blonde poker forum

Ok - try this one, I've lightened the colours and removed the yellow titles which are not readable on a lighter grey background.

Profile > Look & Layout Preferences > Current Theme (Change)

Select 'blonde 2'

Cheers

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One other thing - if the images look blurred at all in Firefox, rest your cursor over the image and press SHIFT+r

This should improve them.

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Oooh yes, much better.

Thanks Bream  :)up

blonde2 is much better but there is still black text dark background such as the user info box at the top. can we try a blonde3 dark background biege text?

Fandabbydozy, great what an improvement.

TBH its perfect the way it is or was in Blonde1

if we do this it will just be back to the way it was before the revamp

Dave, that's the whole point of the different options - you can pick whichever one you like best. No one is forcing you to change.

i just feel there is far to much negativity surreounding the revamp

I'd like to let things settle down a bit before we do wholesale changes to the theme. Changing the colours in one place can affect the look of a different area very easily because the same colour settings are re-used all over the forum. I thought changing the colours of the main posting areas was essential though to make sure everyone could read things - some people obviously have darker monitors than others and some people are just colour blind ;)

We had to reduce the number of availabe themes because the workload of maintaining them all with advertising changes over time would have been more than could reasonable be managed.

We should be able to manage 2 themes, but we do need to keep to the new blonde colour scheme.

Hope this is ok and we'll measure the response over the next day or so.

Cheers

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Thanks, much better.
The whole point Dave is not to blind your customers :D

well i wasnt blinded but each to there own

Nice one, much better.  

I do not agree that the comments made should be considered as negativity.  If the colour scheme makes it difficult to read and causes eyestrain then it should be reported.  Obviously a lot of work has gone into the revamp but unless a forum is perceived to be pleasant to the eye its popularity will start to decrease.  The comments should be viewed in the spirit they are given as constructive criticism.

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one other bit of feedback, the two logos showing whether or not there are unread posts in a section aren't different enough from each other

Much better Bream, thank you

Thanks Bream, this one is far easier on my eyes. It also seems to tie in more closer with the front page (which uses a light grey too).

Much better .......... thank you  :)

Keep this feedback - good or bad - coming please. The whole idea is to make the place better & more user-friendly.

I was not comfy with the "theme" when I opened the Forum today, so I've changed my Profile & am using "blonde 2" - suits me much better, as my eyesight is only about 19/19, but it's each to their own.

Together, we can get there.

Blonde2, perfect!
Really like the website, and the forum is much better with blonde2.
Shame the advert is so big on forum though as i normally run a small window for this forum whilst multi tabling, but apart from that top job!


Jason

Thank god for that, the other one actually hurt my eyes

We are still undecided about the placement & size of the Forum Banner, Tractor, so that's the kind of feedback we was hoping for.

In an ideal world, there would not be any Forum banners, but it's a case of trying to pay the rent, without getting too "ott" or intrusive, finding that "balance".

It's a Policy decision that blonde Live Updates will always be free, so we are trying to make the thing self-financing.

I understand the need for banner adds but in my opinion there is plenty of room at the top of the page, this wouldnt squeeze up the page.
Also have you thought of having a contribute type scheme, where people could donate to blonde??
Quite a few forums do this to help maintain costs, and im sure when players have had the help of the Blonde PROs they may click that button as  a thankyou!

I found that the best place for banners on my websites was in between the posts.  They get looked at and clicked on more often but also allow the forum width to remain the same which helps both the looks of the forum (especially on laptops) and helps generate income..  people also get used to this position very quickly and they feel it is less intrusive.. I think you can also set the banner default so that it only shows once on each thread per visit which means that people see it on every visit but people who post once or who change threads wont keep seeing it every time..
makes surfing blonde much more user friendly

IMO the three boxes at the top (user info, news box and key stats) should have a lighter background.

Apart from that it looks great under blonde 2.

The Ads.

Until, literally, a few hours before the launch, we had TWO Banners on the Forum in the Beta "Test" Site - a horizontal one across the top, & a "skyscraper" down the side.

We ummed & arred & argued for hours, we could not decide which, either, or both. We plumped, temporarily, for the Skyscraper, but we can change it if it's felt the Horizontal one is better.

It's a Catch-22 really.  We don't want the Banners to be intrusive, but they need a certain level of penetration or else they don't work!

We also have the option of "rotating banners", whch change every time a Member visits a new thread.

Cybertim's "betwen Posts" idea is an interesting one we never thought about. But the Techies will read this & tell us if it's do-able.

Thanks!

tikay can you ask the techies to take another look at the name of the banners as people like me with just a medium level of secuirty using NIS cant see the banner at the top of this page (unless we disable NIS)

The Techies are monitoring these threads & will take a look at this Iron.

Very quickly sorted!

Thanks Sparks/Bream!!!