kalme
04-05-2005, 01:58 PM
Hi,
this forum is about modding, so I thought a thread about modding the forum would be nice :D.
I'm looking into some css replacement techniques at the moment and realized this could be used to alter the design of the Dreamcatcher forums on-the-fly. Take a sneak-peek at what I did in ~12 minutes :)
http://img131.exs.cx/img131/7893/forum7sg.png
This is no fake or offline modified page. The idea behind that is to replace the stylesheets for the page during loading to get a custom look. What you need:
Firefox (http://www.getfirefox.com)
URIid Extension (http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/uriid)
Custom style settings - this is the trickiest part. You need to modify one of the user profile files of Firefox: userContent.css. Usually you can alter settings that apply to ANY webpage afterwards (for example you can set your desired font-size for any webpage there). With the above extension, it's possible to alter only settings for a single page (for example these forums). I took the stylesheets of a saved thread back from the time when the forums had the old look and converted them to fit the new design.
If anyone is interested, I also can send out my modified style settings. But a little warning: like I said above, writing this thread almost took me more time than producing this forum modification. That means: it's not tested very well and it may screw up the design of other pages if I forgot something or did something wrong :). Also, you will see that the new design is applied after the page is completely loaded. On my connection speed I can barely notice it, but that may be different for you. This is a characteristic of the used Firefox extension and I don't think anything could be done to improve it.
Have fun screwing up these forums yourself :D
P.S.: Now that I've used the "old" look for half an hour I have to say I like the new one better. Maybe because most of the pictures (smilies etc.) don't fit well into the old color scheme...
this forum is about modding, so I thought a thread about modding the forum would be nice :D.
I'm looking into some css replacement techniques at the moment and realized this could be used to alter the design of the Dreamcatcher forums on-the-fly. Take a sneak-peek at what I did in ~12 minutes :)
http://img131.exs.cx/img131/7893/forum7sg.png
This is no fake or offline modified page. The idea behind that is to replace the stylesheets for the page during loading to get a custom look. What you need:
Firefox (http://www.getfirefox.com)
URIid Extension (http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/uriid)
Custom style settings - this is the trickiest part. You need to modify one of the user profile files of Firefox: userContent.css. Usually you can alter settings that apply to ANY webpage afterwards (for example you can set your desired font-size for any webpage there). With the above extension, it's possible to alter only settings for a single page (for example these forums). I took the stylesheets of a saved thread back from the time when the forums had the old look and converted them to fit the new design.
If anyone is interested, I also can send out my modified style settings. But a little warning: like I said above, writing this thread almost took me more time than producing this forum modification. That means: it's not tested very well and it may screw up the design of other pages if I forgot something or did something wrong :). Also, you will see that the new design is applied after the page is completely loaded. On my connection speed I can barely notice it, but that may be different for you. This is a characteristic of the used Firefox extension and I don't think anything could be done to improve it.
Have fun screwing up these forums yourself :D
P.S.: Now that I've used the "old" look for half an hour I have to say I like the new one better. Maybe because most of the pictures (smilies etc.) don't fit well into the old color scheme...