Electric Blue!

[MerakSpielman]

Not bad, MM. I like it better than Stealth or Holiday.

These different schemes are kind of fun as long as I have good 'ol Charcoal to switch back to. It's a comfort zone thing.

edit: Morrus, is it just the not-centered-on-Africa globe being wrong, or the whole color scheme of the logo that you disapprove of? You have to admit it matches the rest of the style. The default logo seems tailor-made to match Charcoal or other black/gray styles. It would look mighty odd with the rest of the screen pale blue.

 

[Morrus]

edit: Morrus, is it just the not-centered-on-Africa globe being wrong, or the whole color scheme of the logo that you disapprove of? You have to admit it matches the rest of the style. The default logo seems tailor-made to match Charcoal or other black/gray styles. It would look mighty odd with the rest of the screen pale blue.

It's that it's not the correct logo; I'm sure McDonalds would object if one of their branches had something other than the McDonalds logo on it, too.

The logo appears all over the place, including on the cover of magazines. It is important that it remain consistent in my (possibly futile) efforts to market EN World generally.

 

[Michael Morris]

It's that it's not the correct logo; I'm sure McDonalds would object if one of their branches had something other than the McDonalds logo on it, too.

The logo appears all over the place, including on the cover of magazines. It is important that it remain consistent in my (possibly futile) efforts to market EN World generally.

Ok, ok, I was gonna have fun with globes (see below), but I'll switch it to normal. For instance on a theme called "copper" use a copper globe..

 

[Morrus]

I would be OK with a "wash" or a "tint" across the original logo to help them blend in better, but no actual alteration to the logo itself. Would that work?

 

[Michael Morris]

I would be OK with a "wash" or a "tint" across the original logo to help them blend in better, but no actual alteration to the logo itself. Would that work?

Yeah, I think that will work.

 

[Mercule]

I can see your point, Morrus.

Those of us who've been around a while know what the real logo is and it has some recognition. Any newbies, though, that used one of the themes from the get-go wouldn't necessarily associate the logo from the Player's Journal or a link from another site with these boards/this site.

Michael did do a great job, though. The copper one, especially, rocks.

On another note, can the themes for the boards be trasferred/duplicated to the front/news pages? It's a kinda wierd disconnect to load ENWorld in parchment (postnuke) and then come to blue message boards.

 

[Morrus]

On another note, can the themes for the boards be trasferred/duplicated to the front/news pages? It's a kinda wierd disconnect to load ENWorld in parchment (postnuke) and then come to blue message boards.

One thing I've always wanted to do is to link the entire site together consistently with themes and member accounts across the whole thing, and a consistent navigation menu. Unfortunately, with various different bits of software (PostNuke, vBulletin, the reviews pages, Top Sites etc.), that isn't possible.

vBulletin are (apparently) going to release a product to compete with PostNuke sometime over the next couple of years, which integrates completely with their messageboard software. I'll take a look at it when it is released, but that's not anytime in the immediate future.

 

[Michael Morris]

One thing I've always wanted to do is to link the entire site together consistently with themes and member accounts across the whole thing, and a consistent navigation menu. Unfortunately, with various different bits of software (PostNuke, vBulletin, the reviews pages, Top Sites etc.), that isn't possible.

vBulletin are (apparently) going to release a product to compete with PostNuke sometime over the next couple of years, which integrates completely with their messageboard software. I'll take a look at it when it is released, but that's not anytime in the immediate future.

3rd party's have already created such "hacks" Take a look at www.vbulletin.org sometime

 

[Morrus]

I'm a little dubious about hacks.

Plus, how would data be imported from PN to 3rd-party software? I certainly don't plan to copy out the entire site into a new system!

 

[Morrus]

Although it does look nice....