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Vanilla 1.1.4 is a product of Lussumo. More Information: Documentation, Community Support.
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Can you post Vanilla Customization information? You seem to have gone beyond editing the CSS files.
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- CommentAuthorNick Presta
- CommentTimeJan 5th 2006
Who is this directed towards?
You would probably get the best answers here: http://lussumo.com/community/categories.php -
Your best bet is to go directly to their forums, that's how I learned to customize vanilla.
My customizations are random and not documented, so I wouldn't feel safe to tell anybody -
i've noticed that the vanilla support forum uses mod_rewrite for their url's. does this feature comes in the package or do we have to make a custom .htaccess file ourself?
i'm currently considering two css based forum engine to be used on my community site. i'm confused wether to use Vanilla or PunBB....which one is better? -
PunBB is very fast. It's a classic forum, meaning no AJAX, no thrills, no nothing. But, it does what it was designed to do easy and fast. Vanilla seems to be very buggy and hard to customize. A theme is one css file in punBB. Furthermore, it outputs valid XHTML 1.0 Strict.
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i've noticed that the vanilla support forum uses mod_rewrite for their url's. does this feature comes in the package or do we have to make a custom .htaccess file ourself?
The official Lussumo forum is running the beta version of Vanilla (0.9.3), SkillShare is still using the stable version (0.9.2).
Vanilla seems to be very buggy and hard to customize. A theme is one css file.
The beta version (which I haven't used for myself, yet) is supposed to introduce a more complete themeing system that allows you to make new HTML templates as well as just CSS changes. -
A theme is one file is meant for punBB, not vanilla (sorry). Vanilla is very hard to customize.
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I've never used punBB, however I can say that vanilla can also be customized (the look) from just 1 file (css).
Vanilla is a fairly new product, only about half a year old.
I like Vanilla because takes a total new approach and has out of the box a much better look and feel compared to the other "classic" type forums.
It also has some pretty nifty extensions.
If you just want the same old type of forum that's been around forever, then vanilla is not for you.
If on the other hand you are looking for something different and fresh, give vanilla a try. -
- CommentAuthorNick Presta
- CommentTimeJan 7th 2006
PunBB is very easy to customize. The PHP is easy to interpret and understand as well as an easy templating system. -
Have you looked at 0.9.3? They changed it significally. They have a bunch of css styles and templates. The main style is 1550 lines of CSS. It's absolutely positioned. It's very complicated. My main hate for it is the CSS bugs. The default style is unusable in Opera.
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- CommentAuthorNick Presta
- CommentTimeJan 7th 2006
Really? It's absolutely positioned?
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Well, if they used it properly, that's great. Otherwise, bleh. -
nick, not really. use opera and see for yourself. checkboxes are in the middle of their labels. though, ajax seems to work in opera while it does not in the rest of the browsers (0.9.3).
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0.9.3 is still in beta of course some of it is not going to work right...
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- CommentAuthorNick Presta
- CommentTimeJan 7th 2006
Opera doesn't support AJAX like pages and apps. as well as Firefox does.
And yeah, if it's in Beta, that's cool. Give 'em time to work it out. -
That's the problem. I haven't got time.
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looking for something different and fresh
yep, quite a considerable factor. but the thing that bugs me the most is the lack of support for BBCodes, something very crucial for a forum engine from my POV.
but i guess i'll go with vanilla anyway. heheh....fresh and different.... -
There's an extension that allows the use of BBCode.
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