Post by PTAV on Feb 2, 2012 7:07:29 GMT -5
I hope the sudden change didn't freak anyone out! I suppose I could have put up a forewarning a day or so in advance, but it was easy to do and I was bored and I wanted a different look for the forum.
I went with something with very little contrast, but I do often wonder if I'm not at least a little bit color-blind. Is something hard to read? Don't hesitate to tell me! If you have a suggestion for a different color for something, I'm open to those too!
I also went with dual side-bars, because I didn't feel comfortable paring everything down into a left-hand side-bar and stretching out the page vertically to an obscene length. Unless I missed an update that fixed it, Internet Explorer won't play nice with this skin since all the header images are transparent .png files.
Let me know about visibility issues with lower resolutions - I designed this skin in 1280x1024, and my monitor currently goes wonky if I try to mess with my screen resolution. If your resolution is 1024x768, then I'd love it if you chimed in as I would like to make this skin as functional as possible at (at least) that screen-size! Unfortunately with two side-bars, the lower the screen resolution the higher the chance that the right-hand side-bar will be cut off and you'll have a horizontal scroll bar on the bottom of your browser. As far as I know 800x600 is the smallest possible resolution that can work with a left side-bar, and at that size the right-hand side-bar is cropped out no matter how much you skimp and save on the economy screen space.
Also if there are visibility issues at 1024x768, the best way to let me know how to fix it is to send me an image of what the forum looks like on your end.
I went with something with very little contrast, but I do often wonder if I'm not at least a little bit color-blind. Is something hard to read? Don't hesitate to tell me! If you have a suggestion for a different color for something, I'm open to those too!
I also went with dual side-bars, because I didn't feel comfortable paring everything down into a left-hand side-bar and stretching out the page vertically to an obscene length. Unless I missed an update that fixed it, Internet Explorer won't play nice with this skin since all the header images are transparent .png files.
Let me know about visibility issues with lower resolutions - I designed this skin in 1280x1024, and my monitor currently goes wonky if I try to mess with my screen resolution. If your resolution is 1024x768, then I'd love it if you chimed in as I would like to make this skin as functional as possible at (at least) that screen-size! Unfortunately with two side-bars, the lower the screen resolution the higher the chance that the right-hand side-bar will be cut off and you'll have a horizontal scroll bar on the bottom of your browser. As far as I know 800x600 is the smallest possible resolution that can work with a left side-bar, and at that size the right-hand side-bar is cropped out no matter how much you skimp and save on the economy screen space.
Also if there are visibility issues at 1024x768, the best way to let me know how to fix it is to send me an image of what the forum looks like on your end.