Skin Themes

[Erroneous 0]

I've been thinking about skinning the site to fit the style and presence of SAO, so far here are a few of my ideas.

[*:t8egi9kr]http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/style/ca_halcyon/demo/
I like light themes, clean and crisp, the colors aren't hard on the eyes with this one. Width is fluid to fit any resolution. And the logo is centered, right where I'll put my SAO logo. The Rules over the rest of the topic view are very noticable. And that fade to grey at the bottom is sharp.


[*:t8egi9kr]http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/style/artodia_air/demo/
Everything is nice and rounded, and items appear out of nowhere when brought up.

[*:t8egi9kr]

http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/style/artodia_deluxe/demo/

Very intuitive, everything feels like it falls into place. Not keen on the Purple/Orange scheme though.

If you see one you think we should pick and focus on, voice your opinions here. Also, you are free to browse the demo to see other styles to recommend a new one.

[Crim 0]

I like the Deluxe look and i also like this one

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/styl ... htbb/demo/

[Namine 0]

http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/style ... _air/demo/

Everything is nice and rounded, and items appear out of nowhere when brought up.

Works quite well I think. If we get that logo made it'd fit well with the color scheme too IMO.

Deluxe is nice, but I don't like that purple/orange set up though.

The one Crim posted is ehh...I've worked with that theme before on another forum and it didn't really look nice overall.

[Sieg 0]

Deluxe looks good, Crim's is okay. Though if you want to go for something like that I think

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/styl ... 4e445dda6#

Might look a bit better.

However if we're suggesting things

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/styl ... eams/demo/

I think the all out basic design would fit better with the type of MMO SAO seems to be, but that's just me.

[Guest]

I like the darker themed skins that have been tossed out -- SAO has a darker side to its story, the fact that your trapped in a game, and you can feel everything, and you go through a series of emotions which might end you in death.

[Guest]

I'm a fan of the lighter skins, I really like Namine's Air skin

the Dark Revil skin is nice too.

[Mythee 0]

I like the Air one! But also the idea of simply making our own skin BGs to use. Maybe even having a different bg for each level would be nice. Otherwise, having a few free themes for the users to choose between from their settings might also be cool beans.

[Nevina 0]

Do we have the ability to change the backgrounds? 'Cause that'd be pretty cool. SAO has really pretty backgrounds/environments~

[Namine 0]

You can have different themes for different forum sections if I recall right. So it might be possible, but I don't know that's up to Edan.

[Erroneous 0]

You can have different themes for different forum sections if I recall right.

We can. Skins can be set per forum, not per topic however.

[Mythee 0]

Sounds perf. if we end up going with one section per floor. Or maybe there could be one section per group of floors? I mean, if there were 37 sections I think I'd already be a little intimidated... XD

[Guest]

So where do we stand on this? Its been four days since last post, and the air skin theme seems to be most popular.

And if, as Erron stated, said we can pick skins were forum, is that something we'd want to do now, or put into development later.

[Namine 0]

Best thing to do is to put up a poll and see. Did we finalize the skins we have to choose from yet? I know a few users suggested themes themselves.

[Crim 0]

Well there were only 6 idea's thrown around (well link wise) so i went ahead and opened up a Poll with the links of each one as the option. :D

[Sieg 0]

Probably going to end up using the air one anyway, because that's the one that people seem to like most, with or without a pole.

[Namine 0]

It fits pretty well with how the series has it's UI in general. I just get a SAO feeling from it.

[Guest]

Lets give this poll until... Sunday Night at 9pm PST?

[Namine 0]

No let's give it until 12AM EST :P. (Sure sounds good).

[Crim 0]

lol i just added a 1 day timer to it so it will end at 10:37AM on monday :P

[Namine 0]

Some how you made it end TODAY at 8 in the morning. I fixed it so that it ends tomorrow. Regardless topic is being locked in at 12AM EST.