Skins

[TosaInu]

The NTW skin is work in progress.

[TosaInu]

Hello,

NTW skin is still work in progres, but this should give an idea. The blue is Graphics work.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Wow. NTW skin looks great!

[Gregoshi]

I like the new skin.

[Beskar]

What happened to the facebook button, Tosa? I saw you put one up earlier, or was you just experimenting?

[gollum]

Nice.

[Subotan]

The text colour needs sorting before I can truly love it though

[TosaInu]

Hello,

NTW skin is still work in progres, but this should give an idea. The blue is Graphics' work.

There's still a lot to be done, this skin is a teaser to show which direction we're thinking. Graphic put some thought in the blues, and I grabbed some yellow for the text instead of grey and black, to make it readable.

A lot of the skin is still default, which means yellow text on a light background in some places. There might be a thousand switches for just this skin, and nothing is WYSIWYG or easy to grasp.

The reason for there not being more skins yet, is that none of the old ones work with this new board version, and simply porting them isn't a matter of seconds either.

[Kekvit Irae]

There might be a thousand switches for just this skin, and nothing is WYSIWYG or easy to grasp.

I may not have a lot of experience with vBulletin skins, but it seems like changing the colors in a skin requires nothing more than editing the XML file and replacing the color hex codes to what you want.

[Beskar]

I may not have a lot of experience with vBulletin skins, but it seems like changing the colors in a skin requires nothing more than editing the XML file and replacing the color hex codes to what you want.

Pretty much, just lots of changes like that.

Though to be fair, "picking the right colours" isn't as easy as it sounds. Take your average spouse to pick paint for the walls.

[Raz]

It's looking good.
Just keep the colours soft and I'll be fine. The grey on blue isn't great. And no incandescent yellow on white please. :)

Tweaking colours in base 16 is fun!!

[TosaInu]

Pretty much, just lots of changes like that.

And it's not designed by dutch logic, which makes it even harder to me. 'I think I should change this there... no'. I know about things being wrong, but to find the right switch is a different story.

Though to be far, "picking the right colours" isn't as easy as it sounds. Take your average spouse to pick paint for the walls.

That's correct. I'm glad other people do have a better understanding about that.