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Anyway to change the background color?

ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
edited 2010-09-22 08:40 in General Discussion
I'm just wondering if there's an option somewhere to change the forum color as it appears on my browser. Personally I don't have a problem with the color. But I know that the manhoods of some forum members feel threatened by it, so I just thought I'd ask.

Or, if the forum fuschia is set in stone, might there be a workaround plan? Anyway to change browser settings or even the computer settings themselves?

The real men of the world thank you!
:)

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  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-09-18 08:57
    There doesn't appear to be. In the old forum you could override the colors by importing the forum's CSS file and altering it, then setting your browser for "user styles". But vBulletin, rather than referencing an external CSS file, embeds it's CSS file within every page. This seems to render user styling ineffective.

    IIRC, once the old content has been fixed up, we may be given some additional skinning options. I'm not sure how that works, though, since I don't see anything about it in the user CP.

    -Phil
  • Jim EwaldJim Ewald Posts: 733
    edited 2010-09-18 10:39
    There is relief in sight for Man Cave dwellers everywhere. Additional skins (and color schemes) will be available as soon as we finish the message cleanup process. If our progress holds steady, we should be ready to go by the end of September.

    Since there are so many possibilities and I still don't understand a color wheel, how about posting some links to vBulletin sites with layouts and color schemes you like.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2010-09-18 14:19
    Jim Ewald wrote: »
    There is relief in sight for Man Cave dwellers everywhere.....

    That's great news. Thanks for letting us know about this. Also, just generally speaking, now that I've gotten used to it, I think the new forum is pretty cool. Thanks to everyone who's worked to make the transition possible.

    :)
  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2010-09-22 08:40
    I would like a skin that has a very low saturation background color, ideally a nice grey, black text, and simple primary color based icons.

    Higher sat backgrounds are just painful over longer periods of time.

    My workstation, by the way, has a color saturation setting in the graphics driver. I turned it down for this forum, and enjoyed it a lot. Now, when I get ready to do prop stuff, I turn it down, have the forum open, and very light saturation code highlighting in the Prop tool, all easy to read!

    I've never actually returned it to stock saturation. Normally I run it about 80 percent, and drop that to 50, when propping!

    If you've got this option, I highly recommend it.

    If there are background colors, in a skin, I much prefer variations in intensity for readability overall. Green on purple, for example doesn't work. The eye focus conflict is brutal. Please keep the color angle low for readable objects, and please feel free to use most of the wheel for the classes of objects.

    Thanks!!
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