The joke has run it's course to be honest, he's even doing it 3x faster than it would normally take, so give him some credit eh

I'm glad I put this smiley back in 

Well I was never involved in the 3 times faster thread to start with (I'm actually a mac user too) but as someone mentioned it in this thread I thought I'd throw in the cheeky comment.... as a joke. But I'll leave it alone now - since he is after all doing the new skins three times faster

Quote from: Dave on January 23, 2011, 23:50:10 PM

Well I was never involved in the 3 times faster thread to start with (I'm actually a mac user too) but as someone mentioned it in this thread I thought I'd throw in the cheeky comment.... as a joke. But I'll leave it alone now - since he is after all doing the new skins three times faster

Precisely, it's just a joke, and quite an affectionate one at that. In all fairness I think it's gone past anything to do with Nexus these days and has more to do with Tekforums in general, at least that's how I see it.

Do not agree with that one. It has not been used in any context outside of me or in a thread I been involved with and it went further then a joke at the time with a number of people bleeding it dry just to be petty.
It has been and gone and anyone drumming it up these days and whom still find it funny... well... 

Hey all back on topic.

Like Sam with sorting the port code - Like I said not his fault he just a busy guy and took time to finish it, Not relibile by no fault of his own. I am the same here. I have done that much overtime I am knackered this week.... BUT...

General:
Me & Nige have gone over the colours from what I had porting from an old SamBB Theme. They were more of the old CRT Era so while almost the same we softened up the colours like the main background so they sit well on everyone's LCD's for today.

Post section...

[Please note the images are conceptial, not quite aligned, font size could be bigger/smaller, not the right icons etc]


One of the things that always happened and had people groan about on the forums when you had the ability to do decent posts and layouts etc was the dark backgrounds and being readable etc.
A white/very light grey etc like here just makes things more readable and gives you more options. One of the things that always strikes you on forums is how cluttered they are as well, things there that are not really needed and all very "bitsy"

So with some concepts found around and shown to Nige I Made the below:



Then converted it to the Tekforums Blue:


As mentioned the alignments, spacing etc is a little off but wanted to post the concept through.

What this does is.

1. Creates more whitespace, same stuff (for the most part) is still there but in this format everything feels more open.
2a. Your actual posts will stand out, easy to read and work well with your formatting etc. The couple of people who did not want the Blue theme probably will not mind it now
2b. With the new post layout it means you do not need to have alternate post backgrounds, Everything is easy to read and should flow much better.
3. The profile area has the information that matters and looses the clutter. NOTE: the icons would be going in as well of course.
4. It looks cooler!

As mentioned before, I think this BIG improvement but I wanted to post for peoples views. If you want boring old style that is what will be implemented but this is better. 

not blue 

Icons (on hover) - Status Icon added too.

Looks great, though it will be easier to get a real idea when you see a load of posts in a row. SamBB for the 21st century.

Quote from: Eggtastico on January 27, 2011, 10:08:41 AM

not blue 

Well it is the blue theme coming back. Ill work on a light version at some point but I suppose Nige will leave this current one as an option to choose if you want.

I meant as in not enough blue.. :oD - the text boxes are a little light - maybe I should just buy some sunglasses to read the forum