Those Nifty Posting Templates

[Sidney Vincent]

....I want one but I can't seem to find a place that offers templates like the ones I've seen here. I just love them! Can anyone point me in the right direction? Once i seen the gist of how it's made I can probably create my own. But I need to see the coding to dissect it first.

[Briar]

I cheat. I make 'em in raw HTML and then use a custom bbcode generator that I found for proboards to make them easy to use. Here's the code to Adam's post template:

<table align="center" style="width: 500px; height: 600px; background: url(http://i.imgur.com/loOLl.png) center bottom no-repeat; border: 1px solid #410915; -webkit-box-shadow: 5px 5px 10px #0e0d0d; -moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 10px #0e0d0d; box-shadow: 5px 5px 10px #0e0d0d;"><tr><td valign="top"><div style="background-color: #CDC7C2; border: 1px solid #410915; width: 240px; height: 566px; margin: 5px; padding: 7px; opacity:0.7; filter:alpha(opacity=70); -webkit-box-shadow: 4px 4px 8px #000000; -moz-box-shadow: 4px 4px 8px #000000; box-shadow: 4px 4px 8px #000000; color: black; text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #A99E96; font-size: 1.1em; overflow-y: auto;">'+bbInputText+'</div></td></tr></table>
But once I wrap it in the javascript and put it into the hack I've got I just use the bbcode it creates:
[adam] POST TEXT [/adam]
Alternatively, here's a code that I built for this same style of post template which uses the expanded UBBC tags already available to any player:
[center][table][tr][td][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=style, background: url(http://i53.tinypic.com/2r3bmu1.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; outline: 1px solid #384214; width: 500px; height: 601px; padding: 0px;, bTable][*style=border: 2px solid #384214; background: #fdf1f3; opacity: 0.55; filter:alpha(opacity=55); font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #0c1000; text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #f8e8eb; margin: 11px; padding: 5px 20px; width: 280px; height: 525px; overflow-y: auto;]
!--- POST TEXT GOES HERE ---!
[*style=padding: 0px 10px; font-size: smaller;]
[b]Location:[/b]
[b]Outfit:[/b]
[b]Music:[/b]
[b]Notes:[/b]

[/style][/style][/td][/tr][/table][/center]
Which once you take the extraneous * out of the style tags ends up looking like this:

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=style, background: url(http://i53.tinypic.com/2r3bmu1.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; outline: 1px solid #384214; width: 500px; height: 601px; padding: 0px;, bTable] !--- POST TEXT GOES HERE ---! [style=padding: 0px 10px; font-size: smaller;] Location: Outfit: Music: Notes: [/style]

So....that's the deal with the post templates. If you want to make one up in HTML and have me enter it as a bbcode I can do that, just PM Norah and get me the code. I'll test it and as long as it works right I can set you up.

Cheers!

[Sidney Vincent]

You rock so hard!! XD I'll get to work on it and PM it.