Themes/Skins

[BU Admin]

-Boo!
-Christmas07
-ComputerStuff
-Christmas2006
+Happy New Year
(Too much orange borders, but everything works fine.)

[BU Admin]

-Christmas Theme
+Adk Hallowen
(A winner if you can stand the orange.)

[BU Admin]

+Halloween I
(Kinda similar to the last, but weaker layout, background too dark for black text, and no pull-downs - life expectancy not great.)

[BU Admin]

-Love_Theme
+Ostara
(Darker blue than the default.  Keeper)

[BU Admin]

-SnowQueen
+Thanksgiving
(Relatively subdued autumnal colors, Valka.  Keeper.)

[BU Admin]

-Web
-X-mas Scene
+Christmas Carol
(Bit of an odd-layout turkey with the page-top buttons in sidebars, but pull-downs work and colorful alternative to others so far, and perhaps unfairly might stay.  Would need some border size adjustment, if I can figure that out, though.)

[BU Admin]

+SMF Pokemon
(Day-glow loud keeper, and just knocked Christmas Carol out.)

[BU Admin]

-Sponge Bob
-simpleorange
-Poker
-Plum
-Leaf it off
-MayaIs
+Music
(Full marks.)

[BU Admin]

-mibabyboom
+impulse2
(Some sloppy layout, but attractive autumnal colors that could use some darkening to make Valka theme.)

[BU Admin]

-Harry Potter
-GS-Themes
-Candy
-Sapphire
(A different Sapphire)


That's the lot.

-Tomorrow I go through and combine my winners' list with Eadee's for some compare/contrast and culling.  Everyone is encouraged to check out our recommended, w/ and eye on functionality, and also diversity of colors.

And so to bed.

[Valka]

The fishing one doesn't work for me. Random bits of the board just disappear (literally; all I see is the background), my items that were gifted to me appear as text, not images, and I had problems getting into my profile to change the theme back to Enterprise.

[Buster's Uncle]

I have to upload the Shop icons to each theme separately; if the descriptions appear, as in that one, it'll actually work.

Note to self:  I've only checked everything in Chrome, not IE, not Firefox.

[Eadee]

While I did only check in FF.

[Buster's Uncle]

Well good; I haven't figured out how to login in FF.

I'm in Gone Fishin now, and there are a couple layout issues, but nothing major and pretty much the same as in Chrome.  Serviceable.  -I should verify all the keepers in IE.

[Buster's Uncle]

Full Master theme review list - I'll do a follow-up with only what someone has declared a winner.

I testet the first 10 Themes today, here are the results:

Colorcode:
Working and obvious differences to default theme.
Working but no significant difference to default theme.
Bugged or completely broken

Core Theme: Bright and comfortable to read. Very similar to the default theme. (maybe unneccessary)
Enterprise: Dark theme but also easy to read and not depressing dark.
Techhead: Blue, medium brightness. "Home"-screen does not fit the theme, also there's no link to the forum, so you're kinda stuck (can find a way through: own profile - show own posts - click on thread name).
Arcane Magic: same as Techhead, but with some brownish color. Search Button is only a frame with no wrtiting on it. Links in Profile-Section (like change of Theme) are almost impossible to see or even read.
Pitch Black: Profile Menu broken, unable to navigate it (Unable to load the 'edit_options' template.) "Home" doesn't fit the theme. no link to forum. No Shop button, some others missing as well.
Saphire: has Sound-effects, missing buttons. non fitting "home" with no link to forum.
Alienation: missing buttons. non fitting "home" with no link to forum.
MetallicAbyss: nope...
IceStars: Winter Theme, looks nice, but impossible to navigate.
Mesh: "Home" doesn't fit the theme. no link to forum. No Shop button, some others missing as well.

This far 80% of the theme's are not in a working condition.

Working and obvious differences to default theme.
Working but no significant difference to default theme.
Bugged or completely broken
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Halloween: red black and white. Shop and some other Buttons missing. Search button exists but is empty. "Home" doesn't fit the style and lacks a Link to the Forum.
StormFront v1: Wtf? okay, its violett and blue, didn't expect this. If you like the coloers you might enjoy it. Navigation is with fancy animated and moving icons but it lacks shop-button. "Home" looks even more messed up than in most Themes, doesn't fit the Theme BUT has a link to the forum.
Blue Eyes: Light Blue theme with black writing. It seems to have all buttons, even Shop.The Header Image says Bryan Deakin.com. To my suprise it looks usable AND different to the default.
Gone Fishin: Wooden planks and a lake in the background. Light blue. Seems to be working, though some Graphics seem to be a bit displaced.
Mevlana: Some Buttons missing, others are there but Images are missing. Beige with dark red background. Problems with "home" as in so many themes.
Sus: Same as Mevlana, just without dark red and completely beige.
Spectacular: Header says "popularFX" All Buttons seem to exist. but "Home" doesn't fit the theme (it has a link to the forum though). Light theme with blue and green accents.
Fire: Missing Buttons usual "Home"-Problem. Very dark brown colors with black writing, almost impossible to read.
XD-Zeda: Well, missing buttons, "home"-problem as usual. Besides that its a Black Theme with White writing, easy to read and scifi-like.
Astronomy: Seems to be working fine. Violett-blue theme but less aggressive than Stormfront v1. Even "home"-page works fine.

