Styles & scripts (Blue Goo, Post Toast, etc.) for community.secondlife.com

[Cerise Sorbet]

FIrst up are styles, scroll down a little for scripts.

Hi, if you find that the new forum's color scheme is a little too bright, maybe try this one, Blue Goo.

If you would like to hide the text and bowling pins on avatar badges until you really want to see them, try the Badges Much Room style sheet.

If you find the dark username text hard to read on the badges, make usernames readable can help, but it does make the badges a little less pretty.

You can load each of these styles independently, just one or all three as you prefer.

Just like with the old styles for the Jive blogorum, these will work best with the Stylish add-on in Firefox and Chrome. If you use another browser that can import user styles, it could work for you too. At the download link above, the possiblities for other browsers are explained.

If I missed any elements and make them unreadable, let me know and I'll fix them.

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If you use Greasemonkey, Chrome, or a compatible script system, you might want to try Post Toast for Lithium communities. This script will add post previews when you hver the mouse over their links. It also fixes a little glitch in the recent posts pages, so that answers show the whole thread instead of a single reply.

If you want to reply to the first post without moving to the first page of a forum thread, Thread reply button for Lithium communities adds a button for that at the bottom of each post page.

[ChuckBaggett1488303079]

Is it possible Greasemonkey or Stylish away some of the text on the badges?

[Adromaw Lupindo]

Excellent work Cerise, that is thorough and pleasant on the eyes. Right down to making the usernames more readable on dark backgrounds.

[Cerise Sorbet]

 

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ChuckBaggett wrote:

Is it possible Greasemonkey or Stylish away some of the text on the badges?

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It is just like Zombo.com, anything is possible. What kind of changes did you have in mind?

 

[Dresden Ceriano]

Wow... thanks. So much better.

Is it difficult to learn to do this? Seems like it would be fun to play around with it.

...Dres

[Kalynn Carnell]

Ahhhh.  So much more soothing on my eyes than bright white.  Just curious; is this done with a CSS style sheet and is it really hard to learn?  I'd love to play around with it and make one, too. 

Btw, I have noticed that there seems to be a bit of white shadowing around the names on the badges, making them just a bit hard to read (for my eyes, at least).  Otherwise, everything else looks great.  Good job!

[Cerise Sorbet]

Hi, yes it is CSS, there is a "Show Source" button on the download page where you can grab it and change things to a way you like better. Oh, and please feel free to share any cool changes, the more choices we have, the better!

Really I do not know how hard it is to learn CSS today! Good documentation was scarce when I had to learn how it worked, but that was a long time ago.

The white drop shadow was a compromise, I picked hard to read over impossible to read. A really legible version would cover up some of the badges, and I was reluctant to do that because people are doing interesting things with them.

[Rene Erlanger]

Ah thanks Cerise..i was hoping you could do it!

 

You're awesome!!! :smileyhappy:

 

[Dresden Ceriano]

 

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Cerise Sorbet wrote:

Hi, yes it is CSS

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Oh hell, that leaves me out in the cold. After taking class after class, I can't even script a disco ball to spin around in SL... I'm sure learning CSS is completely out of the question.

But that's alright... I can sure live with this theme. Again, many thanks.

...Dres

[Marcus Hancroft]

Howdy, Cerise

I downloaded both Stylish and Greasemonkey, but no changes.  I'm obviously missing a step somewhere.  After installing both of them in Firefox, is there something else I need to do?

[Cerise Sorbet]

Hi, after you have stylish installed, did you go back to the userstyles.org site and install the theme? The userstyles.org download process will do the right thing, but only after you have Stylish installed and restarted the browser to activate it.

[ We do not need Greasemonkey for this one, but can use it as a slower alternative to Stylish. ]

[Ceka Cianci]

Much better now with the Goo hehehe..That black and white was so depressing ..It gave me that "All hope is lost " feeling lol

[Willow Danube]

Thank You ! Thank You ! Thank You ! Thank You! Thank You! ......

May I suggest that when you have something brilliant like this to share with us that you post this in a forum where we could give you a Kudo? You deserve it.. seriously.

[Mags Indigo]

This is terrific - thank you Cerise

[Ima Rang]

Perfect!  Thank you so much! 

[Marcus Hancroft]

 

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Cerise Sorbet wrote:

Hi, after you have stylish installed, did you go back to the userstyles.org site and install the theme? The userstyles.org download process will do the right thing, but only after you have Stylish installed and restarted the browser to activate it.

[ We do not need Greasemonkey for this one, but can use it as a slower alternative to Stylish. ]

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Howdy, Cerise!

/me chuckles

No, I hadn't done that.  I have now, and it looks great!  Thank you very much!  :smileywink:

[Quinn Morani]

Thank you, thank you, a million thank yous! That is so much easier on the eyes! And after installing I discovered that I accidentally left a white layer active when saving the image for my badge that I meant to make transparent. I hadn't noticed on the white forum background. Now it's fixed. Yay!

[Cerise Sorbet]

Quote highlighting and signature separation are added today. Stylish has a Find Updates button, you can use that to get the latest.

[Cerise Sorbet]

 

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ChuckBaggett wrote:

Is it possible Greasemonkey or Stylish away some of the text on the badges?

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The post so nice I replied twice!  This thread in the feedback forum has a fix for that.

 

[Dresden Ceriano]

 

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Cerise Sorbet wrote:

Quote highlighting and signature separation are added today. Stylish has a Find Updates button, you can use that to get the latest.

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  So, so, so, so, so much better. A thousand thank yous.

...Dres

 

[Ossian1488303077]

OMG, Cerise!  Thank you SO MUCH!  I can't believe how quickly you did it!

I downloaded both Blue Goo and Badges Much Room, and it's an enormous improvement.  Lithium and LL should pay you for making the forum a better place.

It's first of all more readable -- so much easier on the eyes -- and it makes the avatars a lot cleaner and hides all that rank and post count jive.

The mouse-over display is just so clever!

 

[Jaen Albatros]

Omg, this is brilliant..so much better..better even than the old forums!! Thank you so much Cerise!

[Darrius Gothly]

/me adds Kudos to the stack...

Never used Stylish before, never played with User Themes before ... but now that you've opened Pandora's Box for me .. RUNNNN!!! hehehehe

Well done Cerise. Thank you very much.

[Lexie Linden]

Great thread.  Hope you don't mind that I floated it to the top for everyone to see?  ~  Lexie

[Maureen Boccaccio]

Thank you very much!