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SimpleDesk! => News and Announcements => Archived News => Topic started by: cσσкιє мσηѕтєя on February 03, 2010, 03:53:56 PM

Title: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: cσσкιє мσηѕтєя on February 03, 2010, 03:53:56 PM
As we move into our second month of active development, the SimpleDesk team would proudly like to present our new site and forum theme, Enkelbor. In keeping with the philosophy of Curve, Enkelbor presents a clean, modern interface for all to enjoy. Most importantly, it gives our site a distinctive look and feel. We are really excited about this update and hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Additionally, we would also like to unveil a new section of our site, Promote SimpleDesk (http://www.simpledesk.net/about/promote). Here, you will find many different ways to help us spread the word. As previously announced (http://www.simpledesk.net/community/index.php?topic=167.0), we are releasing a couple of signature images and wallpapers in various sizes. We are also making all of our progress indicators (http://www.simpledesk.net/community/index.php?topic=95.0) available, as well.

We hope you enjoy the new theme and promotional graphics! Oh, and don't wander too far. We have more exciting things planned for the near future!

Edit: We were asked what the name of "Enkelbor" means.
Enkelbor is a contraction of a bad Swedish translation of "Simple Desk".
Simple Desk in Swedish is Enkelt Bord, if you translate without knowing that it's actually a helpdesk, which you would never translate like that.
Enkelt Bord became Enkelbor.
Why Swedish? I, the designer, am from Sweden. :)
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: ~DS~ on February 03, 2010, 04:20:39 PM
The best theme and news I have recive in a while. :p
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Costa on February 03, 2010, 04:51:41 PM
Good work!

-Costa
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Spoogs on February 03, 2010, 05:18:00 PM
:O
Very impressive, great job
Have Fb page might as well add fbconnect ;) http://www.sa-mods.info/index.php?topic=250.0
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Gruffen on February 03, 2010, 05:40:43 PM
I would note that that mod has not yet been approved by the Customization Team (and to be honest, I doubt neither Nas or myself would have time to sit and review it for inclusion here... we'd rather be building SimpleDesk)
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: tyty1234 on February 03, 2010, 06:11:29 PM
nice! I like the new theme! ;D
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: [FailSafe] on February 03, 2010, 06:34:02 PM
Holy....

Woah, this is one amazing theme! Great job SD Staff! I can't wait to see the rest of the cool things you guys have in store! :)
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: nathaniel on February 03, 2010, 06:52:49 PM
Very nice looking theme.
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: ccbtimewiz on February 03, 2010, 09:03:11 PM
My eyes! They're burning!

(From the amazingness ;))
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Achilles on February 03, 2010, 09:56:22 PM
Nice work, keep it up SD team!
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Gruffen on February 04, 2010, 03:56:05 AM
I'm told, though I haven't confirmed this for myself yet, that SimpleDesk looks as awesome in Enkelbor as it does in Curve.
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Jerry on February 04, 2010, 04:35:07 AM
Looks great 8)
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: ~DS~ on February 04, 2010, 12:52:37 PM
So Enkelbor will be exclusive only for this site or comes with SD?
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Bᵃ on February 04, 2010, 04:24:25 PM
From what I understand, SD is based on Curve. This theme is exclusively for our site. :)

B
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Kill Em All on February 04, 2010, 10:13:19 PM
Looks very nice guys. Good job!
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Acans on February 04, 2010, 10:28:34 PM
This looks great, well done nas.
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: live627 on February 05, 2010, 01:07:07 PM
Wonderful job!
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Gruffen on February 05, 2010, 01:16:23 PM
I have since tried SimpleDesk with this theme (and you'll see it here when we get towards live ;D) and it actually works even better - though Nas hadn't designed Enkelbor when working on the templates.
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: [FailSafe] on February 05, 2010, 06:06:28 PM
I saw the sneak peak of SD using the Enkelbor theme in the PT, and I have to say it looks like wonderful eye candy. Great job! =)

Also, where did the name Enkelbor come from?
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: cσσкιє мσηѕтєя on February 10, 2010, 08:10:15 AM
I just updated the announcement to answer that question, Cassiel. :)

Quote from: Nas on February 03, 2010, 03:53:56 PM
We were asked what the name of "Enkelbor" means.
Enkelbor is a contraction of a bad Swedish translation of "Simple Desk".
Simple Desk in Swedish is Enkelt Bord, if you translate without knowing that it's actually a helpdesk, which you would never translate like that.
Enkelt Bord became Enkelbor.
Why Swedish? I, the designer, am from Sweden. :)
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: [FailSafe] on February 10, 2010, 06:32:04 PM
Ah, cool! :) Well now I know! Thanks, Nas!
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Achilles on February 14, 2010, 07:35:25 AM
Will you guys share this theme for public use? ;D
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: cσσкιє мσηѕтєя on February 14, 2010, 07:38:56 AM
At the moment, no. This theme is currently unique for this site.
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Achilles on February 14, 2010, 07:52:19 AM
Quote from: Nas on February 14, 2010, 07:38:56 AM
At the moment, no. This theme is currently unique for this site.

Ah, but soon, when SD is released? Looks good and I wanna use it on my site... :D
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Gruffen on February 14, 2010, 08:15:22 AM
The theme has numerous tweaks specific to this site's code that we can't actually distribute as a theme; one of the rules of themes is that they can't do database queries, but the theme relies on database queries having been done (there is, for example, a team specific menu)

I took a copy of the site theme, prior to the team menu being added, and had to make code changes to be able to use it myself; I really can't see us rewriting it to be able to distribute it as a pure theme. :(
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Achilles on February 14, 2010, 08:33:59 AM
Ah, that's just sad to read. :P hehe. I was hoping to use this Enkelbor, but its alright. :D Keep it up... Can't wait for the release.
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: candidosa2 on March 14, 2010, 02:55:25 PM
Nice work
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: Afro on March 15, 2010, 12:55:08 PM
I take it this theme is not public.
Title: Re: Enkelbor Revealed!
Post by: cσσкιє мσηѕтєя on March 15, 2010, 12:55:59 PM
As we've previously mention, no, it is not publicly available at this point.