And the vBulletin license goes to....

[Xenon]

Alex 'DirectPixel' Yang.

Yes finally the vBulletin.org Style Contest is over now, and Alex' style made the race. It was a long competition, but we think it was worth the wait. So, everyone enjoy our new vBulletin.org default style with the styleid 13!

Ladies and Gentlemen, we present you vBulletin.org in Smooth Blue (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/index.php?styleid=13).

PS. We have still some design possibilities in the backhand, but we have to think about how to make them work with a few hacks we have planned as well ;)

[JirQUEST]

very neat design there! it looks very cool! the designers have done a very good job :D

[Xenon]

We think the same.

But we have to thank everyone who participated in our Style contest, it wasn't an easy descision :)

[MindTrix]

It looks nice, yet clean :p I'll stick with the default blue but nice work none the less

[Xenon]

It looks nice, yet clean :p I'll stick with the default blue but nice work none the less
erm, that is the Default Blue :p

[MindTrix]

Ok then the old default blue :p

[Xenon]

Why not just using the correct name? :p

[Velocd]

A very good job, although bright color schemes aren't my taste, so I'll be sticking around dark blue as well.

Congrats. :up:

[colicab-d]

I lik eit but a few bits are out of place like the big vb.org txt in the bottom, but still nice for what it is :) sadly like a few folk have said its a little too bright and airy for me so i,ll be stickin to older styles. Still well done Alex

[sabret00the]

very nicely done, would love to see a darker version installed also :)

congratulations, awesome work :)

[pie]

I'll use the Plain Green still i think.
Its ok..... at the bottom the "vBulletin.org" doesnt fit in. Neither does the light text on the light background. Im not 'digging' the clouds either, they just seem a bit "for the sake of it". Also dont understand why theres a full carrige return at the end of the footer though not needing. The rollovers im unsure off too. The line is a bit "for the sake of it" too... Also dont like the way that it goes from blue to white.

Else is alright though :) like the buttons.

[sabret00the]

the bottom vb.org is one of my favourite features. also could we get the version number back please :o

[Logician]

Congrats to winner, much thanks to members who joined the contest and everyone for being patient for a long time! :)

[C.Birch]

dont like. to bright and hurts me eyes, that blue to white needs doing away with because the white just looks so out of place and now the main page other then the header and footer looks basic and out of place.

[sabret00the]

dont like. to bright and hurts me eyes, that blue to white needs doing away with because the white just looks so out of place and now the main page other then the header and footer looks basic and out of place.
i would actually agree with you on the main page looks overtly simplified and too portalisitc

[C.Birch]

i have just made a little edit to the design what you think?

[Beermonster]

I like it, personally I prefer lighter styles like this over the dark one's and must prefer full screen.

nice work

[Brad]

Very nice style, I dig the new blue :)

[Oblivion Knight]

Very nice, I'll be sticking with the new style for a while.

Might take a little getting used to, but I'm all for change.. :)

[deathemperor]

very very nice style tho it's too bright since the background is absolute white...
congratulations to DirectPixel !
*isthereanychancesthatthisstylegoespublic?*

[C.Birch]

heres a edit with the table colours edited to what i personaly feel makes it alot more cleaner looking:

[Velocd]

A marine blue style like that C.Birch would make most feel sea sick. :\

I don't think the style is going to be changed. ;)

[Kwak]

Very smooth. I'll stick with the new design. :cool:

[TheComputerGuy]

Congrats.

I will stick to Plain Green as blue makes me sick.

[Princeton]

me likes ... simple and clean - no clutter

Is there any way to change the postbit? I prefer the new postbit.

[sabret00the]

c.birch i actually like the step from sky to white, i would've just prefered a darker version as light is bad for the eyes

[ogden2k]

I like this theme a lot. The only thing I would ask you to change is to put a few <br /> before the sig line.

