Guides

Contrast is important when designing (or choosing) a theme that is legible. This very short guide will give you practical advice to picking what colours to use on your site.

I've been asked a few times on how to make a custom Playby List without having to create a separate directory for claims. This will work for many different things that only have one level like Faction or Species. Job lists, if you want them separated by location, are more complicated and will be covered in another guide.

As it stands there is a default total block in the application itself however that only works for groups and if you want other sorts of totals manually updating them is... well lets face it, a pain in the ass. For this guide I'm going to give you the code and how to edit it. This should only be used on things that only have one selection on a select box (so no arrays). You can do this for factions, genders, whatever you have that needs a total.

With IPS, unless you have it set to highlight specific groups posts, there is no real way to differentiate the author types save for their icon and group color. As you can see here at the Initiative we are able to accomodate a different look per user group to show off all of our awesome staff members, patrons and contributors.

This information is actually available on the jcink wiki, but it's a bit buried and easy to miss. Or maybe I'm just unobservant. Who knows?

Anywho, you can add links to the mobile view of jcink.

By Default IPS doesn't allow for large avatars as the overall styling of the site really doesn't fit with that. It doesn't, however, mean that you don't get to have one. Follow these steps and you'll be able to have a large avatar on your site.

A simple list of current PhpBB extensions that would be helpful for RPG sites. This is by no means a complete list just some that I found useful.

You can whack the user's subscribed threads into your wrapper, which makes it easier to see what needs replying to. Here's how.

This script will also work with other forum software. However, if you're able to use PHP, I would use that.

For other forums, just change the element that you're targeting:

$("#thread-container").load("URL ELEMENT_TO_TARGET");

So continuing through the Jcink theming guides our next step is the actual design process. Board Wrappers are considered the bones of your theme and wraps up the other elements in it. This will often be the biggest part of your mock-up.