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Minimalistic – mybb theme

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Welcome guys!

I’m back to mybb development for a while to create theme that fit my latest needs acording to my research.

Throughout months of using mybb I was switching themes and trying them out. I have even come with my own one. Unfortunatelly I bumped into serious points:

1) High server usage

2) Short-term engaging users

First of all, themes I created as well as most of the ones I know are containing far too much (and too big) images, sprites and headers. All that to create appealing and eye-catching theme. Unfortunatelly it works like that only for the first time, for the targeted visitors. Soon it becomes pain in the ass.

What we really need is light and useful theme that loads as fast as possible. How fast your site loads is one of the most important things. Many studies shown that it affects visitors. That’s why most of the biggest websites optimized their performance last years. Usually from 7-9 seconds load time to 2-4 seconds.

The next thing is clearly visible menu, plain background (white,grey or black works the best). This is due to visitors habbits. The most common sites drive trends (both Google and Facebook push white background and tiny icons). What’s more the interface should be easy to use and easy to spot.

Here comes minimalistic mybb theme. The aim of the theme is to fill the above needs. Simple yet effective.

Theme is currently under development. Screens just illustrate the main idea.

Features:

  • 1.41 seconds load time on low budget virtual-hosting http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/default.asp…id=5575066
  • White background
  • Theme comes with no additional images, just css
  • Less images than in default mybb theme
  • Expandable mini user panel, easy access to private messages
  • CSS buttons and ‘tcat’ background based on Google’s css
  • Tested on Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer and Iphone browser.


Check it out LIVE at Music-covers


1) Index Page Top – Chrome

[Image: alphachromeindex1.png]

2) Index Page Bottom – Chrome

[Image: alphachromeindex2.png]

3) Index Page – Firefox

[Image: alphafirefoxindex1.png]

4) Index Page – Internet Explorer

[Image: alphainternetexplorerin.png]

5) Quick Login – Index Page – Firefox

[Image: alphafirefoxindexquickl.png]

6) Explandable Mini User CP + hover top menu buttons – Chrome

[Image: alphachromeindexusercpc.png]

Katolickie Stowarzyszenie Młodzieży [KSM]

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KSM is polish catholic association. They spread religious help and news also using internet. One of the form is MyBB powered forum and since few days using “Ajdija.com v4 Theme”.
What is quite important that this forum is for all polish members – global association official forum. Page rank 4. Nice results.
This made me focus a little bit on my work and I decided to fix few things sooner to make theme even better!
Feel free to suggest any changes. The majority now is collapse button I definitely must change.

Visit KSM Forum

Auto Live Images – featuring Avatar & Userbar

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Hey,
You may know that I started development of new MyBB plugin called “Auto Live Images”. It’s plugin which creates images with auto updating stats like user post count or refs count. I have already coded part of avatar and userbar feature. Continue reading →