[reviewed] vB~Impressions

**ohiosweetheart** · 07-31-2006, 11:16 PM

Ok, I'll be the first to showcase my forum :p

At vBImpressions, you'll find vBulletin styles, button sets, forum markers and misc vB graphics, webpage sets, templates, resources, a vB discussion forum and more.

Come visit me!

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-01-2006, 04:55 AM

Thanks for taking the leap ohiosweetheart

I like your new site, loads super fast

**ohiosweetheart** · 08-01-2006, 07:46 AM

haha that's cuz there's not much on it yet

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-01-2006, 10:19 AM

is it alot of css ?

**ohiosweetheart** · 08-01-2006, 01:13 PM

the forum us, as you know. The website is mainly html, with some css thrown in

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-01-2006, 01:27 PM

ah, well i've just read that if you can make the style more css, that the search engines will love ya

**ohiosweetheart** · 08-01-2006, 01:58 PM

hun i've just learned css to do these styles! I haven't even delved into using css to do webpages yet. That's a whole 'nuther ballgame lol

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-01-2006, 10:48 PM

i hear ya

I wish I knew more css too, maybe I'll download a ebook or something, If I find a good one I'll share the link with you if you like

btw,, did that photoshop book help any ?
and have you ever tried macromedia dreamweaver ?

**ohiosweetheart** · 08-01-2006, 11:46 PM

I haven't even had time to look at it yet. Between tweaking my new site and the forum, submitting to search engines and directories, and working on top of that...

whew, I'm a worn out puppy

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-02-2006, 08:58 AM

I feel the same

Maybe we should move to Alaska, where the days are 30 hours long or something like that..lol

**ohiosweetheart** · 08-02-2006, 02:37 PM

haha, may as well, for as little sleep as I get anyway :rolleyes:

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-02-2006, 03:50 PM

who needs sleep anyways..lol
we can just buy a case of red bull and stay up for a week working on our stuff

**ohiosweetheart** · 08-02-2006, 05:56 PM

hahaha works for me

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-02-2006, 06:17 PM

I made a new post on the blog about our first style share

not sure why the link doesn't work until you click and try to comment or when you click the title, then you see a link to your thread and your profile

I'll play with it and see if I can make the links work without clicking the blog title.
I want ppl and search engines to see the links

**ohiosweetheart** · 08-05-2006, 04:48 AM

btw just wanted to clear up one thing that may have been misunderstood:

ALL of my styles are css-based. Except for the images, the entire style is css. I don't do the template changes, and big complicated images that change the look of the entire board. TOO many images makes the board load slower. SO I stick with css-based styles.

The SE's will love ya

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-05-2006, 09:12 AM

ah, I did misunderstand ya :o

Thats good, I need to learn how to make a style...it's on the list of "things to do" ...heh

**Big Dan** · 08-06-2006, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon

i hear ya

I wish I knew more css too, maybe I'll download a ebook or something, If I find a good one I'll share the link with you if you like

btw,, did that photoshop book help any ?
and have you ever tried macromedia dreamweaver ?

A decent tutorial is Learn HTML and CSS - Use our tutorials - Build your own website | HTML.net

The have both HTML & CSS tutorials, very easy reading

**Brandon Sheley** · 08-06-2006, 03:57 PM

great link, and great url.

thanks for sharing

**ohiosweetheart** · 09-24-2006, 01:00 PM

Hey I stumbled across a wonderful find a couple of days ago.
It's a Hack kind of like GARS for mod/hacks database set-up. You see it on vb.org in the styles and modification/hacks section.

Only I like this one better. The setup is cleaner, less cluttered, PLUS, the "lite" version that I got, is free! They just came out with a "Pro" version that you have to purchase, but I'm going to stick with this and see what it does for me.

Here's a screenie:

Only problem I'm having with it is getting the first post that contains all of the style info, to be the same width as the rest of the thread

Anyone have any ideas? This is a great hack but support on their forum leaves alot to be desired

**Brandon Sheley** · 09-24-2006, 01:08 PM

do you have a link to download ? I'll check it out..

I didn't know there was another option to GARs

does it have it's own templates ? I'd imagine you can just edit those

**ohiosweetheart** · 09-24-2006, 03:57 PM

It does and I fixed it! Also deleted some unnecessary info as well.
Here's what it looks like now

Here's the link to the hack. You have to register to d/l it

Hack/Mod Database

Don't worry, it's been updated for 3.6.1

**Brandon Sheley** · 09-24-2006, 04:40 PM

Oh, I seen that on vBModder
I'll check it out, thanks for the link

**ohiosweetheart** · 09-24-2006, 05:07 PM

You're welcome. I was going to suggest it to you.
I'm lovin' it

**Brandon Sheley** · 09-24-2006, 05:13 PM

CM said the attachments had issues..

like if you post a screenshot, that you have to "install" to see..

maybe it's been fixed in this release

**rareclownfish** · 09-24-2006, 07:11 PM

Has anyone designed any threadmarkers for these button set they have going around, maybe with each button set you should design threadmarkers to go with them.

**Brandon Sheley** · 09-24-2006, 07:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rareclownfish

Has anyone designed any threadmarkers for these button set they have going around, maybe with each button set you should design threadmarkers to go with them.

What do you mean ? for the install hack OHS posted ? or for this sitte ?

**Code Monkey** · 09-24-2006, 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon

CM said the attachments had issues..

like if you post a screenshot, that you have to "install" to see..

maybe it's been fixed in this release

No, the problem I had with that was that if you did not have permision to view the mod databases attachments, then you would not be able to see attachements site wide. Which is not how it should function. Never had time to look at it. So I just fenagled my way around that.

**rareclownfish** · 09-24-2006, 07:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon

What do you mean ? for the install hack OHS posted ? or for this sitte ?

Just in general I've looked at a few site that has button packs but none ever have a threadmarker pack along with them.

**Brandon Sheley** · 09-24-2006, 07:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

No, the problem I had with that was that if you did not have permision to view the mod databases attachments, then you would not be able to see attachements site wide. Which is not how it should function. Never had time to look at it. So I just fenagled my way around that.

oh, thanks for correcting me, I misunderstood

Quote:

Originally Posted by rareclownfish

Just in general I've looked at a few site that has button packs but none ever have a threadmarker pack along with them.

I have the psd's for this style and can make a thread starter if I wanted, but I'd have to add the hack for that mod