Forum Styling General Thread

[Petie]

Are you saying that the reason we can't switch to the DYKG on the forums because we don't know what size the content's going to be when it's posted here...?

I've read this over like 10 times and still don't quite comprehend it. What do you mean by "switch to the DYKG" and why is forums emphasized?

I did say that the variants of our theme here are all CSS edits and that's important because they don't require separate template sets. The VGFacts theme has a ton of customization (included header and footer and CSS that relies on the main site, as a start) in addition to the fixed-width requirement that makes the backgrounds work over there. Those background aren't actually even changed on the forum side - there's a function on the main site that lets us change it directly.

Semi-transparent backgrounds on forum content are certainly possible but they never work quite as well in practice as they do in theory and making it work with the forum software would be more effort than it's worth, given all of the alternate colors that are used.

Also, you keep referring to "them" and "their" theme but you do realize that I manage both forums, right? So basically, you're saying that when I make changes to the VGFacts theme, I would then need to make those same changes over here but I'm really not seeing the utility of doing any of that. Maybe I'm just missing something here though so feel free to explain.