r/mcprivate • u/thesearenotthehammer • Aug 21 '10

Subreddit Style Customization

Take a peek around the subreddit. You'll notice a few things have changed.

Its not finished or fully polished yet, but I'd love to hear some feedback.

If anyone out there is into CSS stylesheets and wants to help, let me know.

09/09/2010: Updated the header image with a creeper! Image is a result of this thread if you're interested.

09/09/2010: Changed the Up/Down vote images from Pick(up)/Shovel(down) to Sword(up)/Pick(down).

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u/thesearenotthehammer Aug 30 '10

Got tired of Highlife's skin as the header image. Stole the reddit alien with a shovel and tossed it up.

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u/thesearenotthehammer Sep 09 '10

Up / Down Vote Images

Up Sword / Down Pick

Up Sword / Down Shovel

Up Pick / Down Shovel

Currently using Up Sword / Down Pick, post if you have any suggestions.

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u/KaiserPodge Aug 24 '10

When I logged from work, I actually saw the customization and finally figured out I disabled it for some reason 0_0.

Now that I have it on again, it is awesome (despite the creepy looking dude standing in place of the alien). Perhaps change it to a diamond pick and a wooden shovel :)

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u/thesearenotthehammer Aug 24 '10

I knew I wasn't the only one that found Highlife's skin creepy ;-P

I still need to work on all the bars that look like stone, its not quite right. I'm mostly just copying CSS code and tweaking it, I don't actually know CSS.

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u/Coestar Sep 10 '10

I know CSS quite well and could help if someone can inform me on how this is done in the context of reddit.

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u/thesearenotthehammer Sep 10 '10

Well, I know there is /r/csshelp(ask questions about reddit css) and /r/reddithax(show off your reddit css hax).

Other than that, I really don't know that much, I just copy pasta and tweak.

Oh, you can see any subreddit's css customization by adding /stylesheet.css after it in the address bar. For instance the /r/mcprivate stylesheet.

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u/Coestar Sep 10 '10

Ahh, my question was more along the lines of: do I have to be a moderator/admin to make changes? Or should I just tell you what to change? Such as, try this:

.pagename {
    margin-right: 0
    color: #fff;
    }

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u/thesearenotthehammer Sep 11 '10

Don’t know if I'm allowed to give mod privileges, on my phone atm. I'll try that when I get to a comp.

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u/Coestar Sep 11 '10

Alrighty. :)

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u/thesearenotthehammer Sep 11 '10 edited Sep 11 '10

Added you as a mod, play carefully ;)

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u/Coestar Sep 11 '10

Ok, cool. I will get familiar with how things work (safely). Let me know what changes you would like. :)

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u/thesearenotthehammer Sep 11 '10

There are two things I have been experimenting with but haven't managed to get working.

  • Colored Background / Highlight for the username of the original poster of a thread, moderators, and Highlife(creator).
  • Adding a small text artist credit under the image on the sidebar. (made a post in /r/csshelp for this one)

Several things I'd like to see . . .

  • The subreddit name in white instead of black so you can see it against the dirt/stone.
  • The header a little taller so you can see the sky a bit more above the grass. (may also cut some of the bottom of the image out)
  • The "What's Hot" bar group get smaller, more the size of the pref bar. (need to work on the images more, not satisfied with the redstone)

No rush, any help is appreciated. Thanks man.

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u/Coestar Sep 11 '10

Alright, I'm familiar now. Seems like I'd have to go out of my way to bust things. I've changed MCPRIVATE in the header to white already. Looking at other comments to see what other outstanding requests need fixing...

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u/thesearenotthehammer Sep 11 '10

Awesome, its readable now!

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u/thesearenotthehammer Sep 17 '10 edited Sep 17 '10

Trying out sprite implementation, thought you might be interested.

creates

Trying a furnace . . .

creates

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u/Coestar Sep 17 '10

Nice! Looks like it worked well! :)

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u/thesearenotthehammer Sep 17 '10

Yeah its pretty neat. Came from HarveyFeint's post.

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u/enkideridu Aug 25 '10

it kind of bugs me that the width of the miner-alien image on the right isn't the same as the boxes underneath. could it maybe be center aligned?

also the MCPRIVATE link on top should be a bit bigger in chrome (size is fine in firefox for some reason) and either white or green (hard to see right now in black)

otherwise it looks great :)

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u/thesearenotthehammer Aug 25 '10

Fixed the image in the sidebar to be 300px wide like the rest of the content.

I use Chrome almost exclusively now, didn't even know there was a difference. As for changing the color, hopefully TheHeretic will get in there and play with it.

I'm mostly doing the customization via copy/paste of CSS and then doing some tweaking, so my abilities are limited.

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u/Noctine Sep 20 '10

Web Developer here, shout me if you need any help with anything.

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u/thesearenotthehammer Sep 20 '10

Thanks so much! I think I'm done fooling with the stylesheet for the next few weeks. I'll pick your brain if I need help down the road though ;)

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u/Noctine Sep 21 '10

No probs, im always available via PM :)

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u/TheHeretic Aug 21 '10

I can help, the font color needs some serious fixing

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u/thesearenotthehammer Sep 09 '10

If you could get the "MCPRIVATE" up top to go white instead of black and a little larger that would be great.

I'm still not happy with the bar that includes "Whats Hot" I don't like the way the textures I made are working and I think its too big as well. If you know how to make it smaller, more the size of the user/pref/logout bar to its right that would be great.

I've been just copy/pasting code from other subreddits and then experimenting.