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For those who don't know yet, as of recently. The forums has a new Black Theme! With many thanks for KYnetiK for helping with the ESF Banner and the navbar buttons! Wish to use the Black Theme? Click here to change to the Black Forum Skin! As always, opinions & comments are welcome.
 
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That banner looks horrible, I could make a better one in 5 minutes.
 
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It looks like I expected but I think it could be much better.
 
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I dont really like it that much sky.

Black and blue aint to great.

Try something with black and red.
 
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I don't like it for a couple of reasons (I won't name them all)

Banner: Pretty much sucks with that forum
Link Buttons(Home, Members, User CP etc.): Are larger than the bar next to it. Texting has crappy reflection effect on them (Reflection is ok, but not in the way it is done here). Texting has crappy font.
Icons: Some of the forum icons look messed up with the background, for example:

Blue: The type of blue used looks dull and boring.

Oh and there is also a bug if you go back from Black to normal. I have the normal background now, but all my buttons turned into the one from the black background.

Anyway, I did a quick mockup of how I think it would look better, I didn't do a banner, I just changed some colors to make it look nicer and less dull and I changed the navigation bar buttons:



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Here is one with a quickly made banner, as how I would think it should somewhat look. Note that it looks crappy because I couldn't find a good Earth render that quickly, and I had to cut out the logo from the website, that and I didn't want to recreate the entire top bar, so the 'glass' effect is not used on top of the banner.:

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/5073/forummockup2co5.jpg
 
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I really have a problem with the light blue color, it looks out of place.
 
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This is only of of the themes I've installed. More will come, so you guys can choose which ever you see fit to use.
 
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At least change the navigation bar buttons, so they look better.
 
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ive grown fond of the light color scheme =/
 
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Also I want New Posts button. Today's post ain't good enough :X
Patience. Since this is a different navbar, buttons has to be created.
 
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I dont like the light blue Section titles, and the banner at the bottom of the page. Seems a bit out of place. The buttons have a weird font. I only changed the color to white, and did the missing buttons to match the BlackIce theme at Sky's request. The username colours contrast better now, except for the deep blue - should be a lighter hue. The other buttons, like the post ones, look fine. Im messing around with other banner ideas, the one now was just to get rid of the default BlakIce one. When the missing buttons are sussed out things should be coming together.

The rest looks solid ^_^
 
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I agree with you about the banner at the bottom of the page.
 
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I've replaced the AIM, MSN, User online, etc buttons in the profile bit in the left with new buttons.
 

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