Moderators Kyle Posted February 15, 2010 Moderators Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ME REASON WHY SHOULD I PAY SOMEONE OR POST ANY LINKS HERE! THESE LINKS MAKES MY SKIN MORE WORST. Ok, it's been real week of skinning and me and my webmaster can't even kink things out. We been through many tutorials and they don't even work and it messes up our skin. We been trying different temps but won't even work. If you would like to help us out. It would be nice! We even got someone to skin our site. But no response from them for 3 weeks now. And I'm just losing my mind and i lost 10 pilots due to the skinning problems. Please let me know if you would want to skin for us. We will provide a temp or you can make us one. I'm sorry, i don't pay online or shop online at all. I don't trust them. Please Let Me Know If You are Willing To Skin For Us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted February 15, 2010 Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 Yup, i agree that it is difficult to first work around skinning the system, but the tutorial posted in the tutorials section of the site by Nabeel will more than suffice in telling you how to make a simple skin for the VMS system. It's just needing to understand the basics, i'm sure your webmaster could do that...If i can, then anyone could I hope you sort out a skin soon, best of luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted February 15, 2010 Author Moderators Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 Well thats what i did, but it does not help. I been replaying the video all the time and does not work and always start all over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mark1million Posted February 15, 2010 Moderators Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 Quick tip, get firefox and then get firebug plug in, you can navigate all the divs and css settings from firebug with real time updates as you change a setting it will show you on the screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted February 15, 2010 Author Moderators Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 Sorry Firefox won't work. My PC is blocking it. It said its full of virus. And I don't IE in my computer. I'm just using Safari. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted February 15, 2010 Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 Firefox should work, are you downloading it from the firefox website? It shouldn't be full of viruses either, nothing is flagged up when i donwload it. And Nabeel's tut is easy to go by, maybe your making some mistakes along the line? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted February 15, 2010 Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 Dont get firefox, get Chrome.. just right click and "Inspect Element" and the developer panel will show up to play around with. Oh and, I'm guessing that conversation you had with me was just to waste my time then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted February 15, 2010 Author Moderators Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 Ok, but I'm not paying nothing online and $40! for A SKIN! Forget It! I'll do it my self. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted February 15, 2010 Author Moderators Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 Firefox should work, are you downloading it from the firefox website? It shouldn't be full of viruses either, nothing is flagged up when i donwload it. And Nabeel's tut is easy to go by, maybe your making some mistakes along the line? Yup but someone told me to download chrome. Maybe i'll turn up the speakers high so i can hear him way more better. I'll try google chrome. To see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted February 15, 2010 Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 Well... You pay £2 for a sandwich over here, when you can make the same yourself for £0.40, but it saves you the time, effort and skill. That's what the tertiary (services) sector of the economy is all about. Jus' saying. Oh also, that's ridiculously cheap. A skin on any other site will cost you upwards of $70 for something like a wordpress. Oh and in response to the below post, because I can't be bothered posting again... It was converted from british pounds. It makes no difference where you are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted February 15, 2010 Author Moderators Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 I'm in Canada! Our Currency is high then the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted February 15, 2010 Author Moderators Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 Look I'm Sorry. I just had been a hard time this week of hours of skin and it won't even work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted February 15, 2010 Author Moderators Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 I limit my cost online for $29 (up to) But i would like to see other's work and see and think about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted February 15, 2010 Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 Chrome is the browser to go for. Much faster than IE and Firefox. And i can agree with Toms's posts. Some people charge you in excess of even $100 and the quality and customer satisfaction and support you receive is poor, Tom produces fantastic skins, for such a low price. It's because he enjoys helping the community and the satisfaction of seeing his work being used. If your not able to skin yourself, your only other bet is to get a free skin ( which are usually bad quality and rushed ) or to pay somebody respectable ( Tom ) to produce you one. My two cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted February 15, 2010 Author Moderators Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 Good Point, but i just don't want to pay online at all. I don't have a good secured network right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted February 15, 2010 Author Moderators Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 k! i'll make my own on my computer under XMAPP. Thank You For your support and your suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartpb Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I just started using phpVMS a couple of weeks ago, and have found the skinning process to be fairly straight forward, if you are prepared to spend some time reading up on basic php, HTML and CSS. It sounds like you are trying to rush your site out, but that can just create more problems. Why not just run your phpVMS site on the default template for now, with just your custom logo, explain to the members that work is in progress, and then spend the needed amount of time on creating a skin offline on a localserver. Then you know that problems aren't going to be flaring up on your live server, and the members have something to look forward to. I have to say too, that your attitude isn't going to make anyone want to give up their own time to create a skin for you. As said before £40 is not alot of money for the time and effort going into a custom skin. If you are not prepared to pay anyone, then perhaps you should get some reading in and learn what you need to know to create your own skin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennShadow Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I just started using phpVMS a couple of weeks ago, and have found the skinning process to be fairly straight forward, if you are prepared to spend some time reading up on basic php, HTML and CSS. It sounds like you are trying to rush your site out, but that can just create more problems. Why not just run your phpVMS site on the default template for now, with just your custom logo, explain to the members that work is in progress, and then spend the needed amount of time on creating a skin offline on a localserver. Then you know that problems aren't going to be flaring up on your live server, and the members have something to look forward to. I have to say too, that your attitude isn't going to make anyone want to give up their own time to create a skin for you. As said before £40 is not alot of money for the time and effort going into a custom skin. If you are not prepared to pay anyone, then perhaps you should get some reading in and learn what you need to know to create your own skin. +1 $40.00 is a good price and with Tom you will get a quality skin with great customer support! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted February 16, 2010 Author Moderators Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Ok good point +1 I just been making a skin for a week and i was working slow to make sure everything is right but i can't get it working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted February 16, 2010 Author Moderators Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 ok what kind of format is the skin in? html, php, css? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Whatever language you wish to use. You'd be best off using html with css... And the files have to be .tpl files (e.g. crystal skin folder). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nabeel Posted February 16, 2010 Administrators Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 $40 for a skin isn't much at all. I charge $80/hr for outside work, so you're getting a bargain As for skinning yourself, start off small, don't bite off more than you can chew at first. It sounds like you're trying to learn HTML, using Dreamweaver or something. Go slow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I would be prepared too offer you any help you need whilist making your skin. You can check out my skin (so far, at least) as www.liverpoolvirtual.info. (Please don't register the script is messed up). PM me if you have any questions regarding HTML/PHP/CSS. Sorry but I cannot make your whole website for you as I'm up until 3am trying to sculpt my phpVMS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kyle Posted February 16, 2010 Author Moderators Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 All one point for you guys. Yeah i should, i'll start off slow and just to see. Also is the CSS like a layout desgin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 CSS is a way of defining website styles in one place - so for example, if you wanted to change your header style (<h1>) just edit the CSS for it and it would apply to all your headers - no need to edit one by one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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