Masu Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 I was looking around on the front page and I saw something called "skin selector" but only "serenes forest" is available. Dont get me wrong i do like how the site looks already but will there be any updates to the skins list anytime soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 I was looking around on the front page and I saw something called "skin selector" but only "serenes forest" is available. Dont get me wrong i do like how the site looks already but will there be any updates to the skins list anytime soon? Dammit, I just explained that this board is for Site Content, not about the forums. I'll go for a reddish version of the current skin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florete Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Only Vincent can answer that, but I do agree with you MaSu. As cool as this one is, the same thing every time can get rather dull. Like CGV's avatar and sig. And Knife, I would consider this a part of the site, so I'll leave the topic here for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serene Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Or how about the option to chose from one or another skin like other sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VincentASM Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 You have to make the skins if you want them, and it's not that easy. Well, there's probably custom-designed ones, but I'm not sure about using those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacaendruid Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 You have to make the skins if you want them, and it's not that easy.Well, there's probably custom-designed ones, but I'm not sure about using those. How hard would it be to make a gray scale version of the skin? If you told me how I would do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltoshen Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 How hard would it be to make a gray scale version of the skin? If you told me how I would do it. Harder than you think. Well, it's not as hard as creating a skin entirely. But otherwise, it's really time consuming. But, if you wanted to know: Just take a gray pallete. Match them to the greens used on the site. You can then replace their hex codes manually. Or you can copy to notepad or something and use the replace all command or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLSothe Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Vince, it isn't too hard, I can't do it, but somebody with even the most basic CSS knowledge could do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VincentASM Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 I never said it was hard. I just said it wasn't easy : P Anyway if anyone wants to edit the CSS to make a new skin, feel free to PM me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masu Posted December 10, 2008 Author Share Posted December 10, 2008 *bumps for recent topic to see* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolDeath Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 There are HUNDREDS of free skins. Not wanting to make one is not an excuse to not install another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Glenn Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 We're not going to install random skins all willy-nilly. They'd have to be designed to fit the site, so you'd have to wait regardless for a new one, if there was going to be one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolDeath Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 How is taking a skin made for this type of forum "willy-nilly"? There are members who don't like the current one.. 15 seconds to please them, is it really that big a deal if it isn't custom for SF? People have been asking since July, a custom skin obviously just isn't happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Glenn Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 What I meant was that we're not just going to grab some random skin that doesn't fit SF at all. There's no point to it, except just to please a minority of people who don't prefer the default skin. If there's to be another skin, it'll have to at least look like it fits the site, even if visiting guests couldn't see it. It would just look tacky. And, just because people have been asking for one since July doesn't mean that it will never happen. People have lives outside of the site, so they can't always spend time doing stuff for the site. Not only is Vincent in university, but he has to keep the mainsite updated too. I'd argue that the forums are the lowest of those priorities for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolDeath Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 lol.. Elaborate on "fits" the site, I'll see what I can grab, Mr. Admin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Glenn Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 "Fits," as in, needs to go along with the overall motif of the mainsite and needs to go along with the fact that we're "representative" of Serenes Forest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolDeath Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 (edited) So something the same colors of the main site, even though it wouldn't be default or viewable by guests. I don't see the point in it, but that eliminated every single skin that exists being as none have the same background as the mainsite. Everyone will just have to deal with puke green I guess. <_< Edit, unless someone wants to spare 10 minutes for minor changes? I might be willing to find one, but I am not editing it for this site, not my job. Edited December 10, 2008 by Death Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meteor Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I would be willing to give it a shot, but it sounds like I would be wasting my time. The point of a skin is to make it look different, but that's not allowed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolDeath Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 (edited) Generally you are right, but it seems like the administration wants every skin to follow the same color scheme. Seems pretty weird to me too but it's not like we can do anything about it. Edited December 10, 2008 by Death Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Glenn Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Not once did I say that we wanted "every skin to follow the same color scheme." I said that the skins would need to follow the same motif and be representative of the fact that the site is Serenes Forest, meaning you have to take into consideration that 1) Forest colors suit the site and 2) Herons live in the forest, so they're game as well. (e.g. Making a character-based skin of Roy wouldn't fly, because doesn't suit SF. Making a skin about one of the Herons, or even the Hawks or Ravens? That would probably be acceptable.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolDeath Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 You don't think a banner is enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meteor Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 What if I made a skin that had no images? More like a scheme than a theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaiserPhoenix Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 (edited) I am thinking darkening some of the greens and adding some blacks, and perhaps replacing the heron's with Raven's. That's my input in it. It would definitely make it more aesthetically pleasing to me at least. I'd even be willing to put some work into it if I got the go-ahead and someone gave me a copy of the forum's pictures to edit on my own (if I can ever figure out how to do everything I was doing in photoshop in GIMP). <<<< Why I haven't made my own banner/avatar btw. Best case: it could become a secondary skin (my old forum had a "light" and "dark" skin themselves) Worse Case: it completely gets discarded. *shrugs* I'll be here, even if I despise the color scheme (I usually have multiple windows up so I don't actually have to look at the site for long periods of time, headaches and all). ~KaiserPhoenix Edited December 11, 2008 by KaiserPhoenix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VincentASM Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 (edited) KaiserPhoenix, do you think you could make a mockup image in Paint, Photoshop or some other program? Like this, but probably better. Edited December 11, 2008 by VincentASM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderstrife Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 I don't know how outdated this discussion is in the eyes of the Admins (ie whether it's still a relevant concern or not), but I have Adobe CS3 and such, and I'm planning on working on some FE fanart this break anyway, so I could definitely whip something up. The only thing is I was gonna go for a FE5 sorta theme probably, but In figured since the forum's a Fire Emblem site and not a FE9/FE10 site, it might still be appreciated regardless? Let me know what your thoughts are on this, but I definitely don't mind helping out, though I don't know how to code... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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