New site design

[elvis]

Pleasant surprise as I log on this morning. Very sexy.

[pakopako]

Aw. Nice mellow color scheme. Looks better, though I still feel like its stealing a bit of retail space.

[Gooseberrysoda]

Beautiful.

[Ziggy]

I think the text color might just be an optical illusion on the forum because of the background. That part of the code should have stayed the same.
The only thing that is different is the top header and the backgrounds.

But you DO see the difference I'm talking about, right?

Hatta's pic:
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6537 ... rd01rm.png

[Hobie-wan]

I think the text color might just be an optical illusion on the forum because of the background. That part of the code should have stayed the same.
The only thing that is different is the top header and the backgrounds.

But you DO see the difference I'm talking about, right?

Hatta's pic:
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6537 ... rd01rm.png

Opened the picture in Photoshop and checked the RGB values with the eyedropper. The quoted text is pure black 0,0,0. The new text is dark gray 54,54,54. It isn't bothering me, but it is lighter.

[Ziggy]

Lol. AH-HA! So it IS lighter.

Any chance of getting it back to black?

[Jayson]

Congrats on the new design! I like it a lot.

I keep noticing a bunch of nice touches like the pixel background and the slideshow transitions of the articles on the front page. Keep up the good work on the site, it's coming along nicely.

As far as the ads go, do what you gotta do there, but please no annoying blaring mouse-over flash ads. Those are becoming really common and I loathe them (especially when I am on my little netbook).

BTW, the layout on the Acidtech stylesheet is a bit messed up, but I switched to Glossy Blue and it looks great!

[YoshiEgg25]

I just noticed that Podcasts #1 and #7 are missing from the page.

[racketboy]

Lol. AH-HA! So it IS lighter.

Any chance of getting it back to black?

I'll work on tweaking some forum code in a week or two.
These last few weeks have been insane. Somehow a few huge items all ended up on my to-do list at the same time (I hate the beginning of the year)

[CRTGAMER]

Site is beautiful!

The Front Page Active Forum Topics is a great idea to give current discussion Front Page exposure. Maybe just some slight tweaking to make it look less cluttered? Perhaps dropping the dates and including the page numbers so one can choose to go right to the last current page? Just the Topic Title and page numbers, no need for the Author or Views icons.

Maybe it could be the same as in the second pic in clear black Bold Face?