Contents

Package contents

Styles

This package includes several colorschemes of the glass style. Only upload those you want to install.

    included colors:
  • Cyan
  • Green
  • Red
  • Softblue
  • Darkblue
  • Yellow

Contrib files

Included within this package are a few photoshop source files, which you can use to create your own buttons, for example for your language, and a logo file.

  1. PSD file for creation of big buttons
  2. PSD file for creation of small profile buttons
  3. PSD file for creation of costum logo

The font which is used to create the buttons is Blue Highway by Ray Larabie. You can download this font and others on GetFreeFonts.info.

Installation and Requirements

Requirements

Before installing the Glass style make sure that the Prosilver template is present and installed. Glass uses the default Prosilver template set.

Installation

To install the Glass style, follow these steps.

  1. Unzip the contents of the zip archive and upload them phpbb_root_path/styles/, where phpbb_root_path is your forums installation, using an FTP client.
  2. Go to your phpBB forum's Administration control panel.
  3. Go to the Styles tab and click install for the Glass style.

To make the glass style your default forum theme, follow these additional steps.

  1. In the Administration control panel, go to General -> Board settings. Here you can select the Glass theme as your default forum theme.
  2. Additionally, you can also set Override user style to yes, allowing only the board default theme to be used.

Tweaking the layout

You can alter every aspect of this style using the stylesheet, here are some quick guides in helping you with a few things.

Setting a fixed with for your forum

To make your forum a fixed width, or applying a maximum width to your forum, follow these steps.

  1. Open the common.css file.
  2. Around line 27 find #wrap {.
  3. For a fixed with forum:
    1. From the #wrap declaration remove the min-width: 650px; line.
    2. Add the following code to the declaration: width: ###px;. Replace ### with your desired width.
  4. For a fluid forum with a maximum width:
    1. To the declaration of #wrap add the following code: max-width: ###px;. Replace ### with your desired maximum width.

Put the profile info on the post pages to the left hand side

To put the profile on the left hand side of the forum follow these steps.

  1. Open the content.css file.
  2. Around line 24 find /* Focus content to the left */.
  3. Remove both the .postbody and .postprofile declarations.
  4. Uncomment the 3 css declarations found directly underneath these lines.
  5. Go to your Administration Control Panel -> Styles -> Themes and click the refresh link of the Glass theme.

Revision history

Version: 1.0.2

  • Fixed forum image position. It now floats left of the title and description.
  • Fixed reported post rows and notices still using the color of the red style.
  • Enhanced display of edit reason and time in the viewtopic pages.
  • Enhanced display of signatures, increased font-size and added dashed border to make them more distinguished.
  • Enhanced display of profile view, added some white-space around the user's avatar.
  • Enhanced display of reported post notice in the post.
  • Additional other enhancements and fixes.
  • Updated all configuration files, so proper year and version number is included and page seperator is not blank.
  • Included styling for right to left based languages.

Version: 1.0.1

  • Fixed border padding issue in IE6 on viewtopic.php pages.
  • Fixed padding issue in board navigation for IE6.
  • Fixed progressbars from polls not being displayed, along with a font-size correction.
  • Fixed topic icons not being displayed correctly.
  • Fixed Font color selector, not displaying the correct colors and displaying in 100% width.

Version: 1.0.0

  • Style Released: First StylesDB submission.

Version: RC 1

  • RC released, changes since beta.
  • Forum alignment fixed for IE6 and IE7.
  • Topic alignment fixed for IE6 and IE7.
  • Fixed private messages overview for IE6 and IE7.
  • Fixed several other IE related issues.

Release notes

Version: 1.0.2

  • Styling for right to left based languages was done by altering the english language set to be rtl. If you find any issues please report these with a screenshot and small explanation as I have no tools to correctly validate if everything is correct.

Version: 1.0.1

  • None

Version: 1.0.0

  • None

Copyright

All code supplied with this package is released under the GNU General Public License.

Creative Commons License
All included images and PSD files are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Netherlands License.