Recently Plurk made changes to their User Interface by enlarging several of the graphic elements within the dashboard area. This startled several members who immediately began looking for a way to resize the image to something slightly more manageable. During the incurring scramble to find a solution many users came up with creative ways of fixing the code. Thanks goes out to Plurk Layouts and Olivia Bell for first documenting the friends/fans elements so that a solution could be created. The first change was to the user's avatar image which increased in size by nearly 3 times. The second graphical change was in the Friends and Fans section. The user icons in those sections likewise received a size boost going from 25 pixels to 40 pixels. Users again were up in arms as the larger icons took up screen real estate. This tutorial has been written to provide you with the code necessary to change both of these image sizes as well as to center the icons within the Friends and Fans section.
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In part 3 of the series on modifying the buttons we are going to turn our focus back to the dashboard as we make some changes under the Friends and Fans segments. Plurk recently made some changes to the buttons included in these sections many of which don't work well with our theme. There are large buttons for Inviting friends to Plurk, a leather looking section containing the URL for sharing your Plurk link, and three rotating buttons for embedding your Plurk widget, finding friends on Twitter, and a link to the Plurk mobile page. There are also two text links for showing all of your friends and showing all of your fans. Through the next two tutorials we will be modifying all of these to provide a look and feel to these buttons that will add some style to your theme. These tutorials can be followed individually or done in series to get the full effect for all of these changes. This is part 3 of this series and will focus on making buttons from the Show All Friends and Show All Fans text links. Part 1 in this series was titled Create Dashboard Buttons for Twitter Contacts, Widget, Mobile and Part 2 of this series is titled Create Dashboard Button for Invite Friends.
Plurk includes a definition of something they call "friends" and "fans". There is a minor distinction between these two. The premise is that your Plurk "friends" are people you know in the real world while "fans" are those you meet on-line but might not really know. I'm still struggling with the notion of these two but that is best left to another discussion. As you search on Plurk you are able to find people who you want to connect with. By looking at their profile you may decide you want to request friendship or become a fan. There are two buttons on the timeline within the dashboard that will allow you to do this. In this tutorial we'll discuss how to theme these.
