The new colors are so gorgeous - nicest colors I think I've ever seen on a board.
Thanks - I love them too. But the truth is that this didn't start out to be a new theme for the entire forum. I originally came up with it just to use it for the older boards to set them apart from the currently active boards. However, once I saw how it turned out, I hated to relegate it to the boards that most of us rarely visit, so I decided to expand it as a full theme for the entire forum.
Oh no....you're not going to change the colors soon, are you?
The answer for now is yes - and no. How are both those answers possible? All in good time.
And I might add that anyone who might be missing the previous theme needn't fret - you haven't seen the end of it. Not at all.
I won't get attached to them because inevitably you will be making a change
True - but that doesn't necessarily mean that you'll ever need to make that change (he said cryptically for the time being
![[wink2]](http://www.dsboards.com/SMF/Smileys/classic/wink2.gif "Wink #2")
). Feel free to become attached to them as much as you might like.
The check for new stuff feels counter-intuitive to me. No doubt it's yet another way in which I'm "special" compared to others, but I generally check things off that have already been attended to.
Hmmm - honestly I didn't think of it that way, but you make a good point. I might rethink the check mark...
It was moving very slowly when I was on earlier today, but I'm using IE (haha) so have only Bill Gates to blame for that.
Far be it from me to let Gates off the hook for anything, but here and there the forum has been responding slowly for me, too, today - and I'm using Linux with Netscape. Our host was making some changes over the weekend that didn't affect the way the forum responded. But perhaps they're now doing some work on the MySQL database server and that's slowing things down.
Don't you ever sleep?
The staff mantra around here is "We don't need no stinkin' sleep!"
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It startled me at first!
Exactly the first reaction I was going for.
![[b003]](http://www.dsboards.com/SMF/Smileys/classic/b003.gif "Wink/Smile")
Seems so vampiric with the red and all.
That's exactly what I was going for.
In fact, originally I was thinking of doing a few icons with a blood dripping effect or by using the blood dripping font that I'd used to create the "new" icon for this past October's Halloween theme, but then I rethought the idea. Sometimes subtlety and subliminal suggestion work better.
(Though I haven't actually given up on the idea entirely - I *may* create an entire horror-based theme. We'll see...)
it goes well with my avatar
I noticed that last night. And the interesting thing is that I began work on this theme before you switched avatars, so, perhaps, this time you really did read someone's mind -
mine.
