Website/forum themes

I know many of you aren't fans of the black/yellow design, so if you have a better idea for the site (or just for this topic viewing page) fire away here!

Leperous said:
I know many of you aren't fans of the black/yellow design, so if you have a better idea for the site (or just for this topic viewing page) fire away here!

gasps

some dislike it..??

personally, i find it the best, it is easiest to read, and least harsh of all so far.

I too like the yellow on black a lot, though I'm not against you adding more, purely because I LOVE the snarkpit getting more and more developed for some reason.

...Is that really sad?

Not really. Would be interesting to see how this site develops. Alot of the best mappers hang around here so in the future I could see this place being some uber 1337 underground hiding place :razz:

quite a few of the best mappers left hang out here myrk..

as much as i love this site, which i sincerely hope there is no doubt of.... snarkpit has a fairly small percentage of the best mappers out there... sadly i feel only due to the games age.

a small portion though is due to our attitudes on mapping, which i helped to instill.. most of the major mappers think of themselves as elite to the area, and we promote all levels of experience.

i would never change our attitudes on that point, but it does keep our cadre' somewhat smallish.

Yer I have noticed that a lot of the old school peeps have become extremely quiet :razz:

But we are also creating a new generation of mappers. We are US. Besides, when HL2 comes out within the next 10 years or so maybe we'll have more mappers then. And Snarkpit will thrive.

As for the theme issue, I love this black yellow greenish. I've browsed the other ones once and didnt much like them, but to everyone their tastes :biggrin:

I think the other ones could be great (particularly the retro blue and white...ah the memories :smile: ) but they aren't very well implemented at the moment, they just don't seem to work properly.

I'd say VERC seems to have a higher percentage of the "1337" mappers still working with the HL engine - in other words the Natural Selection mappers, Nightwatch mappers, etc... However here at the snarkpit we have a great variety of skill levels and yet everyone takes everyone's opinions on board. I've no great experience of the VERC community, but from what I've seen, it can't match what we have here :smile:

Its not so much a "lets get rid of the black and yellow colour scheme" more an option to view it different colours for people who dont like black..

I love the black! Its easy on the eyes..

Indeed, black is certainly full of benefits, such as being easy on the eyes, and providing a great background for viewing screenshots against. But that doesn't mean some people wouldn't like a new theme...

No need for a new theme, imho.

Black is very good for your eyes btw ...

I like the themes. As an afterthought, People only use black or white backgrounds on their site, other colours look garish.

Why dont you start another one of those anoying polls to see who wants to keep this theme, personally I like it.

there ya go thats one vote for :Keep this theme :smile: <!-- ZoneLabs Popup Blocking Insertion -->

Jeez guys, THIS THEME ISN'T GOING ANYWHERE. There just might be a few more thrown into the mix :smile:

ReNo said:
Jeez guys, THIS THEME ISN'T GOING ANYWHERE. There just might be a few more thrown into the mix :smile:

the rumormill of misquotes is a powerful entity duncan :biggrin:

What Reno said, I'm not getting rid of it at all. Just thinking about adding new optional ones is all, and was hoping someone would design something in Paint/Photoshop and post a concept pic :biggrin: Be nice to have a decent white-background theme, mainly.

Orpheus said:

ReNo said:
Jeez guys, THIS THEME ISN'T GOING ANYWHERE. There just might be a few more thrown into the mix :smile:

the rumormill of misquotes is a powerful entity duncan :biggrin:

I never knew the telephone game worked in forums... Cool!

Replace "The Snarkpit" logo, with "Vash f**king rules". :biggrin:

When you say photoshop a new theme, do you mean like... take a screenshot of a thread page, then alter it in a way that looks nice, and has a light background? What kind of constraints are there? Do you want them for condensed or normal view, and does this even matter?

I think he just means give some visual indication of a theme, be it an edited screen capture, or a quick "from scratch" knock up in photoshop, or whatever. Just something showing what colour everything would be, to show if it looks nice. As for normal or condensed, I would assume show how normal would look and then the condensed version would be easy enough to guess.

I think this site needs more white background/black text. And throw in some blue for that extra 'something'. :biggrin:

Get Monqui to do one with Paint.

Oh god no, Lep would be better trying to use psychic powers to steal people's ideas than figure out what the hell one of those monqui "masterpieces" is trying to convey

That sounds like a challenge to me.

Blech. Anything would be better than what I'm working on now, at least :/

I was always glad to see that Black-Yellow screen: it makes you feel like 1337 mapping has come home

Yak_Fighter said:
I think this site needs more white background/black text. And throw in some blue for that extra 'something'. :biggrin:

The 'classic' theme pretty much works again now, bar a few images :/

Hmmmm.... I think a better title bar would be a "Welcome to the Snarkpit, Please hold while Vash eats your legs"

Hmmm, the good old days :smile:

It does still have a few issues but big improvement to the classic theme all all round. The sidebar on the left doesn't look quite right on a lot of pages still - was it black below the links on the old snarkpit site?

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OK, here's my attempt at a sort of minimalist white background theme. The spacing around the bar that has username and contact methods is a bit big, but I couldn't change that without spending hours trying to figure out what the hell is going on in the html for this place :biggrin:

<a href="http://themonster.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/simple.gif" target="_blank"></A>

I suppose most people like more colour... it would be easy to change a couple of things to 'gold' or 'green' without making it look to horrible I guess :smile: Oh and I edited the snark.gif to have transparency but it didn't turn out very well. I hate editing images :smile:

Everything looks great as is. A white background would look..... whats the word...... like sh*t.

GrimlocK said:


Everything looks great as is. A white background would look..... whats the word...... like sh*t.

and, I repeat, black fonts on a white background = teh horror for my eyes.

Yeah ok, but Lep wants a white background theme, and not everybody hates black on white. I suppose you guys both use the blue background with white writing in word then?

Thanks Jeff, was thinking of doing a minimalist stylee like that. goes to work

I think it looks quite cool, though I'm quite firmly taken by the classic theme now, and I don't think I'll be budged :razz:

EDIT: This leaves me with a dilemma - I could change my avatar to the white background variant I made at the same time so it looks right on my theme, but then it would look a bit naff to everyone else...argh the decision making process!

ty ReNo :smile:

Make your avatar a gif with transparency.

That would be impossible with the fade effect to the left of the character :sad:

Throw a little border around it, and make the BG color a relatively dark grey (or just leave it black.)

New idea for a layout?

(I was bored and had a few minutes before going to work).

pities Monqui's bosses at work :biggrin:

Would be interesting to have an l337 version though.......

Interesting snark. :biggrin:

Alien_Sniper said:
Interesting snark. :biggrin:

Its 2D intense ! Much scarier than the original, I almost wet my pants when the image opened on my browser.

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i stuffed around in photshop, inverting, variations and airbrushing. God it looks like s**t but its just an example colouring thing.. or something.. ill stop making excuses now.



oh dear..

-BB