I've been working on a new theme for the AT forums

[[-z-]]

I was sick of the late 90's style of the the current current, so I've been working on a new one with a refreshed style and BIGGER FONTS. It's still a work in progress but very useable.

OLD:


NEW:



EDIT: This is now the new default theme... welcome to a new era people!


You can choose to use this theme in the control panel, it's called "Alien Infinitum" because I kept the original name of theme I've been building off located here. However, the name is subject to change in the future.


Question, comments, critique, all welcome and maybe ignored. I plan on adding a few things to the theme still, remember it's a work in progress

But I do appreciate constructive criticism and requests.


Below are a few tests.

My name is -z-!
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<?php
echo "hello world!";
$array = array(1,3,6,7,8,9,0);
foreach ($array as $number) {
    for ($i=0;$i<$number;$i++) {
        echo "$i to $number";
    }
}
?>

http://pics.nexuizninjaz.com


* one
* two
* give me back my shoe!!

tiny
small
large
HUGE

darkred
red
orange
brown
yellow
green
olive
cyan
blue
darkblue
indigo
violet
white

BOLD
Italic
underlined

[divVerent]

One thing I don't like about the new style is that the font is thin relative to its size.

Can you brighten up the colors blue, darkblue, indigo?

But it's clearly better than the default theme (which uses javascript to notify about PMs), and also much better as the white/blue one (which is just ugly).

[GreEn`mArine]

very nice theme in general. Maybe the polls are a little too widespread and take a lot of (vertical) space. But I'm quite sure I'll keep using this theme now

[ai]

It does look nice, the font could be changed I believe. I also think you know this and are working on it but I'll throw it out anyway. Adding some kind of nice image/graphic to the different categories in the forums (Alientrap.org, Nexuiz, Nexuiz -Editing etc.).

Also, I voted on: '123405dsll1!!!! When's Nexuiz 2.5 coming out!?! LOLCATS, who gave me access to a computer?'
The whole thing is just funny, especially the end. Couldn't resist.

[[-z-]]

I tried a few different fonts and font-weights wasn't really working out... I can make the font a little bigger and it'll look a little better but I dunno . Guess I'm going to have to play with it some more. I've been adding little touches, icons, padding etc


And yes, the poll padding needs work.


What do you think of a larger font? I don't want to go too large >_<

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

What a co-incidence! i was also planning on making some new themes!
But i was thinking more along the lines of pink or Augenkrebs™®©¹¹¹¹∞-camouflage.

[divVerent]

I wouldn't like it larger, but it should be thicker... I am currently installing some more fonts so see how it works out. Maybe it's just that Bitstream Vera Sans sucks at this font size and this foreground/background color (the font does not look "thin" when black on white).

[divVerent]

I found it.

Can you make the regular text color at least #bbbbbb or brighter? That makes the text look good for me.

As for font size, maybe ONE notch more, but not more then.

[[-z-]]

What a co-incidence! i was also planning on making some new themes!
But i was thinking more along the lines of pink or Augenkrebs™®©¹¹¹¹∞-camouflage.

Oh man, if I was farther along with the theme a few days ago I would have loved to make an "omg ponies" version ^_^.


divVerent: making it too bright will be too much contrast and hurt many people's eyes.. I can bump it up a hex value but I think higher might be too much. You can always edit it client side.



BUG: there is a bug with the lightbox script I have to look into... it matches <a><img> which it should not.

Even worse, this thread is using a dated library (obviously) that's ~50kb bigger than it needs to be to perform the task... I've located the problem now I just need to write some clever javascript regex to fix it... I'll probably replace the script at some point... it's just a lot to do right now.

[sev]

Overall I like it a lot, very clean, not too dark.
The font isn't really an issue, I use my own font settings anyway.

2 problems I have though (Firefox 3.0.7):
- I don't really like the image popup, and it only loads the thumbnail, not the link to the actual image.
- When I open a link in a new tab (ctrl+lmb), it also opens it in the currently active tab.

P.S. Alien Emoticons would be the cherry on top