[Xenon]

Yeah, i expected that the Dark users here, would have complains ^^

As Mike said, we won't make any changes to the Style (apart from those we made already)
and maybe those which we have from the author but removed for now, to make it work with our hacks.

more br's before the sig?
k ;)

different postbit: nope :)

a darker version? Hmm, maybe with using the inherited style possibilities, we can think about that at another time...

[Breaker]

colours clash a bit too much, the header looks out of place with the main content

Dark Blue stays my style

[sabret00the]

Yeah, i expected that the Dark users here, would have complains ^^

a darker version? Hmm, maybe with using the inherited style possibilities, we can think about that at another time...not really complaints just opinions, but thank you very much for considering a darker version as i would love to use it.

[b6gm6n]

good job, nice style :0

-b6

[DirectPixel]

Thanks, guys. :)

This version of the style was slightly different from what I had in mind, since the style XML file I sent them had a cleaner footer, and a differently-styled navbar and header.

Overall, it retains many of the original elements, but some things are still different. :)

[Xenon]

Hmm, nope i didn't change the footer *gg*

But the navbar aso, is correct.
As said this are those things we keep in backhand, and may be adding later, regarding some navbar hacks and such ^^ (i know i'm lazy, but i also don't have the time right now ^^)

[Breaker]

when you hover over the nav buttons they have a dark blue border and it looks out of place even more, is this supposed to be like this?

[Zero Tolerance]

Well to me it looks like a re-vamp of the skin he made for extremepixels known as "Imagize", but overall a very nice skin, good work man :)

- Zero Tolerance

[RDX1]

I don't like it, but that's me. Just keep the dark blue style. :)

[Ryan Ashbrook]

I love it! Nicely done! :)

[Breaker]

Well to me it looks like a re-vamp of the skin he made for extremepixels known as "Imagize", but overall a very nice skin, good work man :)

- Zero Tolerance
only the colours are the same... nothing else.


PS: it wasn't originally made fore extremepixels, vbskinz or whatever :)

[AN-net]

omg thats hot, it makes me so so horny :D

[mmw]

I like it.
Congrats DirectPixel :)

[rookie7]

Very niceeeeeeeeee!

[Giveit2u43]

New style is nice(ish) but you need a Search button up there with the home, forum and chat ones ;)

[DirectPixel]

only the colours are the same... nothing else.


PS: it wasn't originally made fore extremepixels, vbskinz or whatever :)
This skin was built from scratch, from the ground up. Also, if I remember correctly, this skin and the Imagize skin I designed for ExtremePixels only share one color (the category header colors).

[Breaker]

This skin was built from scratch, from the ground up. Also, if I remember correctly, this skin and the Imagize skin I designed for ExtremePixels only share one color (the category header colors).
well the main content area seems about the same, colours are probabl;y close then.

[dndog]

This style is incredible!

What font was used for vbulletin.org in the header image]?

Thanks.

[defi]

This style is incredible!

What font was used for vbulletin.org in the header image]?

Thanks.

Eurostile I believe...


I love the simplicity of this design. Nothing fancy and fits just right into what I would have in mind for a vbulletin.org style

[Henry-RS]

I don't like it. At all.

[DirectPixel]

Eurostile I believe...


I love the simplicity of this design. Nothing fancy and fits just right into what I would have in mind for a vbulletin.org styleIt was Mekanik LT, and the vBulletin.org text in the footer was Century Gothic.

Eurostile wasn't used on any portion of this site.

[rebelsrock06]

It was Mekanik LT, and the vBulletin.org text in the footer was Century Gothic.

Eurostile wasn't used on any portion of this site.
Nice Style DirectPixel, Congratulations

[Ryan Ashbrook]

What about Second Place?

I just remembered that you said there would be a second place winner as well... :p

[MSX]

Sticking to Dark Blue...header/footer is ok, but the rest is bland...good job though.

