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  1. Who Posted Today? -- Block for IPS

    If you're using a Linked Accounts mod (specifically, Adriano's Linked Accounts), you'll be aware that it doesn't acknowledge that a member has been online in the Members Online Today list. To get around that, and also give an accurate view of how active your forum is, this block creates a styled list of every member who has posted some form of content in the last 24 hours.

    Type: PHP Software: Invision Power Services (IPS)

    By Sadrienne,

    • 2,774 views

  2. Web Design: Contrast

    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.

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Jcink, Invision Power Services (IPS), Journals (Tumblr, Wordpress, Livejournal, Insanejournal), MyBB, Nova, phpBB, Proboards (Freeforums), SMF, XenForo, Other

    By Kit the Human,

    • 3,037 views

  3. Tips on Skinning

    @"Claire" asked for some tips on making her first skin but my reply got so big I figured I'd turn it into a guide.

    You always wanted to know how to annotate your face, right? ;P

    DISCLAIMER: I am not actually a drunkard like this post would suggest. (Seriously, the most I ever drink is a (very large) glass of Baileys at Christmas. Every night for a month. It's like a grown-up advent calendar.) The "wine" stains were in fact blood stains from all the hair-pulling.

    DISCLAIMER THE SECOND: I don't really have one, I just felt like saying "disclaimer the second".

    DISCLAIMER THE THIRD: Oh, look, I did have a second disclaimer after all: I may or may not add to this list of tips in the near or distant future if my brain should decide to spill its guts some more. Who knows.

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Jcink

    By soggymuse,

    • 3,482 views

  4. Starting a Theme

    These few steps are universal for creating a theme, we're going to go through the initial steps of developing a theme, this is going to include a few key factors. This will include questions you want to ask yourself and good practices.

    Type: Look & Feel

    By Morrigan,

    • 1,475 views

  5. Slim Side/Navigation Bar (Optional Dropdown Menu Included)

    Every site needs navigation, right? What about something using icons/glyph fonts, and some funky hover effects in place of tooltips to give your site a unique look? Oh, it works on mobile, is dead simple to convert to a dropdown or toggle menu with a touch of script, and is super light on code too? Let's do it!

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Other

    By ThriftStoreTeeth,

    • 7,010 views

  6. Simple, Flexible Templates with doHTML and CSS

    Video Tutorial: Want a unique post style that reflects your site, without mixing and matching a heap of pre-coded templates? Coding your own is easy! Here's how.

    Type: Look & Feel

    By Sadrienne,

    • 1,420 views

  7. Pure CSS Tooltip Styling

    Goodbye, boring tooltip, hello, beautiful tooltips that match your site. Gone are the days of needing to do this with Javascript and jQuery. And, it's accessible to screen readers, too!

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Other

    By Arceus,

    • 2,199 views

  8. PHP Fundamentals IV

    Part of a guide series, the PHP Fundamentals guide dives into the very basics of PHP and how it works, designed for people that have never worked with PHP at all, or only very briefly (or people that just want more solid info on the ostensibly easy stuff). This series is designed to build on itself, because PHP is like algebra, you can't just dive straight into the middle. ... well, you could, but it wouldn't be pretty. Fundamentals IV covers functions.

    Type: PHP

    By Arceus,

    • 1,744 views

  9. PHP Fundamentals III

    Part of a guide series, the PHP Fundamentals guide dives into the very basics of PHP and how it works, designed for people that have never worked with PHP at all, or only very briefly (or people that just want more solid info on the ostensibly easy stuff). This series is designed to build on itself, because PHP is like algebra, you can't just dive straight into the middle. ... well, you could, but it wouldn't be pretty. Fundamentals III covers arrays.

    Type: PHP

    By Arceus,

    • 1,238 views

  10. PHP Fundamentals II

    Part of a guide series, the PHP Fundamentals guide dives into the very basics of PHP and how it works, designed for people that have never worked with PHP at all, or only very briefly (or people that just want more solid info on the ostensibly easy stuff). This series is designed to build on itself, because PHP is like algebra, you can't just dive straight into the middle. ... well, you could, but it wouldn't be pretty. Fundamentals II covers globals and superglobals.

    Type: PHP

    By Arceus,

    • 1,139 views

  11. PHP Fundamentals I

    Part of a guide series, the PHP Fundamentals guide dives into the very basics of PHP and how it works, designed for people that have never worked with PHP at all, or only very briefly (or people that just want more solid info on the ostensibly easy stuff). This series is designed to build on itself, because PHP is like algebra, you can't just dive straight into the middle. ... well, you could, but it wouldn't be pretty. Fundamentals I covers variables, echo, conditionals, and comparisons.

