[WIP] Site Userstyle

Discussion in 'Arts and Graphics' started by Crystal Moogle, Nov 11, 2012.

  1. Crystal Moogle

    Crystal Moogle Ayaya~ Administrator Administrator

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    Well I was bored earlier so I decided to mess around with stylish because I really don't like how the forums look. I'm not the best eye for design though, so I probably ended up making it look a lot worse to most people :x. Oh well, I like it at least. I basically stripped out a lot of things I dislike or find annoying, and replaced some colours/images/etc. It's nowhere near finished yet though, but I have 2 parts of it almost complete and I'll post them here. Once I have finished the whole thing, I'll most likely upload it so anyone (read: no one) can use it.

    The big purple space is where I've removed staff things, it's not there normally :3
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    The top links (Forums, Wiki, etc) and the grey box next to thread titles are just placeholders until I can be bothered making some images for it.

    Here's a thread (I picked Dasd's because it was small and imgur still wouldn't take it for some reason!)
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    There's a lot more to do on this one still, but a fair bit is still done.

    Anyways, that's all I've done so far (though other parts have been affected because they share some parts), I'll probably do some more in the upcoming days. Depending on how long it takes, I might end up doing some for people, but that's not that likely I'm afraid :x
     
  2. Dasdardly

    Dasdardly Uknown Bird

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    Aww <3. I don't like it coz it's not white and you can see my terrible cutting jobs on my signature '-'. Other than that, the color is darker than I like, tbh; but I do like the rounded edges on everything. It's nice, but not for me. (I actually like silver, sue me.)
    Oh yeah, and I can't hide things in white either :c.
     
  3. Elements

    Elements BOOMER SOONER Forum Moderator Server Staff Forum Moderator Server Staff

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    I like this kind of forum skin. I like the simplicity of it and it isn't cluttered with fancy designs and what not. It would have been cool if Deity could have made a forum skin that matches the site design but alas he did not. I hope in the future that you make skins with different colors.
     
  4. TheOneThatGotAway

    TheOneThatGotAway Banned

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    I have vBulletin and could make a theme'd forum style for you guys if you'd like. I am also a moderator for myBB themes. So I know plenty about making themes for forum hosting such as vBulletin.
     
  5. Elements

    Elements BOOMER SOONER Forum Moderator Server Staff Forum Moderator Server Staff

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    Do you have a portfolio or examples of your work?
     
  6. TheOneThatGotAway

    TheOneThatGotAway Banned

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    They are on my old laptop but I would be more than happy to transfer them and show you.
     
  7. Elements

    Elements BOOMER SOONER Forum Moderator Server Staff Forum Moderator Server Staff

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    Yeah that'd be cool. You can probably post the images here since I don't think Crystal will give a shit.
     
  8. TheOneThatGotAway

    TheOneThatGotAway Banned

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    Okay, will do.
     
  9. Crystal Moogle

    Crystal Moogle Ayaya~ Administrator Administrator

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    Worked on it quite a bit more today
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    Fixed issues with the bar at the top, remove a lot of purple space above the bar. Also discovered the collapse button today! I seriously did not know it existed until a few hours ago, I decided since I somehow missed it, some text would make it stand out better :x. Replaced the unread/read sub-forum things with small circles and any post icons. Also removed some stuff I find kinda pointless at the bottom.

    Thread listing:
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    Still have a few things to replace on this one. Like the envelopes and the god awful placeholder "New Thread" button. Not much to say about this, removed more than I added on this part really.

    Thread:
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    Changed a lot more of the bars now so it fits into the theme, this part is probably the closest to being fully finished. Oh yeah, this has an awful "New Reply" button as well.

    Hopefully I'll be finished soon.
     
  10. TheOneThatGotAway

    TheOneThatGotAway Banned

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    The purple colour may not suit everyone :/
     
  11. Crystal Moogle

    Crystal Moogle Ayaya~ Administrator Administrator

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    I know, good thing about userstyles though is that once it's finished, you can replace colours incredibly easily to suit each end user's wants. You can also edit fonts/images as well quite easily.
     
  12. TheOneThatGotAway

    TheOneThatGotAway Banned

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    Oh well thats true. I just wasnt sure if you were going to change the colour.