[Logikos]

Its okay, WAY to bright. Kills my eyes and lights up my whole bedroom. I'll be staying with DarkBlue also, sorry.

[RDX1]

In the postbit, the style link links to: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/index.php?&styleid=0

[defi]

Well, worth a guess at the font name; Doesn't hurt to be wrong

[DirectPixel]

Well, worth a guess at the font name; Doesn't hurt to be wrong
You *did*, however, guess the font that was used on the DirectPixel website. ;)

[defi]

lol; better then nothing I suppose... it resembles it a little (this style).

[Andrew111888]

c.birch i actually like the step from sky to white, i would've just prefered a darker version as light is bad for the eyes

Actually, I think I read somewhere that it's better for your eyes to read dark on light than light on dark. Could be wrong, though.

[TECK]

Congrats Alex. :)

[Sean S]

congrats, looks very clean and nice.

[MrNase]

nice, i love it. vb.org is not a dark place anymore... juhu :D

[deathemperor]

is there any chance that this style goes shared ?

[Dean C]

It's custom to vBulletin.org - it won't be released :)

[rebelsrock06]

Actually, I think I read somewhere that it's better for your eyes to read dark on light than light on dark. Could be wrong, though.
Yeah but all of us here are too used to the dark blue style, going from one extreme to the other , it takes time to get used to

[sabret00the]

Actually, I think I read somewhere that it's better for your eyes to read dark on light than light on dark. Could be wrong, though. could someone look this up, i'm sure the data is openly available somewhere. as i'm pretty sure it's the other way round. (i wouldn't know where to start :()

[Dean C]

I can remember looking this up before and it's light colors on a dark background which are easier on the eyes (i.e. less strain to read) :)

[Erwin]

I love it! :)

[nexialys]

i have this graphical problem on safari... don't know if it's correct, but the bottom is a bit crappy... lines are not properly displayed, and the text is not centered...

[Breaker]

that appears to be a resolution problem and not browser. i get this when i change the width of the window

[DirectPixel]

i have this graphical problem on safari... don't know if it's correct, but the bottom is a bit crappy... lines are not properly displayed, and the text is not centered...
The copyright text is wrapping for some reason. Like Breaker mentioned, this may be caused by a browser window that is open too small.

/methinks the copyrights at the bottom are indeed a bit too long. ;)

[sabret00the]

add a nowrap="nowrap" and tell everyone to move upto a decent resolution? :rolleyes: :p

[pie]

I think your just getting mixed up with his style Zero Tolerance... usually blues and have 'smoothened' clouds. Each artist has his own gimmicks that they put into each style and thats Alex's.

[nexialys]

add a nowrap="nowrap" and tell everyone to move upto a decent resolution? :rolleyes: :p

ya ya... just tell the last 680 Million people always on 600x800 to get to 1024...

[Logikos]

ya ya... just tell the last 680 Million people always on 600x800 to get to 1024...

Or make the design fit all resolutions like a designer is supposed to do.

[gfxhavenowner]

I don't like this design at all lol. It's the default design with a new header, new colors, and new buttons. It's not that hard to make something like this. I would have liked to see something more complex, with actual code changes to make the forum more unique.

[sabret00the]

ya ya... just tell the last 680 Million people always on 600x800 to get to 1024...
i didn't know monitors still went below 800*600 anymore :o

pretty sure most pre-made comps are shipped set to 1024*768 though :shrug:

[nexialys]

I would have liked to see something more complex, with actual code changes to make the forum more unique.

i don't think the goal was to revolutionalize the design of vB, but simply have a different spice for this site... the clean clear and crisp design of the header is good... very professional, easy to read, and easy to locate any button...

for the width etc, it sure is a question of monitors, as designers are supposed to deal with all the users, not the monitor of the designer... 80% of the people on the internet are at a 800x600 of resolution, not 1024+ ... most users with higher resolutions are gamers, designers, graphists... and that's logical... internet is more a place of documentation, and if you read a load of text in 1024, you have to make the text bigger to read it...

the count of about 680 millions of surfers using 800x600 is based on the last "i2" statistic about all the european/american users of internet... it is not counting the asians, so imagine... ;)

even your browsers open their default window at 800x600... mozilla, IE, Safari... with you have no prefs, first window to open is at 760pixels wide...

