Bitbender Forums Beta RC4

[imported_bitbender]

Well, after I spent almost a year adding hacks to my base 2.3.x, I have been quietly paralleling the VB3 effort. Here is my beta attempt at redoing my default skin most of my community uses;

http://www.bitbendertest.com/vb30/index.php?s=&styleid=7

The buttons under the log are for when vbportal for vb3 is released, so they may/may not function at this time, they are more a placeholder and reminder to me. We may remove them all togehter, and use the pop down manager instead.

Be kind, as this style manager deal is really new/odd to me, and takes some getting used to over 2.3.x. But overall, I'm seeing I actaully have more control, and flexibility.

I appreciate any comments. I know that some of the hacks that my community use will be sorely missed, but at the same time, more than 80% of the ones they use most are now built-in, in one form, or another.

Thanks In advance for any feedback you might have.

Best Regards
Bitbender - Webmaster - www.bitbenderforums.com (http://www.bitbenderforums.com/)

[Buddha]

that header is huge... and personally, i'm not that crazy about the buttons.
just my opinion though.

you should try shrinking the width of the forum a little, instead of having it going to the very edges... just looks a little better to have a little breathing room on the sides... try setting it to 90% instead of 100%.
just a suggestion.

[imported_bitbender]

Not a bad idea. Breathing room. Hand't heard that 1 b4 :) . I expect that we will elongate that header to be more flat, and inderface more seamlessly with the nav/pop down bar. I too think it's a big huge given the improved layout on forumhome. In our 2.3 the welcome box is there, so the header isn't so out of porportion.

Cheers, and thanks for responding.

[DuffMan]

The header and top buttons take up half the screen on 1024x768. I can't imagine what it'd be like for 800x600 users.

[tomp]

i agree with the comments on the header, and the buttons are hard to read