#theme16ask

[raiidens]

hiii sorry if this is vague lol but i was wondering if you could offer any tips or resources for making theme of an old gameboy similar to how you did the ds? (which is super cool btw <3) ive been trying to teach myself w just the basics from diff sites but I'm really struggling to find any resources to really show how to make the actual shapes and everything 😢

The way I think of it when building it is what shapes go within each shapes. So for the DS, I have the whole DS in a whole, which has the top screen, the middle bar, and the lower screen in it. The top screen has the rows of dots on each side and the actual screen part itself. Etc.

This thing is super old now so I don’t even know if I coded it this way, but I recommend using CSS Flexbox. It helps you position all your elements and space them out properly. Also learn about CSS positions also, it’s how I got the buttons in the places they are.

Feel free to learn from the code also! You can also go to the preview page, right click something you’re not sure how to do, click “Inspect element” and it shows you the HTML and CSS used. It’s especially nice because you can edit the CSS right there and it shows the difference right away.

I hope this helps! If you’re a super beginner btw, I recommend Codecademy to learn HTML & CSS. The free version is fine!

[raiidens]

Theme 16 again, we should make a record of how many times I send an ask. Anyway, I tried again to use the theme and still the bottom screen does not change when I try to put it as an image? I tried this 3 times, once after editing everything to how I wanted and twice before I did anything and it still does not change. Each time I did this I changed the theme I have to a premade one before going back to yours, am I just doing something wrong?

May this be a lesson for me on why I should not try to code things late at nice. Please update again, it works now, I checked. So sorry about that.

Also, when updating you shouldn’t have to change the theme to one of the defaults before you switch. It should work just by updating. It’s just easier that way so it’ll most likely keep all the changes you’ve done in the options.

[raiidens]

Hi Theme 16 anon again (Sorry!) Thank you for help with the ask thing, it did work but I just decided to leave it as a link (sorry for wasting your time). Anyway, now whenever I try to add an image as the bottom screen background it doesn't work but whenever I change the color that does work, could you please help me again? This is my first time doing this this is why I'm asking so many questions

It’s no problem! I just checked and it looks like there was a mistake on my part, sorry about that. I updated the code so that should do the trick. If not then just let me know.

[raiidens]

Hi! On theme 16 I'm having trouble with the messaging button, an error message appears instead of the ask thingy, could you please help? Thank you!

Hi anon! Check in my FAQ under the message link and make sure you’ve done everything that it specifies under this particular problem. If it still doesn’t work after that, send me a message off anon and I can check it out for you.

[raiidens]

Yeah. I mean turning them into navigation pages that lead to whatever they're linked to (an about, BYF, etc) while still keeping the navigation that's on the top screen for easy use. :)

All done! Left/right buttons now switch between pages and you can add links to all the other ones. Just gotta go update it and you’re all good!

[raiidens]

on theme 16, the DS one, is there anyway to turn the left / right button into the next and previous page and turn the a/b/x/y/start/select buttons into something functional?

I can include this in an update. For the a/b/ so on buttons, do you mean turn into navigational links?

[raiidens]

hey, i don't know if there's something wrong with the theme or if i'm just missing something, sorry if i am. anyway, the about isn't working. i turned off "disable about" but if i click the icon the link still doesn't lead to anywhere or do anything in general. again sorry if i'm missing something, i've never had an about page so maybe i am doing something wrong

Hi, if you notice closely, you’ll see something pop up on the top screen when you click the about button. That’s supposed to hold your blog description, and since you don’t have one, nothing’s really showing up. Tumblr has a weird glitch where the options get kinda strange, so I suggest before you set those to where you want them to be you toggle them a few times. That will allow you to turn the about button off.

[raiidens]

hey, on theme 16 when i click on the messages thing, it doesn't let me send a message! the box is squished in and i can only see the text box, the captcha and about half of my url and the logout button -- there's no way to send a message through that :< any fix?

Hi anon! Special ask boxes can work a bit strangely sometimes. First off make sure you check the FAQ under the message link and make sure you got everything that suggests done. And if that’s still not working out, send me a link and possibly a screenshot too and I’ll take a look!