[Preview]New Forum Layout.

I like the white background better, but its the only forum I got =)

Honestly its pretty crappy, as I can barely even read the text :\

Zarxrax said:

Honestly its pretty crappy, as I can barely even read the text :\

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I can actually see the text pretty well, maybe that's because you're familiar with white screen and can't switch to dark one. Thanks for your reply.

I like the lay-out black makes it nice. Will the banner be changed? You might do a contest for designing one?

I much prefer lighter layouts.

I actually like it! I'm used to darker layouts on gaming forums, so I don't think it's all THAT bad... But that's just me :\

No offense, but comparatively I prefer this one over the one you made.

joey said:

I much prefer lighter layouts.

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+1
Black on white is a lot better imo when reading, especially for longer texts.

Far too many forums I use have a black background, I kind of prefer the white we've got here. It's a bit plain, but it's not so grim at least.

It looks cool but it's too much. I think the forum looks fine right now... It's simple, it functions, and I prefer it now to be honest.

Moss said:

I can actually see the text pretty well, maybe that's because you're familiar with white screen and can't switch to dark one. Thanks for your reply.

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Being a web designer, I'd think you'd appreciate this statement more. From a usability standpoint, dark text on a dark background (or light on light) is something that should be avoided.

And personally, I prefer fluid (variable-width) layouts.

anyway, what exactly did you do besides change colors and some other minor things? I guess most vb themes have the same layout, which is why none of them are that original.

I decided to create an unique layout because the current one is deffault vB theme is overused, thanks to everyone for your feedback.

JBCM627 said:

Being a web designer, I'd think you'd appreciate this statement more. From a usability standpoint, dark text on a dark background (or light on light) is something that should be avoided.

And personally, I prefer fluid (variable-width) layouts.

anyway, what exactly did you do besides change colors and some other minor things? I guess most vb themes have the same layout, which is why none of them are that original.

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Show me at least one forum layout which looks like this one, I didn't edited the original vB theme. It's actually pretty original, check out some vB layouts which are for sale and you'll see. Between I used the dark background because I prefer white text on black background (I see better like that).

It's very... dark. The white on black isn't that bad for short things, but grey on black will get VERY tiring after lots of reading. Besides I don't think a black background is really appropriate for this forum, I'd like to think we're more about happy friendly puzzling than angry competitive puzzling.

PS: An overused format is not necessarily a bad format - look at how many books are printed with dark text on a white background, with page numbers on each page, with rows of text that you read left to right and top to bottom

I like it.

irontwig said:

+1
Black on white is a lot better imo when reading, especially for longer texts.

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Yuu right. Invert colors for a new preview.

Didn't pjk just introduce this layout like.....september 2010....

Grey on black is a no-go.

I like the whit background too

Moss said:

I prefer white text on black background (I see better like that).

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Then why did you make so much of it dark gray on black?