New Default Theme

It's beautiful!  I love blue!

Ummm...does the new blue have anything to do with Gerard's avatar? (Unless I'm totally wasted, it's like a sillouette....am I hallucinating??)

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What a great new look for the site!  Props to whoever took care of the change, it looks great!  Julie  :-)

Julie...read lots on Testing 1-2-3 AND various Calender/Announcement boards and you'll see that it's wonderful, nee marvelous Mysterious Benefactor and our own sweetie Midnite who slave laboriously on these boards....

Patti

Ummm...does the new blue have anything to do with Gerard's avatar? (Unless I'm totally wasted, it's like a sillouette....am I hallucinating??)

You are not hallucinating, Patti. In this new theme certain members who have not chosen an avatar have the no-avatar mystery silhouette display in their posts.

That's a pretty cool feature.

I love the new look!

beautiful!

I really like the new look. The wording is much brighter and more easily readable. MB you did a great job with this new design and the background is fantastic.

I continue to tweak a few things and add a few others. You've probably noticed that the search feature is back in the header. (It's particularly useful when one wants to search the board that one is currently viewing.) And I've just added several new buttons to the main menu. The "guidelines" button currently does nothing but bring one back to the BoardIndex page - but that's only until I get the chance to write the routine to display the guidelines. However, all the other new buttons, some of which are only visible to members and others only to admins/mods, do exactly what one would expect. 

More features will probably follow as I find the time to add them...

The "guidelines" button currently does nothing but bring one back to the BoardIndex page - but that's only until I get the chance to write the routine to display the guidelines.

This button is now doing its intended job. 

If I am understanding this correctly I can change the default profile on my end? I am having trouble with the new blue theme. I personally find it too bright and I have very bad eyesight. I am not spending as much time reading the boards because it bothers my eyes. If I can change it on my end how do I do it?

Choosing A Theme

This board is loaded with helpful topics/explanations. And most of the really important ones (like this topic) are stickied to the top of the board so they can be easily found. 

it took me much longer than I might have hoped to get around to designing something new. That was mostly because I wanted any new theme design to be able to be used with SMF 2.0 as well as SMF 1.1.5 (our current system) so that the forum wouldn't have to begin from scratch when we upgrade once a perfected version of SMF 2.0 is released.

Make that SMF 1.1.6 - I just installed an upgrade. 

A new version of SMF 2.0 was also released, but it's still in beta (beta 4, to be exact), so presumably we won't be making the leap to 2.0 for a while yet...

If I am understanding this correctly I can change the default profile on my end? I am having trouble with the new blue theme. I personally find it too bright and I have very bad eyesight. I am not spending as much time reading the boards because it bothers my eyes.

Yeah, when the blue theme first appeared, I was having e-coli problems and the bright blue gave me a headache, so I rushed to choose the old theme.  I'm happy to report that the e-coli problems have gone away and the bright blue no longer gives me a headache, but I'm sticking with the old theme just in case.

Okay, I admit it - I didn't want to switch to the new theme. But I switched to a new computer today, so I figured, "Why not?" It looks utterly fantastic running at 1280x1024 on Google Chrome. MB, you've really outdone yourself!

This theme now has a new background in honor of the switch to 1897:

At 1680X1050:

Click for larger image: 1680-2.jpg

looks really nice!