New Skin Update: Get Ready to Rave!

[ranger]

I must say that I could not resist giving the new skin a try. At first it felt weird. But it quickly grows on you.

 

[Arecibo]

Im deffiently likeing the lime green coupled with cobalt blue. Trying to distract me when i should be studying, huh? Hehe

Looks good, guys!


Liz

 

[Jameson]

Look at this. I did a photoshop of my idea, I think it looks great and it should be easy right?

http://boson.particle.cc/pftest.jpg

I like your idea. The contrast is nice. The only criticism I have for the new skin is that it feels all like one color.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

table borders are now a blue grey, yay or nay?

 

[moose]

table borders are now a blue grey, yay or nay?

I think I see what was changed, if you are talking about what I think you are... I think it looks good, it takes away some of the previous "sameness".

Nice touch.

 

[Gale]

yeah, i don't actually know what you're talking about. but i do notice a difference that makes me happier... so yay i spose!

 

[octelcogopod]

He means those tiny lines between each post/forum I think.
I think it looks good..

 

[Moonbear]

I see a subtle change in the replies here, but a much more noticeable change on the main index page (sort of blue shadows under each table). I like that change.

 

[Cosmo16]

uhhhh... wow? It's amazingly different.
looks like it turned out pretty good overall, good work. (haven't really had a chance to explore yet)
Which one I like better will take a few days.
P.S. On loading speed-It definately seems to be longer, I'll deal though

 

[moose]

My input on this larger font right now is umm... I don't really like it :/

Although I do understand some people do not have the best of monitors, so I can live with it :)

 

[dx]

wow, nice skin. good job!

 

[cd27]

i don't like mine :(...i like the older one better...how do you change it back to the old one?

cd

 

[ranger]

i don't like mine :(...i like the older one better...how do you change it back to the old one?
cd

You could change it back to the classic by going to the lower left corner of the screen, then choose from the pull down menu.

 

[Evo]

Oooh, the mentor's badge has changed.

 

[Astronuc]

The mentor badges and fonts of the member usernames have changed in the PF classic skin as well.

I prefer the Blue hues of the Classic skin.

I switched back and forth, and I guess the number of users is given in the parentheses - then 28 were using the PF classic and 8881 were using the Nexus Skin.

 

[Moonbear]

Oooh, the mentor's badge has changed.

Uh oh, all those mentors who need to color coordinate their avatars to their badges are in trouble now!

What's all this about it being futuristic though? Isn't lime green retro? I'm just enjoying discovering something new every time I log on. Today was a long day starting out with no power at home, so no time to check PF until now, so I see lots of new things tonight...bigger fonts or bolder or something on the usernames, a fun new mentor badge...though have we all been demoted from "super" power status? Actually, the "super" part was silly once we all had it, so I guess it's good that's gone.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

though have we all been demoted from "super" power status? Actually, the "super" part was silly once we all had it, so I guess it's good that's gone.

Being super is a just a given now

The mentor badges and fonts of the member usernames have changed in the PF classic skin as well.
I prefer the Blue hues of the Classic skin.
I switched back and forth, and I guess the number of users is given in the parentheses - then 28 were using the PF classic and 8881 were using the Nexus Skin.

I'm not really going to support the classic skin anymore, so use at your own risk, even though I don't really plan on changing anything in there, it was just easier to overwrite the badges for both skins.

 

[Tide]

Greg,

FYI - I managed to enable "Clear Type" on my machine (I had no idea there was such a thing!) and now the print looks great - even with the grey background.

 

[Moonbear]

Greg,
FYI - I managed to enable "Clear Type" on my machine (I had no idea there was such a thing!) and now the print looks great - even with the grey background.

What is it, and where and how did you do this? This might be helpful for others having issues with the text contrast.

 

[Evo]

I view PF on two different computers and the views are completely different. At work I have an anti-glare screen cover which makes things so dark I can hardly see the type, and on my home computer it seems too bright.

 

[Gale]

yeah... what did you do tide? cause I'm obviously missing something. moonbear and evo are both still super to me, and their badges haven't changed. plus the fonts mostly all look the same as they did originally, cept usernames are bigger.

 

[Tide]

What is it, and where and how did you do this? This might be helpful for others having issues with the text contrast.

Open your Control Panel, click on the Appearance tab, click the "smooth edges" option and use the drop down menu to set "Clear Type." I think it requires a reboot because the effect didn't show up until I rebooted this a.m.

 

[abhishek]

I like change for the most part.

Anti-aliasing on the small postbit buttons looks bad. Widget fonts are a little repulsive to me. But all that's not important.

Could you please not use Flash for the menu in the header? I'm alright with not seeing the logo Flash thing, but I don't like functional bits hiding in Flash objects -- I keep Flash disabled by default.

 

[Gokul43201]

Greg, is the new skin version missing a link to the "Forum Leaders" list, or am I just not looking hard enough (in which case, it might still be a problem) ?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Greg, is the new skin version missing a link to the "Forum Leaders" list, or am I just not looking hard enough (in which case, it might still be a problem) ?

It's located a tthe bottom right of the page.

