Site reopened and want style reviews.

[Albus]

Hello, I just reopened my site after several months absence and I'd like some style reviews. I have five custom styles, four of which are just color variations of the main style. Feel free to review as many, or as few, as you wish. Thanks!

The Wizarding Realm (http://wizardingrealm.com)

[sabret00the]

nice site, the colour scheme works well, the header is magnificent. all around good work, i like what you done with the cellspacing and borders there-in, but not sure it'd be my preference, all round i have nothing to fault, future vBoTM there :)

[Albus]

nice site, the colour scheme works well, the header is magnificent. all around good work, i like what you done with the cellspacing and borders there-in, but not sure it'd be my preference, all round i have nothing to fault, future vBoTM there :)
What a kind review. Thank you very much! :)

[Johnny]

its a nice design, fits well with the theme you are going for eventhough im not a harry potter fan. good job.

[Polo]

nice design... however... your site seems to load slow... maybe i'm trying on a peak hour (7pm central time) or something... because it is slow and i'm on cable..

[Albus]

nice design... however... your site seems to load slow... maybe i'm trying on a peak hour (7pm central time) or something... because it is slow and i'm on cable..
Yes, it is a tad slow because my dsl hasn't been upgraded to 768 yet. I will be doing that soon though. Thanks for the comments guys!

:)

[Albus]

Yes, it is a tad slow because my dsl hasn't been upgraded to 768 yet. I will be doing that soon though. Thanks for the comments guys!

:)
I've moved to a better server and optimized my hacks, moving queries into crons, caching display data. How's the speed now?

[ericgtr]

Loads right up for me, fantastic work on the site too!

[Albus]

Loads right up for me, fantastic work on the site too!
Thanks eric! Your isn't too bad either. Looks like we both tried something different with borders. :) And I'm a guitarist of almost 20 years too! Kisses Strat...

[ericgtr]

Thanks eric! Your isn't too bad either. Looks like we both tried something different with borders. :) And I'm a guitarist of almost 20 years too! Kisses Strat...
Thanks, my style is compliments of Zachery, he has all of his posted up over at vbulletintemplates and the new logo is on it's way by tomorrow. Your design is really something man, I wish I had the time and skill to pull that off.

[Albus]

Thanks, my style is compliments of Zachery, he has all of his posted up over at vbulletintemplates and the new logo is on it's way by tomorrow. Your design is really something man, I wish I had the time and skill to pull that off.
Good ole Zach. Never fails to amaze. I actually stagnated for six months or so before getting the 'inspiration' I needed to make this style, and it's descendants. I was looking at this wardrobe in our living room, with our wedding stuff in it. It has bowed glass doors that sing open and wooden shelfs that kind of separate the section. I thought, "dude...I can use this" and there it was. Two days later my styles were done. :)

Just look around you, sometimes the best things happen naturally.

[Tony G]

A very nice style! The header, scheme and bevelled cells all work quite well. Although your postbit seems to be a bit messy in terms of all the user info placed in there. I think you need a better way of arranging that. Also, you're starting off with quite a few too many forums for a new community. Condense, and expand as you get more activity. Otherwise, a great style. :D

[Mark.B]

Hello, I just reopened my site after several months absence and I'd like some style reviews. I have five custom styles, four of which are just color variations of the main style. Feel free to review as many, or as few, as you wish. Thanks!

The Wizarding Realm (http://wizardingrealm.com)
I generally dislike 'light on dark' styles but I actually rather like that one...very smart.

[Albus]

I generally dislike 'light on dark' styles but I actually rather like that one...very smart.
Thanks kindly to the both of you.

Tony, initially I'd agree with you on that. Keep in mind though, this isn't truly a 'new' site. It's a revamp after a couple months downtime. At the time it went down we had over 500 members and goodness knows how many posts. The forum structure we have now is a direct continuation of what was there at that time, since most of the primary members will be returning. We already knew what we wanted. Each forum has a purpose. I'm not sure condensing is really possible since these forums have very different permissions based on content type. But thanks anyway.

:)

[Albus]

I just added an additional style to The Wizarding Realm. Would somebody please comment the Euphoria (http://wizardingrealm.com/index.php?styleid=1) style? Thanks.