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U-day today

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See you on the shiny upgraded flip-side!
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Wooty! Looking forward to it! Thanks in advance Christophe, I hope it all goes OK. I nearly lost the entire database during the last upgrade, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed... :-)
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U as in Forum Upgrade.... ;)
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Linflas challenged me and I had to respond.. he said I wouldn't make a logo for the chronicles skin.. so I had to take the challenge and did this after about 20 mins :P

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oh and many thanks to Christophe for the new upgrade. Looks good so far.. :)
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and one that works for this skin
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Give it some anti-aliasing love :-)

I don't think there's a version of Chronicles for this version of phpBB. We lost the old version in the upgrade.

I mentioned several times in the last few weeks about doing a new theme. If we do that, would it replace the default one Christophe, or would you keep both together?
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yeah, I'll need to blend it with the background colours. I've just been making a few adjustements of images, that's how I changed the skins in the past. Just change the images and then you only need to upload to a folder and overwrite. Not PHP changes needed. This way any modifications Christophe had made would be maintained. I wasn't sure if he wanted to stay with this skin for that reason, as you mentioned that in the past when you made the mods to the skin, so we kept the blue one for this whole time. I've noticed while using this one that there are a few images that could stand some modification, so I'm just changing all the topic icons (locked, hot, sticky, read, undread, info) to something that has a bit more of a fantasy element but blends with the scheme and other buttons here.. not only that but actually POP as to what it is.. I find the read and unread in this skin to be too subtle for my tastes :P
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http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/Chronicles

ahhh cows !!!! i haven't started mine yet !!! :D
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I mentioned several times in the last few weeks about doing a new theme. If we do that, would it replace the default one Christophe, or would you keep both together?
I'd like to keep the number of styles to a minimum. I think it is wise to keep the default style, as it should always work flawlessly. It is maintained by the phpbb team and all MOD authors ensure their MOD works fine with it.
I'm OK with adding one more style. We could add the Chronicles theme if people think it is a good idea, then when you make a new style, we would replace Chronicles by yours.
We would end up with two styles: the default phpbb 3 style (prosilver), and a custom style with a more fantasy look. Each user can then choose which style to use.
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Groovy - I always did like the old Chronicles one :). And I agree with Cows that I'm not too keen on the post icons the way they are right now (the ones to the left of each topic/thread/post to show whether there's new posts or not). Dunno why...I think they just somehow look a bit "complicated" witht hose little lines on rather than just being a big blob or something or whatever we had before (yes I know "before" was only yesterday but already I've forgotten wtf the images were, lol).
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I got bored of Chronicles over time (seen way too often), but i'd really like Codex dark back :).
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I kind of like the looks of the forum right now; posts are excellently readable.. a fantasy theme is a good idea, though
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Yeah, i liked the codex dark, as used on the front page!
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actually, THE skin we need is Codex Dark :)
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