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I tried the first one Carsten and it did help but I did not like it ( thread section looked bad) so I made it darker some and I think it is not as glaring. The second one I can't do because it takes away the burgandy gradient and I don't want to do that one . Jack made that and not sure how to get that one back. I think Andy has to do something on his end in reloading us without the first default behind it. i have to get onto to VBulletin and get advice on that one. But we have noticed it and it is annoying at times and we will fix that one. We will fix that one this week sometimeI have a minor question with regards to the look of the site (my usual quest for simplicity
For each post, the box has, starting at the top and going down: a dark red line, a thin grey line, a fat red date bar, a thin grey line, a title on dark grey, a thin grey line, and then the text and so on. Is it possible to make the first thin grey line dark red, to simplify the look a little? I find that although the colour scheme is gorgeous, there is a lot of stuff for the eye to catch on, and a tiny bit simpler would help a lot. Sorry for harping on about this, it is not serious, just something I notice.
(I just played around a bit, and what I mean is if you change background from "#999999" to something like "#454545" in the .tborder section. The total amount of visual clutter drops dramatically, while leaving the lines in place. By the way, if you change "background" from "#5c7099" to "#4b1108" in .tcat and .thead, then the funny temporary blue colour goes away completely.)
Steve location option is not available in the member list. Also we kept that info to a minimum but location is not a option. If folks want to show there locations they have to put that in in there control Panel under user profiles and add there location. I see a couple members that did that and it shows on there posts.
Cool, it already looks much calmer, something I really appreciate as I am a programmer, and stare at monitors way too much already
The other more relevant issue is changing the global background color settings affect maybe how six different areas display, not just the forums. So a change that may look "better" to somebody in the forums can make another area look bad, or in some cases un-readable. We made dozens of subtle changes to get ALL affected areas to display well. As such, I am not too inerested in making global changes now. We can look into loading a few free alternative skins to have you select an alternate view for yourself, but these woud not be customizable --- you'd get default gold, blue, red or gray views. In the end, we hope the current graphics are at least adequate for now and prefer to focus our energy on building quality content for the membership.
Me too, Guy! Looking forward to participating in a thoroughly enjoyable and informative forum.
