It's time for a change! - Creative Creature vBulletin Skin Preview! - Complete vB - Support Community
Just curious what you all think of this style. I like it with my recommendations. Change the green to the light orange.
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It's time for a change! - Creative Creature vBulletin Skin Preview! - Complete vB - Support Community
Just curious what you all think of this style. I like it with my recommendations. Change the green to the light orange.
Come on man! Let us get to love this one first before you rip it away from us.Originally Posted by thestaton
STaton- its fine the way it is IMHO
oh no. this one is here to stay. you just might have more options in the future
It kinda hurts my eyes and its hard to read. Too light and happy perhaps?
I really like the dark one that the preview is posted on though.
Well, here are my thoughts...
Thestaton has done a fantastic job! Nobody can dispute that. Yet there are basic issues with vBulletin themes which I find that in general are not being addressed.
The current theme still needs some tweaking. It doesn't handle being resized in the browser to anything less than 800px width because stuff in the default layout and in CSS isn't being "thought of" by the theme developers to correctly handle document reflow when the browser window is resized. The "other" forum has the same problem, but its worse over there! Take a look at my Pro78 review. Try resizing your browser width all the way down to 640px width and then all the way up to your maximum screen width. Notice how everything in the rendered web page properly and correctly reflows to accommodate the new browser window size. Proper use of tables (depreciated, I know) and CSS can and does effectively handle these issues. Check it out and examine the basic tricks which I employed:
MEM-TEK's Whistler Pro78 Review
The Member Panel, Our Partners, and Advertisements panels displayed to the right of the main content in the current RD.net vBulletin theme have a fixed minimum constant width. Yet these panels, tiled vertically, only load after the main content loads, yet no space is allocated for them while the page is loading. The results is that the main panel resizes to accommodate these panels once they finally begin to load. This becomes a pain, due to document redraws and resizing, when trying to immediately scroll through posts or when immediately beginning to type in posts or replies to posts.
I have come to realize that vBulletin is much slicker compared to the old BBS, but its basic template and CSS needs to be tweaked for much more efficient page rendering -- especially for those who have somewhat slower to slow connections, and especially for those who use Firefox. The problem is, obviously, that the vBulletin authors mainly or almost exclusively test with IE. That is BAD BAD these days, especially since MS has decided to drop their proprietary extensions and has decided that future revs of IE will be fully standards compliant.
Anyway, just my thoughts for what they are worth.
It's a BIG improvement over the current theme, and even a lot better than the Grey theme we currently have available.
I still prefer that "Underground" theme for two reasons...one, I think it just looks better, and two, remember that it's easier to read light text on a dark background. But for a light colored theme, that "Creative" one is very good.
I know you're just trying to improve the forum, but this color scheme hurts my eyes. I feel like im in a video game.
I liked the theme the site was using before.
i like it. however, i think the blue could be a bit darker shade, yet still alpha blinded, aka milky, so not darker like brighter blue but darker like a darker shade but still light and not necessarily vivid. (gaw I suck at describing colors)
also, i think there is way to much space floating around. i like the theme but condense it a little. this is a forum for the content (text) not how good it looks. the default theme on this site currently is way to spread out and annoying and it looks like the theme you're working on is even farther spread out. condense the text to make it more of a forum and less of a graphical masterpiece and then it will be better.
use one of the alternatives.I know you're just trying to improve the forum, but this color scheme hurts my eyes. I feel like im in a video game.
I liked the theme the site was using before.
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