I think it's a very nice forum.

I'm jealous!

Thanks, all. :)

SirAdrian, I've since fixed that, thanks. I've done a bit more work since initially posting this iffins y'all want to take a second look.

I adore the forum section background bits...the quarter-moon icon followed by an interesting picture, absolutely beautifully designed. I can see I have to bump up my own a bit!

All tones well, superb design.

Awesome job, one of the best done sites I have seen in a while :)

The site looks fantastic, and I actually found your site doing a search for space stuff, think it was yahoo but not sure, before I noticed this thread. I was going to comment on the site when I registered, not sure if I have but if not I will do now.

The style is unique, and i'd love to know who did if for you. If you did it yourself, can you do one for me?? ;-)

I'm quite sure it will do well. Well done!

I've already commented on the style and it's one of the best space orientated themes I've seen for a very long time. however, I forgot to mention (being extremely picky here) that you should replace the stock vbulletin threadmarker icons.

I also noticed the IM Icons look a little shoddy around the edging. Either save them to the correct matte or maybe go with some custom instant messenger icons wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Not essential, though it would be nice to see some custom theme emoticons (maybe space themed).

Excellent style, top notch colour usage. :up:

Neal-UK, thanks for the compliments, and for signing up! I'm especially glad that you initially found the site through a search engine. I hope this means my SEO efforts are beginning to pay off.

To answer your questions, yes I created the theme. I'm a bit busy with other clients just now to take on more work, but feel free to shoot me a PM if you can wait about a week and we can discuss it.

Thanks again, Shelley_c! Customizing the threadmarkers has been on my to-do list for awhile now, but work for other clients while trying to add some content and features to SpaceBuffs' homepage has sort of delayed that.

On the IM icons, the matting is the same color of the alt1 and alt2 backgrounds. Though it could be I neglected to update them when I initally designed a somewhat lighter color scheme...I'll doublecheck. The Skype icon looks pretty bad when using SkypeWeb graphics...not too much I can do about that, sadly.

Thanks for the friendly thoughts and critique! It's always appreciated. :)

Oh, I also wanted to add that I plan on creating a few different skins, each with its own unique theme: Martian Landscape, Jovian Atmosphere, Moonscape, Rings of Saturn, etc. I'll bump this thread for critique on those once I get them done.

Looks great!

Thanks, ZacUSNYR!

I've made a new skin for SpaceBuffs called "Martian Landscape". Please check it out, everyone! :)