My themes are changing by themselves!

by **Jalokim** on February 27th 2008, 9:52 am

Recently I have heard many of these complaints... so here are the rules for using hitskin.com

I believe the problem is within the hitskin service and cookie updates, as well as impatience of forumotion members.
Symptoms:

My forum changed color automatically

My forum changed its style automatically

My theme has got elements from older themes I installed earlier

After installing my new theme not all images loaded

Incorrect image set, or color order

My theme won't change no matter how hard I try

What to do:

First off, the best way to use the hitskin service is to first visit the original hitskin.com page and have a look at preferred themes.
Once you have chosen a theme... use the hitskin demo preview to check if all the buttons and forums are in your taste
if you are certain you want the current theme, upload it via the hitskin.com installer or via your admin panel

Hit the "install this skin" button!!! DO NOT CLICK THE "save settings" Button
Refresh you cookies [ctrl+F5]
If you decide on changing your theme, do it at most 1 a day!!!

If you reset your theme too many times a day or ... modify the theme before it fully loads the problems will begin!

Pick your themes calmly
Don't change the theme too often
If you have no experience in CSS ,then don't modify the theme.

How to fix the problem:

(if you have a custom theme and its not from hitskin I recomend exporting the theme first!!)

Go to admin panel -> display -> colors -> CSS sheet tab

once there select the entire CSS script and delete it. Then save the empty CSS style sheet.

Go to your admin panel -> display -> choose a theme -> select a default prosilver theme and save the settings.
Let the skin load fully = leave it for a couple hours or even 1 whole day.

Go to hitskin.com and reload your skin.(if you exported your own theme then you can import it

by onloantodiv1 on February 27th 2008, 2:03 pm

and what do you do if it does go wrong?

by **Jalokim** on February 27th 2008, 2:27 pm

How to fix the problem:

(if you have a custom theme and its not from hitskin I recomend exporting the theme first!!)

Go to admin panel -> styles -> colors -> CSS sheet tab

once there select the entire CSS script and delete it. Then save the empty CSS style sheet.

Go to your admin panel -> styles -> choose a theme -> select a default prosilver theme and save the settings.
Let the skin load fully = leave it for a couple hours or even 1 whole day.

Go to hitskin.com and reload your skin.(if you exported your own theme then you can import it

by kamokronos on March 5th 2008, 8:48 pm

When I went there, the CSS Style Sheet is empty and I cant do anything...

by **Jalokim** on March 7th 2008, 10:32 am

>>>NEW update<<<

this is the most important step is this one

if you are certain you want the current theme, upload it via the hitskin.com installer or via your admin panel

Hit the "install this skin" button!!! DO NOT CLICK THE "save settings" Button

i have noticed that the save settings button doesn't save the CSS ...only images

by TaCo on May 4th 2008, 3:54 pm

ok thanks you i have installed it..
I hope it doesnt change Sad

by Dreamer.King on June 4th 2008, 4:48 pm

That happen to one of my admin once he had a new thing to put on and i had to tell him how to do it Shit

by Guest on June 15th 2008, 11:33 pm

I had real problems with my forum. My buttons were all huge, the text was large (even though in the CP it was set at 12), I had buttons not appearing... the whole lot.

I have decided to follow these steps. Hopefully, with a bit of luck, everything will come right. So far it all looks good.

Fingers crossed.

by ultimatecstrike on June 21st 2008, 2:16 pm

but is new....
I don`t now very good english... soory

And I am romanian; i am 13 age Very Happy

by Broly Ss10 on June 21st 2008, 6:06 pm

That answered alot of questions.

@ultimatecstrike: This is off-topic, next time fill your profile.

by Brandon05 on June 22nd 2008, 9:09 pm

Thanks for this post. This actually just made my night as I am wondering "What in the world! Why is it changing the template to something green!?" so its fixed as I found this post.

I love your Vista Skin.

by Invalid on June 26th 2008, 12:08 am

Thank You

by UkRaiNeR on July 30th 2008, 6:05 pm

thanks this helped.

by Veljko on November 3rd 2008, 12:57 pm

Thank you!

by newjerseyrocks on November 14th 2008, 6:15 pm

Thanks, that really. Helped. I was experiencing many of those problems. Very Happy

by **Jalokim** on November 15th 2008, 7:05 am

thanks all for your comment

as a bit of an update... IPB forums and punBB forums react the same way... so this tutorial is a universal tool for installing themes.

cordially
Jalokim

by Runescape4 on February 24th 2009, 5:24 am

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by **MrMario** on February 24th 2009, 12:08 pm

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by nimz on February 26th 2009, 6:58 am

ultimatecstrike wrote:but is new....
I don`t now very good english... soory

And I am romanian; i am 13 age

what problem am 13 years old too and from egy and speak englissssssssh v.well ,dnt I? afro

by Skittles on February 26th 2009, 6:39 pm

nimz wrote:
ultimatecstrike wrote:but is new....
I don`t now very good english... soory

And I am romanian; i am 13 age

what problem am 13 years old too and from egy and speak englissssssssh v.well ,dnt I?

Please stop spamming the forum with useless comments not pertaining to the topic.