Plastik: Blue (eFiction 3.0 Skin)

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

For more eFiction skins visit http://www.gokugirl.com/efiction.html.

The graphics are all my own.


CUSTOMIZABLE GRAPHICS INCLUDED (Photoshop):

*sitename.psd: The site name image. The font is called Chisel. Remember: save it as sitename.gif. You can make it wider if you need to, but don't change the height. If you don't make sure the width matches in the CSS, part of it will be cut off.

*blocktitlelrg.psd: The #leftindex block title. The font is Chisel.

*blocktitlesm.psd: The #rightindex block title. The font is Chisel.


CUSTOMIZATIONS:

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

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


VARIABLES.PHP:

*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.

*Explainations 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 in 800x600 and 1024x768, Firefox, Netscape, and IE (with some differences).

*So that the user profile 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 in the admin. The "{author}'s favorites" tab includes all three. I also recommend that you remove the {author} variable from "Panels -> P - Member Profile".

*If you want your site name to show up (as regular text), remove "display:none;" from the line "#header #sitename p" in the CSS and delete "sitename.gif" from the images folder online.

*The navigation: if you want to add more links you'll need to make the navigation wider. A tutorial on enlarging GUIs can be found at http://www.guistuff.com/article.shtml?expand. Don't make it wider than 750px and remember to save it as a transparent GIF with a matte color of #2D4659. Also, you'll need to alter the width of it in the CSS.

*You can rearrange the #leftindex blocks or the #rightindex blocks by moving rearranging the code in index.tpl. Everything will look fine if you remember to get ALL of the code for that block.

*If you have more than one featured story at a time, add ".featuredbox," (without quotes) to the beginning of the ".recentbox" line in the CSS. You should also create a new featured story block title (change it to be plural).

*I tried to make the footer large enough but, if it's not, you'll need to shorten your text and manually place it into footer.tpl, replacing {footer}. This way the abbreviated version will only show up on this skin. Or you can make the footer images larger in height but that also involves altering the CSS in addition to altering to images (footerleft.gif & footer.gif). If you really have to, I give you permission to remove my copyright. It would be nice if you included it somewhere else, though.