I like the overlays. They work well with the blue backround, so for me its 

I'm starting to think maybe have nested quotes in two tones of light blue Liam. Reading through some threads here, quotes seem to lack contrast and the thread can quickly get disjointed and harder to read.

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Nice one neXus, looks really good it's missing that little smidge of yellow/gold text tho! with this in mind how would the 'Posts 3483938' - 'Administrator' - 'Hero Member' text look in tek old school yellow/gold?

http://web.archive.org/web/20040605134440/http://www.tekforums.co.uk/ <- like the text colour there.

All over the rest of the site, links, top, buttons etc have the gold/yellow I have already been using the old skin as a base

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on January 27, 2011, 14:25:22 PM
I'm starting to think maybe have nested quotes in two tones of light blue Liam. Reading through some threads here, quotes seem to lack contrast and the thread can quickly get disjointed and harder to read.

The quote image I will do as a transparent PNG so we can play to get it right.

Overlay is good and I basically implemented on my local version in like 10 minutes lol.

Icons - I am going through and replacing now, I got what to use for the most part now.
Buttons - Me and nige bee though and got clear style sorted.

Bare with - There are lots of elements to a forum theme, its worse then say a wordpress blog.

That looks sweet as, really nice work Nexus!

I'm a content over looks person so I've never really cared overmuch what this place looks like, but what you've created is genuinely a major improvement. Frankly it looks better than any forum I've been a part of (admittedly I don't get about much on t'interwebs these days since every forum I join I end up thinking "meh, it's not as good as Tek").

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Quote from: matt5cott on January 27, 2011, 12:17:52 PM

Quote from: neXus on January 27, 2011, 10:18:33 AM
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Nice one neXus, looks really good it's missing that little smidge of yellow/gold text tho! with this in mind how would the 'Posts 3483938' - 'Administrator' - 'Hero Member' text look in tek old school yellow/gold?

http://web.archive.org/web/20040605134440/http://www.tekforums.co.uk/ <- like the text colour there.

All over the rest of the site, links, top, buttons etc have the gold/yellow I have already been using the old skin as a base

Give us what yo' got...

We could have an option for SamBB(Beta)

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Give us what yo' got...

We could have an option for SamBB(Beta)

I will give it nige when it's about done and I'll FTP up fixes and changes over time

I can't say I really like the white text box, maybe if it was a shade of blue then it would fit in better and be more in keeping with the "tek theme", but that's just me. Other than that it looks great.

Quote from: Smugs on January 27, 2011, 20:40:50 PM
I can't say I really like the white text box, maybe if it was a shade of blue then it would fit in better and be more in keeping with the "tek theme", but that's just me. Other than that it looks great.

That is the thing though - do that and your text is harder to read, you can not do much formatting, red etc does not work, links come out crap and so on.
In terms of use it should be easier to read posts.

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Quote from: Smugs on January 27, 2011, 20:40:50 PM
I can't say I really like the white text box, maybe if it was a shade of blue then it would fit in better and be more in keeping with the "tek theme", but that's just me. Other than that it looks great.

That is the thing though - do that and your text is harder to read, you can not do much formatting, red etc does not work, links come out crap and so on.
In terms of use it should be easier to read posts.

Quote from: neXus on January 27, 2011, 20:54:59 PM

Quote from: Smugs on January 27, 2011, 20:40:50 PM
I can't say I really like the white text box, maybe if it was a shade of blue then it would fit in better and be more in keeping with the "tek theme", but that's just me. Other than that it looks great.

That is the thing though - do that and your text is harder to read, you can not do much formatting, red etc does not work, links come out crap and so on.
In terms of use it should be easier to read posts.

im with smugs.. its the glare from reading on white/light - can you make it a smidge darker? maybe try #b8c0e2

I'm no expert on forum designs at all, so I'm only going on personal preferences here, but here is a very quick knock up in Photoshop of an idea I had floating around in my head, so apologies for the rough edges.

I made the text box the same shade of blue as you used to highlight the post and title areas. The font is just Arial and is only there because I didn't know which font you used.

Quote from: Smugs on January 27, 2011, 23:25:42 PM
I'm no expert on forum designs at all, so I'm only going on personal preferences here, but here is a very quick knock up in Photoshop of an idea I had floating around in my head, so apologies for the rough edges.

I made the text box the same shade of blue as you used to highlight the post and title areas. The font is just Arial and is only there because I didn't know which font you used.

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I like that

Quote from: Smugs on January 27, 2011, 23:25:42 PM
I'm no expert on forum designs at all, so I'm only going on personal preferences here, but here is a very quick knock up in Photoshop of an idea I had floating around in my head, so apologies for the rough edges.

I made the text box the same shade of blue as you used to highlight the post and title areas. The font is just Arial and is only there because I didn't know which font you used.

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Looking to avoid what this causes and that you can just get rid of the whole speech bubble. Egg - its a change to get used to and not actually a white background
I am sitting in front of an imac with one of the brightest and colourful screens you get, its in your face and I got the file open here and looks great.
It can always change but as mentioned if you have blue for your content background you run into issues.

The actual rest of the forums is a good example. You got the same yellow on two blue's and it looks a completely different colour.
It wont be to hard for me to make an alternative theme that is just as the original for people to switch too as an alternative though.

Trying to break away from the standard forum setup. People do not because people have got too stuck into a format even though it is probably bad. I decided as a personal project to do much more with a grey theme just for the hell of it to say to people - Hey, if you actually do this - this is better, just get used to it and you will see.