Could there be a Blue version of EoFF 2005?

[Loony BoB]

The existing styles are enough as it is. There's no way in hell I'm going to encourage more styles just to satisfy a few people's tastes - I think the general three we have are fine. We only had one for years and nobody really complained that much. The more we do for people who want to mix and match, the more people are going to ask for more. The last thing I want is for this place to become more like Fool's Gold, where some people might say they had more styles than they have brains. There are actually 12 styles right now, most of them just aren't selectable (and only about two or three of those were actually completed for use, I think).

I am however starting to work on the idea clout and I discussed in the past of an extremely simplified style that is entirely image-less etc, but it might take a while to get sorted out, and it will not use the black and blue but rather be (probably) white and black. It'll probably take some time, though. The main aim of it is to be friendly for both work environments (ie mine, I don't like having my boss always see a black and blue site, it's way too obvious it's not for work ) and for 56k users.

[crono_logical]

Maybe I'll delete the 2005 Blue style later :} There's areas of it that look crap I can't be bothered to fix

[Loony BoB]

If you don't, I will. xD

[crono_logical]

Actually, some areas of crap are because of problems in parent styles, so I guess I'll have to fix them for the other styles anyway xD

[Loony BoB]

I'm gonna remove it from the list anyway. I don't see the point in it aside from aesthetics, and while I admit that's a big point, we already have a blue style. People will start asking for a brown tinted version of EoFF Classic and a pink version of each and a blue and brown version of Fluffy Puff and ARGH! Well, okay, maybe not all of those, but you get the idea. The styles are totally different for a reason - to have different styles.

Also, if anyone wants to, they can feel free to roam through the style I'm working on (selectable for now).

I hope to remove almost (not every) all images along with making the overall look as simple as possible while still keeping most functions available to users. Looks like it's going alright so far. If anyone wants me to look into any part of it, let me know. Suggestions are welcome. Just avoid suggestions about the reply page for now, as that'll be the last part I work on, and also keep in mind that I've only started this today and it will not use a lot of the options found in the user CP - eg, the postbit setting will be permanently set on "Above the post" in this style (mainly because there is nothing but the username in the postbit location in this style anyway ). Quick Reply will not be usable in this style.

Avatar / Sig images will remain on the profile pages, though.

[crono_logical]

Pssh, if it's meant to be dialup friendly, I think quick reply should be available to save an extra page load Maybe I'll go through the custom user option stuff for you after you're done

[Rainecloud]

Maybe I'll delete the 2005 Blue style later :} There's areas of it that look crap I can't be bothered to fix

Sounds good. Although it does look quite promising.

[Loony BoB]

Pssh, if it's meant to be dialup friendly, I think quick reply should be available to save an extra page load Maybe I'll go through the custom user option stuff for you after you're done

Only if you post every time you visit a thread page. Quick Reply takes just as long as the rest of the entire page to load up. That's widely recognised at vB already.

[theundeadhero]

If it wasn't for quick reply I would use the fluffy pink style.

[Jojee]

You can have quick reply on fluffy pink too, can't you? ^_^

[crono_logical]

*posts with quick reply in fluffy puff* :}

[Shlup]

I always post in Fluffy Puff with quick reply. I'm doing it right now.

[Jojee]

Wow, that's really simplified. Where are the... avatars... @.@ *falls over and switches to Fluffy Puff*

[Shlup]

The new style causes me to plunge into a deep depression.

[Big D]

BoB's simplified style = yes.

I pay by the megabite for every page I visist, so this'll save me some coin in the long-run. The option of avatars would be nice, though, but that's just my opinion