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New IPB Skin: Uniform

Posted by ehren., 31 March 2011 · 1,571 views

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Introducing Uniform

This is most likely the most feature packed skin I've made for IP.Board. Uniform is a chameleon type skin which applies a single background image (that can be customized on a user basis) throughout the entire forum, including maintitle bars and icons. The skin is packed with features including customizable backgrounds, a quick navigation box, a quick login box, animated search box, tooltips, customizable topic layouts, avatars as topic icons, a new icon set, css3 animations and more.

The skin is compatible with the latest versions of IP Board 3.1.x (3.1.4+), Gallery, Blog, Downloads, Chat and Nexus. It works with IP.Content, but has not been heavily styled.

The skin is has been tested and works correctly in all major, modern browsers including Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer 8 (with the exception of a few css3 shadows), Internet Explorer 9 and Opera. Tested on Mac and Windows.


Skin features

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Customizable backgrounds
All members on your forum can change their background image to one of their choice.


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Customizations inherited
The background customization is inherited and used in other sections of the design (maintitle bars, icons, etc), creating a unique cut-out effect.


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Quick navigation box
A quick navigation box gives access to all categories and forums, accessible from any page by clicking the "Quick navigation" button.


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Quick login box
As a guest, clicking the "Sign In" link animates a quick login form. Give it a try on the demo board!


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Basic/detailed topic view
This new feature gives your members the opportunity to customize their topic view by hiding sigs and author information, allowing more room for posts.


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Tooltips for descriptions
Forum and topic descriptions are now placed inside animated tooltips, resulting in a cleaner layout.


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Avatars post icons
Avatars are used as post icons instead of the regular "new post"/"no new post" icons. The avatars are faded in opacity if there are no new posts.


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HTML text as logo
Changing the logo text is extremely easy by modifying the HTML text. If required, the text can be replaced by an image instead.


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Collapsible search box
To reduce clutter, the search box is hidden by default and can be activated by clicking the Search icon at the top right corner of the design.


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Animated navigation bar
Hover over the navigation links for a smooth, animated css3 scroll effect (Firefox 4, Safari & Chrome only).


Uniform is currently for sale on ipbforumskins.com and will be submitted to the Invision Marketplace shortly.




Excellent skin - well done :)
WOW, one of the best skins I have seen to date.
Great skin
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Indeed one of the best! Feature filled skin! Love the "Quick navigation box" and different views ;)
i like the Transparent maintitle idea :D

Great Skin as Usual :thumbsup:
Thanks everyone.. a few people have requested custom background images via URL, so that is now supported in the skin. :)
please stop... your awesomeness burns my eyes
The ability to change the background to an image or picture of the users choice is great and very much like twitter.

I think the only change I will make it for the category headers and the new post indicators to be a solid colour as if the image behind has writing on it, it makes it hard to read what is within these boxes.





Wondering if its possible, in an easy way, to change the width of this?
Seems kind of tight, or is it just me?
I was wondering the same about the width - any way to make it wider?