Update from the Community Manager - 23 Feb 2011

[Vaximillian]

CK style looks good, thanks for the improvements.

Prefer DeepOceanEdited though. Already got used to it.

 

[Eärendil]

One thing about the CK template. Under the my settings page, the boxes on the left are still very bright, and the font colour as well.

 

[Seli]

One thing about the CK template. Under the my settings page, the boxes on the left are still very bright, and the font colour as well.

Ouch, yes. But what font do you mean? The main one at least is fine for me.

 

[safferli]

Nice, the newer, less bright versions are much better. The HoI one is still too bright for me, and I kinda got used to deepocean...

EDIT: The hyperlinks under the HoI style are not distinguishable from normal text. Can they be made darker, or bold, or something?

 

[johho888]

The CK variant is almost there now, maybe a little less saturated red for the outer parts?

The HoI variant is still too bright for the background around the avatar and forumite data. Some shade of grey, sand or brown maybe?

The rest of the variants are way too bright for me and has way too much difference in brightness for the various background areas, ranging from pure white to deeply saturated dark colours.

 

[COGlory]

I foundzd a bug in the CK theme.

As you can see, the code box text is the same color (or practically the same color) as the background.

 

[Eärendil]

Ouch, yes. But what font do you mean? The main one at least is fine for me.

The main one is fine, but under my settings, there are text like inbox etc in the bright boxes and they are very hard to distinguish from the boxes.

 

[Seli]

The main one is fine, but under my settings, there are text like inbox etc in the bright boxes and they are very hard to distinguish from the boxes.

Not anymore it seems

Thanks Kallocain

 

[Inner Circle]

The CK Style looks badass

Anyway there´s still some tweaking needed ( i volunteer for Help )

Edit: Will the CK/Vic/HoI/EU Forums have those styles as default? As of now, if you change it, it appears on the whole forum

 

[Kallocain]

The CK Style looks badass

Anyway there´s still some tweaking needed ( i volunteer for Help )

Edit: Will the CK/Vic/HoI/EU Forums have those styles as default? As of now, if you change it, it appears on the whole forum

You need to be an admin to tweak these things, so that'll not really work. Thanks though.
The plan is to have them as default in their forums, but we need to tweak them a bit more first, and then I'll make it happen.
It will not override your choice if you have anything other than default though.

 

[Kallocain]

Not anymore it seems

Thanks Kallocain

Oh, it's not me doing these! I had to struggle so much to get the deepocean one fixed up I never want to look at templates again - ever!
We have a very talented intern who does these new ones. A hard-core HoI2 player!

 

[DarthJF]

I like the Vicky one, but message box while posting could be a bit lighter colour.

Anyway, it's nice to see forum looks improved. Ever since forum update I haven't liked the new look at all, so it's good to get more alternatives.

 

[Alex_brunius]

The CK variant is almost there now, maybe a little less saturated red for the outer parts?

The HoI variant is still too bright for the background around the avatar and forumite data. Some shade of grey, sand or brown maybe?

The rest of the variants are way too bright for me and has way too much difference in brightness for the various background areas, ranging from pure white to deeply saturated dark colours.

At least one or two should be left fairly bright Imho. Most other forums use black text on white background so I bet new users not used to the deep ocean template would feel more at home with those brighter alternatives.

 

[johho888]

Oh, it's not me doing these! I had to struggle so much to get the deepocean one fixed up I never want to look at templates again - ever!
We have a very talented intern who does these new ones. A hard-core HoI2 player!

Well, send him/her over here so we can talk directly to him then. Or is he/she too shy?

At least one or two should be left fairly bright Imho. Most other forums use black text on white background so I bet new users not used to the deep ocean template would feel more at home with those brighter alternatives.

Certainly but then there shouldn't be large background areas that are very saturated/dark. Some themes with only bright/pale backgrounds and dark text would be nice.

 

[gigau]

Thanks to you, Lynda and to the anonymous talented intern for the CK-style that keeps improving.

I'll cinfirm montfort's report about the

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[Seli]

At least one or two should be left fairly bright Imho. Most other forums use black text on white background so I bet new users not used to the deep ocean template would feel more at home with those brighter alternatives.

There is still the vb4 Blue template for that purpose.

 

[johho888]

Thanks to you, Lynda and to the anonymous talented intern for the CK-style that keeps improving.

I wonder if the user name "anonymous talented intern" is taken yet...

 

[Natthimmel]

Hi, I am the mysterious intern.

We are thankful for all the feedback =) Please continue sharing your opinions and ideas about changes on the new templates.

 

[Eärendil]

I think the poll boxes in the CK template (and possibly others) could be adjusted, they are still too bright.

 

[Seli]

Nice work seseo,
earlier today the colour of the text and the background for the code-boxes in the CK template was still too similar.