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I created a red overlay for the default theme and it works pretty good. Not to hard to figure out how to do so and how to edit the overlay.
But then I found some verbiage and layouts that I wanted to change in the theme itself. So instead of editing the default theme I copied it and created a new one.
This gave me a great way to make changes that probably I only want.
For example I refer to my blog posts as 'artciles' so I wanted it to say read the complete article when linked.
I also change the tooltip popup to say similar.
Most people are familiar with the 'reply' button so I changed it to say reply instead of 'New Post'
I also changed the icons. Using my own theme I don't have to worry about a future update overwriting my images.
Some of my changes may have been able to be done in a more elegant fashion but creating my own theme made it easier for me.
So Kudos to Andy and Steve for making it a ton easier to create your own theme and color scheme. How you broke them out makes it a lot easier to create your own custom site.
If anyone wants to try this theme I will be glad to send it to you but it is biased on my own setup and may not be something that is very universal.
You can see it in action by hitting up the link in my sig.
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good work! thanks for the kind words...
before too long - at least before release, we hope to have a theme repository for user contributed themes up and running...
and you are exactly the reason why we switched to theme system from skins... would have done it sooner, but was a big job 
now you have the power to layout and change it up how you want...
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The red is a long story. Basically a carry over from an old Community site that went away and we took over. It matches the colors that a manufacturer of a device (the most talked about one on the site) uses.
BTW, it looks like the theme calls
interesting... we dont have a tool tip icon or graphic... so not sure why that is referencing it...
will open a ticket to fix that up...
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Conrad_Farlow said
It looks good Brandon, I've done a few tweaks myself, where do I look for the new post button as I would also like to rename it reply.
Conrad
The button label is actually controlled in the themes itself not in the overlay.
What I did was copy the defaut theme and rename it something else (in spTheme.txt) Then uploaded and swtiched to it and made whatever changes I needed.
To change the button text you need to look it the \forum-themes\Yourtheme\templates folder for 'spTopicView.php'
Line 67:
postNewButton('tagClass=spButton spRight', __sp('New Post'), __sp('Make a new post in this topic'), __sp('This topic is locked'));
Line 166:
sp_PostNewButton('tagClass=spButton spRight', __sp('New Post'), __sp('Make a new post in this topic'), __sp('This topic is locked'));
Change the words 'New Post' to 'Reply'
sp_PostNewButton('tagClass=spButton spRight', __sp('Reply'), __sp('Make a new post in this topic'), __sp('This topic is locked'));
sp_PostNewButton('tagClass=spButton spRight', __sp('Reply'), __sp('Reply to this post'), __sp('This topic is locked'));
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