New color scheme please

There is no doubt that OZZU is the greatest webmaster forum in the history of internet, but there is something that I want for everybody. My biggest wish is the refreshing new colour scheme for ozzu. I love this forum and I think that there should be at least 3 to 6 color schemes for this forum. The present color scheme is a little kill for the eyes, keeping in view the different resolutions.

What do you think about this ozzuers ?

do u mean like different themes for ozzu. becuase i like the colors that are chosen now

Personally, I like the current theme. The white text on the grey makes the content stand out, and there aren't many colors to distract the eye. I think that's important, because the content is the focus here.

That being a given, there are a wide range of themes and colors available for boards like this that members could select instead of this default one. The problem with multiple ones (particularly at this board) is that many modules have been added to this board to give it the functionality it currently has. If Bigwebmaster were to add additional color themes, he would have to update the code for every single module he has added to this place for every theme. I can pretty much guarantee you that it's a bit of a task to do just one theme.

I seriously doubt that you'll see any additional themes being offered.

Thanks for that ATNO/TW. ( I love you )

I urge you to check - http://www.tombraiderforums.com - and compare it with the current scheme of OZZU. I think it is strange that being one of the top webmaster forums, OZZU has only one theme to offer. Please don't get me wrong, I love OZZU, that's why I am saying that. Having only one color color theme is nothing for OZZU.

we're glad to know you like ozzu

there's a lot of great discussion regarding this suggestion here --
http://www.ozzu.com/announcements-rules/new-design-for-ozzu-webmaster-forum-t18660.html

eventually we'll get a lighter ozzu theme going, but it's way too
much work right now, especially since the majority of people
seem to like it the way it is just fine.

I understand that. I'm speaking mostly from experience. My friend and I have a sports board http://imagesculptor.com/pool where I have a total of four themes members can choose from - the default (which is the stock phpBB theme), a hockey theme, an NFL theme, and a basketball theme.

I've had to do exactly what I mentioned above for everyone of those themes which makes me reluctant to add additional modules which would improve the place. I've also lost track of how much I've changed in each template and it would be a real bugger if I had to go in and remove or troubleshoot something.

I've given serious consideration to completely changing it and making it all one default theme instead of having to mess with four. In addition, I've also created custom pages that only members can access that I also have to update with any changes I make.

The problem just compounds itself the more themes you add, and unlike some places, Bigwebmaster does all the code changes to this place himself.

For what it's worth, I'd enjoy choices myself. I'm just trying to explain the impracticallity of it.

Ha ha nice joke unflux ! you are funny

but don't say "eventually we'll get a lighter ozzu theme going, but it's way too much work right now" because in the presence of such a great team including you, I don't think it would be such a problem

Thanx ATNO/TW ! I love your http://www.imagesculptor.com/pool/ because it is simply but very well laid out. Now feel that ATNO/TW or Mr. Mark, your website theme is very light on eyes. Actually I was just saying about the visual philosophy of human eyes. Whenever you see a light object on o dark surface/background, your eyes open wide - and that means your eyes are working beyond the "allowance" (just like when you see something like "opposite sex" +++ Whatever goes that way, it means you are forcing your eyes +++ for example in your website http://www.imagesculptor.com/pool/ , we never force our eyes. And that's the bottom line

That's a good explaination dreamweaver. But to confirm what UNFLUX said...Bigwebmaster has already discussed a light theme, but I'd be willing to guess that these forums are not Bigweb's primary source of income, and I know he's busy with other things, and it probably won't happen overnight. Keep in mind -- although we work as a team as mods --- Bigweb writes the code changes for this place by himself. So it could take some time.

Thanx ATNO/TW. ( I belive you are one of the very kind, helping and knowledgeable person out there ) Actually the whole OZZU team is great, from site admin Brian ( Mr. super Brain ) and all the moderaters are doing the wonderful job. And I just thank you for that. Thanx for enlighting me with such a great information.

I (including everyone on this great forum) appriciate your great team work. But I am sure, OZZU will be ready with more color themes by the next two or three months. And that's the way it is.

Hey, if it's so easy & quick to do, why don't you go ahead and make a few, and donate them to Ozzu if everybody likes 'em?

Hi Dreamweaver,

ATNO/TW has pretty much hit the nail on the head with the reasons why there is currently only one theme. For many months there were two themes that existed on Ozzu, but due to the extreme amount of modifications (mods) installed, and customizations that I have made to code myself, it is seriously a major time consuming task for me to add additional themes that work properly with how PHPBB is installed on this server. I try to keep the forum up to date with the current releases of PHPBB, and each time they update, it is major work for me to again resintall everything.

The major focus for Ozzu is the content found here, but it the design of Ozzu is still important. In the future we do plan to move to a lighter type theme which Unflux will most likely be working with me on, but for the time being the priority for this is low. I have many other more important projects for the time being, and Unflux has been pretty busy himself with his own projects. For the time being it doesn't look like either of us will be able to work on a new theme and it is very unlikely that ozzu will ever support more than one theme simultaneously (at least that is how it appears right now, due to the work involved).

I do appreciate discussion on the topic as we are obviously open to discussions like this, and we do greatly appreciate feedback from members to make the environment here an overall better place for everyone.

For what it's worth, I love the current Ozzu theme

White text on a black background is so much easier on the eyes than vice-versa (especially at night when it's kinda dark in the room anyway, heh).

I agree, I am normally veiwing ozzu late a night when I am tired and the grey on black is soft on the eyes, I personally could care less if ozzu got a new theme because I wouldn't use it

according to the footer, this site uses phpBB. i do not see how anyone would think that adding a new style or theme to phpBB is a problem. in most cases it's as simple as uploading the files of the new style.

there are 100's of styles (themes, templates) for phpBB. sometimes i prefer a dark style like the default and other times i much prefer a lighter colored theme. but i hate this olive green/grey color.

in fact, you know how they aways say the original is the best? i have not seen a style that was better than the original phpbb2 style - i think it's called subSilver.

something else to consider when modifying php web apps.
put your mods in a separate file then comment out the old stuff you want to replace. finally, include("mymods.inc"); that way your mods don't get trashed and you can easily comment out the stuff then include the mods file.


JMHO



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