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What's a skin?

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  • 25-04-2015 12:16am
    #1
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    Probably a stupid question but I see people referring to different 'skins' on here, 'old skins' etc... but could someone tell me, what a skin is?

    Thanks :)
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    #2
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 23,764 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    whatismyname wrote: »
    Hi

    Probably a stupid question but I see people referring to different 'skins' on here, 'old skins' etc... but could someone tell me, what a skin is?

    Thanks :)


    It's basically just the look and design of the website. It used look quite different to the way it looks now, it was a much more "bluey" colour to it than all the white space, and there was no header at the top, just the boards logo. Then the site underwent a whole new design, much like the way it's being rolled out now.

    I think there's a web archive site if you google, it'll show you what the old boards site used to look like.

    (there was a 'beta' skin, but that seems to have got shafted fairly quickly, it was the foreskin to the current skin)


    Themes are another thing entirely, like the dark theme/light theme and so on.


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    [Deleted User]
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    A skin is essentially what you are looking at right now. It's how the site looks, but not so much how it works. I'm sure someone that give a much more technical answer, but that's my understanding. Boards has gone through numerous incarnations of how it looks and for a long time people were given the ability to change the skin, by choosing from a select number of them.


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    hullaballoo
    Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,726 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    Most people would remember the site looking like the below but there have been many changes through the years:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20080625200608/http://www.boards.ie/


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    hullaballoo wrote: »
    Most people would remember the site looking like the below but there have been many changes through the years:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20080625200608/http://www.boards.ie/

    Yes...*remember*

    >.>


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    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    (there was a 'beta' skin, but that seems to have got shafted fairly quickly, it was the foreskin to the current skin)

    Your username, and the sentence quoted.

    :pac:


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    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    hullaballoo wrote: »
    Most people would remember the site looking like the below but there have been many changes through the years:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20080625200608/http://www.boards.ie/

    oh my, yes, I remember that well :D


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    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    It's basically just the look and design of the website. It used look quite different to the way it looks now, it was a much more "bluey" colour to it than all the white space, and there was no header at the top, just the boards logo. Then the site underwent a whole new design, much like the way it's being rolled out now.

    I think there's a web archive site if you google, it'll show you what the old boards site used to look like.

    (there was a 'beta' skin, but that seems to have got shafted fairly quickly, it was the foreskin to the current skin)


    Themes are another thing entirely, like the dark theme/light theme and so on.

    Thanks :) That's pretty much what I expected I think, but think I got confused by why / how people talk of having different / old skins .


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