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[brinazarski]

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So... can you guys rate this skin? Offer constructive crit or something? :3

Thanks!

[MegaLolzxx]

VIEWED WITH INTERNET EXPLORER (Currently using the school's computer xD) Okay. I think it's pretty cool. =D Good job. But my only problem is, it's too dark. And I also love the concept, considering the fact that I love the Percy Jackson series. xD[/size]

[Tumbleweed]

I have to agree with MegaLolzxx. It is too dark. The smaller text is very hard to read and then you have the bright titles which distract a lot from the content. Too much contrast between your text color choices. The banner is overall rather bright and then to have that near black every where else is again, to contrasty for my taste. I think a med lightish gray (like b2b2b2) for some of main background colors with white and black text may be better and maybe splashes of black background for the cats or something.

I like the banner (my favorite part of the skin). I think it is interesting but not sure I like the drawing around the names but no biggy.

Technically this may not be considered part of the skin, but the fast scrolling marquee is a bit annoying. I know you can hover over to stop it if you want to read it, but if I need to read something, I'd rather not have to hover. Maybe slow it down a touch?

I think your on/off icons are cool and I bet they'd look even better if you used that lighter gray.

[Anselm]

Another one who thinks it's too dark. There's not enough contrast between text and bg. (and too much contrast between text and titles) Also when you use that cell highlight either you need to lighten the board bgs or darken the highlight image. I do like the image though.

It's all themed quite nicely, it's just that you need to sort the text colour out I think. Also I think you could get rid of the Forum Name | etc bar, doesn't really fit this I don't think, you can find the code for that in the Code Database

Good job though, just that little niggle, test it out and see what works

[steveliddle]

is it a death board, eg some sort of rp into death ? if so great.... if not too much grey and no colour other than grey black or white

put some colour into the icon ?
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light grey text on dark grey, guess no-one wears glasses ?

[Nyxeh]

I like dark skins a lot, but this one is hard to read and focus on, because the font does not contrast enough to the background colors. I suggest you make the font a lighter grey. Also, the grey and black theme is neat, but a little color splash here and there, such as a light blue or other light color would make the skin more interesting.

[brinazarski]

Thanks everyone who gave me advice! Though steve, you did sound a bit rude.

I tried to fix it up a bit... any better now? Worse? Anything else I can do?

[<(o_0)>Crazy Redd<(0_o)>]

it is fabulous, I would use it if could. I'm using IE,ad I cant see anything wrong with it!

[Tumbleweed]

Much more readable! The only suggestions I have are to bring in touches of white-maybe not ffffff-but a close white, into the top table and fourm somehow since you have the white in your banners/sidetable titles. Maybe the board titles? Or a little decoration of some sort before the titles?

Also, I think your tweets would look much better in a width about the size of your misc./quests. It just drives me nuts they aren't aligned. (Even though the table configuration is nice, maybe it isn't ideal for the info you want to have. Maybe be two cells, one on top of the other being the width of the two columns on the left would have suited better than two narrow columns. Just a thought.

But I do think it is much improved now. You did good!

[Nyxeh]

oOo. Much lovelier. It is easy to read, eye catching, even with the neutral tones, and it is interesting to look at. Well done!

[steveliddle]

Site looks much better, having some colour works really well, grey on grey or grey on black does not

Using colour in the right place draws the reader to the points you want to make

If I was trying to be rude, it would be very clear that I was being rude...

The improvements make the site look better