Reverting to old icons after Feb 5th 2009 update...

[Hari Karam Singh]

Hi,

Not to be ungrateful for the good stuff the Ning dev team is doing but these new blue icons completely clash with my network. Is there anyway you guys can post the old ones perhaps with some advice on which CSS needs overriding? I'd be infinitely grateful!!

Gratefully,
Hari Karam Singh

[Susan]

Hi,
I second this request for a different reason, it took a long time for me to correctly align all the site icons for rtl languages, now I'm back to base again all icons on the left of the text instead of on the right.

By the way Hari it seems the color of the icons is governed by the color of your links, if you change your link color in the appearance panel, it should change the colors of your icons too.

[Hari Karam Singh]

Yeah just learned this too from support...

If you want to control the icon colours separate from the link text add the following to your custom css:

a, .xg_linkcolor {
color: #3F484B;
}
a.button, button, input.button,
a.button:hover, button:hover, input.button:hover {
background: #3F484B;
}

[Susan]

thanks for the tip :)

maybe I'll be able to use that to align my icons correctly again

[Hari Karam Singh]

I've not dealt with RTL before but CSS definitely has properties to do it...do some googling on the issue if you havent already...

Barring that this is what I'd do:
- WebDav into your account and download the CSS (on XP: Network Place > Add Network Place, use address https://mynet.ning.com/, user your email and passwd for username/pwd)
- Download (copy over) the highest numbered theme[number].css file and open it up.
- Search for "url(" to find the icon styles
- Add these styles to a separate document
- Convert left padding to right padding (or margin perhaps) and set background position to "0 right" (play around with these to get it right)
- Paste the new code into the custom ("advanced"?) tab on under Manage > Appearance

Alternatively, you can use Firebug for firefox to find the appropriate styles rather than going through the whole webdav thing...

Good luck!

[Susan]

and thanks again :)

while I have completely converted ning to rtl, I was never sure which version of the css in webdav was the current version - (it should have been obvious I guess, but it wasn't.)

that'll be a great help.

[MisterBenja]

I tried changing and saving the CSS on my site, but my icons still pointed to a blue image. The image being pointed to is xg_icon-0000FF.png, but that looks like a hardcoded blue.

Are we supposed to wait a while for the updated colors to get updated automatically?