Site Button Colors?

[Edneeis]

Am I crazy or did the buttons on this site used to be blue? I thought a while back we switched them to blue versions instead of the default purple, but not they are purple again.

[Madboy]

Yeah i was going crazy there for a minute, they must be changing them, the smilies have changed too. Look at the "Messed up forum" thread in Chit Chat to see the latest chat on it.

I though my AOL totally lost the plot there:eek:

[MartinLiss]

I've brought this to the attention of the Admins.

[Kasracer]

Some of the new smilies look like cheap IPB ripoffs :mad:.

Also, purple sucks!

[Madboy]

Purple hurts my eyes, they should be blue, blue blue blue!

And i dont know what happened to the smilies, they look sick:sick: :cry:

Hopefully the admins will restore the forum back to blue buttons and the good ol' smilies:p

[The Hobo]

Someone do an update or something?

We also have more ugly crap on the bottom of the pages, too. :(

[brad jones]

Ahhh, how I have purple buttons.... I didn't a few minutes ago. Someone updated the footer. They should not have touched the smilies or buttons. The icons are the CodeGuru list.....


hmmm.....

I'm on it....

Brad!

[Madboy]

Good brad;) , this sure is ugly.

If you didnt change then who did?

[Kasracer]

Originally posted by brad jones
Ahhh, how I have purple buttons.... I didn't a few minutes ago. Someone updated the footer. They should not have touched the smilies or buttons. The icons are the CodeGuru list.....


hmmm.....

I'm on it....

Brad! Make me an admin so I can fix this stuff for you. It'll never happen again too!

:D

[brad jones]

:eek:

I found the name of the person who did the overwrite.... I'm asking that they restore back to to what everything was before they overwrote. It is the end of the day, so this may not happen until tomorrow.

grrrrrr...


Brad!

[Kasracer]

Originally posted by brad jones
:eek:

I found the name of the person who did the overwrite.... I'm asking that they restore back to to what everything was before they overwrote. It is the end of the day, so this may not happen until tomorrow.

grrrrrr...


Brad! You could fix it.... or make me an admin and I'll fix it

btw, who did it? SPILL THE BEANS!

[brad jones]

It was a system admin -- not a VBForums/vBulletin admin. It was done on the server. I'd prefer to have them fix the problem -- so that it is less likely to happen again ;).

If it doesn't get updated early tomorrow, then I'll see what backups I have on my machine of the buttons and icons, and I'll put them back.

((I'm not sure how you would prevent a system admin at the server level from overwriting values in a directory being that they have writes to change file permissions and everything.))

Brad

[mendhak]

My friggin' eyes! I feel like we're back in the 80s. :(

[brad jones]

This will be fixed some time this "morning" (EST USA time). The forum was updated with the new point release update and the system guy forgot to leave the image directories alone. He told me he would fix the mistake this morning.

Brad

[brad jones]

Everyone should be seeing blue again.

You should also have the colored smilies back. I know I've said it before; however, I'll mention it again -- if you have a cool icon you want added to the board --> that you have the rights to <-- then send it my way. As long as it is yours to share, I'll add it to the smilies box.

Brad!

[brad jones]

Originally posted by Spetnik
And copy these into the icons directory :):

http://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon2.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon3.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon4.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon5.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon6.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon7.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon8.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon9.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon10.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon11.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon12.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon13.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif

Spetnik,

Send me an email with these attached and I'll consider posting them. (with this many, it is easier for me to drop them directly onto the server than to use the vBulletin interface).

Brad

[Edneeis]

Thanks Brad.

I always did like the blues.

[mendhak]

Dude, like, it's PURPLE again!

And I'm not even stoned. :eek:

[peet]

Originally posted by mendhak
And I'm not even stoned. :eek:

yeahh.. right

[mendhak]

:lol:

Well, either they changed back to how it should be, or I'm destonified.

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by mendhak
:lol:

Well, either they changed back to how it should be, or I'm destonified.

Lay off the pinecones, man.

[brad jones]

Originally posted by Spetnik
And copy these into the icons directory :):

http://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon2.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon3.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon4.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon5.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon6.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon7.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon8.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon9.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon10.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon11.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon12.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon13.gifhttp://www.chitchatforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif

I used admin perogative. I didn't use three of these icons because I liked the originals better. The others look good though :D

Now we just need a few more good animated smilies....

[mendhak]

You've mentioned before "if it's your own"...

the :) smilie is almost ubiquitous, but we can't claim it to be our own. What then is the 'exact' critera? I really don't think there's any sort of a COPYRIGHT on smilies anywhere.

[brad jones]

Originally posted by mendhak
You've mentioned before "if it's your own"...

the :) smilie is almost ubiquitous, but we can't claim it to be our own. What then is the 'exact' critera? I really don't think there's any sort of a COPYRIGHT on smilies anywhere.

True for the basic smilie :), however, there are sites that create animated smilies and sell them -- or give them free if you do something for them. There is one pop-up that I see regularly that has lots of great animated smilies that they say are free, however, if you read the fine print, you'll see that they are free for personal use if you do xyz. They are not free for a site like this to use. As long as an animated smilie is a free, public, no-strings-attached file then we can use it. If you didn't create the file though, then it is harder to verify and prove that there are no strings attached.

If I get the pop-up, I'll snap it and put screen shot here to show you what I'm talking about.

Brad!

[The Hobo]

I like this one better than the current laughing one: http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/contrib/ruinkai/biglaugh.gif

[brad jones]

Originally posted by The Hobo
I like this one better than the current laughing one: http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/contrib/ruinkai/biglaugh.gif

I like http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/contrib/ruinkai/biglaugh.gif too; however, what do others think? If you have the right to let us post this smilie, I'm willing to swap it in for :lol:. I'll rename :lol: to something like :chatter:.

Brad!

[NoteMe]

As long as I can use : D and ; ) and : ) and : confused: I don't care what the other smilies are or what tags I have to write to post them...

[mendhak]

Originally posted by NoteMe
As long as I can use : D and ; ) and : ) and : confused: I don't care what the other smilies are or what tags I have to write to post them...

Don't forget :afrog:

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by brad jones
If you have the right to let us post this smilie

I got it off cracksmilies.com or something. I believe all their smilies are free for public use. I'll check when I get home.

[NoteMe]

Originally posted by mendhak
Don't forget :afrog:

Take it away...:D

[Kasracer]

Originally posted by NoteMe
As long as I can use : D and ; ) and : ) and : confused: I don't care what the other smilies are or what tags I have to write to post them... Why did you put spaces in those? A simple trick to get around the vBull paraser: :) works or you could have just turned off smilies

[NoteMe]

Becuase I am too lazy to pick up my mouse....;)