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Move back to HW?
Topic Started: Jul 22 2011, 08:21 PM (852 Views)
dlbalr
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Fanpuck33
http://s11.zetaboards.com/HWL3/single/?p=8031473&t=7421860
That skin is no better. It's still light gray text on a white background that is very hard on my eyes to read. Need something with black text on a slightly gray background, and with some sort of divider between threads.

I've asked Matt to put some dark skins in, he doesn't seem to like them...nor does he like putting them in for that matter and only his account seems to be able to. I'll keep pestering though.

jetsniper
http://s11.zetaboards.com/HWL3/single/?p=8031456&t=7421860
Well it's not a huge deal, I was just curious. Size limits that small don't really foster a lot of creativity. They don't have to be the size of ours, I increased the limits as soon as we made the change. But something like the old HW would be good.

I tried expanding the size but doing so really screwed up the quote tags and lines above the signatures. I'll see if there's a way around that.
 
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Aug 22 2011, 01:56 PM
I've asked Matt to put some dark skins in, he doesn't seem to like them...nor does he like putting them in for that matter and only his account seems to be able to. I'll keep pestering though.
Try the chrome theme, much darker.
 
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Aug 22 2011, 04:54 PM
dlbalr
Aug 22 2011, 01:56 PM
I've asked Matt to put some dark skins in, he doesn't seem to like them...nor does he like putting them in for that matter and only his account seems to be able to. I'll keep pestering though.
Try the chrome theme, much darker.
Don't see it as an option.
 
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Aug 22 2011, 04:58 PM
dlbalr
Aug 22 2011, 04:54 PM
dlbalr
Aug 22 2011, 01:56 PM
I've asked Matt to put some dark skins in, he doesn't seem to like them...nor does he like putting them in for that matter and only his account seems to be able to. I'll keep pestering though.
Try the chrome theme, much darker.
Don't see it as an option.
Oy...let me look into it.

Edit: Should be there now.
 
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Ok, I have a new favourite theme.

(Though the red around the sub-sections seems out of place but otherwise I like it)
Edited by jetsniper, Aug 22 2011, 05:27 PM.
 
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Aug 22 2011, 05:26 PM
Ok, I have a new favourite theme.

(Though the red around the sub-sections seems out of place but otherwise I like it)
Interesting...I don't even see any red in the dark theme other than in the banner.
 
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That's weird. This is what I get

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Aug 22 2011, 05:53 PM
That's weird. This is what I get

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same here. I'll stick with blue&black .
 
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Ok, upon further review, I don't like Chrome. Quoted messages are white text on a white background basically meaning the whole thing is invisible. It's easy enough to highlight the text to read it but also kind of annoying to do.

I kinda see what Fanpuck means too, the white background of the other two themes isn't bad during the day but right now it's blinding.
 
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This is why I don't like change, haha. The old forum looked fine. Newer so often is not better. I hope HF keeps their older looking board, it's nice and functional.
 
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Everytime Brian comes here, he's probably thinking "F!@#*&# As@*&$@", haha
 
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Aug 23 2011, 08:32 AM
Everytime Brian comes here, he's probably thinking "F!@#*&# As@*&$@", haha
Not quite, but it's getting there. :) Interestingly enough, I don't have that red spot as posted in the screenshot, can't find anything as to why it might be doing that too. I know there's one other dark-ish skin we'd like to add but so far we've been unable to remove part of the header that comes with the skin (that we could replace with our own new one).

As for why the updates were done, it was more for the upgraded security features, not so much the new esthetics it presents.
 
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We've added one more colour scheme, a grey on grey one that gets rid of the white without hurting any readability issues. Also, I've found a way to make the avatars a little bigger without causing mis-alignment of other things which was the concern before. Hopefully this will be a step in the right direction.
 
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Aug 12 2011, 05:17 PM
If we can indeed get a banner similar to the one I posted, it will need to direct somewhere on the forum (I don't think we want it to go to the old HWL site or to the quick one Fanpuck made to try and get us on fhockey). Rather than just do a direct link to the HWL forums, I think it would be worth linking it to a specific post with all the how-to information for potential new GM's (this would be topped in the HWL boards as well).

So, if everyone else thinks this makes sense, what type of stuff should we have in said post?
Thanks for all the feedback on this. :D

Seriously though, I've put a post up with some of the stuff I think would be useful on the HW boards. Have a peek at it and let me know what you think should be added.
 
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Aug 6 2011, 10:46 AM
We're looking into 'rejigging' the look of HW over the next little while. (I say rejigging as without any graphic design knowledge whatsoever, it won't look too much different in the end, but I digress.) As a result, this may be a good time to put an HWL banner on the main site that would redirect to the HWL forums.

The banner would need to be 182 x 64 to match the other banner we have on there presently (for my contracts page).

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Anyone want to consider tackling this? I think it would be a nice visual aid to draw some attention to the league. When we tried to turn the old site off (I say tried as evidently we can't take the site offline for some reason), we saved all the relevant league pics here. Perhaps something in there could help with this banner?
So I asked our graphic designer to have a go at it (he's the one that re-did the forum banner, the site banner, the Twitter background, etc). He came up with the following:

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Basically, it's a hybrid of the other banner that you can see quoted above since the red colour scheme matches the site's shift to more of a red look while the HWL part is from the team avatars from a while back. I told him I'd send it to the league for feedback, please provide comments, suggestions, etc as soon as possible.
 
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