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Lazarus Forum Theme + Update + SimplePortal
« on: December 22, 2010, 11:03:22 am »
Hello everybody.

As you may know, Lazarus forums runs under SMF 1.1.11 with TinyPortal 1.0b4.
The theme is the default one as there are few free themes for TinyPortal.

I was wondering if i could be part of the web team to manage forum and keep it up-to-date.
Here are my first suggestions:

- Update SMF to its last version 1.1.12
- Put SimplePortal instead of TinyPortal (TinyPortal is kinda dead and themes need to be adapted to work on it while SMF themes integrates nicely in SimplePortal)
(i suggest to first work on another forum base like lazarusbeta.freepascal.org or something until the theme fits our needs and the articles, members, forums & topics would be copied then)
- Create a custom theme for our Lazarus Community.

I already started a custom theme that you can see at: http://lazarus.fabienwang.com
which already runs SimplePortal with the latest SMF version.

Best Regards,
Fabien Wang
« Last Edit: December 22, 2010, 11:39:30 am by FabienWang »
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Re: Lazarus Forum Theme + Update + SimplePortal
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2010, 12:23:04 pm »
Hey ! Hey ! Hey !!  :o :o :o :o :o :o
WHAT ?! :o :o :o :o
WaW !! Nice Theme man !!!!  8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)
I do believe  that if lazarus had such theme for their website, It will really bring them much success xD   O:-) O:-)
It's also a pleasure for many users to surf on such cool forums :D  ;D ;D ;D
It's really true that nowadays, design is every thing :D  >:D >:D >:D
Nice work man ! O:-) O:-) O:-) O:-) :D :D
Hope the community will accept you suggestion :D :D :D :D  :D :D
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Re: Lazarus Forum Theme + Update + SimplePortal
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2010, 02:16:46 pm »

Anyway, forum is updated. I wonder how I missed the version notice. Thanks for pointing out.

I've been looking at SimplePortal a while ago. I think it is usable, but at that time TinyPortal wasn't completely dead, so I saw no reason it invest time in yet another conversion.

About the theme changes, IMO your proposal is to to blueish. It almost hurts my eyes.
Personally I'm not really pro customizations, since it means work and maintenance. On each update of smf you need to check if these changes still work, so I prefer the default theme.
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