cool themes for RN

Involved Joined: Jul 12, 2005 Posts: 283

does anyone know any good sites for themes for RN?

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:29 am

greetz
Spiders

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:21 am

Most phpNuke themes will work with RN. There are loads of websites around, below is just a few of them:

http://www.jaded-designs.com/
http://nukecoder.com/
http://www.ethaidesign.com/category/php-nuke-themes/

It all depends what you are looking for.

BTW I've moved this to the themes forum.

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:18 am

http://www.nukecss.com
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:45 am

i was looking for something basic, something easy to manage.
is there a place i can get a download pack of all these themes in one, so i can upload them at once?

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:31 pm

No there isn't such a thing.

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:39 pm

If you are looking for a up-to-date tested theme use instead one of the included themes in RavenNuke and change e.g. the colors. This is the simplest way.

Btw: Buy a theme only with money back guarantee or touching up.

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:38 pm

All the themes in Ravennuke validate through the w3c validator. You should run any theme you are considering through the same.

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Also, while it is your choice, just be aware of the issues you can be getting yourself into with a proliferation of themes. Say you customize the header to have your logo instead of the Ravennuke one. One theme, fine, you can keep track of it. 15? Now you've got a job on your hands. What happens when an update comes. You've got 15 themes to synchronize with the update, keeping your changes but getting any fixes also. It can get nuts so be careful.

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:36 pm

fkelly wrote:

All the themes in Ravennuke validate through the w3c validator. You should run any theme you are considering through the same.

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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:14 pm

I use Tidy for FF and because I usally don´t trust one I use several online validators like validome org etc. etc.. and sometimes Ravens validator too.
The most old themes have always the same errors. Sometimes it looks like the copied the erros over. From one site to the next beneed this real multilingual themes are seldom.
Maybe they have a different understanding of multilingual or its just the old Nuke Code by FB.

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:26 pm

It can be both.
If something is coded wrong in the core script (non-xhtml code) you wil also recieve validation errors, even if the theme is valid xhtml coded.
And ofcourse visa versa.

[EDIT]
Page validator i suggested above redirects you to w3c directly so it isnt a libary or 3thparty based validation service.

Grtzzz wHiTeHaT Wink

Involved Joined: Apr 06, 2008 Posts: 484

if you find a theme that you want to use and its not validated let me know and ill validate for you.

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:25 pm

I use only my own themes or RN themes. Thanks ! I validated my sites content up from HTML 3.x to XHTLM already !

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:05 am

There are many ways to validate. By suggesting the w3c validator I was just suggesting the most straightforward but of course adding tools to Firefox is another good way and may provide more in the way of diagnostics to figure out where the problems are. When I ran into complex problems trying to diagnose the current Ravennuke themes (and yes, Susann was right, many of the errors were copied over from one theme to another, there were even errors where one theme would reference an image from another theme because the author had copied and pasted and then never updated what he had pasted into the new theme) but anyway to diagnose a theme I copied the source over into a PHP editor and ran tidy on it to help figure out exactly what the "chain" of errors was. Validation type errors cascade and you need to work back from the symptoms to the source and fix that first, then revalidate and find the source of any remaining errors until you eliminate them all.

"Little buggsies have little buggsy's on 'em and they bite ;em and littler buggsies have even littler buggsies on 'em and they bite 'em ad infinitum"

But getting back to the main point, if you are considering an alternative theme the first step is to validate it.

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:08 pm

where can i find stock themes that typically come with ravenscript like i thought was a site that had like 20 or so original layouts..

Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:23 am

There are a number of stock themes in RN package that you can use. Other than that you can use one of the above sites.

Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:33 am

i am looking for one that is red and black

registered · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:55 pm

We have a number of themes that work with RavenNuke

http://www.portalthemes.com/

Worker Joined: May 07, 2006 Posts: 172

jjmusicpro wrote:

i am looking for one that is red and black

You could always do what I did.

Used fisubice as a base and changed colours and graphics. Believe me I'm not very good at coding, but with a little trial and error, firefox and firebug, I ended up satisfied with the result. Very Happy