $name' = My name is $name
"My name is $name" = My name is Ivor Biggun

That's specifically relating to output though, if you're shunting variables around different functions, then you don't need to use quotes at all.

Ah, well I'm not really familiar with MySQL and all that. I didn't notice they were specifically talking about that. Still, a lot of their guidelines are just meaningless style preferences that have no business being dictated to other people as "correct."

If you're looking at learning PHP, then w3schools is a very good place to start.

Learning PHP isn't the issue, it's more dealing with the specifics of phpbb and all that (e.g.: formatting, style, etc.). I know enough about PHP that I can write the dice rolling and outcome logic portion just fine, it's more just that I have no idea how to present it on the forum page. I have some ideas of what would be the best way to do it but the implementation in terms of modding phpbb is confusing at best for me.

[cashy]

To be honest the fact that a site full of talented code monkeys and image designers would use a 5 minute paintmash from someone who clearly has no idea about either to base the homepage on tickles me greatly
Crazy fools.

[Dog Pants]

I tried to add a background image to the FP, but it obscures the text. The theme seems to be missing the colour block under the content. Could someone more web savvy suggest how I can remedy this, or even the correct term for it so I can google it?

I think this is called a container, and that the theme doesn't come with one. I've spent too much time tweaking bits of code to want to change that now though, so I'm kind of hopelessly in need of a pointer as to how I can place the main text in front of a block colour or semitransparent container so that I can put a background on the borders of the page. It'll make it look a hell of a lot less bland, good enough to use and tweak. I also need any suggestions on how to get the TS plugin working, because I'm out of ideas. Then I can start putting in a bit of content to fill it out before it goes live. I'd really appreciate any advice or help here, because it's ground to a standstill now.

EDIT: The container is there I think, but it mirrors the background so it looks transparent. I think I need to unlink it somehow.

[Thompy]

I meant to look at that, but thought someone else better at debugging would jump in. Also wasn't quite sure what you meant. Anyway, think this is the basics of it (hopefully syntaxeses are correct, this stuff falls out of my brain like it's a sieve if I don't do something for months):

Add background color to this div.

<deleted img>

Change background color to image with local url of background image.

<deleted img>

[Dog Pants]

Sorry, I'm totally out of my depth here. You're right, I want the white bit in your images to be the light blue, and the light blue bit to be a background image. I can set the background to the page in WP, that's not a problem, but the container changes with it. I assume that's because it's inheriting it from the stylesheet, but I've no idea what to change to make it take its own background. I can't find anything that alludes to the background in the container, only the width. Like I say, I have zero experience with CSS and virtually zero in any programming at all, but if I want to see this front page I have to crack on. So you're going to have to explain this like you're talking to your nan.

Is that how it looks in Chrome by the way, or is it something you've done?

[Thompy]

I only added the container colour and changed the body "color" to "image", everything else is how it normally looks.

When you said the container changes with it, does the background start again from the top left of the container or does it just look transparent?

Like I said, I'm an amateur at it, debugging my own stuff is hard enough without looking at someone else work. As the white colour I added displays properly I'm not sure why the background you added should override it if you set a colour for the container. I had to add the background colour for the container, nothing was there to start with.

[Dog Pants]

It just looks transparent.

So what I need to do is what you did, except change the container colour to the light blue. Then hopefully when I put an image in as the background, the container will sit as a light blue box on top.

[Thompy]

Yeah. I edited the above post already, but if you didn't see, I had to add the container colour property, nothing was there to start it.