[pie]

Also the buttons remind me of a vBpanel design. Complex I agree, but you dont need to make code changes to make it complex. Just design.

[Henry-RS]

i don't think the goal was to revolutionalize the design of vB, but simply have a different spice for this site... the clean clear and crisp design of the header is good... very professional, easy to read, and easy to locate any button...

I disagree. vBulletin.org, being the biggest vBulletin resource site on the web, should showcase what vBulletin can really do.

[colicab-d]

Hope you guys dont mind I did a little remix, as in my own take of the style :). If its like feel free to take :)

[kyk0]

I disagree. vBulletin.org, being the biggest vBulletin resource site on the web, should showcase what vBulletin can really do.

It's a hacking site, vBT should be showcasing a heavily modified skin. :p

Anyways, Love the buttons/icons. The rest looks like the foundation of imagize.

[Logikos]

i don't think the goal was to revolutionalize the design of vB, but simply have a different spice for this site... the clean clear and crisp design of the header is good... very professional, easy to read, and easy to locate any button...

for the width etc, it sure is a question of monitors, as designers are supposed to deal with all the users, not the monitor of the designer... 80% of the people on the internet are at a 800x600 of resolution, not 1024+ ... most users with higher resolutions are gamers, designers, graphists... and that's logical... internet is more a place of documentation, and if you read a load of text in 1024, you have to make the text bigger to read it...

the count of about 680 millions of surfers using 800x600 is based on the last "i2" statistic about all the european/american users of internet... it is not counting the asians, so imagine... ;)

even your browsers open their default window at 800x600... mozilla, IE, Safari... with you have no prefs, first window to open is at 760pixels wide...

Couldn't have said it any better, when i design something, i make sure it fits every browser, and every resolution.

[Breaker]

Just to add, as I think it's worth saying.

Well done to the vB.org team for being bold enough to go for such a big change, and it is a big change. When you run a successful site, it's got to be a concern doing something so dramatic.

:nervous:
they left the old style incase this all went wrong and everyone hated it :)

[DirectPixel]

Or make the design fit all resolutions like a designer is supposed to do.
This design *does* fit all resolutions. The only reason why the footer looks messed up on smaller resolutions is that vBulletin.org's lengthy copyright text is wrapping. Now, to solve this, I can either re-do the footer code and make the subtle clouds on the left side smaller, or move a portion of the copyright to the bottom (where the darker blue is).

For those of you complaining that this style is only template changes -- please take a look at the contest rules. This entry was indeed part of a contest: it wasn't an in-house style. Because it was, there was no way for me to modify any portion of the code. The contest required that I deliver a style XML file -- not hacked PHP files.

And about this skin looking like 'Imagize'. Why didn't anybody say it looked like the default vBulletin skin? Because that's exactly the amount of similiarity that's between the two. Seriously. Go take a look for yourself.

[TheComputerGuy]

You know...this design is starting to grow on me.

[Breaker]

You know...this design is starting to grow on me.
i tihnk they were talking about the template code not the actual source.

[0ptima]

I like it much better than the dark blue style.

[Xenon]

Our Copyright text is too long?

*gg* nice one ^^

@Whoeverit was: Styleid = 0 means that the user is using the default style.

A general thing: We can understand, that not everyone is pleased with the style, especially those who like the dark ones more.
But for those, wh say that there were not enough changes to the original vb style.
1. We still have a few things from DirectPixel which we just reverted for now, but may add later
2. Other than DB, is this a fresh and plain style, not that much overhead on graphics or whatever. We are not a Designersite here, which must have a style with lots of images and whatever, that wouldn't fit in vb.org.

