Asking People What They Thing first yoshi theme

[gemmk1]

Hi everyone this is the first time me and friend have tried to put a theme together.I love yoshi and we could not find yoshi anywhere on the vbulletin themes.After many hours of trying to vcentre just one picture of yoshi and then floating him the end result looks like this.I wanted everyones opion before i upload it for people to share

Thank you

I dont know if im allowed to put my link or not but here it is to have a real look to see what you think if its not okay i have uploaded some photos

http://www.strangers2friendz.co.uk

[GSeybold]

Cute Forum

Just a couple of things but this is just my preference .

Yoshi is cool but you have too much of this. The background is too much.

Your status icons are too big

Your header is too small.

Other than that I think your forum has nice colors and clean.

Good luck

Gabby

[cheat-master30]

I like the style in general (Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Island DS are fantastic games, so I definitely wanted to see this forum style). However, while it looks good, I have a few criticisms of it, albeit most being minor:

The forums containing new posts and not containing new posts icons are different sized, so the key looks kinda off as a result.

The background should ideally be centered or fixed, because it repeats on any remotely wide browser screen.

The active users and stats icons are default. Considering the amount of Yoshi based images and gif icons you can find online, that won't be very hard to fix. Or the use of two sprites from the series, the Yoshi's Island series does have more than Yoshi you know!

But other than that, it generally looks good.

[lasto]

the background is the main problem for me.Like cheatmaster says - its needs to be a fixed background.

[gemmk1]

Thank you for everyones comments and yes i do relise there is to much yoshi.But when i fixed the yoshi background it made it fixed but pushed him to the right hand side and didnt scroll down with the forum.If anyone knows how to make it that the forum scrolls much apreciated.Once again thank you for your comments

[cheat-master30]

This might fix it, so add this to the CSS properties to make it stay fixed while the page scrolls:

background-attachment: fixed;

[gemmk1]

Thankyou cheat master it works it looks so much better

[cheat-master30]

No problem. Now I'm assuming just make the statistics and users online icons fit the theme, and it'd be ready to release.

Edit: Never mind, you updated said icons.

[gemmk1]

Ive changed the statics and the users online icons already i think it looks alot better,Thank you for your advice

[Shelley_c]

Background doesn't stretch to the full width of my screen (why would it) that would distort the background image. Regardless of that on higher resolutions, you have blue space where the image should be.

Forum status icons imo are way to big. imo. Why not simpy crop an image of yoshi and either distinguish the new/nonew with an opacity options or dynamic differences. For consistency, why not have them the same dimensions? the nonew/new are different sizes.

The collapse tcat/thead icons are hard to see, re-coloured icons would be nice to distinguish them from the background. Or, add a drop shadow so they are a little prominent and easy for us short sighted users to make out. (not the kissing making out).

I think the vbulletin stock buttons you re-coloured really look visually awfull. Not to mention when applied upon the background (picture of yoshi) redundant white matting shows. I'd suggest using something custom or opting for another format that supports true transparency (hint: .png) or if none of the above appeal to you then remove the buttons all together which would result in nobody being able to post.

Overall, I don't like the theme, the colours are yukky, saturated and there's a lot of images with redundant white edging when it should be transparent and/or smooth for a crispier/sharper look.