I Want to Change the Way ILX Looks

I use my own custom style sheet.

For some reason, I've stuck with the keith.css. It's kinda funny because I was one of the loudest squealers when everything on ILX changed.

I like keith's format for the spacing of the thread titles, the salmon colored menu bars, and the fact that the other formats either seem too bunched up or impossible to read.

i like black.css because it makes me feel like im looking at a circa-1997 w4r3z site

that and 3270.css

RECEIVE FREE THE BLESSED HANDKERCHIEF

I like blueski's or just the default one.

You can change the way ILX looks?

I like the last one - I really don't like the black one, you can't see anything.

Melissa W seconded.

What I really want to do is change how every other forum looks. Sig lines and avatars? On every post? Really?

sig lines: very annoying

the vBulletin boards with all the dancing smileys...

Daer fellow ilxors, if you want to check out one of the other stylesheets because someone mentioned them on this thread, don't just scroll up and click that one, it'll just say "You have already voted in this poll and cannot vote again"

Don't ask how I know this, m'kay?

Smiley face

Kerm, yes! I think that's one of the reasons why ILX is such an appealing board-- it's not completely irritating to look at and scroll though. Those graphical emoticons or whatever they're called; good god.

This board's design is so pleasantly clean...plus in terms of functionality, merely scrolling upwards to read older posts is much less annoying than having to repeatedly flip back through pages and scroll a bunch more as one would on most VBulletin-type boards.

I am heretofor officially boycotting ILX until the day when it is all bright red comic sans on a background of centaurbooty.gif.

Failing that you guys can at least spice it up with boobies.

I think that the Blueski's Stylesheet is very attractive, and rates as the most aesthetically pleasing of the options at hand. However, I almost always use the standard default, and I supppose that is based on some sort of anxiety I have around Changes In Life, which leaves me seeking the familiar comforts of it's Classic-ness.

Oh crap! The Defend the Indefensible: Comic Sans thread might have been a good one to nominate in the "best threads" poll.

Blueski's looks great but I don't really want ILX to look great, I want it to look blank and utilitarian, so Standard wins.

I don't really like any of the others.

Huh? God, I'm thick. I never realized you could use another stylesheet. In fast, I'll confess I don't even know how to. :-(

Oh wow, I just found it. (Wow at: woohoo you can change it and woohoo I'm not as stupid as I thought I was.)

I think I like the simple one the best as it doesn't give the impression I'm actually posting to the board at work.

until this thread was posted i didn't know you could change it. i'm sticking with standard, because i fear change.

<style type="text/css">
p {font-family: wingdings}
</style>

the emulator one is quite hard to read.

Eh, this simple stylesheet is confusing. Man, I don't think I can take change. Maybe it's too simple in a way.

And quite frankly, I doubt my colleagues buy the "she's working" impression I am doing. Do you really giggle or violently tap your keyboard when working?

Are you a writer for a BBC 3 comedy?

sorry i never got round to clearing mine up - several problems with it e.g. no links at the bottom, some of the top options go missing when you click More. i wrote it expecting all page types to have been set up the same way but this was not the case (see Stats, You have already voted page etc.)

i couldn't work out why i couldn't get blue strips to appear on actual thread pages either

so look out for v2 in a few weeks. mebbe.

blueski.css also has the added benefit of removing the start a new poll option

"Are you a writer for a BBC 3 comedy?"

Nope. :-(

blueski.css also has the added benefit of removing the start a new poll option

this was not intentional!

Original recipe with 11 herbs and spices, no doubt. I like having a lot of information on one page.

i use 3270 at work because I work on a mainframe and it looks a little like it. its not so hard to read. i guess i use the default at home.

i like the terminal one, but the font is wrong isnt it

I use Blueski's. I like the small font on the username/date.

xpost - yes, indeed it is

now that i know some other people actually use it i will bust my ass to clean it up

hooray

I should figure out how to get ILX to work with Lynx: Posting didn't work last time I tried. Then you could ILX in a real terminal emulator, stylesheets be damned.

I use blueski's as well.

libcrypt: it works all right in links, I think.

The only things I don't like about blueski's are the font (I prefer Verdana to Arial), and the fact that it's nearly flush against the left side. I like a little bit more padding.

If ilx is black I will die.

Someone should do a "work" stylesheet, where everything's made to look like an Office application, and it inserts random graphs and terminal screenshots every few posts.

NeverForgetDogLatin.css

style.css all the way

simple's the one for me, with added greasemonkey variations

I like Keith's but use simple.

I should make a new one inspired by schefterblogz and wizardisugly

style, obv!

Someone should do a "work" stylesheet, where everything's made to look like an Office application, and it inserts random graphs and terminal screenshots every few posts.

This would be a great idea. I used to have some firefox extension or variant that did this to all sites, but it really fell through because it looked even more suspicious at my work than a straight up firefox window. It did have a boss button though, which was handy!

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wtf, thanks to this thread i went and tried all the stylesheets on and now i can't get back to what i had before!!! i'm in the "standard" one and it basically looks right except all the text is a size or two too small!!! halp halp!!!

Hilariously enough, loading the Comic Sans thread fixed it.

3270 is unusable/unreadable, mostly because the font color is way too dark. The real 3270 green is brighter. Also the font is totally wrong.

Okay, why is everything in Times New Roman all of a surgeon?

Yeah, this is weird.

i just reset my stylesheet in prefs, fixed for me.

Oh, it's everyone. Just tried out some others (naus.css and ledge1.css are great!) but back to style.css it is :-/

'Suggest Ban' dangerously close to 'Bookmark' now. Just sayin'

http://991.com/newgallery/The-Beat-Whappen-309330.jpg

Hacked by tabloids.

Worked for me too thank god my penguins are back now.

"New world" is lovely.
ta to whoever sorted that one out.

Yes, that one is nice.

changed it, changed back, still looks like poop.

i like times new roman it makes me feel like i'm reading ilx in another time

I can't get my original font back, this is really upsetting me.

RIP caek.css.

Back to normal here

Oops, this is my bad, I accidentally changed the default stylesheet to the old-school one.

I'll put it back as it was. Should probably update to new world at some point after it's tested, though, it's way better than the default.

(You can change any stylesheet at any time from preferences btw.)

It's not the stylesheet I'm having trouble with. When it first happened, I changed my font IN FIREFOX to verdana or something strange and now I can't get it back to the nice easily readable font it was before.

old skool 4 lyfe

Oh thank god, I fixed it. I thought I was going to have to page through every single font installed on my machine.