Planet Diaz!

[MrDiaz]

Hi everyone, I just finished skinning my forums. This is the first skin I made on vB (hope is not the last one) and I must admit I spent a lot of time! working on this design to get the look I wanted.

Ok so no more talking, here is the site's URL

Site: http://www.planetdiaz.com

Forum: http://www.planetdiaz.com/forums

Please tell me what do you think?

[Tony G]

Is it me or does that look like a 70% copy of the smooth blue style here? You've just done the bare minimum to avoid copyright..

[MrDiaz]

Does it look the same to you? The only thing that might look the same is the color scheme, is that plagiarism? I don't think so, no.

Thanks for the comments though.

[InsaneContender]

I don't think it's a copy of Smooth Blue. Personally, I love blue themed web sites, that's why mine is blue as well. But copying a color scheme... nah, there shouldn't be anything wrong with that, otherwise Google, Yahoo, etc. would all be at each other's throats saying, "You used my plain white theme!"

Looks good so far, still needs a little work, but it's getting there.

[MrDiaz]

Thanks InsaneContender, could you tell me what else could I add to the forums to make it look better?

Thanks again.

[InsaneContender]

IMO, you could improve the "You are here" navbar. It seems like it was quickly thrown together instead of thought out. I always did like the vBulletin default navbar...

The footer image also looks a little choppy.

Ummm... anything else I'm missing here? lol

[MrDiaz]

Thanks again InsaneContender, you were right. That You are here was kind of odd. I removed it.

Hmm what could I do for the footer though?

[InsaneContender]

You could probably drop the whole footer image alltogether IMO. It doesn't really need to be there, and it probably won't even be noticed anyway - it's just another thing that takes up space. lol

But once again, just my opinion.

[MrDiaz]

Excellent! lol, thanks again ;)

[peterska2]

Looking good MrDiaz. I like the highlight hover jobby you have going on on the side bar, although I'd be tempted to make it the same as on the homepage, or vice versa. Nice clean look. A big thumbs up from me.

[MrDiaz]

Thanks peterska2, hmm use the same rollover effect. I might try that indeed,

[kurtbarker]

hey mate, not looking too bad...

maybe add a couple of darker skins as well. I know that some people prefer that look and would give the forum more time... you can always keep your blue as the default.

the side bar to the right... is it possible to align the headings [donate, members loigin, etc], with the forum headings to the left... doesn't look the best not been aligned like that...

and last, the sponsor images on the right bar aren't loading ;)

[MrDiaz]

the texts are not aligned? How come? I see them aligned to the left just like the forum headers.

Thanks for your comments, and yes I am working on a more dark style, which is already there I just need to make a few more improvements.

This is the current one: http://www.planetdiaz.com/forums/?styleid=9

[kurtbarker]

hey mate, regarding alignment, I was referring to the 'darker' blue "forum home" on the right, with the "donate" header on the left, the next "forum home header" aligning with "members login" and so on. I believe it would make it look a little more organised if the liens run the length of the screen

screenshot attached

and with the 'darker' skin, will that have a dark background as well, and not just the darker titles?