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Styling RaidTracker

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RaidTracker version 3.x and later uses themes, and are located in the themes folder. Themes are incompatible with previous versions of RT, and older styles are not compatible with RT3. Fortunately, RT3 themes are a lot easier to craft than previous versions.

Preset themes

RaidTracker can be styled to suit your group/guild's website. RaidTracker comds preinstalled with one style, called 'bluesocial'. Other themes may be downloaded below as they are presented.

* The RofP style is a style that is available for the public. But only the WoW guild Reflection of Perfection can use the mop34.jpg background. Everyone else can replace the image with another of width 955px to make it work right.

Installing and using themes

Navigate to the /theme directory, and install all files in a subdirectory of its own. (i.e. for the style named 'blacksocial', all files must be in the /theme/blacksocial directory.

To use the style, you may set it in the Display tab of the Administration view, if it is to be set systemwide. You may also force this style to be used by checking the Force theme setting below. This may be used on a user basis by selecting the theme in the Profile tab of the settings. You may also test it temporarily by adding the "?theme=blacksocial" or "&theme=blacksocial" to the URL bar in most cases, replacing blacksocial with the theme name

Create your own theme

RT3 allows you to easily create your own theme. As long as you can create CSS files (especially CSS 2 and 3), you can use RT to display however you wish.

Basics to the theme

RT 3 will require 2 files to your theme, and also any other optional stylesheets or system png files you want to include. You will need the CSS file "rt-style.css" as the base. Without this, RT will not be able to detect your style. The other file it needs is logo.png, which will sit at the top of the screen to help people get back to the main page. This is often, but not always, used to "brand" your site. In Rofp 3.0, the logo is the house icon, since it uses a background image with the site name as primary branding.

The rest of the files are optional, though recommended for various purposes:

* RaidTracker does not really offer much support for IE7 or earlier. Also, some system icons may be replaced by those in your style at a later date.

Skip the template, just the CSS

The styles that RT2 used had a base template, where additional features like javascript, or extra links on a page can be added. The problem is that it could be too simple to accidently remove a core RT component. The styles were too complicated as well. RT 3 changed it by a) allowing addons, b) allowing extra links to the menu, and c) present the page, and allow users to style it using pure CSS.

In the CSS files used for these displays, the positioning was separate from the colors to keep it simple, and make it easy to learn the styles. But this is not required for your own theme.

Note on theme changes

Version 3.00 uses the .urgent and .note classes in some horizontal bars such as time or role. These are deprecated, and recommended to be replaced with classes: .dateh, .start, .next