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Yet a good looking phpbb3 style that needs some fine-tuning
Finally i found a really nice phpbb3 style. I don’t really know why the official style database is still empty. However if you want to check out some phpbb3 styles or you are just interested in some hacks, mods, tutorials, tips, etc. you can head over to StarTrekGuide (also known as the “phpBB programming Academy”) and i promise that you won’t be disappointed. Another great resource of styles is over at phpbb3styles.net
The style i am talking about is SkyBlue and it’s a style based on the prosilver engine. I must say that i prefer the prosilver engine just because it’s more classy than subsilver2 and adds a little more touch to the look while subsilver based styles are limited. It’s like you have Windows XP with the classic theme and you have some color schemes to choose from but none of them get even close to what you can achieve with the default Windows XP style and some cool themes for it (some of you out there may consider this comparison a little rough but that’s the plain truth).
I like this theme because it’s simple, it uses some one of my favorite colours and it already has a left orientated topic view list. Another factor that should determine you to choose this theme is that it’s fully compatible with the latest phpbb version: 3.0.0
After you install this style you will see that because of some unknown reason the icons differ from the ones in the demo forum. Why is that ? I don’t know. However i managed to lay my hands on the icons used in the demo. If you have a closer look you can see that there is a problem with the default icons: you have to stare a while at them just to see which section has new posts and other new stuff in general (crappy vista-like folders). I also had a friend edit a couple of icons that had some graphical issues which now are solved. I’ve come up with a couple of pictures just to help make an ideea:
If you want to replace the original ones with the icons shown in the demo, which are most intuitive, go ahead and download the following archive:
SkyBlue new imageset
After you download the package you need to overwrite the theme’s imageset folder with the one in the archive and head over to the “Styles” tab in your ACP and hit the link in the right of SkyBlue’s imageset that says “Refresh”. That’s all. Now your SkyBlue style is looking even nicer.