Krediath Head Of Design The Returned
Posts : 70 Join date : 2011-07-11 Age : 26 Location : United Kingdom
| Subject: Site Update (February 2019) Thu Feb 07, 2019 12:01 am | |
| Hello! It's your favourite (and only) co-admin again, doing the usual rounds while talking to himself. I'm going to put this simply: After seven years of neglect, CHHL's CSS is coming apart at the seams. There are parts I can't even get to, and those bits I can access are exactly the mess of classes and tags you'd expect from an inexperienced 14-year-old. I can't feasibly rewrite the entire style sheet. I can fix up the bits I can understand, and fortunately Forumotion's default tools are just flexible enough for me to plaster over a couple of the bigger problems. Changes from here on will be mostly visual: and most of those will be for readability. There are a couple of exceptions, and I'll go into the reasoning behind those in the changelog. Other than visual changes, this forum will remain as-is: A semi-living museum, of sorts. I'll keep trimming down new features as they pop up, unless they're non-intrusive, to keep the forum as faithful to its 2011 self as possible. Anyhow, let's get on with it. Changelog- Click:
Readability Tweaks
- Changes to text colours for body & links for easier reading.
- Changed Administrator colour to paler blue, to prevent blending with dark backgrounds.
New Header
- All of the 2011 headers are lost and unrecoverable: There's four pages of blank images on the forum's Servimg account, so I can only guess that's where our missing stuff used to be. I had to decide between using a header from the original Hellhound's Lair or making new one. This new one is miles better than the old art, but hopefully the simplicity keeps it from standing out too much.
New Post Indicators
As with the header, these are lost to time. I decided to make a running theme of the snarling hellhound.
- Old post indicators restored!
New Default Avatar
- The old default avatar was the Forumotion default, which is 100x100. For some reason our formatting is really funky unless using avatars at least 150 pixels wide. I can't say why, but this solution works well enough for an inactive forum.
New Rank Card
- I gave myself a new rank card, as our old ones have joined the banners and notification icons in going the way of the dodo. I like to call him jimmy. He keeps me company while I try to keep this website functional
Removed Traffic Exchange
- It wasn't here in 2011, so it won't be here now. This forum is too dead for this thing to work anyhow.
Whew! Probably the best log CHHL has ever seen. If anyone's around: Discuss below! Edit: Looks like the forum Servimg account is down permanently this time. I'll have a go at recovering the lost images soon. Edit 2: Success (sort of)! The images that weren't already missing from the account are back. | |
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