Librarius Metallicus skins

[jimbobhickville]

Most of you don't know this, but Librarius Metallicus is skinnable. Our good friend Lutz has created a skin which can be viewed at
http://www.librariusmetallicus.com/?skin=lutz The skin will remain that way until you go to http://www.librariusmetallicus.com/?skin=default to reset it back to default.

There is also a skin I made to look like UltimateMetal (before they redesigned) which can be viewed at http://www.librariusmetallicus.com/?skin=um

If anyone is interested in making more skins, please email me for instructions (it's quite easy if you know CSS). It only takes me about 5-10 minutes to set up a new one once the CSS is done.

Someday there will be a way to choose them from the site, but for now you can use those links to check out this long-dormant feature of the site.


Thanks to Lutz for taking the time to work on his skin.

 

[spaffe]

i didn't know that, nice feature, and a nice skin as well, but what's up with the algiz-rune?

 

[Lutz]

jimbobhickville:
I noticed.. When you click on an album the text-color on "Label(s), Band:, Genre", etc.. is set to nothing.. and well most browsers are set so that it displays text-color as black when it is not specified. And black on black isnt so good, hehe.

If you could just change these styles to look like this:

body {
 margin-top: 2px;
 margin-left: 2px;
 margin-right: 2px;
 margin-bottom: 2px;
 background-color: #000000;
 color: #ffffff;
 }

.content_title {
 text-align: center;
 background-color: #444444;
 color: #ffffff;
 font-size: 13pt;
 font-family: verdana, arial;
 font-weight: bold;
 width: 100%;
 border: 1px #eeeeee solid;
 }

the problem will be fixed.

Also i noticed i had forgot to edit the error-style, so if you could change it as well to:

.error {
 color: #ffffff;
 font-size: 10pt;
 font-weight: bold;
 font-family: verdana, arial;
 }

Everything should be fine after that, thanks

 

[Lutz]

i didn't know that, nice feature, and a nice skin as well, but what's up with the algiz-rune?

Thanks.
About the rune.. I didnt really know which pic to put in the corner, so i just put the rune there until I had figured out what to put there., hehe.. Maybe it should just be blank? Anyways, doesnt really matter to me

 

[jimbobhickville]

changes should be done

 

[Lutz]

Thanks. works fine now.

 

[jimbobhickville]

I'm working on the style sheet right now in order to cut down on the amount of code that is downloaded (to speed things up on modems), so all of the skins will be broken besides the default one until I've completed my work and updated the other style sheets.

Just FYI.

 

[Lutz]

Yeah.. Just noticed.. But the default one seem broken too.

 

[jimbobhickville]

it seems there might be some issues with different browsers. I'm looking into them. Sorry 'bout that.

 

[Lutz]

Right.. I'm using Firebird (Mozilla-based) and it looks totally weird (especially the menu...)

 

[jimbobhickville]

I fixed it as well as I could in mozilla 1.3, but it seems that there is a bug in mozilla which doesn't allow fixed widths for inline elements, so some of the links are bunched up on top of each other still. I'll be looking into ways to make that work. It looks decent in mozilla 1.3 and perfect in IE 6.0 right now, so if it's still messed up in firebird, you may want to try one of those until I can work on it some more.

 

[Lutz]

Hmm yeah it looks good now besides those top links (in Firebird, this version based on Mozilla 1.4b). Thanks for fixing it, all too many sites that are only I.E compatible these days..

 

[Voice of God]

Looks fine in Opera (7) too, better than before actually, because the left hand menu's width was varying before (depending on the length of the longest text in there). Although, I'm not sure if this improvement is because the new css, or because I just upgraded from Opera 6 to 7.

 

[jimbobhickville]

could be both I try not to be IE only. In fact, I only code to things in the standard. It just seems in this case either I misread the standard or Mozilla is lacking. I'll try to find a mozilla-compatible method later this week when I get some time (got a busy week).

 

[Lutz]

Just tested.. It is broken in Opera 6.12 but works in 7.11 Beta 2.
As a sidenote the site now "works" (although of course it looks weird) in Links. Which it didnt before.