New Design

[Chris Schreiber]

Overall I love the new design.... very professional looking and it matches the rest of the site nicely.

However, as a few others have pointed out.... the grey text box with the tiny font is wayyy too small for my eyes. Hopefully you can make this bigger and easier to read.

-Chris

[Coreace]

On Track

Excellent!
It looks more professional and it is more "compact" which I personally prefer. I don't like much the yellow icons though, but I am sure this can be changed. Good Work! And please do keep going on this track.

[Mafukie]

I really hope you guys don't use this as the default layout in version updates... Gotta love the smilies with Yellow teeth =\ other than that I really like the new layout.

[Coreace]

I love this layout and two of the icons are now in colors If you do decide to change this design it would be nice to have the option to change it yourself. The "problem" that the fonts are too small can surely be an option where you can choose on the template page. I like the flat nav link (top right) I really disliked the ugly icons and big links on the previous version. It looked really messy and not very pro. After this change I might consider to buy a license!

Keep up the good work.

[TechTalk]

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[Shoe]

Needs more work

It's a good start but the fonts as others say are too small when typing a message, the icons (members etc need to be changed--they don't go with the new design. MAybe get rid of the icons and just use text. Why don't you use some of the fine examples of designs used by your clients? Or have them design a good default design? I didn't buy your board based on how it looked with you--but based on how others made it look.

[Edited by Shoe on 09-04-2000 at 09:37 PM]

[TWTCommish]

The layout here works well for this site...but how many sites can you name that what the whole "orange and purple" feel for theirs? I VERY MUCH hope that the next update does not use this layout...they should stick with the older one; it's a proven method that works.

[flyer0303]

i dont like it

ok, its nice for u, but not acceptable for my sites, but thats the good at vB, if i dont like ait (and hell, i dont like it!) then i can make easy a own layout

btw, yellow icons and smilies are really ugly

[Menno]

hm... maybe the standart vB you can download would have a standart greyish color/style.
That would work nicely

[Parker Clack]

What would be really cool is if you guys could figure out a type of skin layout. That way the basic board layout stays the same but you could pick from a list of skins (color scheme, font colors, etc.) that you could use for your own site.

Members could upload these own skins to a database that others could also pick and chose from.

Parker

[chrispadfield]

That is a brilliant idea. The one thing is more standard images will be needed as opposed to the purpley ones here so that they work well with the typical grey, blue etc colour sets.

[Freddie Bingham]

After you do that, you add an option to the user profile so that user's can switch the skins themselves ala fusetalk or cal's site http://www.iamcal.com

[Kaiser_Sose]

if fusetalk was in a more applacable form like php + mysql it might just give vbulletin a run for its money

[Michael]

I don't mind the layout, but it would be cool if you could offer the buttons in 5 or 6 colors, as not all peoples forums will look good with purple buttons...

Get rid of the yellow icons - and get rid of the CSS. I like the layout though, just the images really that aren't too good.

[Freddie Bingham]

Of course the buttons would also change depending on the skin layout. (in a perfect vB world)