We are road testing a new "Classic View" skin... which will become the main skin, as it is free of bugs (relatively).
Any comments on the colours welcome before they get finalised.
New Classic View
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Quite a number of others disliked it...
However, we have had little in the way of concrete suggestions on how to improve...
So now is the final chance for constructive comment.
[*Edited by GE who is now in a better mood*]
However, we have had little in the way of concrete suggestions on how to improve...
So now is the final chance for constructive comment.
[*Edited by GE who is now in a better mood*]
Last edited by greeneyed on April 3, 2007, 11:30 am, edited 1 time in total.
I must say that this one is significantly better. This is my opinion but I will also include a reason why.
I won’t go on and on but colour relationships are very important in presenting a professional webpage and the first thing people will notice are the colours. Using colours that are not complementary for your primary website colours are the first mistakes of many and make a website, poster or graphic look tacky and amateur. This was compounded in the previous theme because the colours of blue, green were yellow are very saturated and bright.
Blue and green may be on the raiders jersey but it is used in small amounts of blue. The half blue half green layout we did have on this website was confusing and chaotic for the eye because both colours shared the same hue. using a monochromatic colour like the dark grey, makes to green "pop" and means the yellow links are easier to read.
Other may very well disagree with me and that is totally fine. Regardless I can say without doubt that this current theme is much better for a website, presents a much more professional look and is much easier to read.
I back this up with your comments that many people reported that they "hated it". This is a perfect example. Whether they know it or not, people are critics of colour, and experts for that matter, we see in colour every day and the eye HATES having competition for its attention. This is the basic rule for anything visual. The old [brightblueandgreen] are both primary colours and the blue background was pushing for your attention when you’re trying to read what was in the primary window and you don’t need a degree in colour theory to know it just "doesn’t look good". The current [greenanddarkgrey] is easier to read, looks more professional. Of course everyone perceives colour differently so there is nothing wrong with people liking to old style, however I’m especially confident many more will like this one.
Well done much improved
I won’t go on and on but colour relationships are very important in presenting a professional webpage and the first thing people will notice are the colours. Using colours that are not complementary for your primary website colours are the first mistakes of many and make a website, poster or graphic look tacky and amateur. This was compounded in the previous theme because the colours of blue, green were yellow are very saturated and bright.
Blue and green may be on the raiders jersey but it is used in small amounts of blue. The half blue half green layout we did have on this website was confusing and chaotic for the eye because both colours shared the same hue. using a monochromatic colour like the dark grey, makes to green "pop" and means the yellow links are easier to read.
Other may very well disagree with me and that is totally fine. Regardless I can say without doubt that this current theme is much better for a website, presents a much more professional look and is much easier to read.
I back this up with your comments that many people reported that they "hated it". This is a perfect example. Whether they know it or not, people are critics of colour, and experts for that matter, we see in colour every day and the eye HATES having competition for its attention. This is the basic rule for anything visual. The old [brightblueandgreen] are both primary colours and the blue background was pushing for your attention when you’re trying to read what was in the primary window and you don’t need a degree in colour theory to know it just "doesn’t look good". The current [greenanddarkgrey] is easier to read, looks more professional. Of course everyone perceives colour differently so there is nothing wrong with people liking to old style, however I’m especially confident many more will like this one.
Well done much improved
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Raider Azz
- Jason Croker
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Extreme morpheus green will be an option available, but for me the green is very washed out and the board is difficult to read.
For the Classic View skin, would it help if the dark grey were changed to the same off-white/grey that forms the background to posts? And we change as much writing where the dark grey is to black? That's the only other option I can think of to make it more neutral.
For the Classic View skin, would it help if the dark grey were changed to the same off-white/grey that forms the background to posts? And we change as much writing where the dark grey is to black? That's the only other option I can think of to make it more neutral.
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jedski
- Bradley Clyde
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That's a **** cop out - I was quite happy with the previous colour combinations, thus I made no response to how to improve things. There are other colour schemes available, the Morpheous Extreme and the Subsilver, all I'm saying is have other options.greeneyed wrote:Quite a number of others disliked it...
However, we have had little in the way of concrete suggestions on how to improve...
So now is the final chance for constructive comment.
[*Edited by GE who is now in a better mood*]
I agree, when you're trying to attract members to the site, you need to take those things into account, however once you've kept them, what is wrong with allowing them the freedom to customise the forum as desired? But if having a "corporate" look is so important to the site, why not delete all the other options?Finite wrote:I won’t go on and on but colour relationships are very important in presenting a professional webpage and the first thing people will notice are the colours. Using colours that are not complementary for your primary website colours are the first mistakes of many and make a website, poster or graphic look tacky and amateur. This was compounded in the previous theme because the colours of blue, green were yellow are very saturated and bright.
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Zip Zip
- Ruben Wiki
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So what are the problems? Why do we need a new skin? I use Morpheus eXtreme Green, and I think that easily loks the best, and don't have any problems with it. I would just like to know what everyone else is experiencing?
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You need to make sure your profile selects "Classic" if you want that one.viking wrote:must say i'm a fan of it,only complaint is that as soon as i log in it goes back to the old one
The default is going to be "Classic"... but if you have another option selected on your profile, it will switch to that when you log in.
If you want to maintain Morpheus Extreme Green... there is an option on the "Profile" selection to allow you to do that... you can even have the simpler blueish SubSilver...
But we will be only maintaining the Classic view from here in serious fashion. Costs too much to do otherwise.
