Arrrghhhhhhh! My Eyes!

[masteratt]

Now how many of you will disagree with me when I say: This forum lacks a good skin.

If you do disagree....*shows you the door* Spend time elsewhere please.


For the rest of us, we have the following skins and what I believe to be the problems with them:

E-mpire: All gray, lifeless, dull basically.
PsiNext: Blinds me after a while, too white.
NNow: Bad colour combo.
Xbox Evolved:........umm, yeah.

Solution?
CARLOS!

Or more specifically, whatever he was talking about here (http://forums.e-mpire.com/showthread.php?t=74508&styleid=2).

With a bit of work, I think that skin can become good.
I would really like it if I can use that and if not, can we have another skin please?

[Gummy]

But all the gray are easy to the eyes.
I agree with the whole 'being dull' thing though.

[Viper]

These skins were made for E3 2005 with the philosophy being they'd be very easy on the servers during peak traffic.

We have plans to replace them but they go along with plans to upgrade everything else to so they'll have to wait for now.

[masteratt]

Okay, that's a no then.

[haunted leg]

http://forums.e-mpire.com/showthread.php?t=62039
http://forums.e-mpire.com/showthread.php?t=57983

[masteratt]

See Viper, why couldn't YOU do that?

Thanks a lot haunted leg (about that name change...), great support as always.
Love the Dark (D&D) one.

EDIT: Fack, the link to downloading it is broken..........no-one has it right?

[haunted leg]

i'm sure one of the vets does. now if you could only get them to read this or post...

[masteratt]

That's like asking The Grinch to enjoy Christmas.

[Boggy700]

That's like asking The Grinch to enjoy Christmas.
In the end, he does.

[masteratt]

We are far from the end my friend.

[Garfunkel]

I don't mind the psinext theme, except i would love a white on black theme.

I really just think it goes down to the uglyness of vB :)

[BlazeKat]

Viper make me a pink one.

[Helios]

I really just think it goes down to the uglyness of vB :)

I've actually seen some pretty good uses of vB but oddly enough they're all on older versions.

But I don't really care honestly, as long as it's not distracting and easy to read i'm good, though the psi skin seems really "pale". Seriously the light gray(s), the light blue, the white, a bit more contrasting color scheme would help greatly.

[seahorse]

i like the psi one. carlos' one is hilariously bad.

[Pluto]

Who's in charge of layout/graphic design here?

The Nintendo Now skin is probably the best - but I'm not too fond of that Mario banner.

[masteratt]

but I'm not too fond of that Mario banner.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v665/antena/adblock.jpg

[Smokey]

i like the E-mpire one its easy on the eye's

[Dwhitten]

Does a forum skin really enhance your posting experience?

[masteratt]

When I'm here 50 million hours a week, yes, obviously.

Otherwise why don't we just have usernames and posts, why bother with skins?

[Garfunkel]

Does a forum skin really enhance your posting experience?

Does power steering really enhance your driving experience?

[Oddyssey]

hehe if I remember to post here again this month or next, I'll check to see if I have all of those files. I cannot believe I designed this styles that long ago.

[masteratt]

What files?.....¬_¬

Are we getting a new skin or not?

[XboxEvolved]

I don't know about the rest of E-mpire, as no one has asked me, but I am personally working on a new skin for XE. It will be based or similar to this design (note: this design is not final and has since changed) http://xboxevolved.e-mpire.com/images/content/misc/xboxevolved3.jpg

[masteratt]

Much much better man :thumpsup:
Professional looking (well much more than now anyway).

And anything for the forums?

[XboxEvolved]

No not yet. I got this though: it is a Widget/Gadget that is essentially the main stories of XE, and will update everytime they are updated. You also have the option to slide the news out. This would be for the strictly content user, and not the community user..as I dont know how it would make sense to make community in a widget: http://xboxevolved.e-mpire.com/images/content/misc/widget.jpg

[masteratt]

Yeah I'm not a big fan of those Widget things but maybe make it a bit more height and less width?

[Bryan]

Apparently beggers can be choosers.