Young Composers Roadmap - August 2006 Onwards

Forget purple, I cannot be specific without experimenting myself. That color was only a suggestion. My only point is that to put some colors in there. I suggested that you introduce colors in small places, like borders of things, 1px lines not thick. But I really cannot be specific without experimenting.

Ah, someone else who relies heavily on their intuition.

I'm probably not in the best position to judge just how friendly this skin is, because I've been staring at it for...more hours than humans should stare at things. But tomorrow, when it looks fresher before my eyes, I'll try to introduce more colour like you suggested.

Ok man, thanks for listening to my suggestions.

I wish you good luck at working this out.

Hmm. I still think the classic YC colours should stay as at least an option.

You know, I probably would have said the same thing as you 10 minutes ago, Daniel, but I had the brainwave of turning every quill in some of vBulletin's buttons purple and it actually does seem to work up against the brown. No way would I have believed purple went with brown unless The Nightfly had specifically told me.

I think a version with some purples in it will actually be superior to the old one.

Interesting. I'll have to see that.
While we're on the topic.... is there anything that can be done about those hideous buttons?
Like the Edit and Quote ones in the thread you showed us.
Ach I suppose I'll get used to them.
Also - does the member information stuff have to be aligned to the right in threads?

Also - does the member information stuff have to be aligned to the right in threads?

Hmm, I hadn't considered that. On reflection, it would seem to be remarkably stupid positioning.

I can't seem to isolate where it is in the templates at the moment though. Maybe some time tomorrow.

In the meantime, some examples of the newly-introduced purple... Would be interested to get feedback on this.

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/...es/purple1.png
http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/...es/purple2.png

(Focus your eye on the buttons in the second one)

Hmm. It's good, but it almost spoils the effect, having so little of it there.
But the colour in itself works well with the beiges and oranges and what have you.

I liked it, I think it is begining to look better. I liked that you put purple only to the icons.

I think it's better to use only one color apart from brown to make it consistent. And purple seemed to fit well.

have you tried to make the background of the posts white ? just the posts not the other bits.