New forum theme/skin I see today..

[Robert Hall]

Very clean and minimalist...nice.

[Z-06]

Yes, simplicity well done. Good job.

One thing - I prefer a little darker background. Drew any plans to have one as an option?

[G. David Felt]

I like the new interface, clean and enjoyable. I find it interesting that depending on the size of the monitor the front page turns into tiles or on bigger screens shows verbiage about the story. Nice auto change feature.

Yes, simplicity well done. Good job.

One thing - I prefer a little darker background. Drew any plans to have one as an option?

Did you play with the build theme option in the upper left corner? I changed colors to my like with this.

[Drew Dowdell]

The theme customizing option will be going away because it breaks some formatting, but I will make a dark theme option available at that time.

[G. David Felt]

Here is a comparison of our Home Page and Forums on 27" and 19" monitors.

[Drew Dowdell]

what's that last shot?

[ZL-1]

Yes, simplicity well done. Good job.

One thing - I prefer a little darker background. Drew any plans to have one as an option?

Same thoughts here: little darker background would make for a contrast that's easier for the eyes when reading the forums.

Edited January 13, 2014 by ZL-1

[Drew Dowdell]

I will make a darker option available later this week.

[Intrepidation]

I'm pretty sure we have the most modern theme of any automotive forum.

Currently the theme is customizable where you can change the background and the skin color. There are issues with the skin color customization but perhaps the background color custom color selector could stay? I don't know if one can disabled and leave the other with the software or not.

[thedriver]

why do I have 2 screens of mostly blank space before I get to the forum topics? I was better when everything was closer together along one side.

[Drew Dowdell]

Can you send a screenshot please?

[FAPTurbo]

Can't make background pink.

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Can't make foreground baby blue.

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No Twilight Sparkle theme

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Circle avatars surrounded by square everything else

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0/10. Nopony will like this.

[ocnblu]

It looks fabulous to me.

[FAPTurbo]

Minus me all you want, you'll never stop the clop.

[Drew Dowdell]

This update only changed the look of the site. There will be another update that changes the layout of the front page, articles lists, and the articles themselves. I plan to debut that update just ahead of the Chicago Auto Show next month.

[G. David Felt]

what's that last shot?

That Last shot is how the home page looks on my 19" monitor when I put the browser on that screen.

My work setup has two 27" monitors and two 19" monitors. I was surprised to see it completely changes the look of the home page on small screens.

[regfootball]

New look is very nice ! My iPad can't seem to pull up the front page stories when u click on them tho

[SAmadei]

Am I the only one who is having a problem with 'View New Content' showing nothing?

[Drew Dowdell]

That's strange. VNC is working for me, and this is just a visual update, no change to the underlying program.

[SAmadei]

Yeah, from your description of what you were doing, I thought the same thing.

Besides logging out/in and refreshing, I'm not sure wha... Ah... I know something I didn't check.

[SAmadei]

I found it. Before the VNC had a setting buried in the profile somewhere... that has moved/been expanded so the settings are now on the left of the VNC screen itself. Due to screen size, I only saw the top two options... the second option being similar to the old profile setting. The third option 'Other' was set to 'Items I started', and I got the No New Content because I haven't created any forum entry in the last couple days. Clicking that option off, VNC was back.

I previously did not think of scrolling down because I didn't expect to see anything below 'By Time Period'.

Nothing wrong with the layout... I just don't know why the system selected 'Items I Started".

[Robert Hall]

Looks like it's changed again..interesting the way the text in longer posts now wraps below the avatar.

[Drew Dowdell]

Erm, no changes applied. Please screen shot and send to me with which browser you're using

[dez97]

It is a very nice skin and theme. Its simply and a classic color, not too over crowded with too many things like most forums are sometimes.

[Robert Hall]

No 'view new content' feature anymore? 

[Drew Dowdell]

No 'view new content' feature anymore?

Upper left, looks like a cartoon speech bubble

[Suaviloquent]

I have to say, this new forum, is just amazing. Coming from MT, everything is logically laid out, with finally...threads specific to certain sections of webpage.

 

It was a little to much at first, seeing just the complexity and simplicity at the same time, but WOW! Amazing!

[Drew Dowdell]

I have to say, this new forum, is just amazing. Coming from MT, everything is logically laid out, with finally...threads specific to certain sections of webpage.

 

It was a little to much at first, seeing just the complexity and simplicity at the same time, but WOW! Amazing!

 

Glad you're settling in here!