Lots of customization and some cool ideas (I like the thread count being displayed to the left of the title). Some of the color choices are a little iffy to me, such as the admin post green, the pink / magenta strip behind the post buttons, etc. There's a few default vB icons which could be done better as custom (such as post_old.gif) but overall, it's a nice and unique look. I'll give you credit for all the customizations alone.
Not that it matters to a front end visitor, but as a semantic markup nazi, I have to ask why you chose to use nested table markup to make this skin, over semantic html / css separation. Spending all the time on customizing, I'm just curious why it wasn't set up to make it easier for future themes to be made off of your same markup.
Also: I actually think if you spend some time altering the navbit, and quote templates, you could probably come up with something ten times better than the vB defaults which are there now. Maybe even putting the login form up in the top strip where it says, "You must login to use this feature" (and actually, speaking of that.. what feature? I don't know what it means as a visitor. Perhaps be a little more insightful as to what it is / means).
07-30-2009, 12:50 AM
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