New theme is on the horizon! [EDIT: Website Complete! New members!]

EDIT: Theme is complete! We have successfully converted from PhpBB 2 to PhpBB 3. For a full list of what has changed, CLICK HERE.

In addition to that, we have two new members. Please welcome Techman and Chocobo for making it into Optimus!

Congrats guys!



Yes, I am once again redesigning our website. Our current format is frankly confusing - even with our current ultra-simple-portal.

My goals with this new theme are to...

1. Provide a 'News' section displaying our latest news on our homepage.

2. Provide an 'About' webpage separate from a forum topic.

3. Prove a 'Media' page that will display clan videos, screenshots, medals, etc.

4. Integrate our forum theme with our portal theme. (Which is changing)

5. Limit the amount of text on screen at one time. You may not have notices it, but there is quite a lot of text packed into every page compared to other websites. This will add to the simplicity of our website.

That's about it! Please allow several days for this process to take place. It will happen gradually as I test ideas and images. I will update this announcement when the theme has been fully uploaded.

Thanks
Ares

Can't wait to see it man! Good luck!

Heh, you have too much time on your hands Ares.

Release OB BP before Ares starts creating a frankenstein website!

Enoch wrote:Heh, you have too much time on your hands Ares.

Release OB BP before Ares starts creating a frankenstein website!

Lol you don't want that to happen Enouch. I mean if that happens then Ares will get side tracked and will end up playing BP instead of finishing the website. Then we'll have a horrible disfigured frankenstien website!

Love the new theme!

The chat box is a bit odd now...the message typing box is in the lower right for me and is almost hidden behind my status bar.

I also can't see the difference between the "new posts" icon and the "no new posts" icon (the difference is there but very subtle to me).

No worries, this is a rough rough draft.

I'll make a full update note later but with PhpBB3 I can't edit the HTML - I'm restricted to CSS only, so it's a bit hard to change things at the moment.

Sit tight

omg WHITE that's all I have to say. My eyes are bleeding brb. :p

I am not a fan of this new theme. Its too bright, and the forum icons are not very clear.

Synopxis wrote:I am not a fan of this new theme. Its too bright, and the forum icons are not very clear.

Yup... and star trek? really?

All right then... I'll researching something else.

Ok ok, the Star Trek was just a test...

Does anyone else think this is too bright? I've darked the color of the body from a white to a light grey.

I am personally a big fan of this theme.

Working on making it darker now...

I don't know...the star trek is a bit much but I like the clean look myself.

Where is the Star Trek you guys are seeing?

Heh, nvm. ^^

Lol give 'em a little time guys, i'm sure he's just play'n with stuff to see what best suits our website.

Though the white is making my eyes run red lol

@Rooster: Lol I made the same comment about the Star Trek lol.

Yes... CSS is very new to me.

If I could just figure out how to change the color of the forums on the index!

If I could do that, then I could darken them up a bit and return the body background to white. Then it wouldn't be so bright.

Also need to figure out how to change the topic text colors... they are too faint.

Anyway, I'll experiment some more tomorrow.

For the new post and no new post icons, it would be easy to make several version of our round logo for that...just a thought.

Looking good

The color is way better now, imo. Other then that, the new theme is awesome

mmm, I dont think the white really suites our clan. Why? I have no idea, it just doesn't. Having something darker really needs to be implemented.

you can look at this site for ideas. Followers of Palawa

I def love the Gray waaaay better than the white.

Yes this is much better, the last one was a little too much for the eye.