And at the one who asked about a second place: unfortunatelly, there weren't enough participants, and with Chen no longer in the team, we have had two reasons, to just choose one winner (as we posted since a long time already.)

[DirectPixel]

Our Copyright text is too long?

*gg* nice one ^^

@Whoeverit was: Styleid = 0 means that the user is using the default style.

A general thing: We can understand, that not everyone is pleased with the style, especially those who like the dark ones more.
But for those, wh say that there were not enough changes to the original vb style.
1. We still have a few things from DirectPixel which we just reverted for now, but may add later
2. Other than DB, is this a fresh and plain style, not that much overhead on graphics or whatever. We are not a Designersite here, which must have a style with lots of images and whatever, that wouldn't fit in vb.org.

And at the one who asked about a second place: unfortunatelly, there weren't enough participants, and with Chen no longer in the team, we have had two reasons, to just choose one winner (as we posted since a long time already.)
Well, let me know, and I can send you a new footer template that accomodates for your extra-long copyright text. ^^

[Xenon]

hmm, adding an overflow: scroll; ^^

[DirectPixel]

hmm, adding an overflow: scroll; ^^I've emailed you the updated footer template. :)

[Xenon]

hmm, i tried it, but it did look broken there as well..

i went back to the old again so.

[tgillespie]

I knew it was DirectPixel even before reading the author's name :squareeyed: I think the clouds gave it away. As for the style, I like it. It is definately a change from the Dark Blue, but I didn't prefer Dark Blue in the first place.

My one comment would be: It looks a little too soft. This is a hacking site and needs a ruff tuff hacking look. Not some fairy clouds :) haha.

[Dean C]

My one comment would be: It looks a little too soft. This is a hacking site and needs a ruff tuff hacking look. Not some fairy clouds :) haha.

Funny quote of the week ;)

* Dean C hands over the crown to tgillespie :p

[nexialys]

My one comment would be: It looks a little too soft. This is a hacking site and needs a ruff tuff hacking look. Not some fairy clouds :) haha.

ok, so let me know when a coder is supposed to wear dark glasses, black jeans and pikes, piercings and a tomohawk ... you'll be surprised to see that there is no more coders here...

why all kids think that coders have to be heavy metal and punk guys ?!

do you know i'm a family guy, with two kids and an appartment with toys everywhere ?! do you think i'm dark turned ?!

[tgillespie]

ok, so let me know when a coder is supposed to wear dark glasses, black jeans and pikes, piercings and a tomohawk ... you'll be surprised to see that there is no more coders here...

why all kids think that coders have to be heavy metal and punk guys ?!

do you know i'm a family guy, with two kids and an appartment with toys everywhere ?! do you think i'm dark turned ?!Did you not catch my enormous drift of sarcasm?

[Xenon]

ok, so let me know when a coder is supposed to wear dark glasses, black jeans and pikes, piercings and a tomohawk ... you'll be surprised to see that there is no more coders here...

why all kids think that coders have to be heavy metal and punk guys ?!

do you know i'm a family guy, with two kids and an appartment with toys everywhere ?! do you think i'm dark turned ?!
urgs, except the piercing, you just described me ^^

[nexialys]

Did you not catch my enormous drift of sarcasm?

none of us did.. lol i knew it was sarcasms, my reply was too...

[Skyline_GT]

wow very nice..

[Theory]

wow very nice..


I agree

[Zaku]

I agree


I concure! It is great!

[Johnny]

hmm.. i like the colors and the header, but the header needs more navigation buttonts like the old dark skin had cause its more easier to see and find then the regular default navigation vb has on top.

[DrkFusion]

Awesome Style

[Tony G]

The style is very nice, kind of reminds me of the old vB3 Beta vBulletinTemplates style, but the images are many times better.

