Style colours?

[Shelley_c]

Okay, The style colours are terrible (no offense princeton) but when it comes to re-colouring styles you fail and fail miserably. I'm quite astounded you want you name in the footer associated with these styles. I'm referring to how much of the same colours you have implemented in each style, take the red style for example, Bright red tcats followed by red thead gradients. Red forum status icons, followed by red buttons.

What's the suggestion? Re-colour the style(s). Give them some other colours so the styles are broken into some kind of 3 coloured usage system. Give the vbulletin buttons another colour other than red and also the forum status icons. This goes for all the styles.

Making colour adjustments and re-colouring the primary colours with slightly subtle variations will produce far better results.

Also, the re-colouring in the icons, buttons etc is terrible layers are there for a reason and should be used appropriately instead of implementing a adjustment colour slap bang n the top.

A vb.com staff member pointed this out as being bland, i think he was a little harsh and wrong at the same time. The colours a mind blowingly bright and colours overused where it's not needed.

Don't think of this as a complaint, Just from someone that knows what they are talking about. The only reason this thread is created now was because i never really seen how bad the other styles were untill the style changer appeared on the forumhome.

Isn't their someone on staff that is graphics savy and knows how to re-colour the styles? It seriously wouldn't take a lot of effort.

Another thing I noticed are the small icons, they have the wrong matting/background in relation to the background they are being applied onto. Take the for example, It's showing a squared border when it should be seamlessly intergrated into the background it's being aplied onto. It's just another case of sloppy shortcuts which paves the way how much these styles are rushed and pushed out expecting everyone to settle for second best for a board that should be topping other rivals in the BB software arena. It's sloppy and there's no excuse for it.

edit: Can't you bring kerry anne on board? She has had experience in duplicating older styles (vbulletin orientated). Atleast, experience in using and implementing visually enhanced colours/re-colouring.