Even if we haven't always gotten along personally, I have always admired your work professionally. Over all the site looks good and there is a good combination of colors that work well together. This is looking at the Default Serenity Blue Style.
I like that you have replaced all the images (smilies, post icons, and folders). So few people actually do and it makes the style look disjointed if you don't. What I don't like is there is too much white in places. Between the bottom of the header and the top of the forums on index.php is one place. From the top of the browser to the forums is about 4 inches on my screen and half of that is empty white space. I think it could be reduced a little and still convey the look that you want. It happens again in the footer of the page. Another three inches of pretty much empty white space. Not as big a deal because by the time you get there you're done with the content anyway. The biggest issue I have though is forumdisplay. All that white makes it hard over time to see the threads. There should be some sort of delineation among the rows. The white in your new thread button also blends into the background which is distracting as well. Combine this with the light blue and grey text and I get a headache trying to adjust visual contrast in reading the site. I am sure others won't have the same problems.
Overall, nice presentation but all the white makes it something that I couldn't visit for very long. At least with a site like this the side borders provides visual relief from the sea of white. And here they use black text.
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12-05-2007, 09:00 PM
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