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I like the fact that I can change the color of the background on the main site, it makes it much easier to read at work. Putting aside the fact that shouldn't be doing such things at work, is there any chance we could also change the colors on the messageboards?
Well, all you have to do is change the 'Style Set' under Edit Options in your User CP. Theoretically, anyway.
Alas, apart from the standard one, there's only one other Style at the moment, which makes thread titles and such a bit hard to read, IMO. Maybe you'll like it better than I do, though.
I'm afraid that's all we can do for you 'til Morrus (or someone else) creates another Style Set and adds it.
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I did create an alternate style, but it's not fully finished because I find vB's style/template system fiendishly difficult to use. vB3 should be released soon, which allegedly comes with a much more intuitive style system so I should be able to come up with two or three alternates then.
If someone is an absolute whiz at making vB styles, feel free to post here or email me.
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I've found a site with a few ready-made styles to download. I'll give a couple of them a try as an experiment and see if I can get them to work properly. Check your User CP/Edit Options page for styles available, but I don't promise they'll work perfectly.
The VB Exposed style seems to work fine. After I uploaded it, I had to make a bunvh of changes and figure out how it worked though - these people who design styles seem to assume you'll be using the style on their forum, not your own, and all the images end up broken. Seems fine now.
I'm now attempting the same with something called "Silver OS".
The Silver style works, although the images are all broken. I'm working on fixing that now.
Incidentally, I notice that the various styles display different bits of info (e.g. the Silver style has your posts/day next to your postcount on the left). I like the fact that the Silver style has a quickchange style dropdown box on the main forum page - I wonder how difficult it would be to copy that over to the others?
Thanks for tinkering with the styles, it is nice to have options.
I guess you probably realize that the two newer options do not have the EN World logo, or the banner ad.
I'm not sure I like the boxes that Silver and Exposed use around posts. I prefer simple, easier to scroll along with less wasted space. The "Light" style would be my favorite if I could read the yellow text.
I'll stick with the default. For some reason, I just can't bring myself to call the place "ENWorld" with one of those other style sets...
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Morrus, you could always contact James of RPG Host. He has some good ones on the messageboards he hosts (not least of which is the Emerald Night theme ).
Evolution is good, a big improvement over the "light" style. Trying to get use to the boxes around posts, but otherwise it is excellent.
Once you set them up, is having options for styles any extra trouble? It is very nice to be able to switch around. If I am reading a long storyhour my eyes tend to get tired, and being able to switch styles seems to help.
Originally posted by Mark Wowser. Those are all significantly different than the default, aren't they? It'd be nice if there were some other dark alternatives...
Try the latest addition - "Mystique". I'm rather keen on it, myself.
Is it just me or do several of these styles leave an inch or so on both the left and right sides of the screen. As a result eveything seems to get squished in the middle. Any way to fix it?
-> this guy looks a bit strange now, though. I guess he cannot really win. 
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