phpBB forum colour scheme!
Hi guys!
I have a VERY bad and bright colour scheme for my forums! I am hopeless at choosing colours and I am asking you to give your opinion on what the colours should be.
Here is my structure for the Style of the forum.
Background Colour: 0099ff
Text Colour: 000000
Link Colour: 0033ff
Visited Link Colour: 5493B4
Active Link Colour:
Hover Link Colour: DD6900
Table Row Colour 1: 99cc99 The lightest row colour
Table Row Colour 2: 99cc33 The medium row color
Table Row Colour 3: 99cc66 The darkest row colour
Table Row Class 1:
Table Row Class 2:
Table Row Class 3:
Table Header Colour 1: FF0000 Border round the whole page
Table Header Colour 2: FF0000 Outer table border
Table Header Colour 3: 99cc99 Inner table border
Table Header Class 1: cellpic1.gif Silver gradient picture
Table Header Class 2: cellpic3.gif Blue gradient picture
Table Header Class 3: cellpic2.jpg Fade-out gradient on index
Table Cell Colour 1: FAFAFA Background for quote boxes
Table Cell Colour 2: ffffcc All white areas
Table Cell Colour 3:
Table Cell Class 1:
Table Cell Class 2:
Table Cell Class 3:
Font Face 1: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif Main fonts
Font Face 2: Trebuchet MS Additional topic title font
Font Face 3: Courier, 'Courier New', sans-serif Form fonts
Font Size 1: 10 Smallest font size
Font Size 2: 11 Medium font size
Font Size 3: 12 Normal font size (post body)
Font Colour 1: 0000ff Quote & copyright text
Font Colour 2: cc33ff Code text colour
Font Colour 3: 99ffff Main table header text colour
My forums can be viewed here
I am also trying to fix my forums so that the links all appear in a straight line! I will make another thread for that in Side Server Authoring.
Thanks for your help guys!
Megan posted this at 14:52 — 30th November 2002.
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Ouch! Yeah, that's a problem. What's the colour scheme for the site this is attached to? When I go there I just get a grey background with a logo header dealy. Anything design desicions for your forms should relate to the main site's design.
What you should do here is just pick three colours - grey is usually a good complement for forums if you need another one, like we've done here at TWF. Looks like you've got blue and green in the logo there.
Keep your background colour white. Also get rid of that narrow border around the outside edge. Make the main forum headers on a blue (#000066 maybe) background. Use green (#339966 maybe) for the secondary headers. Do all the other forum sections in shades of grey.
I don't know exactly how well this will work - it's hard to tell without seeing it but definitely reduce the number of colours on there. Even changing that right side bright green to something more fitting with the rest of the scheme would be an improvement.
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Timewell posted this at 14:56 — 30th November 2002.
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The site's design is:
Here
Megan posted this at 14:59 — 30th November 2002.
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Definitely do the main sections of the forums the same as you've done with the greys in the body area of the site design. Grab a green and a blue from your navigation and header graphic respectively for the forum headers.
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Timewell posted this at 15:04 — 30th November 2002.
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LEave the background white?
What do you mean when you say forum headers?
Timewell posted this at 15:30 — 30th November 2002.
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I have had a play around with the colours for 30 min. Please tell me what you think now.
Forums
Megan posted this at 16:27 — 30th November 2002.
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By headers I meant the Forum | TOpics | Posts etc. line at the top and the "CM Director", "CM Sections" etc. header lines.
This looks much better.
Timewell posted this at 16:36 — 30th November 2002.
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aah! Made a few more changes then!
Please tell me where it can be made better!
Renegade posted this at 22:21 — 30th November 2002.
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remove the blue border around the board, it looks weird :S
Timewell posted this at 00:01 — 1st December 2002.
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Replace it with?
Renegade posted this at 03:06 — 1st December 2002.
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i dunno, some other colour or just replace it with nothing, if u chose the someother colour option make it a light and or discreeet colour, not far from the background colour
zollet posted this at 03:41 — 1st December 2002.
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Timewell, take a look at this page. You can download them here.
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