So I worked a bit on the forum theme last night, the hardest part being figuring out how to center the logo (something unusual on a SMF forum) and the theme is far from finished. However, I was unsure about what background color to choose around the site. Currently it's dark turquoise or something, but would people prefer something different and what? What I know, though, is that using the same green as the inner logo green looked ugly, though, and a gray-ish green looks more like an hospital surgery room than anything else. :P
I like the green you have right now. Maybe you could do some wacky background like you did on Omnimaga v5, but green. And more wacky.
Maybe change the background green to the same one as the logo border?
Quote from: Juju on November 13, 2014, 10:26:19 PM
I like the green you have right now. Maybe you could do some wacky background like you did on Omnimaga v5, but green. And more wacky.
I would prefer to keep the background as simple as possible. I could add some background image but it will most likely be very simple and calc-related (or it could use some of the effects in the banner background)
Quote from: pimathbrainiac on November 13, 2014, 10:36:06 PM
Maybe change the background green to the same one as the logo border?
I tried that but then it looks almost identical to the Omnimaga SMF 2.0 theme back when it was still in beta (the one with the blue background) and the color is nearly identical to some past Omnimaga themes too.
Using the color from the signature version of the logo seems to give a decent result, though. I also liked how it came up with the 84+CSE version of the logo (where blue and green is combined into a very dark green, although that's the same as the 2004 Omni theme (although not as much of an issue considering Omni only used it for 6 months and over a decade ago). I also got another green idea, but it still has a bit of the hospital look.
1: one of the light blue from the signature logo
2: another one but darker
3: tried with a more blue-ish version of the hospital surgery room green.
4: Green from calc logo
(http://djomnimaga.codewalr.us/colorideas.png)
IMHO I feel that green fits better with the logo and makes the site more different, but it depends of you too.
I like the third option ("more blue-ish version of the hospital surgery room green") the best. Option four is my second favorite, imo.
I like the color is is now. You could add some wackyness in the form of loose scaled up pixels, that'd be nice :)
Quote from: aeTIos on November 14, 2014, 07:05:03 PM
You could add some wackyness in the form of loose scaled up pixels, that'd be nice :)
I agree, but with the colors I like :P
I tried such effect but for some reasons this made the board background look a bit too Minecraft-ish >.<
I like the first two colors but shouldn't the background be a tiled pattern that says THE GAME ? :P
(Also if we're talking about the theme, we probably want to change the smileys.)
Ah. Very well then, I'd prefer this site not to look like some minecraft forum :P
Quote from: Streetwalrus on November 15, 2014, 11:35:52 AM
I like the first two colors but shouldn't the background be a tiled pattern that says THE GAME ? :P
(Also if we're talking about the theme, we probably want to change the smileys.)
Yeah, right, I'm totally gonna do that <_<
Seriously, though, I think I'm gonna keep images to a minimum so that the site can be browsed easier on mobile. THe banner will probably have background screenshots like ticalc and Omni, though, as well as extra text summarizing the site theme and perhaps small calc icons like Omni had a while ago (perhaps some phones or phone shapes too)
EDIT: By the way, what about this?
(http://img.ourl.ca/colorideas2.png)
That looks pretty good, imo. I vote yes.
Looks a bit too green to me, but go for it if everyone else likes it.
I still like the blue better personally. :(
Which blue one do you prefer? If we only take the blue ones into account my favorite personally is the first.
(Also another idea I had was to take each people's favorite color above then combine them together, which might satisfy people more. Just as long as the site doesn't look too much like a MLP site :P)
Hehehehe. I'm still for my original two choices. We could do a random background color of those 4 (or 5) for each refresh, using a script of some sort.
I like both shades of blue actually. I think making it an option should be better though.
I think maybe there could be a custom SMF mod allowing the user to change the board background color via SimplePortal blocks, but only as long as it doesn't use Javascript to replace the site color. I don't want to have multiple copies of the same theme just for having different colors in each one. :P
OK so as compromise I wanted to just combine every color together then calculate the average of them, but the result was almost identical to what we had but more bland. So I decided to do a background containing isometric forms and all the colors, with lower opacity, but it was too distractive and unfitting with the logo.
Would the new square grid background do now? (By the way, the background is only 4.42 KB large and I will need someone to upload the http://codewalr.us/other/codewalrusbg.png image in the theme image directory since I get access denied when trying to do so)
Can you make it static? Other than that, awesome :D
Nice background ^_^
This background is just perfect. :D
I love it. It's the best of all the colors, and has a nice retro feel.
Quote from: aeTIos on November 18, 2014, 12:48:04 PM
Can you make it static? Other than that, awesome :D
Do you mean so that it doesn't scroll? The issue with that is that on older phones and computers this will cause lag or mobile browser crashes. (I had this happen on my old Samsung i550 a while back)
Anyway glad you guys like it :D
By the way here were the bg ideas:
(http://codewalr.us/Themes/CodeWalrus/images/codewalrusbg.png) (http://codewalr.us/Themes/CodeWalrus/images/codewalrusbg2.png) (http://codewalr.us/Themes/CodeWalrus/images/codewalrusbg3.png) (http://codewalr.us/Themes/CodeWalrus/images/codewalrusbg4.png) (http://codewalr.us/Themes/CodeWalrus/images/codewalrusbg5.png) (http://codewalr.us/Themes/CodeWalrus/images/codewalrusbg6.png)
That last one wasn't serious, though. <_<
I think the reason why bg 2 through 5 were too distracting and unfitting is because they didn't look pixelated enough.
How did you make these? It looks really cool and mathy (if that makes sense)
For the isometric one I made a pic with 16x16 squares, then rotated it to 45°, but I did not confirm. Instead, I took a printscreen, else confirming applied blur. Then I halved the vertical resolution then copy/pasted the result over and over to give the 3D depth.
Cool! Is this a known isometric spriters trick?
I am unsure, because I doubt many people use Photofiltre studio. They probably have other tricks to do isometric stuff, especially that this trick doesn't work too well with textures.
It's not a background Idea but I thought an iceberg/arctic theme would fit to the "Walrus" in "CodeWalrus"... THe biggest problem is that using too much pictures will slow down the forum loading...
That could possibly work. I'Ll see what I can do when I make more progress on my HP game. (I contemplated using dynamic backgrounds too and maybe I could have an ice one)
I like the 3rd one. Yay isometric tiles.
Thanks juju, although those most likely won't get used :P
Why? Epilepsy is the raddest thing by these days! :p
Indeed, but the Geocities era ended years ago. :P
Oh, man, it's been a while my only old favorite sites of this era are dead...
Aaanyway, theming won't be for today as you said in the chat that SMF 2.1b is coming...
Indeed, this is why I didn't want to spend as much time as I did on the current theme. Thankfully, it didn't take too long compared to Omnimaga v4 and v5, but the top floating navbar took like 9 hours maybe >.<
That much? I suppose that's SMF configuration because as CSS I would had done something like that (http://codepen.io/anon/pen/GgJvWX)
Well, doing it from scratch is one thing, but doing it from SMF's existing CSS is another thing.
Yeah I suppose this a PITA and that they didn't thought of setting a.custom CSS without bleeding over hours...
Quote from: Eiyeron on November 25, 2014, 10:21:53 PM
That much? I suppose that's SMF configuration because as CSS I would had done something like that (http://codepen.io/anon/pen/GgJvWX)
It was mainly because of how the navigation is completely separate from the search box and the profile info thingy. If everything was in a single set of divs with the same CSS properties and stuff, then it would have been much easier.