[deprecated] Forum styling

[qubodup]

The current style is already not very eye friendly, because the orange in the icon is only a few pixels wide.

Do you think it is not apparent enough that a forum contains new posts? I could add background color or add colored border(s) but I think it looks good now.

Will this theme be the default anytime soon?

I think the colors are lacking for that.

[Julius]

The current style is already not very eye friendly, because the orange in the icon is only a few pixels wide.

Do you think it is not apparent enough that a forum contains new posts? I could add background color or add colored border(s) but I think it looks good now.

When I wrote this I was referring to the default stying (not the one by you) I have since switched to your style and it is great!

[qubodup]

Hm. Since I assume that it could quite a time until I get some coloring help: Does anyone have objections against the "qsilver" style becoming the default look of the FreeGameDev Forums? (the other two would still be available. I would switch each user's settings to using this style, you will have to change back to another in ucp.php?i=165 -> "My board style"

It'd be great if you could bugtest the style too (just browse pages you would have never browsed before .

[qubodup]

nekotaku/amuzen made a suggestion to change the header background color:

I don't like this solution, but I see the sense of dimming the top (the white content is important, the darker top not as much). Maybe someone can get inspired by this to suggest something else?

[Julius]

I think it is fine as it is, if anything should be changed then maybe high-lighting the top links to the other projects.

[qubodup]

I think it is fine as it is, if anything should be changed then maybe high-lighting the top links to the other projects.

I added a line under the links, goongsta-style yo. I don't want to highlight them more, since their highlighting not important, once the user knows they're up there.

I set the qsilver skin default. It is kind of weird in IE6 and I saw one margin bug in Iron (chromium fork) so far.
Remember that you can switch the skin in ucp.php?i=165!

[svenskmand]

I do not care about what colors the default theme has as I can always change it, BUT I would very much appreciate having a dark theme to choose from, as I often read these forums on my tv at night, and having to look at a 46 inch white screen is very unhealty for your eyes :S

A dark theme in the style of the Alientrap forums would be a nice option

Or like the Xonotic forums, which are also nice

[qubodup]

dark theme

I hacked together a dark theme. Try "qsilver-night".

Please report misses and ugly!

PS: I recommend Stylish

[Julius]

hmm not bad, but I prefer the white one, even though I usually like dark themes.

[qubodup]

Guys, I won't mind if you tell me that it's horrible and ugly if you can at least give a hint what to try to make it better

[svenskmand]

Well it is pretty good, but there is too much white here (see picture)

Also to pep it up a bit you could choose some contrasting colors for the text compared to the background, say a darkish orange or something, try some combinations and show pics, I think mostly it has good readability. But it is a bit boring, but that is much better than having poor readability. I will try it out a bit more when it becomes dark

Also maybe a bit of gradient would be cool I like the shiny look of: http://forums.xonotic.org/ and http://forum.alientrap.org/

Edit: 500

[svenskmand]

You asked for feedback, but you do not seem to be using it :P (above attached picture should still be fixed at least)

[qubodup]

You asked for feedback, but you do not seem to be using it :P (above attached picture should still be fixed at least)

eventually, haven't found the time/mood yet.

[qubodup]

Edited it a little:
1. everything is a few shades darker
2. light areas fixed. please report (buttons are known light areas. report if unreadable buttons)

I won't do gradients. I can't. It's a genetic thing

Impressions? The plain text font should be lighter probably.

[svenskmand]

Edited it a little:
1. everything is a few shades darker
2. light areas fixed. please report (buttons are known light areas. report if unreadable buttons)

Then lower the button colors a bit also.

I won't do gradients. I can't. It's a genetic thing

I think we can give you a gene cure to fix that problem. I think a little color on some stuff might be a good idea. Make the mouse hover highlight of threads a different color than gray, say a dark-blue or dark-red, right now it has the same color as one of the two colors that each thread is in the listings.

Impressions? The plain text font should be lighter probably.

Nope, if anything it could be a tat darker, say 16 values down (in 255 rgb range)

[qubodup]

buttons: will try to get to them eventually and probably those horrible default edit/quote/etc links (oh how I hate image for text tasks.. but I wasn't able to replace the images with text )

highlight color: will do!

darker font: I'm skeptical. I'll have to do a comparison after all.

note for me: membership setting list title

[svenskmand]

It seems that the current skin is buggy in Firefox on Windows 7 Professional 64 bit, the quote buttons are missing :S (see the attached picture)

[qubodup]

Thanks, also for the screen! Can you please test the bright skin as well?

Sorry for my inactivity regarding the skin. In the worst case I won't start working on it again until September, again thanks for the reports though!

[bartbes]

Here the buttons show up in Firefox 3.6.7, Opera 10.60 and Chromium Nightly, I am using Ubuntu 10.04 x86 though.

EDIT: I'd like to add the "Online" thingy you see when posters are online stands out, can't decide whether I like it this way.