TarantinoFan: If I could expand on that, being able to turn on or off these lists and organize them in a way that each individual wants them would strive to give individuals more of a custom feel to Brainking... Is that a possibility?

TarantinoFan: I use a style sheet option to turn that off. div#status-fellows-section {display: none} turns it off for me. (Although I don't have a friends list, and I'm not a member of a fellowship, so you may have to twiddle it for you to work).

AbigailII: What you just said was gibberish to me! I have no clue about stylesheets or code. 

TarantinoFan: On the http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=136 board, if you read down far enough you will find some talk about style sheets.

Simple version - you can use different style sheets to change the way the page is viewed. Like the Castle View, no font view, etc... those use different style sheets.

In Settings , you can put an external style sheet in the External style URL: area, and click the "Activate external style" button next to it.

For example, if you put in: http://coan.net/coannet3.css which is what I use, it will display BrainKing in more of a "classic" view - with many of the same classic colors and such before the castle theme was introduced. You will also find the "Move" button near the top of every page, and in Dice Poker - the dice near the top so you don't have to scroll down every dice roll you take. (It may not be very pretty - but works VERY well for me.)

Anyone is free to check out that style sheet. If you don't like it, simply go back into setting and uncheck "Activate external style"

http://coan.net/coannet3.css - what I use, explained above
http://coan.net/coannet2.css - same as above, but dice poker roll are back in "normal" spot
http://coan.net/coannet.css - um... been awhile since I used that - forget what the change was between that and #2. But when I make a change, I keep the old version in case others are using it.

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As a side note about the Right Hand Column, there is a setting in Settings called:

Show menu column on game pages

That will remove the right & left hand columns on the game pages which speed up the page load a lot for me.

coan.net: Thanks for that. I will check it all out. It was already suggested to me by a friend that I try your external style and I was going to ask you about it. You beat me to the punch. LOL

And as for the menu columns, I already have them turned off in game pages. I even have Notations off as standard and only view them when I need to.

The frustration is the main page and DB pages like this one. I cannot turn the menus off for these pages and countless times I have gone to click a game on the main page and Firefox kicked the page sideways and I clicked one of the headers and changed my list. EG. I list my games in time ascending and I have clicked the Games header and listed them in Games order instead. Then it takes another load to get my page back how I want it.

TarantinoFan: You can always use my dynamic css builder.

http://mctrivia.com/bkcssmaker


I have not yet writen a nice page to put the addresses together for you but I am sure you can figure out how to use it

mctrivia: This page leads to nothing at the moment... you might need to modify your link.

rednaz23: thanks for pointing out the typw I have corrected and the address should be: http://mctrivia.com/bkcssmaker

mctrivia: I think you will find a lot of people using that Matthew, its a very useful thing to have

Now just do the left hand column as well, BUT more selection would be great.
e.g. Being able to remove whole sections OR keep certain links (i.e. in games keep Main Page & Waiting games, in Profile keep My profile & message box)......well you know what i mean

Best talk about it in user scripting Fellowship

mctrivia: Can you get rid of the 'Castle-Simple-No fonts titles at the top left-hand corner of the Main Page, please?

tonyh: ok I will do that when I get back

mctrivia: I dont know if it is a coincidence or what, but since I took off my fellowship list etc, some of my pages are actually loading slower?

Czuch: it will definetly not speed things up since the data is still there just not visible. It could slow thing sown because you are now downloading off two servers but my server is very fast so it should not make much of a difference.

CSS will only change looks not speed(at least not improve).