margaretcarnes wrote:Sorry guys but the new format and layout of the Forum just doesn't hack it for me. The colour is sickening for a start.
With time the sickly colour might become easier on the eye. But for now it really isn't floating my boat.
The colour scheme could probably do with toning down a bit - perhaps just darken everything by a few shades, but after a few days of use... the forum icons are still just an eye-sore.
I think I've kind of figured out what means what now... but I've still no idea why some of the topic icons feel the need to animate - and it's kind of off-putting. Usually on phpBB installs there's a 'help' link which lists what the topic icons mean, but I couldn't find it here. I've had a look through the FAQs but couldn't find anything. Perhaps it would be possible to import the old icon set into the new theme - I don't think they'd look out of place?
Another issue is that the sidebar layout is inconsistent. The outer boxes, and everything else on the forum have rounded edges, while the content has square edges. I don't know if the template in use has the option to have a 'flat' stlye. If it does that would be the easiest fix; and flat is pretty much where modern design is headed. If not then a bit of styling to make the content rounded would make thing look a lot nicer.