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[setishock]

Both of them are a work in progress. But of the two colors, which one would be best to pursue?

Neon Green
http://www.animeappeal.com/?styleid=103

I am so blue
http://www.animeappeal.com/?styleid=110

[TheLastSuperman]

Coming from someone who used to do CAD work (Computer Aided Design) in a program w/ a black background I can tell you this, both are a strain on the eyes. Granted your niche is anime which may draw a much younger crowd I feel that's just too strong on the eyes, either of them imo, meant to be constructive feedback of course .

[setishock]

Any suggestions for a background then?

[businessmeet]

yes i cant stand these colors either, plz keep it the way it is, grey color in existing forum design is lookin fine.

[setishock]

Ok so what about this one?
http://www.animeappeal.com/?styleid=111

[Reycer]

um well that one has a LOT going on. It's hard to see the forums for the background image. The header is overly huge. I would go with some PNG's myself. Your pictures on the left almost blend in to the point to where it's hard to see them. Upon viewing some of the posts, you can't even read the posts because the lettering is black against the background. This one is extrememly hard on the eyes.

[Juggernaut]

I think the first style looks best, but the body of the forum is pushed to the left, it's very noticeable in a widescreen monitor.

[Jncocontrol]

If you gonna go with an anime Themed forum, go with something that like Animesuki.com, But instead of grey, Go with a Sky blue color, for the Forum header, And if you did that, I would think it would be a top-notch theme.

But, That's just my opinion though.

[setishock]

Originally Posted by mdelcour

um well that one has a LOT going on. It's hard to see the forums for the background image. The header is overly huge. I would go with some PNG's myself. Your pictures on the left almost blend in to the point to where it's hard to see them. Upon viewing some of the posts, you can't even read the posts because the lettering is black against the background. This one is extrememly hard on the eyes.

I can change to a darker filter. That'll make the text stand out more.
As for the header that's just something I threw up there to have something up there. It's not staying.
I guess I need to put the block decorations back in so the side pics stand out.

Thanks for your input.

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Originally Posted by Juggernaut

I think the first style looks best, but the body of the forum is pushed to the left, it's very noticeable in a widescreen monitor.

I assume you're talking about Ninja Babe. It's 45 left. 50 right. With the doc width set to auto. Not quite dead center but if she's off to the left on a wide screen it's because it was constructed on a smaller screen at 1280x800.

Thanks for your input.

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Originally Posted by Jncocontrol

If you gonna go with an anime Themed forum, go with something that like Animesuki.com, But instead of grey, Go with a Sky blue color, for the Forum header, And if you did that, I would think it would be a top-notch theme.

But, That's just my opinion though.

I have to assume you're looking at the black and gray theme. I didn't make that. That a VB freebie. The header was made for me by one of my members.

Thanks for your input.

[Action-N]

On style 103, the "Help" and "Register" text is black on dark gray only visible on hover. The greetings box am unclear as to purpose, but it's making forum wider than need be an there's all that wasted space under it. So consider making it into a horizontal box with the pictures an maybe welcome text. The gradients used in the "what's going on" table looks weird, but an don't really mach with the other gradients used. Your Icon legend appears to have the default icons an not your updated ones. On your post page the similar threads table the time color is almost the same gray as your background. Lastly the house icon from the navigation looks to dark for the background.

I do have to mention the quotes icon on your posts the dark gray with lighter gray text, I really like that look. Enough where I'm gonna see if I can get the same effect on my white forums.