[Preview]New Forum Layout.

[Moss]

Greetings,

Well today I woke up with a headache so I stayed the whole day at home but that's not the point of the thread. Some members of the Speed Solving community know that I'm a web-developer so today I no-lifed for a while and created an unique vBulletin template for the most loved forum.

You can check it out here: preview. Share your opinions and thoughts.

Sincerely,
Moss.

 

[Zyrb]

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

 

[Zarxrax]

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

 

[Moss]

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

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.

 

[Reinier Schippers]

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

 

[joey]

I much prefer lighter layouts.

 

[theace]

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 :\

 

[FatBoyXPC]

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

 

[irontwig]

I much prefer lighter layouts.

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

 

[Chrish]

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.

 

[Vinny]

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.

 

[JBCM627]

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.

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.

 

[Moss]

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

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.

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).

 

[qqwref]

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

 

[Kirjava]

I like it.

 

[TiLiMayor]

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

Yuu right. Invert colors for a new preview.

 

[waffle=ijm]

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

 

[Dene]

Grey on black is a no-go.

 

[johnstan]

I like the whit background too

 

[DavidWoner]

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

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