Yarg! Blue on black?!

Thaadd wrote:

Um. Not to be a whiner, but please tell me the 'skin' is somehow configurable.

My halfblind, bifocals wearing self is squinting at this crazy color combo. I miss my Monarch orange

It sure is spacy. But. Um. HARD to read.

I can make it all orange if you want, but then someone will complain about that.

Mr Skeletor wrote:

Maybe it's a late april fools joke?

You're a dick. If you don't like this, go here , and pick out a theme that you like and I'll replace this one the next time I have a free 72 hours. BTW Chromaphore doesn't work on our server and my daughter says most of the other templates look like insurance companies.

Thaadd wrote:

Try highlighting some text. It's unreadable when you do so (or at least in my crazy Mac Firefox). Was there anything wrong with the old color build?

The old template was an unsupported, obsolete nightmare, and wouldn't support the upgrades I had to do. So I decided to just purchase a membership with a professional template club. Updating, upgrading and bringing up new features is much easier with a state of the art, professional template.

For example, changing the links from blue to orange on this new template could be done really quickly. Although this template only comes with a choice between blue or orange. I couldn't change it to something else very easily. I just picked blue, because when I showed the two options to some friends, they said that the orange looked like Halloween.

I see what you mean by the highlighting problem (I'm on Mac FireFox myself about 50% of the time). I'll try and get that fixed.

Adrian Bolt wrote:

ubarose wrote:
"I can make it all orange if you want, but then someone will complain about that."
That would be me...
This one I like best of the three you have tried so far. There's still some pesky orange remnants to be eradicated though, uba! How about making the Search Forum box and button white on black to match the one on the top left? (Is there a reason there's two, by the way?)

Thank you. I'm pleased that a couple of people like it.

The dark background search at the very top searches the site, but not the forums (i.e.the articles).
The light background search at the top of the forum, searches the forum, but not the site.

I may change the search to light on dark. It depends upon some other things I'm working on which may or may not pan out. Later tonight I'll be writing up a longer discussion of my ideas for the site layout and what I need from the members to make it happen.

Right now we having an IE6 conflict with the server which I need to work out. Right now people using IE6 can't access the site (AGAIN!). It doesn't help posting that information here, since people who can't access the site can't see this post. I can't fix the problem right now, because I can't get into the backend of the system because of a connectivity issue. BLLAHHH.

Thanks for letting me know. The problem doesn't seem to be impacting all IE6 users. I had a hunch that it was related to a conectivity issue with some ISPs plus IE6. The fact that you could get on without a problem suggests that I am going in the right direction.