Hi Brandon,

 

(old vb groupie here, hehe)

 

I played around a bit with the forum index, as I found the default theme and many of its variants rather flat. If you look at the forum index, the only thing that pops out is the "In" and "By" in the third column. That's not exactly the desired meat and potatoes of any forum's front page, is it? :D

 

Here's a quick and dirty of my test board with the default theme's forum titles gone bold:

 

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Kind of like familiar old times, a bit, isn't it? Refreshing. :D

 

Next project: turn unread topics bold on what we've come to know our forumdisplay page. That one is even flatter than flat right now.

 

Well, kepp on keepin' on for now!

 

:)

 

edit: oops, forgot. If anyone wants to try it, here's a time saver:

 

For turning forum titles bold:

 

admin cp > Look & Feel > Skin ____ > CSS > ipb_styles.css

 

find and change "normal" to "bold"

 

	table.ipb_table h4,
table.ipb_table .topic_title {
font-size: 1.1em;
font-weight: normal;
display: inline;
}

For bold tab titles, as in not just the selected tab (I'm still 50/50 on this one), I did a quick and dirty edit by adding

 

font-weight: bold;

to the following in the same ipb_styles.css

 

#primary_nav

I've made this change

 

table.ipb_table h4,
table.ipb_table .topic_title {
font-size: 1.1em;
font-weight: bold;
display: inline;
}

but the forums still look the same to me?

Cached, Brandon. I had to do a hard refresh on here just now to get it to show. :)

 

Looks nice. (there's actually forums in them thur hills :D )

 

edit: Oh wait. I just realised that the forumdisplay thread titles are the same css element. Booo! :( Now everything is bold, which means the threads won't change back to regular once read. Back to the drawing board.

Have to figure a way to get more hours into the day. Or tell life to take a break already. hehe

 

Here's the fix for the bold-everywhere issue above.

 

Take that same block of code above and replace the entire thing with the following:

 

	table.ipb_table h4 {
font-size: 1.1em;
font-weight: bold;
display: inline;
}
table.ipb_table .topic_title {
font-size: 1.1em;
font-weight: normal;
display: inline;
}

This should now render the forum titles bold and the topic/thread titles back to normal. Fix confirmation came from Broni, as I wasn't sure what else was affected by table h4 attribute.

 

I was going to do the "bold when unread" for the thread titles until I saw how they looked bold. Not the best for this layout.

changes made, is that better now?

 

it all looks the same to me, maybe I need to clean my screen up :lol:

I know, I know, you're all about the smilies. :P :lol: ;)

 

Looking good, anyhow. I see you're like me, you'll try anything twice, eh? lol

Looking good, anyhow. I see you're like me, you'll try anything twice, eh? lol

it usually works out that way..lol

 

and yes, I like the emotions :blink: