Just a question I would like some feedback on before I decide whether or not to create theme-groups or add-in styles for IP or both.

  

Edit:

The purpose of the question is because I like to make different themes and not just different colours of the same style. This means a lot of editing of the .tpl files etc, to create new style-groups; to which anyone could add "child themes" too, using the new layout.

It's also not about how many different coloured Aphrodite, or Pearl themes you use, it's how many different styles you make available for your members at any one time; and at the moment there's only 2 different IP styles available, the rest are just very clever manipulation of the .cfg file and the .css.

And as I would prefer to create NEW themes, I hope that this goes to explain what I'm after and why I want to know more about the users of IP.  

Only one

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several styles thru out the year.

4 right now. My users use 2 of them, I use the 3rd one and I'll uninstall the 4th one very soon.

I'm planning to add some more...

Greetz!

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edit first post and add the poll.

Tell me if I should change something.

I use only one, it's handier

241 in a styles demo board

 

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I think it's better to change Five - Ten option to Six - Ten (because it's already an option called Five)

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One style and some changes for xmas days


I always apply some minor changes to the theme, so having many styles would be too much work for me.

i m using 2

one default icy
and one my in work progress based on blue pearl

OMG    thats 3 , and i voted for 2  

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TheSteffen wrote: [View Post]

edit first post and add the poll.

Tell me if I should change something.

Thanks for the poll.  

Could you please change this:

How Many Themes (Styles) Do You Use?

To: What is the MAX Themes (Styles) You are using at any one time?

Only one...

Greets!!

I use all the mg_themes at the same time.

I also have aprodite themes installed but I do not know anybody form my site who uses them.

I've edited the first post, to hopefully explain further the reason and the motive behind the question.  

Lopalong wrote: [View Post]

Edit:

The purpose of the question is because I like to make different themes and not just different colours of the same style. This means a lot of editing of the .tpl files etc, to create new style-groups; to which anyone could add "child themes" too, using the new layout.

It's also not about how many different coloured Aphrodite, or Pearl themes you use, it's how many different styles you make available for your members at any one time; and at the moment I think there's only 5 different IP styles available.

And as I would prefer to create NEW themes, I hope that this goes to explain what I'm after and why I want to know more about the users of IP.  

If you let me say what I think... The available styles for IP, especially MG's ones, are great.

But watching all the styles for IP released till now, by MG or others, I think they are good, but the general trend is too 2.0 oriented. I mean, phpBB2 had tons of amazing styles, and most of them didn't use so much glossy images IP styles do.

I think it would be nice to release a group of styles a bit subsilver-like (or IPB), if you know what I mean...


Sorry for my english, I hope you understood Please let me know what do you think about it

Vortex wrote: [View Post]

I think it would be nice to release a group of styles a bit subsilver-like (or IPB), if you know what I mean...

Thanks Vortex,

That is exactly what I'm getting at - IP doesn't need 100's of useless themes like those that were made for phpBB, but it does need more different quality groups. And if those groups are added to ColorizeIt, then people can create their own colours per group.

The next question is: Do the themes need to be part of a Mother Group, much like MG_Themes; because if people only use 1 or 2 themes, then space-saving can be ignored as that does tend to complicate the creation of new groups, and maybe that's why there is not an abundancy of available IP themes.?

Dunno! I'm still working on it.