LocalApple.com
 

A friend of mine and I just started a new forum all about New York City living. Would love feedback and if anyone could help us out getting the ball rolling with the first couple of posts.

Thanks guys!! :)

http://www.localapple.com

- Dani

I'm not really fond of the style. I think its the scheme - the colours match and all but I think they're in the wrong places.

Thanks for the feedback. The style was put up a bit hastily I guess ... I know what you mean. It is an ad-hoc version of the vBulletin ACP css.

the logo needs some work ...
-- it's dark
-- not the proper colors to convey "living"

about the style
-- it's the default style --not much to say
-- again, not the proper set of colors to convey "living"
-- watch the background image on categories ... it's repeating; thus, making it hard to read the text
-- decrease or remove table borders


I'm guessing you just wanted to give "exposure" to the name; because, I just can't believe this is YOUR finished product. I've seen better work from you. :)

It was put up start to finish in about three hours (and that includes first buying web hosting and vBulletin), so yeah, not a lot of work at all spent on the style or design. I'm really just trying to help out a friend who wanted to get started with his own forum, so I wanted to introduce him to vBulletin. :) DaniWeb is still my baby!

In all honesty though, I'm really fond of stock vBulletin's with just CSS alterations. I think that look is just soooo simplistic and easy to use. Compared to my www.daniweb.com with it's 160+ forums and subforums three levels deep, where no one ever seems to know where to post.

About two years ago I set up http://www.mod-rewrite.com/forum/ meant to imitate the old version of Mozilla.com. The entire design took a matter of 15 minutes because it was all CSS changes only and I think it came out rather non-stock vB looking.

You're right though :) I'm really just trying to get some exposure and also some ideas or suggestions for the site. What do you think of the forum structure? Like I said - simple is best in my eyes! I'm too desensitized to DaniWeb.

I like your color scheme the only thing I can see that could make your page look better would be to get a lighter colored top logo or otherwise make your color scheme a bit darker to match the logo. Either way one of the 2 should change, other than that great job :cool:

Thank you :) Appreciate the feedback. Yes, def need to do something with that logo ;)

Woah the colours are far to saturated! Unless the site is aimed at pre-schoolers, who are less sensitive to colours, it's just going to *annoy* older brains. Try using pastel blues if you want to use blue.

Also the logo is lame - but you knew that right? and the gradient in the bar just looks cheap.

Sorry for being harsh. Tell it like it is.

Yes, I know the entire style is ... well ... just is. More concerned with feedback as to the subject matter. Now is probably the time when I can point you to my true baby (www.daniweb.com) to give myself a little ego boost. No worries! :)

Thanks for that great link Dani! :) As a mac fan (in the making) I am def. interested in such forums :)