New Skin

[Lady Vashj]

It's beautiful, Bolty! :D

[JustAGuy]

Please put your comments on this new skin here.  Note:

1) The images have not been changed from forum default, and are ugly.
2) Smileys also have not been changed from default, and you will see the problem with them.
3) This skin is temporary.  When the main site is overhauled, this forum will be too, in order to match.

-Bolty
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It's almost there! Looks good so far, but a little tweaking is required. Keep up the good work! :)

[LochnarITB]

Yes, that blue on those buttons is still a litte obnoxious. I don't really have any suggestions for a better color though. :/
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It is my understanding that the blue buttons are those buttons that didn't exist in the old version. If you look at the bottom of a topic, you'll see "Add Reply" and "New Topic" buttons that were converted for the old color scheme. They looked very nice. I don't think Bolty feels he can do justice to new buttons so maybe there is someone out there with graphic skills (certainly not me- see the "new" links in my earlier post for proof) that could take those deigns and apply them to the new buttons.

[Baajikiil]

IIRC, the large LL text at the top of forum pages used to be a link to the main page(lurkerlounge.com). I know that there is a small link to the main page at the top left of the screen, but it would save a little mouse travel time if the large banner could be made into a link again.

The identical large LL text on the D1 and D2 pages are also links to the main page. Could the forums header be made the same?

Obviously this is a very minor concern.

[Bolty]

IIRC, the large LL text at the top of forum pages used to be a link to the main page(lurkerlounge.com).  I know that there is a small link to the main page at the top left of the screen, but it would save a little mouse travel time if the large banner could be made into a link again.

The identical large LL text on the D1 and D2 pages are also links to the main page.  Could the forums header be made the same?

Obviously this is a very minor concern.
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I'll do these things eventually - right now all my focus is in getting the CMS set up all content moved over. Once it's templated (which it looks like I'll have to do myself, sniff), I can update the forum's skin to match.

-Bolty

[Obi2Kenobi]

This is also a test of "add reply" button at the buttom (whom do you reply me to, button?).

My major problem is that sky blue bar below each post. I almost had an epileptic fit while scrolling down the page!

DeeBye, I like white on dark color text. It's much easier on the eyes. :) Think about it, the computer screen is more like a lightbulb than a piece of paper, so I'd rather have less light burning into my eyes as I spend hours reading. I stole that analogy from somewhere, but I can't remember at the moment.

I do like the slightly redder post screen.

P.S. Someone should make a Windows program that tells you what the official name of a shade of a color is (ie: eggshell, cream, picket fence, snow, alabaster, etc)

[[wcip]Angel]

Well with the infinite (minus 1) shades of colours, that might prove difficult, practically speaking :)

[Bolty]

Well with the infinite (minus 1) shades of colours, that might prove difficult, practically speaking :)
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Infinite? Let me try some math here. Web colors are a hexidecimal collection of Red, Green, and Blue. Two characters represent each of these three primary colors. #000000 is black, and #FFFFFF is white. Counting those, we have...

256 Red colors * 256 Green colors * 256 Blue colors = 16,777,216 different color combinations.

Naming those would be pretty tough, yeah. Now do you see why I have such a hard time with coloring and skinning websites? I have over 16 million color choices to pick from with EACH color!

Argh!

-Bolty

[Obi2Kenobi]

Infinite?  Let me try some math here.  Web colors are a hexidecimal collection of Red, Green, and Blue.  Two characters represent each of these three primary colors.  #000000 is black, and #FFFFFF is white.  Counting those, we have...

256 Red colors * 256 Green colors * 256 Blue colors = 16,777,216 different color combinations.

Naming those would be pretty tough, yeah.  Now do you see why I have such a hard time with coloring and skinning websites?  I have over 16 million color choices to pick from with EACH color!

Argh!

-Bolty
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But then you have to remember which color combinations not to use in case of colorblind people, so you really (contrary to intuition) add those in twice, then multiply by 2 to account for white on black and black on white as two separate combinations (I suppose that would make it a permutation, then), when you factor in monitor contrast, you have to be even more careful, so increase that by a factor of pi x (1/[e-n] +14), where n is... ;)

All seriousness aside, I don't mean every shade, I mean like the "basic" shades, like fucia, mahogany, and chartreuse. And I want them in English, not hex.

[FoxBat]

The hex isn't that super complicated.

You just need to think in terms of mixing light. Find yourself a tinted red, green, and blue light, and mix them together however you want. That's more or less how your monitor works.

Now, 0 is just for no light within a particular shade (of red, green, or blue), and 255 is full light. So pick a value for red, green, and blue, and you've got a new color. Converting those numbers to hex is so elementary you shouldn't need to be worried with it, but windows calculator will do it for you if you're as lazy as I am.

[DeeBye]

All seriousness aside, I don't mean every shade, I mean like the "basic" shades, like fucia, mahogany, and chartreuse. And I want them in English, not hex.
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This website seems to have names for a lot of hex colours. Probably not official though.

[color= #ff69b4]#FF69B4 is "Hot Pink"![/color]

[Dyntheos]

I've thrown together some icons to replace the current Blue ones that don't really fit the theme.

Hope you can use them.










And as they would look added.

[Bolty]

Dyntheos,

AWESOME! I've got these loaded. Very, very cool. I hope others join me in thanking your efforts to make this forum less ugly.

If you get the time, and it's not too much trouble, can you work your magic on these icons as well?





















And two more:

http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/style_i.../t_newimage.gif
http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/style_i...t_slideshow.gif


Note: the t_ images aren't all that important, but if I'm going to take advantage of someone, why not? :)

-Bolty

[LochnarITB]

AWESOME!  I've got these loaded.  Very, very cool.  I hope others join me in thanking your efforts to make this forum less ugly.
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Dyntheos,

I would have sworn I had already complimented you on your efforts but I don't see it here so I will do it again. Very nice. Thank you for doing what I had already demonstrated I wasn't capable of doing. I can see what I want in my head but I just can't get it onto the paper or the screen.

[Dyntheos]

I'm limited in how many images I can link to at once by the forum so I'll have to add each lot in a seperate post.

[Dyntheos]

[Dyntheos]

I cleaned up the thread posting icons too, so they don't have the white border around them.

[Dyntheos]

I've noticed that the quote button has a border around it.



Sometimes it's blue other times it's purple.

Looking at the code block for that set of buttons, the reply button appears to have the border='0' code, where as the quote button doesn't.

if you can add the border='0' at the end of the quote icon's <img> code in the skin's template it should get rid of it.

Here's the code block for those two buttons.

<div align="right">
         &nbsp;
<a href="#" onclick="multiquote_add(59038); return false;" title="Toggle multiquote addition"><img src="style_images/LLMain/p_mq_add.gif" name="mad_59038" alt="+" /></a>

<a href="http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/index.php?act=Post&amp;CODE=02&amp;f=3&amp;t=4575&amp;qpid=59038" title="Reply directly to this post"><img src='style_images/LLMain/p_quote.gif' border='0'  alt='Quote Post' /></a>
         
</div>

[Dyntheos]

Lastly if you're interested in using some different smilies for the Lounge here's a selection of a few hundred that you're welcome to grab.

Smiley List

PS. sorry about all the double posts.

[Refrigerator]

Dyntheos,

I would have sworn I had already complimented you on your efforts but I don't see it here so I will do it again.&nbsp; Very nice.&nbsp; Thank you for doing what I had already demonstrated I wasn't capable of doing.&nbsp; I can see what I want in my head but I just can't get it onto the paper or the screen.
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I second these compliments. Awesome!