Experimental Theme

[Tbone]

And Broin's suggestion:

[Ragnarok]

Wow I like it a lot!

[Manic Velocity]

I'm not digging the banner. There's nothing very uniform or coherent about the design elements. There are drop-shadows on some text, but not others. Some text is beveled, but the rest is not. Black "smudge" underneath the white cross-section. There doesn't seem to be a theme to the design.

I know this probably sounds like I'm being overly critical. It's not meant to be. I'm trying to give an honest critique without being negative.

I'm a big proponent of "If it's not broke, don't fix it." Our old theme could certainly be improved upon in a few places to spice things up, but I don't think it requires a complete overhaul.

That and the fact that all these changes being made are live. So anyone visiting our site, like potential recruits,  will be seeing something that is unfinished.

[Tbone]

I'm not digging the banner. There's nothing very uniform or coherent about the design elements. There are drop-shadows on some text, but not others. Some text is beveled, but the rest is not. Black "smudge" underneath the white cross-section. There doesn't seem to be a theme to the design.

The current banner is a combination of feedback from a few of you, so I can see if maybe one element doesn't match another. But it's a lot easier to show this than to just tell you. My favorite is still the original white I did with just the angel symbols strengthened a bit, so I might go back to that one.

I'm a big proponent of "If it's not broke, don't fix it." Our old theme could certainly be improved upon in a few places to spice things up, but I don't think it requires a complete overhaul.

Our old theme is almost seven years old and reflects a game that no longer exists. Yet still I'm not overhauling anything. I'm adjusting the color palette a bit to give us some stronger things to play with. Combined with changes I'm starting to make to the pages themselves, I'm hoping we'll end up with a strong look that will allow us to appeal to Star Wars while not abandoning our signature feel.[/quote]

That and the fact that all these changes being made are live. So anyone visiting our site, like potential recruits,  will be seeing something that is unfinished.

I'm willing to take that chance.

[ArchNemesis]

I prefer the original white banner as well. I like the simplicity in it.

[Subb]

I quite like it.

[Saint]

You can please all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot please all the people all the time.

[Ash]

All I ask is that whatever way you decide to re-do the banner and the other panels, have Manic make the final version.

[likwidtek]

I like it.  Agreed that Manic could take a crack at the final versions.  

I still really feel the header and footer box need to disappear though.  

I know this sounds silly but what about using the same color effect that you guys found in the banner.  Like instead of the text being blue at the bottom, making the gradient a bluish tint?

[Adad]

I don't know if it's been mentioned, I don't mind the theme but I dislike the empty bar at the bottom of the pages...if anything maybe just a single line of that faded gray, but I don't think anything is needed and it doesn't really complete the look, I think it just comes off as random and unnecessary, but that's just me. Again, can't please everyone.

[Tbone]

I believe you are referring to the footer. So far I haven't found a way to disable it, but I'm looking.

[Adad]

Yes that is what im referring to. OK, cool.

[Manic Velocity]

You should be able to just comment out the footer code.  

Or make it useful by putting something in the footer, like copyright info or something along those lines.

[likwidtek]

Tbone, like I said, you can just remove it from the theme.  At least you could back in the day.  It's either in the core PHP or in the theme but I'm 90% sure it's in the theme files.

[Tbone]

I've looked in all the theme files. I'm sure it's there somewhere, but if it is, it isn't labelled very well. I can't find anything that looks like code for the footer.

We used to have copyright info in the footer. It was even written out in the admin settings, but something must have bugged it out, because it hasn't shown up at the bottom of the page for a few years now.