Demo Menu Theme

I have no idea how to help, but I'm definitly begging for it.

Is Demo theme ready to be the default theme yet? ^_^? :3

Hmm, I like that. I'll probably do that when I get home. (Actually, I did it on my phone just now.)

Congrats on your 100th post.

The more I experiment with transparency, textured backgrounds and cool title bars, the more I think it might be time to call it good as is. If you do come up with something cool that's easy to implement though, I'll include it.

Uggghhhh! I love it. You're going to kill me with CSS.

fatihG, when you design keep in mind about the repeating image in the middle of a line and how it will show all the way to the ends.

Oh... Editing here. The "Community" text needs to be actual text from HTML. No embossed text effect on an image. That bar gets used everywhere. Google fonts with shadow are acceptable.

Instead of attaching images, please use imgur.com. Attachments take up server space. One day I'll wipe out old attachments.

See how I had to trick the end images with having an invisible rounded border? I'm quite proud of that.

I edited my post above because I didn't want to double post, but I don't think you had time to read my edit, so FYI I had more to say.

The thing about the repeating image is that it goes all the way across its div. The line between the arrows doesn't know how to stop before it gets to the arrow. It will not only touch the arrows, but pass under them and out the other side so you could see them under the tip of the arrow and possibly beyond.

That's the same case for the rounded bottom corners. If the corner pieces are solid, it's OK for the image to have something under it repeating, but if there is transparency you will see the repeat. As for the repeating background, I do want that. In fact I want the colors to alternate. I've got two repeating textures in the theme I was working with (you know where you can find them) if you want to use them.

The top image is something that was tricky to place in CSS but I figured it out this weekend. I'm not sure if the bottom image will be possible without really customizing some templates... Might not be something in my current ability, but I didn't know any CSS before this forum and look at it now.

Ah yeah, when I zoomed in I noticed they were regular rounded corners. Looks convincing though, I couldn't tell before you pointed it out

If it is at all possible then to have the arrows appear, we could sort of fake it by having the arrows have a solid bg. It will than be on top of the line.
Might not work if you have alternating colours though. Either way, dont mind losing the arrows.
With the designs I make I basically just do what I think would look nice, without worrying too much about its limitations.

Just checked out the testbed, interesting that we had the same idea for the bars! =P
For the alternating colours, I was thinking about it as well, but for the sake of simplicity i went for a single colour/texture.
If you are using separate textures for separate cells, it might be difficult to align the textures for it to appear as a properly tiling texture.
I wonder if it is possible to give certain rows a 90% transparent colour overlay. That way we can just use a single texture for the BG and let the transparent colour handle the effect you are looking for.

For the bottom image... Maybe it could be as simple as adding a div to the CSS just for the image.
Not sure how that would work though. Whenever I look at existing CSS I get super confused. =|

-edit-

Btw if some elements are inexplicably large, like the 'create thread' text... I blame my new Cintiq. It has a higher DPI than my laptop screen so everything looks tiny on it.
Still got to get used to it.

Ah really?

I only noticed it when working on this box and the 'create thread' button.
I had fixed it for stuff i did notice.

Working on the earlier designs I took a screenshot of my browser and tried to match it as close to the current sizes by simply drawing over it.
In the future ill try to pay more attention to the sizes of the graphics I create.

anyway ill export some graphics for you to mess around with tomorrow. Ill cut them up so it is easy to tile and what not as well.

-watches XombieMike and fatihG go back and fourth and scratches head dubiously-


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The red highlighted ones were supposed to be mouse overs and the ones with the frames the page you are currently on.
Was trying to emulate the selection graphic in the equipment/shards menu.

I think you've got the frame one as a mouse over and the image for the page you are currently on you probably took form my test theme?
That image I probably used before doing a proper theme design and just used for testing.

Yeah the shadow really makes em pop out. =]

LeoLeWolferoux hopefully all of this will make sense when the theme is finished! =]