Anumia said:
Not a fan. Contrast is too high for one thing.
Do you mean in posts or in general? In posts, I was contemplating making the font the same grey tone as everywhere else (you can look at the fonts surrounding the post to see what it's like), but I changed it to exactly black because I thought it was better readability.
PASD said:
Too....Much...White.
Yes, that's the point of it really. I tried to keep it clean and sleek.
Vinage said:
- Skyline background colour to be 'Europeia Blue' [Blue we use everywhere else]
I like the two colors in the header! I think their contrast is aestethically pleasant. I stole the idea from Economist:
http://www.economist.com/ . But if people prefer it all blue, that's easily done.
One thing to keep in mind is that this new skin is almost exclusively CSS. So, we can very easily change almost every single visual element on the forum.
- Personally I'm not keen on the dove-grey background colour and miss the blue.
What I was thinking actually is also making a second version of the same skin, with a dark background color. Either that, or having an extra field in users' profile where they can pick whatever background color they want; that would require using javascript, though, which I'd like to avoid.
Also the links at the top with the Government all connect to the Law Index
Ah right, sorry, I forgot to swap in their new code. The way they will work is that, as you mouse over those fields, a drop-down menu will appear with a list of the information that used to be in the old header.
Elias Greyjoy said:
I actually like it. It looks much cleaner. And the header is awesome. Much more compacted. I will be using this permanently.
I've also switched, and from a much earlier stage
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EDIT: I'm sure you're on top of this, but in the new skin, the regional information, executive government, etc. headers all link to the law index.
Yeah, see response to Vinage.
Elias Greyjoy said:
Though the posting area seems...wider. Is that an accurate description? I don't mind it, but I have noticed.
Everything has got wider. The forum went from 75% to 90% screen width.
If you mean wider as in, in terms of width to height ratio of the input box, yes that's an oversight. I'll fix it.
Also, typing this post now, I dislike the font I selected for the input area. I will need to find some other font.
Elias Greyjoy said:
If possible, I would suggest darkening the logos in the top right corner.
Yeah, I plan to make them the same color as the fonts. Haven't bothered uploading the recolored logos though. I also wanted to see whether I could replace them with CSS.
EDIT: Also, in going through some posts, the tag isn't working in places.
Lethen said:
R3nny R3n R3n, some signatures aren't working with the alt skin.
Ugh, right. It appears the new skin breaks all of the custom bbtag javascript code. I'll need to debug that.
