Avatars

[Guest]

Someone mentioned in another thread that my real name in the profile is difficult to read because it's smooshed right up against my Polish checkerboard avatar.

I've noticed that for other people as well - I don't know if anything can be done but it looks slightly untidy.

[Guest]

A simple fix you can do yourself Matt.

Just go into your profile and put a couple of "full stops" before (and after if you wish) your name .. it pushes it out a little from the avatar and doesn't look so cluttered.

Tried it with mine and it looks better.

The real fix would be for the forum guru to just add adjust the spacing between the avatar and text in the forum software.

[Guest]

I was actually wondering if there was a simple

or

missing from the code immediately before the Name: field.

[Guest]

To be more specific, in the file

http://www.scale-models.co.uk/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00047l/showthread-rollup.css

the CSS style for the classes

.postbitlegacy .userinfo .postuseravatar, .eventbit .userinfo .eventuseravatar

has a property called margin which is currently set to

margin: 3.33333px auto 0;

needs to change to

margin: 3.33333px 5px 0 0;

which will put a space between the avatar image and the text.

(I do this stuff for a living for my sins!)

[mossiepilot]

Hey Matt, can I do a little hijack please.

Can anyone tell me how to put my profile picture up as my avatar please.

Not being clever in these things I thought when I put a picture on "my profile" it would automatically come up as my avatar.

I'm just a driver not a mechanic, lol :-)

Tony

[John]

the CSS style for the classes

.postbitlegacy .userinfo .postuseravatar, .eventbit .userinfo .eventuseravatar

has a property called margin which is currently set to

margin: 3.33333px auto 0;

needs to change to

margin: 3.33333px 5px 0 0;

which will put a space between the avatar image and the text.

(I do this stuff for a living for my sins!)

With VB you don't edit the css files direct it's within the templates, I tried making the changes you suggested but it didn't seem to make a difference.

Hey Matt, can I do a little hijack please.Can anyone tell me how to put my profile picture up as my avatar please.

Not being clever in these things I thought when I put a picture on "my profile" it would automatically come up as my avatar.

I'm just a driver not a mechanic, lol :-)

Tony

Tony email me your picture and I will add it for you.

[John]

Fixed it, easiest thing to do was move it

[mossiepilot]

Was that for me or Andrew.

Tony

[mossiepilot]

Must be Andrew then.

Sorry.

Tony

[mossiepilot]

Thanks very much John.

Tony.

[Guest]

Ahh its one of these template driven thingys... blegh can't stand them then again back in the day I wrote my own forum system. Can't say I could be bothered nowadays, much more interesting things to build like Spitfires, Challengers, Scimitars and Starfurys!

[John]

It makes life easier when all files are in one place, my CSS files are in a CSS group, so while it's not really template driven it is grouped well to find what I need.

[Guest]

I tried making the changes you suggested but it didn't seem to make a difference.

It won't if it's the same as the other forums i'm admin on, VBulletin seems to have a weird templating system that likes to stay (or readjust itself to) how it was designed. ... a bit of a pain if you want something varying from the "norm".

I agree totally with Andrew .... "template driven thingys..... belgh" ... was so much easier to get a "base" for a bulletin board and adjust to suit as we did years ago

Anyway all sorted now eh!