No Thanks New Themes as Made by Normal Members...

I had a thought when I was going through the DarkDays Theme Released thread...

I know that suggesting new themes is on the "rejected suggestions" list, but it was also stated that this is "not necessarily denied," (as quoted in a post by Snake Eyes/Repliku in the Rejected Suggestions thread). So, as this is the case, I was thinking that the older themes that were used in the last version of vBulletin could be modified to work in the current version. Also, if the members of KH-Vids.NET helped out, (as in, a few coders, graphic designers, and testers), couldn't they come up with a theme to be used as a secondary option for those who don't like the themes we have now? I know that a common problem with the last theme, (FunKy2.0), was that it was too bright for many people's eyes, which made them turn the brightness down on their monitors specifically for this site, and, eventually, complain. I have also read in the release thread for DarkDays, (as awesome as it is in most other ways, RvR), that someone said that they don't like how the colors of this new theme don't match with very many colors outside of what is used in the banner. So, many profile customizations and signatures don't "look good" in this new color scheme...

What I am proposing is similar to what was proposed in the thread that is linked under "Suggestions regarding skins" as "Multiple skins" in the "Rejected Suggestions" thread. I want to gather up a few members who have coding experience, (like RvR, but not necessarily him, seeing as he worked so hard, already), and graphic design experience, (like Misty), and make a few new skins for the site, to be used as secondary options to the new DarkDays, which would remain the default. I was thinking of a Heartless theme, a Nobody theme, an Organization theme, a theme with the 7 Princesses, a Castle Oblivion theme, a theme for each world... That kind of thing. Heck, we could even do a Final Fantasy character theme! The possibilities are as endless as the stories that are created from the Kingdom Hearts saga, itself! And we don't have to make one for EVERYTHING that we think of, either. We can pass it by RvR/Identity Theft for approval before we make any themes, to begin with...

So, Admins, Mods, and other members of KHV... What do you think?

- Ol'Sephy

 

Members have the option between the two themes and hopefully we'll see a former theme or two come back. The problem with older themes is they were made for the former version if vb which is different from the current version in quite a few ways so it'll take some time to get done. It's a project 'in the works'.

As for the desire to make new themes, if you want to go ahead and do that with some other members, I don't see why you cannot knock yourself out and go for it. If you complete something, go ahead and let us know and we'll see what we can do.

 

Like I already said, I think this is a nice idea (as long as we don't go too far with it, there is such thing as having too many themes). We'd have to really make sure the code is perfect though, I don't want to have it with a lot of mistakes RvR would have to revise.

I'd love to help. For this theme I made a mock-up in Photoshop and made all of the images, which I can do (I have a lot from this theme that will come in handy). I didn't do any coding though, that was all RvR, but lately I've been learning a lot of code and I'd be happy to lend a rather inexperienced hand.

I would really like to hear RvR's opinion on this, though.

 

This sounds like a great idea.
Having a whole library of skins does seem a little pointless, but Kingdom Hearts has many themes and it'd be nice to have choices. Choosing between black and white (literally) is a poor choice, even though I do love the darkdays theme.

 

This does sound pretty damn nifty...As everyone else said it mwould be pointless to have too many but it would be nice to have a larger selection I say go for it!

 

Unless if someone is going to give me a "ready to upload" .xml file compatible with vB 3.7.3, this isn't going to happen.

I don't have time to code 40 entries sent in to us. Maybe when we get closer to deciding on a new skin we'll think of a way to get the members more involved.

 

Well, that's exactly why I was thinking of having the other members do it -- so you didn't have to. Isn't there anyone else who could take a look at our code and tell us how we can make it better? If so, then they could be like a "supervisor" on the project -- someone who has to have all the ideas passed by them before they even get considered for use.

Also, the whole idea of having a small group of members do this is to NOT have 40 badly-coded entries sent in for "review." I speak for myself only, but if there was a list of XML tags for vB 3.7.3, then I'd be able to learn it in no time flat. I already know HTML/CSS really well. I also know that XML is basically HTML that is modified for use in a specific site/project. So instead of <html> to start the page, you could use something like <forum> or <template>, which are not used in HTML -- they're created by the person using the code. (Correct me if I got any of that wrong.)

I could make a mock-up of a sample theme, if you'd like, so as to give you an idea of what I want to do. If anything, though, all I'd ask is that you make sure that the .xml file is compatible and "worthy," in a way, for use on here.

Whew! Didn't think that would be so long! I guess I had more to say than I thought...

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xD