 

[matthyaouw]

Skin's looking good! A lot better now that I've given it a few days to grow on me.

My one criticism is that the quiz pages look a bit cluttered:
https://www.physicsforums.com/quiz.php?do=Cat&id=4
So many bars and headings make it really hard to read.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Skin's looking good! A lot better now that I've given it a few days to grow on me.
My one criticism is that the quiz pages look a bit cluttered:
https://www.physicsforums.com/quiz.php?do=Cat&id=4
So many bars and headings make it really hard to read.

Agreed, it's on my things to do list

 

[abhishek]

Greg, since you're online, I'll ask again about that Flash menu. Will you be doing anything about it?

Even if I enable Flash, I'll have lost a lot of functionality such as being able to right-click and copy target URLs, open links in new tabs, interact using the keyboard, etc. It definitely doesn't work in lynx, links, and variant text browsers.

It's the only thing making me want to switch back...

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Greg, since you're online, I'll ask again about that Flash menu. Will you be doing anything about it?

Even if I enable Flash, I'll have lost a lot of functionality such as being able to right-click and copy target URLs, open links in new tabs, interact using the keyboard, etc. It definitely doesn't work in lynx, links, and variant text browsers.

It's the only thing making me want to switch back...

At this time I don't have any intention of changing the flash menu.

 

[Jameson]

The new skin's beginning to grow on me, but I have one criticism - the moderator and administrator buttons. They don't look as professional as they did. I'll try to articulate the specifics when I can think of how to put it.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

The new skin's beginning to grow on me, but I have one criticism - the moderator and administrator buttons. They don't look as professional as they did. I'll try to articulate the specifics when I can think of how to put it.

Maybe, but I'd say they didn't look professional before either

 

[Moonbear]

Maybe, but I'd say they didn't look professional before either

Maybe it's just that the badges no longer match the colors of our names? After seeing names and badges that matched for so long, it's taking me some time getting used to them not matching now. Who says they have to be "professional" anyway? Aren't mentors allowed to play?

Edit: Greg, are you able to mind-read or something? I no sooner submitted this, and saw that the fonts of our names had changed color to match the new badges! Talk about a quick response!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Edit: Greg, are you able to mind-read or something? I no sooner submitted this, and saw that the fonts of our names had changed color to match the new badges! Talk about a quick response!

haha actually it was just a coincidence. I was looking at the whos online bit on the homepage and realized it was hard to differentiate staff from members because the green staff color was so dark on the grey background, it looked black.

 

[hypnagogue]

Hey Greg, I love the new header! That really feels like the finishing touch to me. Everything seems to click into place now and the greens and blues play off of each other very nicely. Beautiful job!

 

[Moonbear]

Hey Greg, I love the new header! That really feels like the finishing touch to me. Everything seems to click into place now and the greens and blues play off of each other very nicely. Beautiful job!

Me too! I love it! No more eyes staring at me while I read. I agree with hypnagogue; it really pulls the rest of the color theme together now.

 

[cygonaut]

Loaded fast for me.

Excellent work.

 

[zhaggy]

good job

cool nu look to the skin.. briliant interface..
did not require time for it to grow on me
no loading problems as well
well done

 

[MSI]

yay, so kewl , so proffesional :) nice work

 

[Lisa!]

I can't see the join date of members in new skin. I guess it would be important for example when you want to answer someone's question in feedback forum. ( I don't like to back to the old skin, because all names are written in bold now! )

 

[Moonbear]

I can't see the join date of members in new skin. I guess it would be important for example when you want to answer someone's question in feedback forum. ( I don't like to back to the old skin, because all names are written in bold now! )

That was a recommendation the mentors made to Greg, to eliminate the join date. There were just too many things cluttering up the box under the usernames, and we decided people's posts should be judged on the merit of the post, not how long they've been here, so there really isn't any need to have a join date so prominent. The join date is still listed in every members' profile, so if you're really curious how long someone has been here, you can look it up there.

 

[Lisa!]

That was a recommendation the mentors made to Greg, to eliminate the join date. There were just too many things cluttering up the box under the usernames, and we decided people's posts should be judged on the merit of the post, not how long they've been here, so there really isn't any need to have a join date so prominent. The join date is still listed in every members' profile, so if you're really curious how long someone has been here, you can look it up there.

Not curious at all! Oh although I can simply back to the old skin if I'd be curious.

 

[robphy]

Is there a link to the blog in the new skin?

 

[hypnagogue]

Is there a link to the blog in the new skin?

Yes, in the column of buttons on the rightmost side of the flash header. It reads "Home," "User CP," "Upgrade," "Guidelines," "Links," and "Blog."

 

[robphy]

Yes, in the column of buttons on the rightmost side of the flash header. It reads "Home," "User CP," "Upgrade," "Guidelines," "Links," and "Blog."

Ah, I see... When I posted, I was using Firefox (on which I chose not to install Flash).

 

[Lisa!]

Whenever I want to search a word, it only searches through yesterday and today's threads, I guess. Do we have to use advanced search for everything?

<sorry that I'm always nagging about sth! >