My themes are changing by themselves!

Feb

2008

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

1 onloantodiv1, on 27/02/2008 at 20h03

and what do you do if it does go wrong?

2 Jalokim, on 27/02/2008 at 20h27

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

3 kamokronos, on 06/03/2008 at 02h48

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

4 Jalokim, on 07/03/2008 at 16h32

>>>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

5 TaCo, on 04/05/2008 at 22h54

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

6 Dreamer.King, on 04/06/2008 at 23h48

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

7 Guest, on 16/06/2008 at 06h33

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.

8 ultimatecstrike, on 21/06/2008 at 21h16

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

And I am romanian; i am 13 age Very Happy

9 Broly Ss10, on 22/06/2008 at 01h06

That answered alot of questions.

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

10 Brandon05, on 23/06/2008 at 04h09

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.

11 Invalid, on 26/06/2008 at 07h08

Thank You

12 UkRaiNeR, on 31/07/2008 at 01h05

thanks this helped.

13 Veljko, on 03/11/2008 at 18h57

Thank you!

14 newjerseyrocks, on 15/11/2008 at 00h15

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

15 Jalokim, on 15/11/2008 at 13h05

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

16 Runescape4, on 24/02/2009 at 11h24

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17 MrMario, on 24/02/2009 at 18h08

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Check this => here

18 nimz, on 26/02/2009 at 12h58

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

19 Skittles, on 27/02/2009 at 00h39

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.

20 alnaby Lover, on 15/04/2009 at 14h42

Thank you very much .