Even if it isn't a major change, you can still notice some changes in the forum styles pages and GIMP tutorials pages on the website, by the fact that the board's engine is now used to manage the multiline fields of the tutorials and styles descriptions and notes.

What does it change ?

Previously, I couldn't use BBCodes and I disabled HTML tags.  This resulted that I could only use plain text.

With the use of two functions from the board's engine, I can now use this board's BBCodes system for text formatting and link insertion for these text fields.  This allows to have a text format that is less rubbish than when I used line-breaks and hyphen for pseudo-lists, and this also allows me to insert download links for fonts I mention in my styles notes.

But because of these changes, I had to edit all entries in order to put some formatting and to remove all those backslashes that became visible.

I already talked about it in my previous news, but today I can finally announce that the five new phpBB3 styles have been released !  You can find them on this page.

For those who want a preview, I installed a "Styles Demo" MOD on my test phpBB3 forum, so you can directly select the style and language.
The styles demo can be found on this link and you can use these logins : testuser + test00

After I finished the styles, I thought I'd have a break, but I just got a new request from someone I know.  It's a full and coded layout for a pro website.  But I'll try to touch up the local site and to continue my Gimp French tutorial on Le site du zéro anyway.

[EDIT] Since I still had some time tonight (or last night), I took the opportunity to update all the Forumotion skin archives in order to take into account an update that have been done by Forumotion last year and that included the merging of the gallery style with the rest of the forum style.  I thus modified the directions have been modified.

Hello everyone, and happy new year 2010 by the way

I come to give some news, now that the holidays are finally over, at last !  I can say that this year, the holidays were very busy with the Xmas eve, then my mother's family brunch on Dec. 26th, then my birthday dinner on Jan. 1st and finally, a family dinner (still on my mother's side) on Jan. 2nd.  And to top all of that, we had to bring Lily, our big kitty, to the vet for bladder stones that required a surgery, and she finally came back home yesterday.  She's doing fine and is currently on a diet in order to prevent the formation of new bladder stones.

So, with all of that, my phpBB3 styles aren't finished yet, but the ProValentina style is currently under validation on phpBB-fr.com and phpBB.com, and I'm currently working on the three Prostylize styles.Donc, avec tout ça, je n'ai pas encore fini les styles phpBB3, mais le style and I'm at the step of making the big buttons.

As soon as these styles are finished and submitted to validation on phpBB support communities, the five new phpBB3 styles will be available here on ID and they will be sent to phpBB3styles and phpBBHacks as well.

For those who still come regularly, I wish them a Merry Christmas 2009 !

Now, I'm going to give some news about me :

There won't be a second admin finally

I already mentioned in a previous news that I would contact someone I was seeing as my second admin, but unfortunately, that person couldn't take the position, as he was about to get a job - and this came true - and so, with this new part-time job and his studies, he has even less time to come.

GFX requests always come by groups

I also had two big requests, and one of them was a paid request.  The paid one concerned a French Japanese culture website for which the admin was developing a board that will be integrated to the website (coded in ASP.NET instead of PHP) and so, he needed a webdesigner to make the layout for the new module using the existing design.  The design is now integrated and the forum is at its final touches step.
Concerning the free one, this concerned LuLu's board that needed a renewal concerning the style, since the old theme was getting old.  Like for the paid one, the design has been finished.

Connectix Boards 1.0 is showing up !

At the begining of December, the Connectix Boards 1.0's beta version has been unveiled and bug hunting has been opened.  So, I participated as a beta-tester.  For Frenchies, the beta forum link has been given in the French version of this news.
Ishimaru Design's development will thus be done according to CB 1.0's stable release, even if I plan to do some minor modifications, such as implementing the use of BBCodes in the styles pages using CB's engine.  For the same reason, MODs and skins development has been suspended, except for fixes.

The last but not the least : the Christmas gift !

And I finish with what will be the Christmas gift : New phpBB3 (non-Forumotion) styles will be available soon !  Right now, the Id_ProXmas style has been already released, and the Id_Provalentina is under development.  I also plan to port the three Stylize styles to phpBB3, as prosilver-based (with pro as prefix), just like the xmas and valentines styles.  I don't exclude the possibility to port them to subsilver2 as well, so that's why I use prefixes ("pro" for prosilver, "sub" for subsilver2) to indicate the used base style.

so, at the end of the holidays, you should see the website with even more content, and in addition, I also have tutorial ideas.

See you after Epiphany Day (Kings' Day), but I will come regularly to make sure the board is clean from spam (even if I can count them on a hand since the migration to CB), and also to reply to support requests for my styles.

Ishimaru Chiaki

Hello everyone !

If there is one thing that was really missing in CB compared to phpBB-like boards, that was the possibility to edit our own private messages in order to correct, add or update a detail, and this missing function had a lot of influence on our inboxes and outboxes' filling up.

It's now solved since this night, as I worked on developing a MOD that brings this function, and after having done local testing to ensure everythings works fine, I sent the modified files.

For those who speak French and run a CB forum, the MOD is available on the official website.

And by the way, even if I increased the outboxes and inboxes capacities for all groups, I remind everyone to clean up their inboxes and outboxes regularly, in order to prevent PM sending or reception problems caused by full box.

I also took the opportunity to correct the small bug in the downloadable forumotion styles management, and the bug was actually very simple : it was a question of case, as the forumotion version names in the styles' data were all lowercase while the values in the drop-down menu for version choice in the form had capitals !  So, I corrected this detail.