Jump to content

Coding

Articles on coding advice and helpful tips to help with coding your website.

33 guides in this category

  1. 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
    • 3,454 views
  2. 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
    • 4,735 views
  3. 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)
    • 2,733 views
  4. Accessing Profile Field Data in IPS

    Using IPS template logic and a little PHP, you can access, manipulate and display almost any field in the database. Although this tutorial focuses primarily on moving profile fields around to display in posts, the process of finding, naming, and displaying data across the board remains the same. 

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Invision Power Services (IPS)
    • 2,889 views
  5. Add a Select All Button in Showthread

    Would it be easier for you to select all posts in a thread for moderating? This functionality can be useful when you want to mod nearly all of the posts in a thread, leaving some of them unmodded. 

    Type: Other Software: MyBB
    • 4,261 views
  6. 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
    • 2,697 views
  7. 2-Grid Forum Layout

    In this wee guide, I'm going to show you how to do a side by side forum layout with MYBB and Jcink. This is the only customization that this code does.

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Jcink, MyBB
    • 4,795 views
  8. 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
    • 3,026 views
  9. 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
    • 3,679 views
  10. 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
    • 6,274 views
  11. Determining your look

    This guide is to help you figure out how you want your site to look. It's an important step when theming a site to know where you want bits and bobs before you put your fingers to keyboard to start developing it. You'll find while coding them it will still evolve but this is to get you thinking about where you want things.

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Jcink, Invision Power Services (IPS), Journals (Tumblr, Wordpress, Livejournal, Insanejournal), MyBB, Nova, phpBB, Proboards (Freeforums), SMF, XenForo, Other
    • 2,200 views
  12. 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
    • 2,176 views
  13. 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
    • 10,992 views
  14. 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
    • 8,059 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
    • 5,010 views
  16. "Auto Thread Tracker"

    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");

     

    Type: Javascript Software: Jcink
    • 4,844 views
  17. Adding A Custom Menu to the Mobile View

    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.

    Type: Look & Feel Software: Jcink
    • 2,198 views
  18. 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
    • 2,993 views
  19. 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
    • 3,175 views
  20. 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
    • 2,783 views
  21. 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
    • 6,883 views
  22. Javascript Tabs

    A guide to making Tabs with javascript.

    Type: Javascript
    • 1,559 views
  23. BBCode 101

    Want to make your character's speech stand out or place emphasis on all the yelling instead of CAPSING IT ALL OVER THE PLACE? Find out how to be bold with BBCode. :D

    Type: Other
    • 2,636 views
  24. 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
    • 1,373 views
  25. 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
    • 2,824 views
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use, Guidelines and Privacy Policy. We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.