Bodybuilding site: www.ukiron.co.uk

[5IVEO]

based around bodybuilding and health and fitness, covering all aspects, includes (when installed) arcade/bank,points system/vbookie, 63 members in 10 days, growing fast, we aim to be more unique than the more larger forums in that we have a broad spectrum of members from both sides of the atlantic, therefore inducing more discussion and debate on workouts/regimes/diet/ etc

5IVE-O

[Shelley_c]

The logo looks nice. I like how you overlapped the iron bar on the right.

The style (gradients) in the tcat/thead are a little bright imo and I think you should go with something more pleasing to the eyes. That's my own personal preference and others may be fine with the colours but I personally think the brightness is a bit extreme.

I would also give you forum a more custom feel to it as there's to much default images which don't go well with the brightness of the gradients. In short, I would design new gradients and implement custom images and replace the vbulletin stock images. :)

Goodluck with your site.

[5IVEO]

The logo looks nice. I like how you overlapped the iron bar on the right.

The style (gradients) in the tcat/thead are a little bright imo and I think you should go with something more pleasing to the eyes. That's my own personal preference and others may be fine with the colours but I personally think the brightness is a bit extreme.

I would also give you forum a more custom feel to it as there's to much default images which don't go well with the brightness of the gradients. In short, I would design new gradients and implement custom images and replace the vbulletin stock images. :)

Goodluck with your site.


thanks for taking the time to look, yeah i agree the colours are really bright and thats gonna be changed, with it being a UK board i tried to match the board colours with the Union flag (original huh...lol) ive made a few mods to it since you prolly looked aswell, im not sure what colours i like, maybe something a little darker to tone it down, thats the thrid person who's said its a lttle harsh on the eyes:D

[Shelley_c]

thanks for taking the time to look, yeah i agree the colours are really bright and thats gonna be changed, with it being a UK board i tried to match the board colours with the Union flag (original huh...lol) ive made a few mods to it since you prolly looked aswell, im not sure what colours i like, maybe something a little darker to tone it down, thats the thrid person who's said its a lttle harsh on the eyes:D

No Problem 5IVEO,

If it's any help try visiting this link (Linkage) (http://www.defencemechanism.com/color/). Maybe you'll get some colours which are better suited for your forum. Afterwhich, I suggest visiting the graphic database here for some custom graphics which may compliment the newer colour scheme you've yet to implement. :)

[5IVEO]

Thanks for the advice Shelly, hopefully in a couple of weeks it will look a whole lot better and more refined

[5IVEO]

improving a lot of late, membership isn't what i thought, but its been steady, its gonna take time

[Snake]

Wow I think I am in love with the logo! :D Good job on that.

[Deimos]

I agree, logo looks awesome

I also agree about the colours, it might be because i've loaded it up from this darker forum, but the red and blue stand out to much

What about a gun metal gray colour? It'd tie in with the castiron colour of weights! hehe

[5IVEO]

just an update, ive altered the colouring somewhat and made some slight alterations, can you let me know what you think now? we have 260 members in 4 months and 20,000 posts, the members have slipped off of late, i had a target of 500 by christmas, we've got listed now on major search engines and have banner exchanges and sponsors etc, a good start I think, just dissapointed with the no' of members :hurt:

[Deimos]

Looks good to me, colours are nice and smooth, not to bright or dark.

[5IVEO]

Looks good to me, colours are nice and smooth, not to bright or dark.

Thanks mate, I did tone them down slightly, they were a little too bright to start with.

[Deimos]

Aye looks good

If I were in charge of the forum, this is what I would change (bearing I have limited knowledge on this :P)

I'd change the blue/turquoise (sp) background that's around the edges, it's abit garish still, i'd make it somewhat darker

Also, the navbar area is huge, I assume due to the "click here to find out how to advertise" (or words to that effect)
Also, just a personal preference, i'd align=middle the mini logos next to the navbar menus.

I did a l33t MSPaint example of what I mean (...I'm REALLY tired, so excuse the basicness of it :P)

http://www.dresch.co.uk/center.PNG

This is the same background, with a darker shade of that blueish colour
(This is just a personal preference thing, but it isn't as odd looking as the current colour, no offence! :P)

http://www.dresch.co.uk/background.PNG

[5IVEO]

Aye looks good

If I were in charge of the forum, this is what I would change (bearing I have limited knowledge on this :P)

I'd change the blue/turquoise (sp) background that's around the edges, it's abit garish still, i'd make it somewhat darker

Also, the navbar area is huge, I assume due to the "click here to find out how to advertise" (or words to that effect)
Also, just a personal preference, i'd align=middle the mini logos next to the navbar menus.

I did a l33t MSPaint example of what I mean (...I'm REALLY tired, so excuse the basicness of it :P)

http://www.dresch.co.uk/center.PNG

This is the same background, with a darker shade of that blueish colour
(This is just a personal preference thing, but it isn't as odd looking as the current colour, no offence! :P)

http://www.dresch.co.uk/background.PNG

thanks for taking the time mate, i think the points you made are good, i think im gonna go with the idea man, thanks again :D