Normally, I'm quite the fan of these simple generic looking styles but yours looks a little bland. The assortment of greys used give off a terribly bland experience.
Maybe it's the default "lastpost" and greyed out forum status icons that aren't doing the style any justice. I'd suggest adding a little colour to the forum staus icons, aswell as the lastpost icons just to give the style some highlights.
I would also set about tweaking the header. Give this area a little life by adding colours that will compliment the variation of blue used throughout the style. That said, Don't go overboard throwing colours here and there. PLus there's so much you can do by changing the css and totally transforming the style so it's a more pleasurable visual experience.
All in all, You've gone (or atleast the author did) went "blue crazy" Blue buttons, icons, header which leaves the style looking bland in areas and overly blue in others giving off this bland look. Work with a 3 colour system, the third colour will be used on icons buttons etc and will highligh the areas in the style that need broken out.
Just a note to say that there's plenty of custom images in the vb.org databse so I'd suggest paying this area a visit and look for stuff that will compliment the style and also make removing any default vbulletin stock images a high priority.
08-28-2008, 02:57 PM
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