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Post by Red Charge on Dec 22, 2011 17:49:29 GMT -5
Our very nice moderator Magmarhyme made us this new layout! I thought I'd check in to see your opinions, leave a vote and a comment! (If you want something to be changed improved, don't forget to comment about it!) New Layout Waiting to see what you choose!
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Post by magmarhyme on Dec 22, 2011 19:33:02 GMT -5
Just to clarify - the layout would be transferred over to this forum. No new accounts, no new board. Just moving things around a little bit! ♥
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Post by skyrocket on Dec 22, 2011 20:53:03 GMT -5
I'm game for anything. Maybe a new layout will be a nice change.
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Post by Selenia on Dec 22, 2011 21:31:31 GMT -5
Oh wow that looks magnificent. Very nice color.
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Post by eclipse on Dec 22, 2011 21:34:55 GMT -5
I don't mind the idea of a new layout, but there are a few problems with the other one's design that I think would be confusing. The gigantic sidebar being key among them - it has dominance right now, I always look at that first when I should be looking at the posts. Also the blue background doesn't match the rest of the color scheme very well - I'd recommend a gradient, maybe from a yellow-orange to a dark purple.
Excuse the art/web design jargon. :V
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Post by Klepto Moonlit on Dec 23, 2011 9:41:50 GMT -5
My main concern is the sidebar, which is kind of distracting and makes it hard to focus on reading the post. Is there a way to make it only show up on the home page, since I'm sure most users would only need to see the new information there once every time they log onto the site? Also, a darker post background could interfere with some text colors, but that's more of a lesser qualm. Everything else looks great.
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Post by starshade on Dec 24, 2011 0:35:10 GMT -5
The sidebar seems annoyingly distracting... And I do not approve the darker background for the texts as it may interfere with certain font colours, making it appear unpleasant to the eye.
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Post by magmarhyme on Dec 29, 2011 13:13:45 GMT -5
I've made a few changes to the colours and layout based on your comments. Take a look and tell me what you think.
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Post by tunnelnexus on Dec 29, 2011 15:58:19 GMT -5
The new color works really well, I think. Much better than the old. I can't really tell what's different about the layout, though.
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Post by boulderdash on Dec 29, 2011 16:31:35 GMT -5
Hoy, small fry! I hear that you've finally found those legendary Triumph Forks the tales spoke of! Tell me, are they as useful as I hear them to be? Legendary golden forks that enable you to even eat soup! Soups and forks is madness, I say! Unless you have those Triumph Forks, fry! (Sorry, but once I saw the name of the site with the layout example in the URL, I just had to. Been doing nothing but playing Zelda these past few days.)*AHEM* I did view this the other day before I joined, taking a peak of the advance coding used in make the side tables. Though similar to most everybody else, I'm not in favor of those. To me, everybody and their grandmother uses those tables, so it is kinda tacky for me to see. I like a simple, but nice, layout. Though if we do it with a more default standard already presented to us with ProBoards, this can certainly become a secondary or the new default skin with a few minor tweeks. This also includes maybe something for the background instead of just a flat color? That's just me. I like a little something to be complimentary so there isn't too much going on in the background to distract. But even if this new skin is made, I wouldn't want to see the default one we currently have go to waste, either. I would be nice to have more than one skin to choose from for variety. I did notice that was missing from the edit profile option, the ability to change to a different skin if we feel like it.
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Post by magmarhyme on Dec 30, 2011 17:41:57 GMT -5
That forum will eventually be a Zelda roleplay once I've got the skin done, which I'm starting after this. Glad you spotted the reference! ♥
As for the side tables - I know they're not to everypony's tastes. Personally, I find them useful, but it seems that most of you here on CD aren't in favour of them. Although without them, there's really no point in making a new skin - we might as well just keep this one and be done with it. So I put them in to make the differences more... apparent.
Also, Tunnel, I changed it so that the side tables are only visible on the main pages. Go into a board or onto a thread, and they won't be there.
As for the background, I did try some images, but most things were too busy and distracting. Even some of the subtle ones I have - once I changed the colours from white, they became really busy or just looked awful against the other skin colours. That's why I kept it blank for now. I would have copied over CD's existing blue, but it was already mentioned that ponies didn't like the blue-purple background (the colour of which was colour-dropped from Luna in the banner, by the way).
I can try again with the background pattern, if other ponies also would like that?
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Post by eclipse on Dec 31, 2011 0:49:33 GMT -5
I don't mind the hue of the background right now but it doesn't have enough contrast yet. There's a few ways to do that; darken it is one, another is to make it a complementary color (putting it in the orange/red family, maybe a mahogany). I'd probably recommend darkening it whether you use a pattern or not, it makes your job easier.
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Post by splatterpaint on Dec 31, 2011 12:06:25 GMT -5
I like it, good job Magma!
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Post by boulderdash on Jan 1, 2012 16:58:04 GMT -5
I see the new layout went up all the same regardless. I was hoping that the old skin theme would at least be there since I do prefer a blue color over this magenta color theme. I know I mentioned it before, but the background is too flat of a color for my liking: It is almost like a void. Kinda bugs me. But I guess I can live with it for a while, until you guys find/make a BG image for it as noted in the cbox.
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Post by mafipulater on Jan 2, 2012 14:40:16 GMT -5
I really like the new layout of the site. Looks much better, I think! Thanks Magmarhyme for putting it up <3
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