How To Install And Customize Styles

You'll find a variety of different styles/templates available for use on your Icy Phoenix website, but sometimes you may not find the variation you are looking for.  Many Icy Phoenix users edit a style to suit their needs and this is perfectly acceptable.  You should be happy with your site's layout and design.  This guide will help guide you when installing new styles and customizing your style.

1. Download the style you would like to use.
   
2. Unzip the file and upload to: ip_root/templates/
   
3. Go to your Administration Control Panel (ACP): ACP -> Styles and Templates -> Install Styles
   
4. Find the style you uploaded and wish to install.  Click install.

 

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Editing a style to suit your graphical needs is easier in the new Icy Phoenix.

You will find a few different files in your specific style folder that allow for color changes as well as graphics changes.  These files are:

• /templates/../style_YOURSTYLE.css
  
• /templates/../style_YOURSTYLE_colors.css
  
• /templates/../common.css
  
• /templates/../default.cfg

Generally, .css files control colors and some graphics.  .cfg files control graphics.

Without "cramping your style", this is a simple change to show you how you would change something like the background color of your style.

OPEN: /templates/../style_YOURSTYLE.css

FIND:



REPLACE WITH:



We just changed the background from white to black by changing this value:



 

Feel free to change anything and everything to the colors you desire.

Is there any other way to install the templates manually if by the ACP doesnt work?

Thank you

if it in ACP not work, you made a misstake

wachowski wrote: [View Post]

Is there any other way to install the templates manually if by the ACP doesnt work?

Thank you

maybe u forget to enable options in settings

PS. to Chaotic you forghet to add this important thing ....

 

Thanks Limun
Yeah thats ok but when I click into Install style doesnt load it appears a blank page.

I have installed lots of styles but  now doesnt let me to install, so maybe a wrong file, do you guess wich?


I think the best option for me is to find out another way of installing


And New player: what mistake are you talkin about?

wachowski wrote: [View Post]

...... appears a blank page.

hmmm did you tryed with some different bronswer or maybe you have problem with allowed memory size  
try read this
http://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4713

WEll I tried with another browser and now this is what appears when I click on install styles:
 


I've done what says in the link you attached but dont work either
I dont think its a server problem because yesterday I could install some themes...


-Waiting for an answer
Thanks

wachowski,

Feel free to create a topic in the General Support forum about this problem.  It'll be easier for us to help you there and it'll help others not get confused when reading this how-to documentation.

Thanks

Chaotic wrote: [View Post]

wachowski,

Feel free to create a topic in the General Support forum about this problem.  It'll be easier for us to help you there and it'll help others not get confused when reading this how-to documentation.

Thanks

well no problem, I found out what causes that error, it was that I installed and 'Orange Theme' that I found in other website, it must be damegd or somethin. Now I know I'm only going to download templates of this site

This is a message to all the users:
Do not dowload themes or mods for IP of other webs, you are never sure if they work fine.



See ya all

Can i get some help with a style i colorized?

i colorized mars attack and renamed it Bronze_Granz and it doesnt show up on the install styles menu any suggestions (i get this message)

Already answered in the other topic...

Currently colorized styles could not be renamed but they replace only the original template (unless you edit paths, CFG and CSS on your own).

So if you created a colorized template, just replace original files for the template you have edited and then hit CTRL + F5 in your browser.

For example if you edited mars_attack you then need to upload all style files into templates/icy_phoenix/ where original Mars Attack template files are located.