Just acquired another existing site, please review and suggest improvements.
 

Dallas Cowboys Universe

Everything you see is as it was when bought, no changes yet. Holla.

EDIT - Sorted.

In your additional.css add the following:

#sidebar_container {
padding: 10px 0;
}

I think 10px is good but you might want a different amount ...

This one will move the sidebar in 20 px so it lines up more ...

#sidebar_container {
padding: 10px 20px;
}

Right before I saw your post here - and thanks for the quick help - I sorted this by editing the stylevar "Global Body Padding."

LOL ! ...no problem my Man ... at least you got it done ....

How bout a review? :D

MAN! ..I am a Redskins fan ! ... you are lucky I even posted the above fix lol ! ...

Lol.. I think im going to go blind !!!

Footer text is hard to see colour needs changed

Sorted!

Love it. Perfect. And not just because I'm a Cowboys fan. :D

How much did ya pay for it? :)

Thanks! Feel free to join up, the season is starting Sunday!

That's classified.:D

But it was a good deal for all. Everyone happy.

Figured that, but thought I'd try anyway. :D

Good luck!

You really need to shave off some load time. My God man, the page loads sooooooooo slow.

LMAO....got you for a second there didn't I?

Site looks great!! Loads lightening fast!

Are you running any sort of pool for the members? Just a thought!

Thanks for the look and the kudos! Site was really ill as far as loading goes, when I bought it. I gave it some optimization love (as far as you can, with a windows server - ACK!) I've done some minor graphics changes and some addon/plugin love. Chiefly anti-spam measures since for over two years registration was disabled due to spam flooding. It's been a little bit of work but very happy with the results so far. Still considering whether to migrate it to my other, Linux hosting.Not at this time, getting to know the membership really right now.

LOL I was just getting ready to argue with you until I realized this was a joke.

Max, can I ask what optimizations you did? The site is so freaking fast for vB4!!

Anyway, looks great, nice job with everything!

See our vB optimization workshop at OzzModz. See the sticky threads and read up on the actual case studies, in the threads in that forum.

Glad you liked the site and thanks for the look!

PS - I could do even better with it speed wise, were it on a Linux machine instead of the windows one it's on.

Who did the header...its very good....

Latinmind. There's one for each favorite player in the style chooser..

Thanks.

looks sweet mate. very nice job thats for sure ;)
and LOL at the Air Bags Avatar! :D

Thanks!

very nice design, you might want to consider adding some mouse-over effects at the top of your forum(on the header).. maybe like make a custom menu on top of the logo, and when someone hovers over it, the text would change colors.. that would be something else!!!

Overall: 8.5/10 keep at it

Thanks but, not necessary especially since most of the membership uses mobile devices.

It's got the native vB hover and onclick stuff, I just don't have it set to switch colors. I've never been one for the esoteric stuff anyway. K.I.S.S.

Took about 30 to 45 secs to load that site dam thought it would of been faster

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/09/2.gif

It's only slow for you, I have you in "miserable users" usergroup.:DHow well did it load for you on this July visit, before everyone else was chiming in on how fast it was for them??

I just spent a LOT of time doing my first v4 theme for this.... Kudos to Ozzy for lots of help and advice.

Take a look.

This was ported from one of my 3.8.7 boards... Originally done for phpBB way back when, then ported to vB2, and so on. I really dig it.

Looks much better than when you first started. Good job sticking with it and not giving up. :)

I hate the stylevars system. But you gotta work with what you got.

Take a look now, design finally finalized and now using Ozzy's custom footer.

http://dallascowboysuniverse.com

Long time Cowboys fan but I would change that document background that is a light blue. The Cowboys really do not have a light blue color in their colors. Its more of a gray color. The light blueish color does not make sense.

EDIT: UGHH and that roll over effect on the forums, again that is a light blue I'd change that to gray to match the team colors.

There's not any light blue in the palette. All the colors used are official team colors. I used all official HEX code colors.

The color you're talking about is #a5acaf and it is the one they use for the facemask color.

The other official "grey" colors in the Cowboys official palette are #a2a4a3 and #828a87.

Here's the official palette:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/12/35.jpg

I realize that it may not actually be light blue, but it looks like a blight blue on my screen. Maybe making it a little darker would help.

I tried that #828a87 and it was just too dark. The other two "grey" ones look more light blue than the facemask color. I have white BG styles as well, each one has a different favorite player in the header.

The Cowboys color palette is the most screwed up one in all of sports. I miss the old grey color the pants used to be in the 70s, myself.

Otherwise, what do you think? Review?

On further review and after going with the darker #828a87, I think you might be right. It's growing on me.

Have another look.

Yeah I think that is better, its not blinding me lol. :) The other lighter color was a little too stark.

There is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much blue going on. I would go with white as a base, with blue accents and headings for a more modern feel. This is just way too much blue.

From a design perspective, the fact that you're using so much blow and then have white text makes me eyes unable to go to one place. All your text is the same color, including links.. so there's no "call to action" that makes my mouse yet alone my eyes want to go to a certain area.

The header itself seems pixelated on the top left, all in all I would suggest going with a new Style to help capitalize on the user base and content (which seems pretty good).

Old style was just as you described and was crap. It's still selectable in the style chooser. The Blue style IS the new style.

Every other Cowboys forum out there is white. The Niche needed a blue one. Most of the users are on pads, and love the blue.

White background. Boring and hard on the eyes.So does most everyone else. It's a "me too" thing.

No offense but its a Dallas Cowboys site blue is a standard color really so it really should have the colors it has.

I take no offense at all. What I mean is simply in terms of guiding the user's eyes.

Let me give you an example:
http://www.dallascowboys.com/

There's really not much white if you look at it, but take a look at the different shades of text.
- blue for links & titles
- light blueish / gray for subtext
- dark gray for content based text
All while still having lots of blue (both dark and light)

The difference here is that it has much more contrast and varied contrast on that. On this page, my eyes know what's important.

Again, if you take a glance at the site at the moment, your eyes have no choice but to go everywhere. Nothing is distinguished with importance or relevance in terms of color coordination. Subtitle color changes, bolding & generally styling can go a long way here.