I recently moved my gaming forum from XenForo to MyBB so I have been working on a custom theme for it. It got me wondering about doing a tableless theme and then I remember never seeing one before so I was wondering if anyone has done this?
This is not difficult to have a theme without border of tables, but yes there is need to have enormous edits if you want to make a theme similar to xenForo.
I've made a theme for my site which have these flavors. See:
http://community.mybb.com/thread-108319.html
If you wish you could hire me to make a Custom theme for you.
I know it's not the difficult I just wasn't sure if anyone who done it. I will be doing this either way, was just curious.
Sounds intresting I'd like to see it when it's finished.
By default, a tableless theme doesn't work with MyBB - because parts of the javascript look for table elements.
Apart from the amount of time you need to put into it, it isn't that hard. I've done it - but swiftly heading back to a table-based theme.
i'm working on tableless theme (TL-Dark) at the moment.Editing javascript files isn't such a big problem but removing td / tr /br tags that are hardcoded in php files is eating fair amount of time (delayed moderation,smilies,buddy / ignore links ).
Link to screenshots
http://imgur.com/a/kT5XH#0 (i'll set this half finished theme online in a hour or two,and yes it is mybb forum on screenshots).
Tableless themes are overrated imo; especially when the theme starts out with tables and the entire thing is basically setup for tables (as Tomm mentioned). Furthermore, MyBB uses tables correctly in most cases. Some areas, such as posting screens, the postbit, some profile areas, etc. shouldn't be tables, but to completely eliminate them accomplishes very little. You'll end up trying to achieve a table-like layout with CSS (something CSS isn't good at) for a lot of things anyways.
(2011-12-05, 04:49 PM)Johnny S Wrote: [ -> ]Link to screenshots http://imgur.com/a/kT5XH#0 (i'll set this half finished theme online in a hour or two,and yes it is mybb forum on screenshots).
As promised working demo is
now online.
At the moment following changes are included:
-tableless rewrite (showthread,index,portal,postbit classic and horizontal,sendthread and profile with only left sidebox)
-Tools (Forum tools,thread tools)
-Markitup editor with
bbCode set*
-Sidebar on index with collapse / expand options*
-Rate thread rewrite (in <form></form> tag)
-Inline moderation (also in <form> but with radio buttons instead of dropdown box)
-Postbit edits (dropdown menu and removal of button images)
*-Jquery library is included in index (index.php),new thread (newreplay.php),new replay (newreplay.php) and edit post (editpost.php).
Note: rank images won't be included in final release (
http://forumranks.net/blog/professional-forum-ranks/ )
Quote:Login details (mod account with excluded features like ip display,modcp access,usercp,private messages...)
username: test
pass: test12
Looks great so far, Johnny S.
I will make a thread for progress if I really get into doing this. For the moment I am just adding and removing things.