New "look" -- whata ya think?

Nitro · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 4:04 am Post subject: New "look" -- whata ya think?

Figured it was appropriate to start a new thread to see what others think of the new "look".

Comment and vote.
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vers_iq · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 264

i like it a lot, but i think there still something to make it better, hmm i just dont know what it is.
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BillyD · Guru Joined: 05 May 2002 Posts: 323 Location: Australia

Very nice!
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Carlo · Developer Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 3356

The style is o.k., but the violet coloured text is not eye-friendly imho.

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karmakillernz · n00b Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 55

Is it just me, or does the Quick Search not work (yet)?

uncle_meat · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Posts: 93

Well, it's somewhat more consistent with the rest of the site, which is good, but not quite consistent enough.

Nitro · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 4:45 am Post subject:

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

Why not make it copmpletely consistant w/ the rest of the site. The purple isn't the best color, imo. the quick search is nice.
The topic review is still the old style.

So are the buttons.

Carlos · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 5:25 am Post subject:

It's really nice, especially because I've seen SubSilver in so many other places (heck, even the phpBB I run uses SubSilver), and I'm definitely sick of it. It's nice to have a distinctive, original look for the Gentoo Forums.

One thing: when I'm replying in a thread, the messages in the topic review still look the way they did in SubSilver.
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OmniVector · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Posts: 37 Location: Rochester, NY

with phpbb's great customization features, it's a shame no one puts them to use.. glad to see our forums finally got a face lift!
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Carlos · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 9:21 am Post subject:

This isn't really important, but it's almost frightening how the new color scheme is almost identical to that of my avatar...
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plate · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 10:13 am Post subject:

Excellent choice of colours. This is especially great for BBCoded URLs, it's almost impossible to accidentally overlook links now. Great job, nice artwork, too, and thanks for the quick search function...

nempo · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 10:36 am Post subject:

Soo...can you make the rest of the site (www.gentoo.org) have that nice banner up top too =)

really · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 430 Location: nowhere

nice indeed.

althou the color of the background behind this text coule be changed to something more like the textlink color

and make it a litle bit less wider
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craftyc · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 443 Location: Behind You.

It definately was a pleasant surprise.

I just came from another forum which changed its look, and this was the last thing I expected. But I like it.

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Scandium · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 3:02 pm Post subject:

I voted "It's better but could be better yet..." because it _is_ better but nothing is perfect, so

But it's nice, really

pilla · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 3:34 pm Post subject:

Ah, the quick search function... moderators love it

progster · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 271

I love it, though every post on the board is marked as read... while I haven't read most of them

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pascall · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 3:57 pm Post subject:

Great new look.... One problem though : when I do reply to a message, past mesages appear at bottom with the old style (subSliver).

Happy new year to all gentoo-ers !

DArtagnan · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 4:06 pm Post subject: I'm in shock.

fuck man...I'm in shock...damn, after I opened the forum I though I got into in a wrong place...but this is the right one :-)

I'm in love with the new "face".

Thanks for the gift.
Happy New Year
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Nitro · Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 4:53 pm Post subject:

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

The new theme looks sharp. Two quibbles:

Useful links (www.gentoo.org, etc.) have now moved to the bottom of the main page. There is a lot of "unused space" on the right of the gentoo image at the top. I think the links can be moved there. The old theme was better in this regard.
Text in the "FAQ|Search|Memberlist..." bar does not stand out very well against the dark background.

iKiddo · Guru Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 341 Location: Europe?

I like it, but the postreply etc. buttons are still in old style colors, I don't really like that combination. Also this may be a good time to change the charset to charset=iso-8859-15?
I'm also in favor of copying/moving ( I prefer copying) the "links:" section to the top (but not to the right of the logo, the way it is now attracts more attention to the quicksearch button, which is a good thing (tm) IMHO.
Last and probably least, I think that the FAQ, Search etc. line and even more the "Links:" line should be centered.
Not sure if it's better yet.

iKiddo · Guru Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 341 Location: Europe?

I accidently double posted just know and I noticed another bug kinda thingy. The "delete this post" button isn't lined out properly here, I'm using "Mozilla 1.2b - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016" in 1024*768