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pmwww | | Unlimited General-Board - Please lock (26th Jul 08 at 1:01am UTC) | | Its a new General Forum, set to wide variety of boards.
http://ultgb.vforums.co.uk/
The skins was made of Randomness I sorta like the look of it. | |
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pmmsn | | Re: Unlimited General-Board (26th Jul 08 at 6:56am UTC) | | I really think you should change 2 things on the skin:
1. the banner and background - having these irregular and pixelated patches of different colours that don't flow together looks too mismatched.
2. the blue and red links on the black - soften the colours. | |
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pm | | Re: Unlimited General-Board (26th Jul 08 at 7:16am UTC) | | My eyes burn?
The forum is too distracting, the imagery on it is not good at all.
Theres not much else to comment on a for a brand new general forum. You have a pretty decent start to it with the content though there is one board that is empty.
The next thing is just improving your skin, it's quite a terrible skin that distracts to heavily and takes away from the forum. | |
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Nick
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pmwww | | Re: Unlimited General-Board (26th Jul 08 at 7:18am UTC) | | 1. I was thinking of re - doing the wallpaper anyways. it was just a copy from the banner. The banner's white lines were used with a 1 px brush, and lines are not smooth like so its like that. Its supposed to be that way. Thats what the skins is mainly about really is complete randomness as its just a General Forum, now if it were Final Fantasy it wouldn't be so random.
2. What do you mean by soften the colours?
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My eyes burn?
The forum is too distracting, the imagery on it is not good at all.
Theres not much else to comment on a for a brand new general forum. You have a pretty decent start to it with the content though there is one board that is empty.
The next thing is just improving your skin, it's quite a terrible skin that distracts to heavily and takes away from the forum.
It does? good! LOL just kidding. Read my above comment to Slip.
Later on I will or my other staff member will make a new skin. These days now im just random at times, like this forum really, was just random.
The board is empty because it just is. Im letting a member fill that in.
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Is that what you call abstract? If so then I will have to change the name from Version 1 to Abstract. | |
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pmmsn | | Re: Unlimited General-Board (26th Jul 08 at 8:27am UTC) | | 1. Random is ok. This is not. It's literally a hotch-potch of random colours. Quite disconcerting frankly. 
2. By soften I mean have lighter shades that work better with the black. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Unlimited General-Board (26th Jul 08 at 8:57am UTC) | | Isnt that what you call abstract?
ok I will do that. | |
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pm | | Re: Unlimited General-Board (26th Jul 08 at 11:48am UTC) | | Theres a different between this version of Abstract, and that of everyone else's abstract.
Abstract is NOT random, abstract does not have to harsh on the eyes. Abstract is about pushing boundaries and making a cubic person, like Picasso for instance, was an abstract artist.
That is abstract, not throwing effects onto a canvas, that is randomness and nooby and annoying and frustrating, | |
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pmwww | | Re: Unlimited General-Board (26th Jul 08 at 5:27pm UTC) | | ahh ok, so my work is teh annoying. tis supposed to be XD
and I will be making a new skin later on, that is not so annoying.
ok enough about the skin, what about the boards? and if you can't see them because the skin is "annoying" you can go to the other skin that is plain. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Unlimited General-Board (29th Jul 08 at 8:13pm UTC) | | | A new skin has been added. Please rate it. | |
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pm | | Re: Unlimited General-Board (30th Jul 08 at 10:05am UTC) | | This one isn't much better than the last.
You are experimenting with too many colours which causes a severe colour clash that is quite disturbing to the corneas.
So, as a result, I'm going to drop you a rule on skin creation - so that hopefully you can produce something better than this next time.
If you are making a general chat forum, you want a skin that is smooth, sleek, and not an annoyance to the reader. So, as a result, you have to make several decisions.
1. Decide whether it is going to be light or dark... Light, you use shades of light grey, dark, you use shades of dark grey. NEVER #FFFFFF (White) or #000000 (black). Simply, because, white is too blinding, and black is too dark.
2. Decide on a main colour to go with it. This can be blue, red, purple, green, yellow, orange, brown even. Whatever colour that you want and can work with to make look leet. This colour is usually used for highlights and objects (used in varying shades of course) while the background and 'base' images are all lgrey/dgrey.
So, I hope that helps you out a bit, this 2nd skin isn't a lot better.
ALSO, you have to love the bigger monitor uses as well. My res is 1280x1024 (something like that anyways), and I get the gradient bg... but, cause you haven't loved me, it has a massive black border around it lol. | |
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