Dark Water (eFiction 3.0 Skin)

2006 by Goku Girl (webmaster@gokugirl.com -- http://www.gokugirl.com)

The photo in the header was originally taken by Livah45 and was posted to morguefile.com. This skin is modified from my Dark Water v1 2.0 skin. In the original version the story text wrapped around the navigation but it would be very hard to do that in 3.0 since I used a div with the ID of "output" to do so and it's been removed from most of the pages.

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CUSTOMIZATIONS:

*I include new rating stars, new ordering arrows, a new featured story ribbon, and a new retired feature story ribbon.

*I included the Who's Online block but in order for it to be used you have to activate it in the admin settings (admin -> blocks) and remove <!-- and --> in index.tpl.


VARIABLES.PHP:

*To add challenges to the menu once you install the module place it where you want in the menu array (using 'challenges' and following the syntax of the other links) and reorder the numbers so that they're in order starting from zero.

*For more info on adding or subtracting items from the menu see variables.php in addition to the eFiction forum topic at http://www.efiction.org/forums/index.php?topic=1143.0.

*Definitions of various settings:

	- $blocks["menu"]["status"] = 1; (this block will display on every page; 2 means "index only", 0 means "hide")
	- $blocks['categories']['template'] = "{link} [{count}]"; (this tells the categories to display the link and # of 		  items only; add {image} to include images or {description} to include descriptions)
	- $blocks['featured']['tpl'] = 1; (this block will display using the template on index.tpl, remove this to use the 	  	  default style)


ADDITIONAL NOTES:

*Looks fine on both 800x600 and 1024x768.

*I recommend that you take darkwater.jpg and place your site title on it using an image editing program and maybe adding a pale drop shadow or a glow. It would look better that way. Then you have to either remove the {sitename} from index.tpl and or add "display:none;" to #header #sitename.

*So that the tabs aren't messed up please make sure that you hide the "favorite stories", "favorite authors", and "favorite series" tabs on both the "U" and "F" panels. The "{author}'s favorites" tab includes all three. I also recommend that you remove the {author} variable from "Panels -> P - Member Profile".