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01-23-2012, 08:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-23-2012, 08:55 AM by BreShiE.)
(01-22-2012, 05:55 PM)King Wrote: Here we go. Change the following.
- Don't use straight black ever. Your forum uses too much #000. On/Off icons are crap. That grey crosshaired effect you've used is crap. The header's crap. The logo's crap. Fix those and you'll be off to a good start. 
How can I better the header? Also, why in the world would the logo matter? It's for a theme, not a forum, that will be for an example. What do you mean by grey haired cross-haired effect? In addition, the forum wouldn't look good it I was to make it a lighter grey, IMO that will just look stupid. Going to try it now though.
EDIT: I've changed it to a dark grey, and I actually like it more.
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Completely changed the colours now, thinking of renaming it to "Greys Anatomy".
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Pretty much redone all the colours, I've still got some tweaking to within the forum itself, but I think I've finally got the index done.
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Sorry to be so negative but I still think it looks really ugly. The categories look far too dark, and creates a huge contrast with the background. You don't want too much contrast with a theme, you want the colours to blend nicely together, rather than standing out like a sore thumb.
Darken the background so that it's similar (but not the same), as the categories.
Remove the horrible black stroke around the container.
Get a different pattern for the background. (That one is overused).
Remove the white inline from the category area, as that's also causing a lot of colour contrast.
And please get rid of those damn icons lol.
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(01-23-2012, 02:55 PM)Fragma Wrote: Sorry to be so negative but I still think it looks really ugly. The categories look far too dark, and creates a huge contrast with the background. You don't want too much contrast with a theme, you want the colours to blend nicely together, rather than standing out like a sore thumb.
Darken the background so that it's similar (but not the same), as the categories.
Remove the horrible black stroke around the container.
Get a different pattern for the background. (That one is overused).
Remove the white inline from the category area, as that's also causing a lot of colour contrast.
And please get rid of those damn icons lol.
The icons/banner will be the very last thing that I will do. I will change everything else you mentioned now, but what do you mean by "white inline"?
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(01-23-2012, 03:25 PM)Fragma Wrote: The inner white stroke going along the category area.
Ah, should I make it a bit darker?
What do you think now? I even attempted a better logo.
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(01-23-2012, 03:34 PM)Fragma Wrote: Yeh make it darker. Looks exactly the same at the minute?
Reset your browsers cache, I changed it quite a lot, lol.
