Yellow Moderator Messages

[eXoduis]

yeah thats great!

[Vagrant0]

Dark Grey?

White?

[HugePinball]

The board software may give you the option to assign group permissions to specific BBCodes. You could then create a custom BBCode for such admin/moderator uses, so the markup is defined in the site styles. I assume that BBCodes can appear differently depending on the skin being used, so you could even have a different style applied for each skin, if necessary. Not sure if you guys think it's worth the bother, but it might be an option.

[LHammonds]

HugePinball, thanks for the suggestion.

 

I was thinking about how to do this but with trying to tie it to the themes, it could become problematic with upgrades, new themes and whatnot. So instead, I am trying a BBCode-Only solution. The idea is to paint the text background and foreground a certain color which should make it visible no matter what the theme looks like.

 

Here is my 1st attempt:

 

Strike #1 for breaking rule #1

[Vagrant0]

The board software may give you the option to assign group permissions to specific BBCodes. You could then create a custom BBCode for such admin/moderator uses, so the markup is defined in the site styles. I assume that BBCodes can appear differently depending on the skin being used, so you could even have a different style applied for each skin, if necessary. Not sure if you guys think it's worth the bother, but it might be an option.

Call me lazy, but I prefer just highlighting the text and selecting the color. No special coding needed.

[Dark0ne]

I actually prefer typing as then I have to use the mouse less

 

I'd argue it takes less time to type it than it does to select the text then select the color

 

Fancy a race?

 

Edit: sad day in my history; I genuinely misspelt "colour" as "color". Bad times :(

[LHammonds]

Call me lazy, but I prefer just highlighting the text and selecting the color. No special coding needed.

I don't think you get the benefit of using BBCode for this.

 

What just happened is a perfect example. We have all been highlighting our text and manually picking the color yellow. BAM!!! A new forum theme is released and now the yellow text disappears into the light-colored background. There is NO WAY we can go back to those hundreds of posts and make color corrections so the text is visible with the new forum skin.

 

In comes the BBCode. If we were using a BBCode that simply colored the text yellow this entire time, the release of a new light-colored forum theme would show a problem with the yellow text. But because we used BBCode, we can now edit the style of the BBCode so that it works with both the light and dark colored themes and WHAM!!!! all prior yellow text is now visible for the light theme as well.

 

Now, let's say you continue to just highlight your text and change the color manually to orange because it seems to fit the two themes fairly well. Guess what? BAM!!!! Dark0ne rolls out an orange theme! WHAM!!! Your manually colored orange text is now invisible using the new theme while everyone else that used the BBCode tag will have a nice-working style in all the forum themes...and no old postings will need to be updated. :thumbsup:

 

LHammonds

[Olurum]

That looks really good, plus it's a style only mods have access to now (have there been any attempts at mod impersonation with yellow text?). You're also able to retain the 'trademark' yellow text that most older members are used to seeing. :)

 

Off topic: Those WHAMS and BAMS really sell the argument. ;D

 

But seriously, those are some really good points. :thumbsup:

[LHammonds]

Off topic: Those WHAMS and BAMS really sell the argument. ;D

Yes, I was feeling like a cheeky professional chef there for a while. :biggrin:

[eXoduis]

well id say your a chef in coding... if that works out..

Anyway the highlited yellow is a nice one..

As for white, as of suggested by Dark0ne, then nah, it doesnt pop outa the screen