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.