Timan Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Just a heads up, letting you guys know whats going on with the IPB3 version.Since IPB3 final has been released, I have started working on the skin. Problem is there will be a slight delay with release till they release the subscription manager; which is preventing me from upgrading the site here.But it is coming! Hopefully we don't have to wait too long. Link to comment
Timan Posted July 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 Heres a little pic of the updated header/breadcrumb. Link to comment
thetaforce Posted January 13, 2010 Report Share Posted January 13, 2010 Heres a little pic of the updated header/breadcrumb. Apparently the skin has gone far beyond what your early design is. Now it looks very clean, slick, minimalised design and very Apple-like. Good to see work in progress. I feel like I can't wait for this skin for a sec! Great job! Link to comment
Timan Posted January 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2010 Heh, still not sure on the over all design. I honestly did the skin you're seeing here in an hour while the forum was upgrading the ipb3. Time will tell though, not sure if I wanna keep the dark breadcrumb or use the lighter one. Link to comment
thetaforce Posted January 13, 2010 Report Share Posted January 13, 2010 (edited) I think a Mac skin doesn't have to looks like a Mac OS X because this is forums and that is OS. Even Apple official site looks different from its OS interface i.e. buttons are not 'Aqua'. To get Apple feel is just slick design as simple as possible. P.S. Replying using an iPhone. P.S.2. You know, the top toolbar is so similar to the Mac window that I first mistook it as a part of Safari window. I thought at first that I installed some addon or toolbar by mistake and tried to figured out which program I installed Edited January 14, 2010 by Anna Link to comment
Timan Posted January 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2010 I've been giving it some thought. And surprisingly people like the toolbar + no blue bg/window/shadow. So i could be doing a toolbar at the top like this, a footer that sticks on the bottom, and a more open forum. Link to comment
DaffyDuck Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 Honestly, I'm with that -- lack of background isn't that big a deal, albeit it makes for an attractive distractive background - albeit at the cost of real-estate.It's a nice feature to have on a main index page, or on a portal style page, but on the actual forum, I prefer the straight edge-to-edge display.What would be ultimate, of course, would be the ability to display portal and index with a backdrop, and then to use a webkit animation to quickly display a 'stretch' animation when linking to the forum section, displaying visually how the screen 'grows' to fill edge-to-edge.Though I also figure that might get old real fast. Link to comment
Dimka52 Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 How long should we wait for IPB3 skin release? Link to comment
Timan Posted January 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 I'm working on it... Keep in mind I don't do just color tweaks on my skins . I usually edit every single template heh. Link to comment
maapt88 Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Whats the progress on the new skin for IPB3? Link to comment
Timan Posted January 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Soon, hopefully a beta in a week or two. Link to comment
Timan Posted January 31, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Just an teaser... its getting there heres a pic of the must unused feature of forum software. (ignore the dark blue buttons, not styled) Link to comment
makcode Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 hi, any new news about this IPB3 skin? i can't wait greets makcode Link to comment
thetaforce Posted March 12, 2010 Report Share Posted March 12, 2010 hi, any new news about this IPB3 skin? i can't wait greets makcode Exactly. Is it still in progress? Link to comment
Timan Posted March 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 I'm working on it, believe me its a joke its taking me this long. By the time i get near finished 3.1 will be out. Link to comment
John Spiteri Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 I'm working on it, believe me its a joke its taking me this long. By the time i get near finished 3.1 will be out.Keep up the good work.Nice design. Link to comment
Timan Posted April 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2010 Don't worry this is far from dead. I am def, holding off the launch till 3.1. They've changed too many things to release this and then have to go back and redo it all. Link to comment
Timan Posted May 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2010 Went ahead and started over with ipb3.1. Will have this done and ready for release around the time 3.1 goes final. Some notes though, I do not plan on supporting ie6 with this skin. So for those with lots of users on that browser, might want to be wary. But you can also just set their user agent to load the default ipb skin or the lo-fi one. Heres some more shots of such tiny things Link to comment
thetaforce Posted June 1, 2010 Report Share Posted June 1, 2010 Went ahead and started over with ipb3.1. Will have this done and ready for release around the time 3.1 goes final.Since IPB 3.1 will be out this afternoon, may I assume we will see this marvellous skin around today or in a few day? Link to comment
Timan Posted June 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2010 Since IPB 3.1 will be out this afternoon, may I assume we will see this marvellous skin around today or in a few day?Doh, I sure hope it doesn't go final today. Its only Beta 3 atm, was at least expecting a few rc's. Its pretty buggy atm. Link to comment
thetaforce Posted June 1, 2010 Report Share Posted June 1, 2010 (edited) Doh, I sure hope it doesn't go final today. Its only Beta 3 atm, was at least expecting a few rc's. Its pretty buggy atm. Seems no RTM after this... Quoted from the IPS homepage: IP.Board 3.1 is coming June 1st! (During the afternoon in Eastern US timezone) See what's new! There're also quite a few discussion topics about the release in IPS forum . Updated: Out now. See it and apps in your client area. Edited June 1, 2010 by Anna Link to comment
Timan Posted June 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2010 Well I can say that it won't be out today or tomorrow. I really thought I had more time. Anyway my dev site is now updated to 3.1 (will be doing so here too later today). Link to comment
Timan Posted June 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 Well I can already confirm, its the buggiest piece of crap software Thing just randomly broke here last nite. Link to comment
Timan Posted June 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 Some more little things. Still working on it everyday. These skins take too darn long to do Link to comment
Timan Posted June 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 Well tried to get some stuff done this weekend and I've had to put in a few support tickets with IPB. I can not save certain templates on the skins for ipb3.1 so its pretty much preventing me from doing anything. Link to comment
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