logo colour scheme

[lycium]

so the background for the logo is definitely going to be that baby/sky blue?

[cKleinhuis]

 

no, the background can be choosen by the user, look at the top right box under the forum main menu, there is a drop down for predefined bg color,

so the logo should be a png with alpha channel, even if some browsers do not support it, i as the site owner refuse to take care of prehistoric browsers.

so either make a nice clear outline around a gif logo, or use alpha channel tranparency with png file format

i know it is hard to create a logo for different bg colors, but this way it is more reuseable and another challenge for the artist

so the background for the logo is definitely going to be that baby/sky blue?

[lycium]

i as the site owner refuse to take care of prehistoric browsers.

   

    

 

i know it is hard to create a logo for different bg colors, but this way it is more reuseable and another challenge for the artist

the difficulty is that baby blue is not very neutral :S you have to use something like pastel colours to harmonise with that, greatly limiting the kind of entries possible... if we could have a second choice of more neutral base colour scheme (euhm greyish i guess, with bright colours for links), then maybe that might attract more entries?

[cKleinhuis]

hmm, have you seen the color choose selectbox ?

if you choose one of the colors defined there ( light silver )
it should be possible to show the corresponding logos only with the selectet color set

all in all i am not able/willing to alter the default colorsets provided by this particular forum template,
this would include changing many many bars/icons

and i am somewhat lefthanded on both hands when it comes to colors/forms and style

i am currently not really aware what everything has to change when altering the colors, but i thin it would incorporate html colors bars and icons ...

but you are right that the contrast offerings by these bgs are a bit harsh ...
hmm, what shall i do ?

[lycium]

hmm at some stage i was a forum mod? ;P

[cKleinhuis]

[lycium]

yeah, before you got ownership a few of us got mod rights; i think after i posted warning messages to save data from the upcoming Exodus i was stripped of rank for "causing a panic" though (!!)