Hello,

After a few solid days of work, all skins have now been upgraded to 3.3.x.

Current customers can download the upgraded skins for free from their client area, with the option to donate if you're feeling generous  

All premade skins have been upgraded to IP.Board 3.4.3, IP.Blog 2.6.2, IP.Calendar 3.3.3, IP.Chat 1.4.3, IP.Content 2.3.5, IP.Downloads 2.5.3, IP.Gallery 5.0.4 and IP.Nexus 1.5.7
 

The skin upgrade should fix any incompatibilities with 3.4.3 (including an editor bug which I've seen posted a few times). The upgrade is available for free for existing customers in the client area.

 

The 3.4.3 skins also include a "cover photo" feature, which replaces the custom background feature when viewing profiles. The cover photo is neater and more compatible with some of the heavily modified skins (those with background choosers, etc). An example screenshot is attached below. 

 

As some of you already know, the final (non-beta) version of IP.Board 3.2 is available in the Client Area on the Invision website.

I have already begun the "upgrade process" for all premade skins, and some will be available early next week, July 25 onwards (light skins first, followed by dark skins, then mobile). I have no exact dates for each skin, and no particular order, so I'm unable to give any more information apart from that.

If anyone has any questions in the mean time, just let me know.  

This tutorial will teach you how to add icons next to your category names in IPB 3.2, as seen in the image below:


To begin, you'll need to rename your icons according to the id's of the categories on your forum. To find out the id, click on the category and look at the URL. The forum ID is presented after /forum/ and before the category name (in this example, the id is 52)


Rename the icon you want to use to cat_52.png (or .jpg, .gif, etc depending on your file format). Repeat this process for all of the categories on your forum. If you don't upload an image for a certain forum, it will show a broken image. All images need to be the same file format, and need to have the same name structure: cat_id.png

Upload your image(s) using an FTP program to your skin image folder: /public/style_images/xxx/ (where xxx is the name of your skin).

Next, login to your admin cpanel, click Look & Feel, select your skin and goto Board Index > boardIndexTemplate. Find:

<h3 class='maintitle'>
<a class='toggle right' href='#' title="{$this->lang->words['toggle_cat']}">{$this->lang->words['toggle_cat']}</a> <a href="{parse url="showforum={$_data['cat_data']['id']}" seotitle="{$_data['cat_data']['name_seo']}" template="showforum" base="public"}" title='{$this->lang->words['view_cat']}'>{$_data['cat_data']['name']}</a>
</h3>

Change to:

<h3 class='maintitle'>
<a class='toggle right' href='#' title="{$this->lang->words['toggle_cat']}">{$this->lang->words['toggle_cat']}</a> <img src="{style_images_url}/cat_{$_data['cat_data']['id']}.png" alt="" />&nbsp; <a href="{parse url="showforum={$_data['cat_data']['id']}" seotitle="{$_data['cat_data']['name_seo']}" template="showforum" base="public"}" title='{$this->lang->words['view_cat']}'>{$_data['cat_data']['name']}</a>
</h3>

This tutorial will teach you how to install a skin on IP.Board 3.x.x

After downloading/purchasing your skin, browse through the folder until you find your skin files, which will look like the following:



Some skins may also come with a replacements file. If so, just use the same step that you see below for your replacements file.

Login to your forums admin control panel, and choose "Import/Export" from the "Look & Feel" menu.

Next to the "Upload XML(Archive) Skin Set" field, browse for your skin.xml.gz file. You can optionally specify a custom name for the skin under "New Skin Set Name". Click "Import Skin Set".




Next, scroll down to "Import Image Set". Browse for the images-skin.xml.gz file. Once again, you can optionally set a custom folder name for the images. If so, do not enter spaces in the folder name. "Skin images" will create errors. Instead, use something like "skin_images". Next to the "Apply To Skin Set" field, select the skin you imported in the previous step. This will assign your template files and images together.




Next, choose "Edit Settings" from the drop down menu next to your skin.




To make your skin default and available to all members, make sure your page looks something like this (take particular notice of "Select ALL current and future groups or...", "Make this the default skin?" and "Hide this skin from the drop down list?").



Press "Save Set" and your skin will be installed and ready to go!

Hi everyone,

 

In case you missed the twitter and facebook announcements yesterday, all skins on this site have been upgraded for IP.Board 3.4.2.

 

The updated skins are available for free for all existing customers in your client area.

Hi everyone,

 

This is just a quick announcement to let you know the forums + nexus have been upgraded to the latest available version. The new design has also been released on both the website and forums.

 

Feel free to let me know what you think... if you like it, if you don't, what you think could be improved, if any bugs exist, etc.

 

As a reminder, a little over half of the premade skins have already been upgraded for 3.4.x and are available in the client area. Check the news topic regularly to find out when your skin makes the list!

Hello,

As it stands, all skins made for IPB 3.3.x will need to be upgraded if they are going to be used on 3.4.x.

I am currently setting up a 3.4.x development board which will be used to upgrade all of my skins. I'm not yet sure on the amount of work needed, but I anticipate the new skins will be available within a few days. Keep checking this topic regularly for updates.