Good work on the style, and congratulations to the winner. ^_^

[dutchbb]

very nice job man Kudos

[Dan]

I think its too light in colour and it hurts my eyes.

[Xenon]

*gg*

I tend to say that to some humans as well, but you have to be very careful then ^^

[RDX1]

Xeonon, what was that MD5 that you posted?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=529581&postcount=112

PassCracking marked it as "Not Found"

That hash isn't AlexYang, Alex, Alex Yang, DirectPixel, Direct Pixel

[DirectPixel]

Xeonon, what was that MD5 that you posted?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=529581&postcount=112

PassCracking marked it as "Not Found"

That has isn't YangAlex, AlexYang, Alex, Yang, DirectPixel, Direct Pixel
I feel so violated.

[RDX1]

I feel so violated.
Why? How do you think I feel? I don't care about the style, but I wanted to see if Passcracking could work it's magic and I waited a few weeks, then I get nothing returned.

Xenon, here's some Blowfish for you. It's been encoded twice with Blowfish (Different Keys) and converted to MD5

40ccca7540a63e86b8fdfdd70c1acd02

[Dean C]

Xeonon, what was that MD5 that you posted?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=529581&postcount=112

PassCracking marked it as "Not Found"

That hash isn't AlexYang, Alex, Alex Yang, DirectPixel, Direct Pixel

You're passcracker is obviously not very good then ;) Run this:


<?php
$strings = array('AlexYang', 'Alex', 'Alex Yang', 'DirectPixel', 'Direct Pixel');

foreach($strings AS $value)
{
if(md5($value) == 'f440c1ec0d4548566c6e725930fb56ae')
{
echo 'Match found with: ' . $value;
}
}
?>

[RDX1]

You're passcracker is obviously not very good then ;) Run this:


I don't need to run the script, I had yet to run "Direct Pixel' You're the one that suggested it, it was good enough to be slashdotted at any rate. ;)

[Xenon]

Well, it was Direct Pixel, it's not my fault if the cracker is crap ^^

[pie]

The style is very nice, kind of reminds me of the old vB3 Beta vBulletinTemplates style, but the images are many times better.

Good work on the style, and congratulations to the winner. ^_^
Aye, as a lot of people said it reminds them of quite a few styles:

http://www.directpixel.com/port/full/webmasterlingo.jpg / Imagsize / etc

[DirectPixel]

Aye, as a lot of people said it reminds them of quite a few styles:

http://www.directpixel.com/port/full/webmasterlingo.jpg / Imagsize / etc ...considering that I designed all of those as well, and considering that the WebmasterLingo.com site was the default Imagize skin with a new header & footer...

:)


...tsk tsk... hotlinkin' to my images :banana:


BTW: I thought the winner also got a custom user icon? :ninja:

[Xenon]

User icon?

hmm, where did i say so?

[DirectPixel]

User icon?

hmm, where did i say so?
User title, I mean. :)

[Xenon]

You can always come with a suggestion to me, i'm not that creative ;)

[tygersclaw]

Very appealing design to the eye. Kudos to the designers for sure!!!

[Chanrith]

It's alright.

[Catch-22|BL]

I think it is a nice job. Pleasant change and makes the site look good.

Nothing will make everyone happy, and people who get very upset should go try to make a design that is better! ;)

[cirisme]

A most excellent style, I love it!

[hurricane_sh]

I love this one, can I use it on my own forum?

[DirectPixel]

I love this one, can I use it on my own forum?
Nope, sorry. This is for vBulletin.org only. If you would like a custom-designed one, feel free to contact me though. :)

[Chris M]

DP - I hate to be the one to point this out to you, but the current month is May, and your site says you'll be up Jan 2005 :p

Satan

[DirectPixel]

DP - I hate to be the one to point this out to you, but the current month is May, and your site says you'll be up Jan 2005 :p

Satan
Updated. No longer says January anymore. ;)

[Xenon]

lool

[Snake]

lool