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  • in reply to: Styles #389

    I can certainly increase the yellow content. I went with ivory as it’s much warmer than white so is easier on the eyes but I’ll bump it up a tad. How’s it look now? Will check on my end later when I’m back on the mobile 🙂

    Got the first class, what are the other three for?

    So Chrome has a handy contrast checker that I just found in its color editor that led me to a limey color. Hopefully it works well on the phone, too! 🙂

    in reply to: Films & TV Shows #379

    Saw Puppet Master yesterday and that was fun. They really did a good job with the puppets!

    in reply to: Styles #376

    Yep! Some good stuff in there!

    Sounds good! 🙂

    Yeah, I’m not sure about the templates. We definitely should probably figure out which ones are used where. Once we do, we may want a thread on it to help us keep track of things. Maybe it has to do with the code snippet you had to add to get them to show up?

    Boom! Got most of it! Still need to come up with a color for the reply field and the link colors may need adjusting. I also changed the font color to ivory. I never understood why the property for font color is color instead of font-color 😛

    The border colors probably need adjusting, too, but we’ll get there!

    Edit:

    I copied over our customizations into the first post to help us see things at a glance. We may also want to round some more corners to make things not so angular. It’s going to look amazing when we’re done with it!

    Looking good on the phone but the links are still hard to see. Will need to find a good color that is both readable and sets them apart

    in reply to: Timestamps #370

    It’s on the parts where it says, “Last post was so and so ago” and it occurs with all posts but only when logged out. When I’m logged in, the relative timestamps are updated normally when I refresh. Not occurring now but I’ll try running the tools later when I can properly test it 🙂

    in reply to: Styles #368

    Had to put it in the style pack for now to get it working but I think I see what’s going on after looking at the page source. It’s putting our custom styles in a style tag and then loading the other stylesheets afterwards. It also loads the custom CSS stylesheet first so anything after it is overridden. If we want to keep things self-contained, we may want to look at the solution posed in point six here

    And for completeness, here’s the WordPress docs on the subject. Nothing really new but it doesn’t hurt to have it around 🙂

    How’s the color choice so far (my eyes are saying the color may be a bit too something or other; I like how it looks but it’s causing some eyestrain :P)? 🙂

    Edit:

    And the font color needs to be adjusted. While perfectly readable on my laptop, you can hardly see the text on my phone. 😛

    We’ll get there! One step at a time!

    in reply to: Random #360

    Definitely. Back when I had cable, I was a big fan of some of the stuff SyFy would crank out, such as their fantasy films. Wasn’t a big fan of their stuff like Sharktopus, though. That was kind of pushing it a bit 😛

    😀 I think these are just visually styled and probably of better quality in terms of materials than the cheap set (but highly rated and very stylish) I ordered off of Amazon. Always good to have a nice looking set around!

    Yep! Got it in the garage! Need to move it to an outlet after I organize the garage better, though, so that I have better access to my tools but I’ll get there!

    in reply to: Styles #357

    Still working on it. I’m having some trouble with some of the stuff getting overridden even when I use the !important directive so it’s a bit of a headache 😛

    in reply to: Sounds and Music #356

    Here’s one that’s pretty uplifting:

    in reply to: Random #344

    Not sure, I haven’t watched Part 2 yet. They split up the film version into two films and the deaths all happen in the second one. There was no mention of a memorial being erected in the story either which was kind of strange.

    Yeah, the short life is rather undesirable. My smoke detector has motion sensing but the batteries last well over five years with that feature turned on. Granted, it uses six or eight AAs so that may have something to do with it.

    Yeah, sounds dreadful 😛

    Saw this one yesterday and it was a really well done ghost story. Highly recommended if you’re into that sort of thing 🙂

    The comic shop has just started carrying some cool looking dice. I may need to upgrade my set!

    So I was hunting in the woods in Zelda the other day and came across a cool new enemy: the Evermean. It’s a living tree! I shot it with a fire arrow to set it aflame and then chopped it down with an axe. I kind of overdid it but I wasn’t sure if it had any special properties so I wanted to be sure to take it down 😛

    Got the workbench assembled and it’s already being put to use. Painting something right now on it!

    in reply to: Random #340

    And finished the last Potter book. It picked up about two-thirds of the way through but the ending was intentionally chaotic. Every character from all the books in the series that was still alive showed up. I didn’t like how many characters were killed off at the end, though. That was quite a downer.

    in reply to: Films & TV Shows #338

    Will take a look at Rampage. It’s actually been on Hulu’s home page for a few weeks now, pestering me to watch it 😛

    Sorry! I watched the original one. I really need to get better at linking the film pages 😛

    Documentary Now! is locked behind a paywall here. 🙁 Hopefully I’ll get to watch it at some point!

    Will keep an eye out for Portlandia!