Teo'nun Laneti v1: Dark Theme with red accents. Some buttons missing (like shop for example). replies do not appear correctly, (its more like a reply in the OP, then a reply in a reply and so on). "home" problem as usual.
Bitti: Brownish colors. BUttons missing, others miss icons. "home" problem as usual
LCARS: Federation themed. Nearly impossible to read posts. Buttons missing.
GUL: Light Theme. Don't know how to describe the look properly, but buttons are missing anyways.
The Killing: dark blue (or maybe dark cyan) theme. Seems to be working fine
Crystal: Grey theme, easy to read, buttons missing. "Home"-Problem
Pulse: Dark theme similar colors to the Killing. but Front page completely broken. Buttons missing and stuff.
Cadence-MultiColor: Darky Cyan theme, Buttons are there comfortable to read. Icons and images a little bit displaced  (probably a problem of screen-resolution). Sadly "Home" is broken completely. Comes in Variants Red and Purple as well.
Catalysm: WoW-Theme, dark theme with light Scrolls as background for posts. Looks good, seems to be working.
Minecraft: bright theme with minecraft-graphics here and there. Works fine.
Black Ops: Dark Theme. Easy to read. Works fine.


I'll stop describing themes that are bugged anyways to speed things up.

Yeah, but its some kinda pointless to describe the colors of a theme if its broken anyways. I'll still describe the problems the theme has. But don't go into aestetics unless it works fine

Boo!: Mission Buttons, missing icons.
Christmas07: Mission Buttons, missing icons.
Computer Stuff: Mission Buttons, missing icons.
Christmas06:  Mission Buttons, missing icons.
Happy new Year: Bright Theme with Orange and Blue. Works fine.
Christmas Theme: Mission Buttons, missing icons.
Adk Halloween: Dark theme, Oranga Accents, easy to read. Works fine.
Halloween I: it works, but navigation misses Icons and Quotes hurt the eyes.
Love Theme: Mission Buttons, missing icons.
Ostara: Light Blue, cloudy Theme. works, but quotes just don't fit the theme.

Snow Queen: Missing Buttons, Icons.
Thanksgiving: Warmly colored Theme, some brownish yellow (man Its hard to know colors outside of a 16color scheme). Works fine
Web: Missing Buttons, Icons. Unreadable passages.
X-mas Scene: Profile doesnt work. Missing Buttons, Icons.
Christmas Carol: WInter-themed. with light blue and snowflakes. Icons and images displaced badly, but it works.
SMF Pokemon: Pokemon theme, it really hurts the eyes with Green and red in contrast. Some Icons are missing, but the buttons exist. Its easy to read, but the background-colors kill me.
Sponge Bob: light Green Theme. "home" doesn't fit the theme but it has all links and is in a working condition. But it also has the "post in a post"-bug described earlier.
Simple Orange: Missing Buttons, Icons.
Poker: Missing Buttons, Icons.
Plum: Missing Buttons, Icons.

Leaf it of: Missing Buttons, Icons.
Mayals: working, but every second post is almost impossible to read because its box is transparent and the theme uses a background with symbols on it. Light Brownish theme. "home" doesn't fit the theme but has all required links. Has two other variants that change the symbols in the background.
Music: Bright theme with dark Background. Works fine and is easy to read.
Mibabyboom: Missing Buttons, Icons.
Impulse2: bright theme with greenish accents. works fine, but "home" misses some Icons for the buttons.
Harry Potter: Profile-section broken. Missing Buttons, Icons.
GS-Theme: Missing Buttons, Icons.
Candy: Missing Buttons, Icons.
Sapphire: Missing Buttons, Icons.

Those were the last themes.

