Themes/Skins

[BU Admin]

-Mevlana
-Sus
+Spectacular
(None of the pull-downs work, so not A+.  Everything else I spot works fine.)

[Valka]

My opinion: I haven't had time to check them all, but am satisfied with the ones that have been found to work. I might try others from time to time but suspect I'll likely stay with Enterprise.

The things that don't work with this one are 'workaroundable' by highlighting the text I can't see.

[Buster's Uncle]

[BU Admin]

-Fire
-XD-Zeda
+Astronomy
(Full marks, if only the Shop items inventory & € showed in the postbit - which COULD recommend it to some.  Good-looking.  Keeper.)

[BU Admin]

-Teo'nun Laneti v1
-Bitti
-LCARS
-Gul
+The Killing
(Absolutely everything seems to work in this one, and work well - I just checked some things I hadn't been looking for in previous use.  Since only dark themes are currently in use, this is the one I'm using for this DL, to easily check things in a dark theme.  Not the absolute prettiest -some very pretty themes are marked for death over Moby Dick issues- but very legible and the best-functioning I've found so far beside the default and Gone Fishin'.)

[BU Admin]

-Crsytal
-Pulse
+Cadence-MultiColor
(No pull-downs.  Not really legible enough.  Front Page completely broke.  Everything else works, but weak endorsement.  Probably first one up against the wall when I get it down to 18 or so and need to cull more.)

[BU Admin]

-Catalysm
(This was looking like a true winner, albeit garish and  a W.O.W. logo up top, and then I came to report, and Blue Eyes page width problem + nearly invisible post text. NEXT.)
+minecraft
(Full marks except the 'Lurkers' line is pretty invisible in front of a bush - but MEMBERS don't need to be able to see that, do they?  -Also good news for Blue Eyes - I found an option to set forum width; will fiddle and report back.)

[BU Admin]

Nope - that option doesn't seem to appear in the settings for Blue Eyes - I may be able to fix the sticky and sidebar legibility in Enterprise, though.

[BU Admin]

I use the Enterprise theme because it's relaxing - brighter themes hurt my eyes. But I don't like going as far as basic black because that can also have problems with readability or when some kinds of images are posted.

The only issue I have with Enterprise is that the pinned thread titles aren't readable without highlighting them so the words show up.

Is there any way to make a theme similar to the default, but just with different colors? I used to do that with Invision forums.

Stickies: FIXED. 
(I had to refresh the page at the subforum level to see the changes) 

That last question?  Pick anything off the broken turkey theme to-die list where you like the color scheme - I found how to make it do the default style w/ the theme's colors while I was trying to fix width in Blue Eyes.  I will turn it into your own personal theme. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Huh.  It works in Blue Eyes but just turns it into a less light bluer version of the default - no joy on Pitch Black; but I'll try some more dark themes for you...

[BU Admin]

Not too satisfactory in Sapphire, but feel free to try any of these yourself.

[Buster's Uncle]

Wait.  I should just alter colors in Blue Eyes the way I did in Enterprise, but more stuff - this doesn't work on the truly broken themes.  Hold on.

[Valka]

I also like autumn colors - tans, mid/dark gold, reds, greens (think of autumn scenes with all the different leaf colors).

Anything with too much white is hard on my eyes, though (I know, sounds odd to those who have the opposite problem). On CFC I use the Dark Blue theme.

[BU Admin]

...I'll leave Blue Eyes to experiment on another day;  I've worked up a cute blue color scheme, but when I save it, it won't display like that...


Had to spend too long piecing this together from screenshots to show.  Click the attachment to enlarge...

[BU Admin]

+Black Ops
(Full Marks.  Valka, you should check this one out.)