New forum style

[Kaelri]

Excellent! Really looks great now.

I can sympathize with some of smurfier's points - the buttons are a bit small, and the layout follows many of phpBB's strange conventions. But these are things we can tweak as we go along. I'd say the overall design is solid.

[jsmorley]

Excellent! Really looks great now.

I can sympathize with some of smurfier's points - the buttons are a bit small, and the layout follows many of phpBB's strange conventions. But these are things we can tweak as we go along. I'd say the overall design is solid.

I added a little drop shadow, hit shift-f5 to be sure you see it. Is that ok?

[smurfier]

It's beautiful. I've come to appreciate this new style as it emphasizes each forum's and topic's status. That and it's so very clean looking.

[jsmorley]

It's beautiful. I've come to appreciate this new style as it emphasizes each forum's and topic's status. That and it's so very clean looking.

Yeah, new posts certainly jump out at you. That is the advantage to the plainness of things you have already read.

[Matt]

Nice job, jsmorley!

While I'm thankful I'll be able to stick with prosilver, Firefly Serenity is an attractive option and will make for a sleek new default. As was mentioned, some of the buttons are just a bit too small and, personally, I'm not sure how I feel about so much use of the salmony/pink color (although that may be my extreme displeasure with the new GReader and Gmail designs seeping out, lol). Those are very minor quibbles, though. Great work, again.

[jsmorley]

I made the Edit and Quote buttons a bit bigger, and the Delete button easier to see when viewing posts.

[Mordasius]

I made the Edit and Quote buttons a bit bigger, and the Delete button easier to see when viewing posts.

That's a definite improvement on what is already a really good style. Is there any way to make the widescreen background black to reduce the glare and allow us to focus on the forum posts?

[smurfier]

The "report this post" button is a bit teeny tiny. Could you possibly make it a bit wider maybe?

The darker background sure does make the main part of the forum pop out though I was enjoying the open feeling of the lighter color.

[jsmorley]

I darkened it up a tad. I don't want to go with black or really dark and lose the drop shadow effect.

[Mordasius]

I darkened it up a tad. I don't want to go with black or really dark and lose the drop shadow effect.

That's just about right IMHO. The important stuff stands out and we lose all the glare. Now getting on to really pin-ick-ity stuff, I think the post time and date get lost down in the bottom left. How about putting that up in the top right where you see it when you start reading the post and the 'QUOTE' 'EDIT' buttons (which are now a good size) down in the bottom right which is where you need them when you've done reading the post and want to reply / edit?