Star Trek

[Buster's Uncle]

Illogical

[Valka]

It's all Greek to me. 

















 

(At least I think it is.)

[Buster's Uncle]

Folks, I'm going to see about modding the Enterprise theme to actually have something to do with Trek besides the name...

[Geo]

(At least I think it is.)

Ητ ης!
(It is!)
See, wasn't *that* hard, wasn't it?

[Buster's Uncle]

 

[Geo]

 

[Buster's Uncle]

Can he do any Greek dances?

There's a half-second of a girl doing the Zoidberg in the Taylor Swift video.  ...Don't make me swift-vid you...

[Valka]

(At least I think it is.)

Ητ ης!
(It is!)
See, wasn't *that* hard, wasn't it?

Way back in junior high school, I started seriously studying astronomy and trying to learn stellar nomenclature. That meant, in part, learning the Greek alphabet. So I can recite it and write most of it (a couple of the letters are a bit squiggly for me). I don't know very many words and have no idea how to string any together to make a sentence, but at least I know how to say "thank you" in Greek (though my accent is probably atrocious).

True story: There's a Greek restaurant in town and my dad was friends with the owner. Nick used to help us out by paying my dad under the table for doing odd jobs and running errands, and one of those errands was to pick up some stuff from a local hardware store. For payment, my dad had been told to charge it to the restaurant. So when the clerk was making out the bill she asked what name to put on it, and my dad replied, "It's All Greek To Me."

The clerk thought my dad was being a smart-aleck (since that phrase is a slang way of saying "I don't know"), so my dad explained about the name of the restaurant and that the owner had to fix a few things (he didn't go into details, but people who dance on chairs tend to damage them, which meant my dad had a job repairing them).

[Buster's Uncle]

I see Valka was by about noon, so she saw what I been up to today - I'd only been at it six hours, and it might have still been a terrible mess, then.

Getting into the home stretch now, though...

[Buster's Uncle]

...I found and fixed the missing post format buttons, and ran down the almost-invisible links, BTW...

Is there anything left besides the &^%$#@! pull-down menu?

[Buster's Uncle]

-I just got an idea about how to do that, actually...

[Buster's Uncle]

So, if the Enterprise theme is a dog, it's now had a bath and, after some grooming, turns out to be a purebred show winner. ^This^ just didn't have a lot going for it.

The background is a jigsaw, with corners and repeating middles, eight sections in all.  That put limits on what I could do, and took a while to figure out and get all the replacements to line up just so.  The physical dimensions of those files also determine the margins of the pages - literally; I'd have saved hours -half the day- of searching for margin settings in the .css if I'd known that going in.

It also keeps some files in unique places, and lack the main_block and menu_gfx files all other themes I've worked on use.  I think I'm going ton have to make a menus_gfx.png for the last thing I hope to do.

I found and installed the files for two missing post formatting buttons, and I tracked down invisible link color and corrected.

I figured an easy way to dump the superfluous toppspace-hogging crap, though I had no luck -and wasted hours trying- to bring back the collapse pointer so I could just close them.

But now, here it is, (and I put a number of people known to me to be fans); I present Enterprise:


:proud:

It's got all the displays and functions working that I want in a keeper theme - except the menu pull-downs.  I've concluded that I'll have to strip out the modded menu to get them back; I think I can get the standard menu to use a patched-together image made for what the mod uses as a background, and make it work right and look almost identical.

-Or break the theme real bad and have to reload the .css it came with from the zip, and loose all the settings I changed today...  [shrugs]  Without risk, there would be none of the themes I've fixed up.  Risk is our business.

[Valka]

Love having the REAL Enterprise!

I'll check the rest out after the pizza guy gets here.

[Buster's Uncle]

I know, right?  It's just not the same without the round nacelles and orange rails.

[Buster's Uncle]

Naturally, there have been avatar spinoffs from this project.

Four of the Enterprise: