Redesigned my forums -Comments welcome!

[Mr. X]

First lemme thank all the peeps in the Template on vb.com and the great hackers at vb.org for helping me with all my questions, I learned alot!

The theme I have is something I've wanted to do for a while. Before hand, it was monotonous grey with 1 other color, usually yellow or blue. Just drab looking.

As you can see, Im a minimalist, I like it simple and clean. Nothing too fancy or anything, mainly because I wouldnt know how to make it fancy anyway

The color scheme I stumbled upon. Originally I was planning for a dark blue/yellow-orangish theme similar to what Infopop or yaxay use, but I dug the sandy beige tone so I stuck with that.

I made a new header, footer, edited much of forumhome, forumdisplay, postbit etc as well. The folder icons are from a Gnome Icon set which looked perfect for the scheme. The rest I either made myself or edited from collections of graphics I've gathered over the years. Im definetly no C-Prompt or Sinecure so making icons from scratch is a bit over my head for now. Btw, I did get prior permission to edit the Copyright info in case someone brings it up.

Im making 3 other themes, one where the User Info pane is aligned left like the default, one where the text is size 2 instead of 1, and a 3rd where the user info is aligned left AND text is size 2 instead of 1.

My grievances are that Im having trouble putting the forumlist into a table, like what Yaxay has. I'd like to use a different color since for the backround since theres a bit too much white for my liking, but since I have each post seperated by a spacer, it messes up. I also would have liked to use dotted CSS borders, but that is WAAAY over my head so I gave up. I also wish I could figure out how to bring the header to touch the Welcome Panel, but so far no luck.

Oh yeah, no fancy logo in the header yet, so that part you see is temporary. Im working on it

Overall, Im really happy with out it came out, and even though I suck at HTML, PHP and pretty much all things web/forum design, Im kinda proud of myself. I think I'll get myself a cookie, preferably one with chocolate and M&M's inside.

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shamelessly copied from my original post at vb.com