    Type: PHP

    By Arceus,

    • 2,855 views

  12. Move Jcink Alerts Popup

    So a lot of people hate the default user bar that JCink provides however if you get rid of it then you get rid of the alerts popup with is super helpful for those that like to track their posts through this. So I figured out the javascript and adapted it so you can move the link to wherever you like.

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Jcink

    By Morrigan,

    • 2,719 views

  13. Mini-Profile - click or hover to reveal information

    This is a base for a mini profile that you can either hover over or click onto, to reveal more information about the author. I built this in response to the problem created by hovers: they do not necessarily work for iOS devices. Adding a click function allows all users to access the information usually found with a hover.

    Type: Look & Feel

    By Kit the Human,

    • 3,669 views

  14. Jcink Theming: Creating the theme

    This is the first true guide in theming for Jcink. As with anything you have to start somewhere and in this instance we need to create a theme and the things that make up a theme.

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Jcink

    By Morrigan,

    • 6,325 views

  15. Jcink Theming: Board Wrappers

    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.

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Jcink

    By Morrigan,

    • 5,047 views

  16. Jcink Themeing: What you Need

    This guide is the precursor guide to how to create a theme, step by step on Jcink. This will start from how do you even start a new theme on Jcink to exporting/importing it to s site. This particular guide is the expectations that I have for a member to follow guides in order to be successful.

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Jcink

    By Morrigan,

    • 4,782 views

  17. Javascript Tabs

    A guide to making Tabs with javascript.

    Type: Javascript

    By dystopia,

    • 1,576 views

  18. Importance Of Box-Sizing CSS

    Here to save the day for those troubling with padding and border causing additional pixels to your widths.

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Jcink, Invision Power Services (IPS), Journals (Tumblr, Wordpress, Livejournal, Insanejournal), MyBB, Nova, phpBB, Proboards (Freeforums), SMF, XenForo, Other

    By c.widow,

    • 3,720 views

  19. HTML/CSS Transitions

    By popular demand, and threat of kangaroos (I jest), a couple quick tutorial-guides on how to achieve neat-o CSS transition animation effects; there are two different effects here. The concept is essentially the same, but how they operate is a little different, so I decided to write out both. Yes, it's entirely CSS and HTML, I promise. We'll be using CSS transitions to create a cool letter spacing effect, where one line spreads out and vanishes, and is replaced by a new line that fades in and pulls together. We'll also make little corners that move in and out on hover, very neat sci-fi-like effect. This will not just give you the codes, it will walk you through creating them, and assumes you have a minimal understanding of basic CSS.

    Type: Look & Feel

    By Arceus,

    • 2,429 views

  20. HTML/CSS Timeline

    A full CSS and HTML vertical timeline? You bet! This uses pseudo-selectors to create a vertical bar with points along that bar with whatever text you need in it, creating a quite fancy historical timeline for your fantasy sites. With a few other embellishments, you can make it super neat.

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Other

    By Arceus,

    • 3,249 views

  21. How to Read and identify HTML and CSS

    This guide will teach you what makes up a HTML and CSS code, giving you the language to be able to identify each part of the code. Knowing the right language allows you to better communicate your message to other coders, thus increasing your ability to state what you're having trouble with. Or what you're looking for.

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Other

    By Kit the Human,

    • 3,075 views

  22. How to create a guidebook for jcink

    This guide is addressed to jcink users but can be used by anyone. Just substitute in the correct terminology.

     

    Essentially, this guide is the creation of a guidebook. On the left of the screen are links. On the right of the screen is a blank space. You click on a link and the appropriate contents appear on the right hand side. You click another link, those previous contents vanish to be replaced by the new appropriate contents.

    Type: Javascript Software: Jcink

    By Kit the Human,

    • 8,178 views

  23. How to Center Things

    If you don't know how to center without the center tag, this guide will show you how.

    Type: Look & Feel

    By Kit the Human,

    • 1,584 views

  24. Fonts: A Quick and Dirty Guide

    Fonts are a key component if any website, and doubly so for roleplay sites. Here's some tips, tricks, and things to remember to ensure accessibility. Written for both new and experienced coders.

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Jcink, Invision Power Services (IPS), Journals (Tumblr, Wordpress, Livejournal, Insanejournal), MyBB, Nova, phpBB, Proboards (Freeforums), SMF, XenForo, Other

    By ThriftStoreTeeth,

    • 2,814 views

  25. Filterable and Sortable Memberlist for Jcink, using isotope

    A few weeks ago, the editable templates for Jcink's memberlist went live on all sites. This is a fantastic opportunity for admins to create a memberlist that can be filtered by factions, or sorted on playby, without having to update and maintain a list.

     

    I'm going to show you how you can do this using isotope and custom profile fields. This code can be used by any software (just substitute your variables and templates) but I am targeting administrators of jcink sites in particular.

    Type: Javascript Software: Jcink

    By Kit the Human,

    • 11,273 views
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