The following list of skins have been upgraded so far to 3.4.x
- Baisik
- Chameleon
- Gravity Blue
- Gravity Green
- Infinite
- Marble
- Overlay Red
- Overlay Green
- Overlay Blue
- Spectrum
- Splat
- Uniform
- Imperial
- Gesture
- Dimension
- Concise
- Vanilla
- Gridlock

- Animate

- Carbon (Red, Green, Blue, Orange)

- Infinite (Dark)

- Deflection

- Engraved

- Checkered

- iSkin

- Navia


If you own one of those skins, please download it and test as much as possible over the next 24-48 hours. If you find any bugs, please report them in the bugs/issues forum so they can be addressed before the remaining skins are upgraded and released.

Welcome to IP.Board 3.3.x

I've just finished upgrading these forums & Nexus to their latest versions. If anyone experiences any issues or finds any bugs with the forum or skin shop, please let me know and I'll get it fixed as soon as possible.  

Hopefully you all like the upgraded skin!

All 3.2.3 skins will also come with the Settings file, allowing you to easily customize certain areas of the skin by turning on/off different features (tooltip forum descriptions, guest message, navigation dropdown menu, social icons, basic topic view, etc).

Update: All skins are now compatible with 3.2.3

Framework skin is coming along nicely. Lots of areas have been neatened up and look very clean. The Framework skin will be used as a basis for all premade skins.

Forums, Calendar, Chat and Downloads are pretty much done. Just need to work on Blogs, Store, Gallery and Pages tomorrow and then I should be ready to get started on the actual skin upgrades.    Have spent at least 30 hours so far on enhancing the skin, so it's a long process, but it looks good to me.  

I have now just bought my second skin from ipbforumskins.com. Previously I have been using the Engraved skin which has been fantastic, I loved all of the little creative bits that were added and it's great to see now with the new skin I have bought; Animate, that those little creative bits have been added to, more are there.

Ehren's skins are all extremely refined, precise, fantasic looking and on top of that, incredible value too. No other skin website even comes close for IPB3 skins.

I haven't actually had to deal with Ehren himself much but he seems very friendly and it sounds like he helps out a lot with other people and keeps this community alive and happy.

Keep up the good work,
Overseer

Just a quick announcement to let you all know I've started on the 3.1.3 updates. They'll be completed in alphabetical order and all 17 premades should be done within 24 hours the next couple of hours.

Let me know if you have any questions  

Update: All premade skins have been upgraded for IPB 3.1.3

Hi everyone,

 

All skins have been upgraded for IP.Board 3.4.5, Blog 2.6.3, Chat 1.4.4, Downloads 2.5.4, Gallery 5.0.5, Content 2.3.6, Nexus 1.5.8 and Calendar 3.3.4.

 

The upgraded files can be downloaded for free by customers in the client area.

In addition to the 3.4.3 skin updates yesterday, I've just added a new skin to the premade selection called Snapshot.

 

The skin is lightly based off the Aero theme used in Windows 7 and features a very unique 'blur' effect. It includes a simple background picker allowing your members to choose their own image from a preset array of high quality background images (2560x1200 pixels by default), which you can replace with your own if needed.

 

Feel free to take a look at the Snapshot screen page and check out the live demo to see it in action!  Feedback/suggestions are welcome, as always!

 

Hi everyone,

 

All skins are now compatible with IP.Board 3.4.1.

 

This update fixes the "missing editor" bug on 3.4.1 dark skins and includes a few additional bug fixes and minor enhancements.

Hi everyone,

I'm happy to announce the release of a new IPB skin called Concise. The skin uses a simplistic design to focus your members attention heavily on the content of your site. It includes our unique config file, a highly modified topic view, customizable guest message, social links, optional tool tips for forums descriptions, HTML text for the logo, a left navigation column and custom icons for forums on an individual basis.

The skin is compatible with the latest versions of IP Board 3.x (3.3.x+), Gallery, Blog, Downloads, Chat, IP.Content and Nexus. After purchasing this skin, you will be able to download it immediately from your Client Area on the forums.

Thoughts and feedback appreciated!  

Merry Christmas to all of our existing members and customers - and of course those who browse the site as guests!

To celebrate, all existing customers can purchase news skins with a $10.00 discount until January 1, 2012 by entering the coupon xmas11 in their shopping cart. This is a great opportunity to get a new skin for the new year at prices as low as $10.00 (half price)!

The coupon will automatically expire on January 1, 2012 so get in soon to make sure you take advantage of the offer!

Merry Christmas, and have a safe and happy new year.

Hi everyone,

Due to the large number of users who have been visiting our skinning sites recently, it was necessary to upgrade our servers to cope with the traffic. This migration occurred yesterday and took roughly 12 hours. While migrating servers, it was inevitable that we would lose a couple of posts and members (anyone who registered/posted ~12 hours prior to the migration was not moved to the new server).

If you had purchased an item within this time period, send me a PM and I will upgrade your account for you. There were only a few accounts, so this shouldn't be a major issue.  

Apart from that, the server should be more efficient and we should no longer experience any downtime or lag!

I'd suggest the skins be updated in order of popularity, by sales. Might as well start with the greatest demand and work down from there.