Two new themes available...

...for your foruming pleasure. Both are dark-ish themes, by popular request for same - proDark and Black Diamond. You can select either one from your User Control Panel -> Preferences page.

Personally, I'm not really wild about either of them - The logo and header on the Black Diamond theme is a bit weird, and proDark is, IMO, not contrasty enough, and they're both modifications of proSilver, which means that avatars and such are all on the right. So it goes. Anyway, feel free to test-drive them, and if you find them amenable, there you go.

um... ick.
sticking with subsilver.
thanks anyway, tho

Added "Black Pearl", which is (IMO) a slight improvement over the other two...

about the page-by-page display glitches (requires reloading on every new page) - would it be wise to chuck all site cookies after modding the screentheme?

about the page-by-page display glitches (requires reloading on every new page) - would it be wise to chuck all site cookies after modding the screentheme?

What happens when the site cookies are deleted? I've been reluctant to do that.

dunno. mee too. why I asked.

about the page-by-page display glitches (requires reloading on every new page) - would it be wise to chuck all site cookies after modding the screentheme?

What happens when the site cookies are deleted? I've been reluctant to do that.

It does exactly what it sounds like - your browser tosses its cookies.

Actually, it just deletes the cookies that the DC forum software sets to keep track of your login/logout activity. If you're having trouble logging in or out, clearing them can sometimes help. Otherwise, deleting the cookies just has the effect of instantly logging you off DC. They get reset the next time you login anyway, so it's not anything permanent.

about the page-by-page display glitches (requires reloading on every new page) - would it be wise to chuck all site cookies after modding the screentheme?

Shouldn't make a difference. What sort of glitches are you seeing?

about the page-by-page display glitches (requires reloading on every new page) - would it be wise to chuck all site cookies after modding the screentheme?

Shouldn't make a difference. What sort of glitches are you seeing?

the first time the newly restyled browser opens a particular page, it gets displayed in a pure text layout outline and link format
hitting "reload" refreshes the display, showing the proper screen display.

I like black pearl a lot, except for one major thing... I don't like yellow as the primary color for print.

Is there a version like black pearl but with some other color used for the print?

The two new themes are great!! , if I were trying to go blind.



I miss the old ones.

Thanks for the info. However, those are so bad I'll stick with subsilver2 for now. Where's Aphrodite? What's holding up the developers? [Mumble, grumble ...]

Thanks for the info. However, those are so bad I'll stick with subsilver2 for now. Where's Aphrodite? What's holding up the developers? [Mumble, grumble ...]

Do not ask for whom the cur mudges - he mudges for thee

I've added two new themes, Acidtech Blue and Serenity. Both themes are by the same author that brought you Aphrodite on the old board. Serenity is actually quite similar in feel to Aphrodite - those of you who are Aphrodite fans my want to test drive it for a bit.

Acidtech Blue, on the other hand, is a dark theme, with blue and red highlights. Those still looking for a dark theme may want to try this one out instead.

One notable drawback to the dark themes, for the moment, is that the rank images look like ass on a dark background. Light themes, no prob, but the dark ones are not so hot. C'est la vie - I'll fix that someday.

Acidtech Blue, on the other hand, is a dark theme, with blue and red highlights. Those still looking for a dark theme may want to try this one out instead.

I think we have a winner for me....

I have more of a problem with white backgrounds than I do with dark ones... Though on word, I tend to use a medium gray background with black letters....

Acidtech Blue, on the other hand, is a dark theme, with blue and red highlights. Those still looking for a dark theme may want to try this one out instead.

I think we have a winner for me....

I have more of a problem with white backgrounds than I do with dark ones... Though on word, I tend to use a medium gray background with black letters....

Let me know how that one works after a few days of trying in, CJ - I can tweak the colors somewhat, so let me know if the blues aren't contrasty enough or whatever.

I've added two new themes, Acidtech Blue and Serenity. Both themes are by the same author that brought you Aphrodite on the old board. Serenity is actually quite similar in feel to Aphrodite - those of you who are Aphrodite fans my want to test drive it for a bit.

Acidtech Blue might be attractive to a shoe-bomber, but it's not for me. Serenity however is a big improvement over subsilver2. Pale, neutral-colored background that doesn't scream at you, simple dark blue thread titles, and best of all -- red markers for new posts and even red titles for the names of forums with new posts. Much better than the themes that use orange for those signals.

Another advantage of Serenity: it doesn't use those thick, ugly horizontal borders for quoted material the way subsilver2 does. Just a simple, single-line box. Big improvement.

I don't really care for any of the new themes. One of them (ProDark) is almost good, but it's setup makes it hard to tell where new posts are. The others don't resize to fit the screen. I have a widescreen laptop at home; when I tried the new themes on it they appeared scrunched up in the center of the screen. SubSilver2, even though its color scheme and contrast suck royally, at least resizes on the screen.

I really miss Blacker2...

Another advantage of Serenity: it doesn't use those thick, ugly horizontal borders for quoted material the way subsilver2 does. Just a simple, single-line box. Big improvement.

Besides that, and much better (less obnoxious) colors, there's yet another reason I like Serenity: the controls have a more convenient layout. "Board index" is at the left margin, and "Mark topics read" is at the right margin. That makes it much easier (at least for me) to navigate around and find the things I want to see and to clean up those I don't want to see. The original themes had a less logical layout for those items, and I always had to hunt around for the buttons I wanted to push.

All I need to do now is switch back and forth from one margin to the other, with no need to diddle around in the middle. Also, I'm now less likely to hit "Subscribe forum" by accident.

If you're using IE5 don't try the "black diamond".

I did and it screwed the display up so badly I couldn't get out and I had to get the Senator to restore the default.

If you're using IE5 don't try the "black diamond".

I did and it screwed the display up so badly I couldn't get out and I had to get the Senator to restore the default.

The same thing happened to me with one of the other patterns.

There was no way I could access the "User Control Panel" after the change. Fortunately I was able to use the back button on the browser until I reached the previous pattern, from which I could access the "User Control Pannel" and change back.

Sentator, could you check each pattern for presence/absence of the control pannel link?

Coyote

In firefox I open a new tab to experiment with a new theme. If it doesn't work for me I've still got DC in the prior style on the old tab.

If you're using IE5 don't try the "black diamond".

I did and it screwed the display up so badly I couldn't get out and I had to get the Senator to restore the default.

The same thing happened to me with one of the other patterns.

There was no way I could access the "User Control Panel" after the change. Fortunately I was able to use the back button on the browser until I reached the previous pattern, from which I could access the "User Control Pannel" and change back.

Sentator, could you check each pattern for presence/absence of the control pannel link?

Coyote

Do you know which one was a problem for you?

If you're using IE5 don't try the "black diamond".

I did and it screwed the display up so badly I couldn't get out and I had to get the Senator to restore the default.

The same thing happened to me with one of the other patterns.

There was no way I could access the "User Control Panel" after the change. Fortunately I was able to use the back button on the browser until I reached the previous pattern, from which I could access the "User Control Pannel" and change back.

Sentator, could you check each pattern for presence/absence of the control pannel link?

Coyote

Do you know which one was a problem for you?

I tried to duplicate the problem and couldn't I am beginning to suspect it was OT (operator trouble).

Coyote

"Pilot error", eh?

"Pilot error", eh?

Loose nut behind the keyboard ...