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[Strider]

What exactly makes this background boring? I really like it.

[Flying Mullet]

If there's one color that's associated with Final Fantasy, it's blue. And seeing how this is a Final Fantasy oriented site, it's fitting that an "easy-on-the-eyes" set of blue is used for the forum color scheme.

[Yamaneko]

Change = bad. Boring = simplicity. Simplicity = goal.

[The Man]

If you put $debug=1; into the global.php file in the admin control panel, you'll be able edit the vBulletin default templates so that you'll only have to make changes to the global style set, and they'll apply to everything on the board. That's what I've done.

[ShlupQuack]

I like different colorschemes, but I sure as hell am not going through that tedium.

[The Man]

I don't think it'd be really that much work though; I'm pretty sure there's a series of queries that'd do all the work for you in moving EoFF's custom templates into the default set, then deleting the original defaults. I just haven't figured out what that series is yet... I'll get back to you on it. *goes around to play in phpmyadmin some*

edit: ok, the easiest way to do it would be to make everything in the first template set into a custom template, which would be easy to do because you could just click down the list of "modify defaults." once you'd copied EVERY default template into the first style set you'd then just run the following queries:

delete from template where templatesetid=-1
update template set templatesetid=-1 where templatesetid=1

After that it'd require pretty much no editing whatsoever to create new style sets; the only stuff you'd really have to worry about would be the headinclude template and the replacements. But I probably confused something somewhere in my directions, so I'd definitely recommend having some sort of backup before you did it, and you'd probably do good to IM me before you did it as well, if you'll even bother (the odds are that you won't, but I'm typing all this out anyway 'cause I've little better to do at the moment).

I wanted to be able to surpass the "copying everything to custom templates" bit, but I couldn't find a query that'd be able to let me do that. I tried this query: "select templatesetid, templateid from template t left join template.templatesetid, template.templateid on t.templateid=template.templateid where template.templatesetid=-1 and t.templatesetid=1," which was designed to get the only templates we'd REALLY have to delete, but it didn't work, probably because the left join operator isn't designed to select from the same database. Unfortunately, since that first plan of attack failed, it's obvious that I don't have enough MySQL knowledge to be able to write that specific query.

This is probably nonsense to all of you but cl_out and Bleys, so I'll just shut up now. Still, it'd be a heck of a lot easier to have all your template modifications stored in your defaults, I'd imagine, so yeah =P

[Citizen Bleys]

It's nonsense to me, too *nod*

[TheAbominatrix]

I dont really wanna push anything that would make you guys do extra work, but yeah this dark scheme is a bit tedious for me. Something new would be nice, not anything like black and red or something hideous. Like white and black or white and blue. Something. These dark colors can get a bit tiresome. *shrugs* There's my 2 cents. Yay for you.