omg i wasn't expecting such a quick response ahhhh this is wonderful-

@melusine
i would have no problem with being a brain to pick if things are breaking. it's been a hot minute since i've been on the inside of proboards' admin panel (no, seriously, it's been at least three years), but i do still have a test site and some of the old rp sites i skinned, so in theory, i can still puzzle out what i did if it's a proboards-specific problem and sometimes just. someone else looking over the code makes all the difference. code support buddies are always important. yes.

i'm looking for like... more or less as close as you could come to screenshots of the site as possible (just because it's a lot easier to convert from image into code when i can eyeball things and how it's supposed to look). obviously it doesn't have to be perfectly one-to-one or anything since it's something in photoshop or another graphics editor or the like, but the closer you can get in the visual, the better since i'm wanting to be able to more or less bring the mockups i'm given right to life.

which i'll get to more of the nitty gritty for that in a second here hold on-

cyanide darktearz 💀
i would definitely be up for that too! and i would have no problems with you wanting to pull a lot of it for your own skins (and i'd be happy to hand over the code when it's finished too if you'd like, just to save yourself some of the coding) since i'm hoping to use this for a not-fully-public site. i just needed to go down this route versus customizing a premade since i would've had to do some p heavy code edits to do what i wanted to do if i tried that and a lot of coders tend to get p huffy if you're making a lot of large-scale changes like that.




as far as details for what i'm wanting to do with it go - the site i'm hoping to skin out is going to be an animated panfandom with a more fantasy-esque setting and more of a light-hearted feel. i'd prefer a lighter skin because generally my graphics settings are hit-or-miss for dark skins (like, for context, ct's skins were almost always okay for me, but a lot of other darker skins would be more iffy), but i'm not hard bound to a light skin if it's not super dark.

i'm planning on it being a semi-private site, so i can get away with a lot of minimalism in some of the designs - like i could absolutely slide by on a layout where i only have quick links from the "traditional" header, the discord is just linked somewhere instead of featured on-site, and there's just a v small area for resource sites in the footer area. i could roll with a little welcome + site credits area and a staff image area or a "featured shipper / want ad" area, but i could also get by without that. as far as other parts of the design go - it'd be nice to have a thread list and/or a member list layout but i can get by without them as long as i know what colors and adjustments need to be made to the default, the big things i'm gonna need are a board list, info center, profile, and mini-profile.

i usually go with a 100x100 image for the avatar (gotta keep those icons relevant am i right?) and a 250x400 larger image for hovers and the like. i'm trying to go with a profile app just so no one has to deal with apps and i don't have to code accepted / pending / denied templates as well as an actual app template oops, so while all the usual stuff is good for the mini-profile, i know the profiles are gonna need like... series, pronouns, age, sexuality, romantic orientation, a larger abilities area, a larger freeform area (with something for a spoiler / content warning), a smaller notes area (for things like canon points or w/e), ooc name, ooc pronouns, ooc age, triggers / no-gos, mature thread preference, preferred posting speed, message link, plotter link, optional wanted link, link to member directory post, post count, date for last login + last post + registration date. i usually go with different layouts for members / characters / guests on that so that's a thing (like cs is a p good example for how i make that work out) and uhhhh... i'm probably not gonna have different member groups for characters, so i guess that's a thing. (honestly, i think the board-wide member groups are gonna end up being like unsorted / validating > character > player > mod > admin / root admin, so there's not a ton to work with there tbeh.)

i'd been playing a lil bit with stuff over the weekend in codepen because i'd been staring at this image from pixiv, but i didn't get really far (this was as far as i got, to be precise, though thanks codepen for not making the banner stretch over the whole top area like it's supposed to, i appreciate it), and i'm honestly not super mega attached to it if you want to scrap that and go with something entirely different. like i said, my design instincts are terrible so i have no idea what i'm doing.i say as if i ever know what i'm doing tbeh

Oct 16, 2019 20:04:19 GMT @melusine said:

Oct 16, 2019 18:52:30 GMT Kuroya said:

i'm trying to go with a profile app just so no one has to deal with apps and i don't have to code accepted / pending / denied templates as well as an actual app template oops

You have to teach me how to do this. I need this knowledge in my life.

ANYWHO.

Mind if I add you on discord? Easier (and quicker) to chat over there, because now you're making my fingers itch. 

i don't know how to do it on proboards since i've not messed with proboards skinning in so long, but i'd assume it's possible? it'd depend on how you arranged it and coded the back end, and i've not been on a proboards site in years and most of them don't let you see the profiles if you aren't a member, but yeah, no, kmh and cs both use it and it's an absolute godsend, i love it, though it does have the obvious drawback of "you can't delete accounts ever since then you're deleting the entire biography" which is a yikes but. yeah.

i'll pm you my discord! i just. don't post it publicly because i don't like having a whole lot of people hanging around in my discord when i have 0 idea who they are (and i have days where i have trouble processing "excess" stimulation so the extra discord notifications drive me nuts, it's a curse).

gonna pop in a thing here so kitten won't archive this and so i can get it on the same bump calendar as something else i track but also so i can add another smol screenshot because i keep designing long after i should have stopped tbeh

as another update, i ended up coding all the board areas by this point, so. just gotta move on further down. cyanide darktearz 💀 (or anyone else who's up for joining in on this rabbit hole tbeh, skinning is hard) if you want screenshots, just send me a pm and i can shoot them over to you. melusine's already been getting a lot of random dms for me throwing them at her, oops

bless you for offering kitten but i think i'd rather keep it how it is - i can bump it regularly enough with adding some more bits and bobs of what's been coded already that i'm not anticipating issues with that?

but also you make a good point in that it might be a cool general discussion topic for people to be able to sign up for this sort of thing more generally so that might be something cool to do in the future, whether it's something you staffers put together or something a bit less organized that my brain pushes into existence!

things i currently have: a header, board layout, info center, and most of the character profile

things i do not have: sanity tbeh

it's a real conundrum :/

i'm gonna toss a small bump on this because i'm really struggling with the profile and mini-profile / post areas (and i'm internally crying at the thought of official thread templates), so i'd definitely appreciate if someone hit me up to help with this!