Here a list of all working themes:

* Core Theme: Bright and comfortable to read. Very similar to the default theme. (maybe unneccessary)
* Enterprise: Dark theme but also easy to read and not depressing dark.
* Blue Eyes: Light Blue theme with black writing. It seems to have all buttons, even Shop.The Header Image says Bryan Deakin.com. To my suprise it looks usable AND different to the default.
* Gone Fishin: Wooden planks and a lake in the background. Light blue. Seems to be working, though some Graphics seem to be a bit displaced.
* Astronomy: Seems to be working fine. Violett-blue theme but less aggressive than Stormfront v1. Even "home"-page works fine.
* The Killing: dark blue (or maybe dark cyan) theme. Seems to be working fine
* Catalysm: WoW-Theme, dark theme with light Scrolls as background for posts. Looks good, seems to be working.
* Minecraft: bright theme with minecraft-graphics here and there. Works fine.
* Black Ops: Dark Theme. Easy to read. Works fine.
* Happy new Year: Bright Theme with Orange and Blue. Works fine.
* Adk Halloween: Dark theme, Oranga Accents, easy to read. Works fine.
* Halloween I: it works, but navigation misses Icons and Quotes hurt the eyes.
* Ostara: Light Blue, cloudy Theme. works, but quotes just don't fit the theme.
* Thanksgiving: Warmly colored Theme, some brownish yellow (man Its hard to know colors outside of a 16color scheme). Works fine
* Christmas Carol: WInter-themed. with light blue and snowflakes. Icons and images displaced badly, but it works.
* SMF Pokemon: Pokemon theme, it really hurts the eyes with Green and red in contrast. Some Icons are missing, but the buttons exist. Its easy to read, but the background-colors kill me.
* Mayals: working, but every second post is almost impossible to read because its box is transparent and the theme uses a background with symbols on it. Light Brownish theme. "home" doesn't fit the theme but has all required links. Has two other variants that change the symbols in the background.
* Music: Bright theme with dark Background. Works fine and is easy to read.

A total of 18 working themes.

Front Page button works and page shows, Reply page loads fine, all buttons seem to work -no pulldowns at the top of the page, though. Since this is just for my own investigation, I'll use a simple +/- = pass/fail grading, skipping Curve since that's the default.

+ Core Theme

+
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-Just trying to see if I can get the WYSIWYG thing to work, posting.  Guess not, for this...

-StormFront v1
+Blue Eyes
(Even the pull-downs work on the page-top buttons [better than Core and Enterprise, there] and the theme shows on the Front Page [if with the SMACX news column too narrow]!  Have to investigate the possible keepers more thoroughly, since I believe Eadee found much more than 10, so reporting now to check the Reply stuff.  Eh - the page width is borked, which makes this a maybe.  Pity, when it was doing so well.)

+GoneFishin
(Best pass of testing yet - Front Page looks great, buttons, pull-downs, everything but Icons I can/will upload to the theme showing right.  It even has the thread lable icons [taken from the default upload, I reckon] showing.  -Definite keeper, and in fact, this one is SO Rusty Edge that I'm gonna surprise him with it as soon as I've done that uploading.)

-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.)

-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'.)

-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.)

-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.)

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

-Boo!
-Christmas07
-ComputerStuff
-Christmas2006
+Happy New Year
(Too much orange borders, but everything works fine.)

-Christmas Theme
+Adk Hallowen
(A winner if you can stand the orange.)

+Halloween I
(Kinda similar to the last, but weaker layout, background too dark for black text, and no pull-downs - life expectancy not great.)

-Love_Theme
+Ostara
(Darker blue than the default.  Keeper)

-SnowQueen
+Thanksgiving
(Relatively subdued autumnal colors, Valka.  Keeper.)

-Web
-X-mas Scene
+Christmas Carol
(Bit of an odd-layout turkey with the page-top buttons in sidebars, but pull-downs work and colorful alternative to others so far, and perhaps unfairly might stay.  Would need some border size adjustment, if I can figure that out, though.)

+SMF Pokemon
(Day-glow loud keeper, and just knocked Christmas Carol out.)

-Sponge Bob
-simpleorange
-Poker
-Plum
-Leaf it off
-MayaIs
+Music
(Full marks.)

-mibabyboom
+impulse2
(Some sloppy layout, but attractive autumnal colors that could use some darkening to make Valka theme.)

-Harry Potter
-GS-Themes
-Candy
-Sapphire
(A different Sapphire)


That's the lot.

-Tomorrow I go through and combine my winners' list with Eadee's for some compare/contrast and culling.  Everyone is encouraged to check out our recommended, w/ and eye on functionality, and also diversity of colors.

And so to bed.

The fishing one doesn't work for me. Random bits of the board just disappear (literally; all I see is the background), my items that were gifted to me appear as text, not images, and I had problems getting into my profile to change the theme back to Enterprise.