    I’ve noticed that horror films from independent studios tend to be a bit more fun than those from the big names. At least, I tend to like them more. 😛

    For some reason, though, I have a hard time enjoying newer horror films. Anything made since 2010, I find strangely boring. Not sure why. I really should get back to watching decent stuff again, though 😛

    in reply to: Random #335

    Yep, it’s out! I’m still early in the game but it’s a lot of fun. They’ve added the ability to manipulate objects and attach them to things, which is a blast. I sent a Korok sliding along a railing while attached to a hook 😀

    Got my guidebook on pre-order! I like the Zelda guidebooks. Even though I don’t always use them, I find them fun to have around.

    They’ve also included quite a bit from Skyward Sword in the game, which is nice.

    Mods aren’t officially supported but you can do some modifications on the Switch to make them work but I’m not too familiar with the process

    Will try to get a thread up soon!

    Started the last Potter book the other day and it’s pretty glum. I’ll finish it but it’s definitely not my favorite of the seven books

    in reply to: Styles #333

    Okay, got the blocks on the forum in a more readable form:

    div.bbp-breadcrumb,
    div.bbp-topic-tags,
    .bbp-reply-form,
    .bbp-topic-form,
    .bbp-topic-tag-form,
    .bbp-pagination,
    .post-edit-link {
    	background-color: #f0f8ff;
    }

    We can always adjust the colors, I went with the one for the statistics thing just to be consistent 🙂

    Will get to the rest of the site at some point, still focusing on the forums right now 🙂

    in reply to: Software: On & Off the Web #325

    Sorry, been rather distracted lately working on the theme so I’ve been a bit slow

    Yuck and yuck!

    😛

    Yeah, it’d be nice to get an automatic message when getting close to the inactivity limit but few sites do that in my experience. Really not sure why. There are times when you sign up for a site but stop visiting for a few years before deciding to take it up again. Would be nice to be able to keep the account active if you wish.

    In the past, I’ve used Down Them all to grab videos for offline viewing but that was years ago and only supported on Firefox at the time. Was pretty handy as my connection would crap out regularly and I had trouble watching videos from sites like YouTube. Had a few custom filters set up to also grab wallpaper images without having to download each one manually. Was quite useful!

    in reply to: Styles #323

    Voila!

    body::after {
    	content: "Background from ESA/Hubble";
    }

    Nope, the posts are fully opaque but we can set them to partially transparent with the rgb() color option and setting an alpha percentage.

    The style pack has some options for playing with specific font colors, perhaps that will be useful? I’m not sure how to set it up to display differently on different pages. I should probably give the WordPress docs a more thorough look through

    It’d be nice to add some shading to the headers and footers but I just looked at the selectors and they don’t seem to have classes or IDs but maybe it’s possible to adjust that in some way?

    Edit:

    Took another look and I can add shading to everything but the header over the breadcrumbs. Give me a bit! At some point, we may want to play with the blog area as well but we’ll get there!

    in reply to: The Thread That Broods #316

    😀 Give me a bit more! I’m flat out exhausted after the busy couple of weeks 😛

    Which Phantom is that? A few different ones come up after a search

    🙁 Hopefully they’ll be lenient!

    Had to pull a kid away from the pond yesterday. He was throwing sticks at a gator and the gator wasn’t happy so it was swimming fast and making a beeline for the kid. I ran around the pond to get him as I was concerned the gator was about to attack.

    in reply to: Styles #315

    And added! I went ahead and did it with CSS to make it easier to play with. I also set the height and width to 100% so that the background image will scale properly to the screens 🙂

    We’re supposed to add ESA/Hubble somewhere on the page for attribution. Not sure of the best way to go about doing that

    I think they wanted the colors to be slightly different for stylistic reasons but, honestly, my eyes can’t tell the difference even though the color codes are different. What color would go well with the background? I’ll play with adding some transparency to it as well 🙂

    in reply to: Forum Font Style #314

    Good idea. It’s also possible to load extra fonts through CSS but there may be some hiccups with that approach.

    We may also want to change some of the font colors now that we have a background image. Black on black is, well, a bit difficult to read 😛

    Another idea would be to add some shading to the back of the text by setting up an alpha channel for the backgrounds but that may require a lot of work to make sure we catch everything. I’ll need to look at the selectors when I get the chance

    in reply to: Styles #301

    So I tried to add a background image following the steps here but it didn’t seem to go as planned. It only affected the home page and it only got some of it

    I think I’ll cancel out the changes and do it via CSS as I find the editor a bit hard to use. 🙂

    May I go ahead? Won’t take but a second. Just need to add the following:

    body {
    	backgound-image: <image>;
    }

    Edit:

    Okay, changes have been backed out 🙂

    in reply to: Sounds and Music #297

    😀

    That first one sure is relaxing!

    Sounds? Sounds!

    And music!

    Haven’t had much chance to listen to much the last several weeks as there’s been a lot going on but hopefully I can catch back up starting in a few days!

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