05-30-2016, 10:28 PM
(05-30-2016, 07:58 PM)bengal kitten uk Wrote: Oh dear. I really liked the old theme - it was modern and clean.
This design seems very fussy and to be honest looks slightly unfinished.
- The black bands are distracting and pull attention away from the content to parts of the page that should be subtle.
- The seemingly random use of Times New Roman in the upper section of the page looks out of place (at best) and broken (at worst).
- Please fix the 5px of white padding above the poster details column - it looks like a mistake rather than part of the design
- While you are there, do something about the height of the poster details column. A one line reply from some posters is taking up 524px, which makes it very difficult to follow the flow of the conversation. As it stands, you can't even fit two posts from you on a standard 1080p screen! Take a look at the space above and below the avatar, as well as the size of the user rank indicators.
- The drop down you get by clicking on the green arrow by your name is exactly the same colour as the black section headers. This causes them to merge together oddly. Consider using a border/drop-shadow to separate the elements
- There's a huge gap between the thread icon and the title of the thread in the standard forum index view. .trow1.forumdisplay_sticky is probably not used in this forum layout, so the column needs deleting
- Check the line-height on the About us box in the footer - the lines are clipping over each other. 15px should be your absolute minimum.
- The gradients on the Post Reply and Preview Post buttons now look out of place against the flat blockiness of the rest of the site
- Definitely consider reducing the standard post text size of 16px to something smaller - 14px makes the lines about the right length for the size of the box whereas 16px means shorter lines that require more effort to read.
I hope that didn't come across as too negative. I don't hate it, I just wish it was a little bit closer to perfect!
That was just the MyBB default theme, which has been around for years, with colors changed and plugins added.
As for the other suggestions, thanks for the input.
The text at top was actually Georgia, not Times Roman, but I agree, it looked out of place as the board's default text is Tahoma.
There's still some adjustments to be made and I'll be getting to a number of them over the next couple of days. This layout is Square Theme based, which has quite a few differences.
