Apos designed a new skin for SEN: Maplantis.
It surely is different from the other maplantis skin in v5 and some of you will not like it, but it is still looking awesome.
There still are some tweaks to be done and they will be done.

PS: When browsing inside a forum, in every skin there is the same image on the top left. This is a lack of my system, I fail

whoah, much more easier to read compared to turtle.

Edit: That deer whale thing doesn't show up unless I'm looking at profiles.

Edit#2: In the files section, the navigation is still green.

Very nice.

Whoops, I think I didn't have that in my version of the CSS.

Apos now receives the entire folder for the skin including everything of what he can edit. Expect every color bug to be gone within the next 3 days

It looks good. I like the blue scheme.. but the deerwhale ruins it... back to default.

The thing I liked about Maplantis and the first skin was its relatively-minimalistic approach instead of the bars and such of other skins.

Still, blue > green. Though the hue of the main blue was changed. Using it.

Before fixing this skin, what about fixing Epic?

Maplantis and Epic were not made by the same person so they can be fixed simultaneously.

Nice skin. The first skin to look rather complete in design. Except the down arrow for Favorites is missing.

And I can't click "http://", "img", "Trigger" and all the other buttons that should open a popup-like form (captions? forgot the correct term for it...).

Minor bugs:
Quicksearch text field has green background and the globe is offset to the top.

Hah, it's hilarious, brings back old memories, thanks

I forgot why I put in the deerwhale. Back at the time I was almost sure that was mooses running joke, I don't think I shamelessly stole it... hm

I like it better than default or epic's dull green ugliness, but it's still relative width:


which kills me when I do Windows 7 half n half for various crap. I want Carbonite back so hard.

I like the color scheme and the overall layout, though I wonder why the header is so huge -- it takes up half the screen on 1024x768px! There are a few slight problems, but most of them are easy (if time-consuming) fixes.

Descriptions in subforums may overflow on the Forum Index. Subforum rows do not expand if the description is too long; this results in overflow. There is a way to fix this, but it requires several changes. You'd need to find a way to apply the background images directly to the TDs rather than to the DIVs inside of them, and you'd need to change the DIVs' height to a min-height. You'd also have to make sure that all TDs have their background-positions set to left bottom, so that if expansion occurs, the backgrounds in a row line up. This would require HTML changes in skin.php (moving the needed classNames from the DIVs to their parent TDs).

Sections on the Forum Index don't look so good when collapsed. Each collapsible section has two elements with IDs that match the pattern show_fi_1 and hide_fi_1, where the number changes with each subforum; one is shown when the section is uncollapsed, and the other is shown when it's collapsed. Though this is exceedingly wasteful in terms of HTML, it has the advantage that you can style collapsed sections completely differently from un-collapsed sections.

If you edit skin.php and add classNames to each of these (one className for the show nodes, another className for the hide nodes), you can easily write styles for collapsed sections without having to do it on a per-ID basis (meaning you don't need to copy an assload of CSS selectors). If you do that, make sure you use a className that you know is not in use; I used names like forum-listing-item and forum-listing-item-image in Turtle.

The quicksearch button is misaligned. Give it vertical-align: middle to (mostly) fix this; you can do so by selecting input.quicksearch + img in your CSS, or by editing skin.php and giving the button its own ID or className, and selecting that in the CSS.

The page footer has a sizing error. The footer is done with two nested boxes. The innermost one overflows to the right. These boxes are affected by inline styles; you can override those with !important rules in the CSS or by editing skin.php to remove the style attribute from those nodes.

A minimum width can be added by setting a width or min-width on the BODY tag or on another global container for the page, if there is one. 960px is a good minimum width and seems to be a widely used one; it's basically 1024px with space left for possible scrollbars and window borders (which some browser show even when maximized).

I'm pretty sure it was Syphon's and he pushed for it to be used ... but that's just what I remember.
I never liked it. D:

Deerwhale consumes all

I've said quite a few times that I despise Deerwhale and would rather Maplantis or SEN (depending on where it was at the time) have nothing to do with it at all. I was actually going to use the Maplantis skin until I noticed that Deerwhale was the image of the many Maplantis used that was integrated into the theme.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Sep 2 2010, 6:36 am by Mini Moose 2707.

OOOOH The maplantis skin is kewl

I likes.

Until I fix the bbcode and the image css, here is a temporary fix for everyone:

When you click an image (Or any bbcode that seems to not be doing anything), scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see it there.

Hope that helps.

Just to show what I mean, click this image using the maplantis skin and scroll to the bottom of the page:

Editing skin.php to include the stylesheet at /support/global.css should fix that.

That's the stylesheet for things used in the JavaScript, including the dialog system -- used for the BBCode console and, more recently, for image fullviews. It's a recent addition, so it might not be in all of the new/unfinished/unused skins. I personally added it to Turtle and Epic, but didn't know other skins were in the works.

If you need to restyle the dialogs, then view the source code in /support/global.css; a comment right at the top of the file explains what elements do what and what elements can be found where.

Mousing over navigation makes the button pop out while simultaneously creating the dropdown, and those two don't match. Also, the nav bar has no border, the dropdown does.