How to remove the new 'All red' theme at this forum

[victor_rambo]

Source: My Blog(originally written by Rohan Shenoy)

For old kirsch theme, have a look here.

Apply custom user style to the new ThinkDigit if you didn't like the new 'all over red' theme!

By Rohan on 16/05/08-16:02 IST in Eureka So you didn't like the new 'all over red' theme at the new ThinkDigit forum ? Ok, be cool, I will show you a way to ride over it!

1. Download and install the Stylish addon for Firefox from here. After restarting Firefox, the 'Stylish' icon (looks like and brush on paper) can be seen at the right corner of the Status bar. Status bar is at the bottom of the firefox window.(If the status bar has not been enabled, you can temporarily enable it by View->Status bar. If you can't see the status bar inspite of it being enabled, then maximize the window so that you can see it).
2. Visit the ThinkDigit Forum (http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/). Once the page loads, click on the 'Stylish icon'. Select 'Write styles-> Blank styles'.
3. An codebox (see below) appears. In the description field, fill any name you would want to use for. In the larger field below, please copy-paste the below code:

Update, May 17 2008, 8:45 PM:
The CSS file has been updated and can be obtained at post 30 of this thread.


4. Now click 'Save' button to save it. Changes will take effect immediately. If they do not, they will effect after reloading the page.

5. Preview: You new theme will look like something as shown in below linked pic.
Preview 1 Warning: Bitmap(.bmp) format, 972 KB == Bandwidth hungry

Preview 2 Warning: Bitmap(.bmp) format, 1.34 MB == Bandwidth hungry


------------------End of tutorial------------

Note:

1. I have also learnt that there is a way for doing so in Opera too. So please wait while I write a finished tutorial for all you Opera lovers there.
2. If you know CSS, simply edit the CSS code and make your own themes. And please share them so on the forums.
3. I plan to add more themes for those feeling that 'the new theme by me is just so simple and plain boring(?)'

More: Changing the small icons for last post, sort ascending/descending

[BBThumbHealer]

Oh ... thnx a lot Rohan ... awesome work once again !

[iMav]

I knew we could count on u, u deserve a lot of credit, God bless u man, seriously God bless u, u saved us from the stupidity of web developers that india is suffering from, screw u admins! bow down to the great rohan.

no more stupid red font on the forum, yay! awesome, no owrds to describe the feeling, awesome man, seriously awesome

teri toh baat nirali, apna jeena toh jeena tashan mein tsahan mein, tashan mein tashan mein

[BBThumbHealer]

Originally Posted by iMav

I knew we could count on u, u deserve a lot of credit, God bless u man, seriously God bless u, u saved us from the stupidity of web developers that india is suffering from, screw u admins! bow down to the great rohan.

Seriously !

[iMav]

ok i found something missing, the go to last post arrow that comes is no more, screenshot:



maybe a piece of code cud bring it back, too?

[ray|raven]

Way to go Rohan.

Btw, anyway to remove the whitespace(on blocking ads) on the right?
Looks terrible IMO.

[victor_rambo]

@iMav, ya I have purposely not displayed it because it will be red. It is beyond the control of CSS.

@Rayraven,

No way to remove the right side white bar.

[iMav]

anything is better than horrific red font, phew! what a relief!

u did a doctors job too, u cured our eyes of the pain it had been subjected to for so long, ouch no smilies too

[ray|raven]

Originally Posted by rohan_shenoy

@Rayraven,
I agree that this may not be a professional theme but its not bad to get started with. Atleast I my eyes are feeling relieved of the struggle I had to do to read the red over grey text. I have already stated that I am working on improvements and it will take some time.

Dude , the looks terrible part was for the whitespace on the right.
Not ur theme.
I love it compared to the red theme.
Sorry for the mis-understanding.
Btw, i cant see smilies anymore , in the new reply window.

[victor_rambo]

Originally Posted by rayraven

Dude , the looks terrible part was for the whitespace on the right.
Not ur theme.
I love it compared to the red theme.
Sorry for the mis-understanding.
Btw, i cant see smilies anymore , in the new reply window.

OK! fine!

[The Conqueror]

Cool, but the whitespace looks terrible

[victor_rambo]

@iMav and rayraven, please copy paste the CSS code now. I have updated it to show the smilies.
See:

[victor_rambo]

And yeah, also those small 'Go to Last Post' aorrws are now visible

[ray|raven]

Rohan , says warnings in code, should i go ahead and apply?

[victor_rambo]

Originally Posted by rayraven

Rohan , says warnings in code, should i go ahead and apply?

Change the 2nd line of the code to

 @-moz-document domain('thinkdigit.com')

[iMav]

is there anyway we could import images from imageshack?

and yeah the smileys are back

[MetalheadGautham]

lolz
rofl
I thought we can manually change the page's source code once and for all after hiring some hackers, but this is better

[praka123]

thanks!it worked fine.Blue is way better than red

[victor_rambo]

Thank you guyz -

[als2]

thanks now it looks better

[phreak0ut]

Will it work fine for opera in case i save this as a custom CSS and use it? Somehow a custom CSS hasn't worked for me properly on Opera. Don't know why. Probably I might have done it wrong, but please let me know.

[narangz]

Hey great!
Can I have a screen shot, please?
I don't use FF. Anything for Opera?

[victor_rambo]

@phreakout: I am trying

@narangz:


Preview: You new theme will look like something as shown in below linked pic.
http://www.w3hobbyist.com/files/preview.bmp
Warning: Bitmap(.bmp) format, 972 KB == Bandwidth hungry

http://www.w3hobbyist.com/files/preview2.bmp
Preview 2 Warning: Bitmap(.bmp) format, 1.34 MB == Super Bandwidth hungry

[kalpik]

Rohan, can we have a greasemonky script for the same? Greasemonkey can also remove the banner on the right as well as change the look and feel. Somehow i think greasemonkey is a better way to do this. And you should not have any trouble as you know JS very well

[victor_rambo]

Originally Posted by kalpik

Rohan, can we have a greasemonky script for the same? Greasemonkey can also remove the banner on the right as well as change the look and feel. Somehow i think greasemonkey is a better way to do this. And you should not have any trouble as you know JS very well

I am already on it
Will be posting soon (in minutes!)

[kalpik]

I knew it would be a piece of cake for you

[victor_rambo]

Originally Posted by kalpik

I knew it would be a piece of cake for you

I am actually using a shortcut

[kalpik]

Editing an existing script?

[New]

Great work Rohan?
Plese let us know that shortcut also

[victor_rambo]

Removing the right hand side advertisement bar with greasemonkey user script
[Only for Firefox]

1. Download and install Greasemonkey addon for Firefox from here. Restart Firefox.
2. Go to this page and a popup will appear on your screen.
3. Select 'Install'.

You are done, the right hand side advertisement bar will be blacked and you can view the forums at 100% width.

[Note: The user script I have linked to above in step 2 above is my own website]

For those who want to know(that shortcut), I created the user script using an addon called Platypus.