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Crap, now I gotta figure out what files we edited in the theme, because I forgot they would be overwritten.
At least the database didn't blow up. -
http://www.daveandjoel.com/vanilla/applications/dashboard/design/style.css
Add the following...
.New { background-color: #E3F4FF; } /* Threads with new posts */
.Alt { background-color: [whatever shade of yellow you want]; } /* Alternate row threads */
.Announcement { background-color: [darker shade of yellow]; } /* Sticky threads */
If you want to change the background of the run of the mill threads (non-alt, non-sticky, non-new), edit the "background-color" style of the class ".Item"
1. I would keep a copy of the original css lest I am leading you astray.
2. I assume you have access to a color wheel or image editing program to grab the hex codes for the colors you want.
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Thanks for the tip. I tried to overwrite with our old style.css, but it broke the formatting (drop down box changes in the recent update). Guess I'll have to start from scratch.
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omg its going to mark all the forum topics as unread again isn't it?
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Well, the update's already over...
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You should check out firebug. There's a handy "inspect html element" function that lets you target a specific visual element on a page and see which css classes are assigned to it. It also shows which file the styles are being pulled from.
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On second inspection, it looks like there's a css file dedicated to custom styles...
http://www.daveandjoel.com/vanilla/themes/EmbedFriendly/design/custom.css
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So I believe the slowness problems have been fixed? I had to contact customer support 10,000 times about some other user going crazy-high load. In the process I'm sure 40% of the people who use this site have given up due to slow page loads and will never return.
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It got pretty bad there for a while. Thanks for spending all that time on the line with customer support. That shit's no fun.
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So it was the shared server issue after all?
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It looks like it. I had a couple different service techs tell me it was high load on the server. This was after I stopped linking them php-based pages like the blog or the forum, because they would result in them telling me to optimize my code. When I started showing them html pages with really crap loads they started paying attention to me.
I would probably consider moving to a different hosting service/less populated server, but I really have no idea where I would start. I definitely can't afford a dedicated server. -
Maybe kickstarter or indiegogo?
It would give you the opportunity to unload all your baby hanabi t-shirts. -
Cool, thanks Dave. My "what the fuck"s per day has already dropped.
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Haha I didn't even notice until now. Just blamed it on shitty computers/internet at work since I pretty much only use the forum from work and dont really go anywhere else. Is that why the forums seem so lonely comapred to like a year or 2 ago?
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I have no faith in those sorts of groundswells of support. I don't think our audience is big enough. :Dxenomouse said:Maybe kickstarter or indiegogo?
Also, I'm not poor or starving right now, so it'd probably be better to save that goodwill should a day come when we actually need money, not when it would just be nice to have more. We only pay like $8 a month for webhosting (and $15 for podcast hosting). I'd be willing to kick it up to $30 or $40 no problem, but I wouldn't know where to start looking. Also, the last time I looked at dedicated servers they were like $150 a month and that's way out of the question. So we're still going to be sharing a server with a bunch of people, not have or own or just share with one other account, it's just a matter of finding one that is less crap I guess.
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Think happy thoughts Dave and the universe will show you the way.
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Jason! We thought you were dead!
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I feel like I should point out that the discussion link on the site's main page leads to this http://www.daveandjoel.com/?page_id=4669 instead of http://www.daveandjoel.com/vanilla/discussions
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That's probably because I removed the connection plugin. I'll fix it.
