Forum color scheme
  • JennyJenny
    Posts: 147
    I love the green. but then, I've worked in quite a few 'institutions'.

    (Don't make me get the restraints, Melo ;))
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  • MarkThompson
    Posts: 768
    The white "Google Custom Search" bar, with the irregular little white frame around it, also looks bad on this color scheme. (And it is awkwardly located, from a visual perspective.) I say that not to criticize, but to suggest something that might benefit from a change.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    Quite so!
  • GavinGavin
    Posts: 2,799
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIQcFUVCX_4
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  • SkirpRSkirpR
    Posts: 854
    "Ruined Culture" indeed... I feel like I'm in an alley.
  • melofluentmelofluent
    Posts: 4,160
    Jenny, I'm down fifteen lbs, and you wanna strap me down? Weight loss via coma? Might just work. No, thanks on the electro shock.
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  • MarkThompson
    Posts: 768
    Re search bar: much better!
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  • Jani
    Posts: 441
    I like this ruined culture stuff.
  • MarkThompson
    Posts: 768
    I see the color of the new comment box has been changed too, good. The new scheme is growing on me; the main thing for me, I guess, is that it doesn't particularly seem to speak of "the sacred." IOW, olive and moss are not really colors that evoke any of the things the CMAA stands for. Maybe they do for others, or maybe that's just not very important, I don't know.
  • BenBen
    Posts: 3,114
    Oooh, I like that new header and color scheme you put in. keep it.
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  • BenBen
    Posts: 3,114
    the blue is gone.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    It'll do for now.
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
    Posts: 6,477
    block quote styling looks better, but it is really hard to tell that it's a blockquote...
    maybe some light shading or something?
  • MarkThompson
    Posts: 768
    Hey, while we are at it: I really like the look of the MusicaSacra main page, including the background pattern. What doesn't look right to me is where that background pattern shows through the header bar (around where Musica Sacra is written in script). That part ought to be a different color, or solid. Maybe like a medium red or vermilion would work.

    BTW, I really do not care for what has just been done with the header over here. The effect would look good if it were a geometric pattern (such as the background pattern on the main page), but the posterization looks very bad, especially on what appears to be the apse of a church(?). Also, at my screen resolution the organ cabinet gets repeated, but half cut off, over on the right.

    Seriously, I don't mean to come over and sound like I'm criticizing everything. Cheers for all the work you put in.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    If I can find enough suitable images, I'll make the banner wider to avoid repeats.
  • donr
    Posts: 971
    I like the green, blue has got to go and I'm not a big fan of the gray either.
    The gray might work if you had a forest dark green color as a border to separate it from the light color of the background.

    I just whipped this up in a table format but a little separation goes along way


    I really like the idea of changing it every so often. Maybe put it on a quarterly or seasonal rotation.
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  • francis
    Posts: 10,817
    O yeah! I like this. Now chonak, are you going to set this same pallet for the other liturgical colors of the day as they happen along?
  • francis
    Posts: 10,817
    liturgical calendar for the month:
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  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    OK, I got back the old blockquote styling; and I agree with Mark about that apse, so I pulled in another image to replace it.
    Otherwise, I think this'll be adequate for a while.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    are you going to set this same pallet for the other liturgical colors of the day


    http://tinyurl.com/l8pboey
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  • francis
    Posts: 10,817
    here is the liturgical pallet based on your green pallet
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  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    Isn't that a cute optical illusion: how the dark color makes the center seem narrower than the ends?
  • francis
    Posts: 10,817
    As I am using this background for reading, I think it is a bit dark for both the personal posts and the other posts.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    I've bumped up the font size. Formerly it was "small" (80% of normal); now it's 85%.
  • MarkThompson
    Posts: 768
    @chonak

    I'm not sure which apse you thought I meant, but the one I had in mind is the wide one whose center is just to the right of the word FORUM (at least at my screen resolution). You know, the one that looks super posterized and splotchy, like it was made of wavy lines.

    Incidentally, I do prefer the old blockquote style, with the frame, which you've restored, but is it possible to get a button to simply indent a block of text too?
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    Yes, that's the apse I swapped out for this one. Maybe the unevenness in the image reflects some irregularity in the windows of the actual building. :-)

    For a while I tried having users work with a fancier editor with more features for composing comments, but it didn't work consistently for everyone, so I don't know of a way to obtain indenting.
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  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    Or maybe I didn't mean the same apse. Which one is to the right of "forum" depends on the width of your browser window!
  • MarkThompson
    Posts: 768
    Could be; I meant this one:

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  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,978
    Given the NPM convention, I hope it doesn't mean we are green with envy. ;-) Green is one of my least favorite colors, but I can live with it. It is a webpage, not one of Martha Stewart's artistic creations. Wait, maybe the walls of Martha's prison cell were the inspiration.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    Mark, you're seeing an old version of the graphic from your browser cache. If you clear it, you'll get a different view.
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  • GavinGavin
    Posts: 2,799
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYhnZ8Zrf1k

    Actually, green is my favorite color!
  • JulieCollJulieColl
    Posts: 2,465
    I like it, esp. the etching behind the logo. Very artsy. : )
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  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,978
    New calendarist revisionist Sergianist. Is outrage! LOL.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    It's always Ordinary Time at the Forum.
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,978
    Being eastern, the concept of Ordinary Time is a Latin seventies construct created by Paul VI. I still natively think of certain Sundays after Easter, Pentecost, and such. But we are new calendar, while many of the Orthodox are not.
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,414
    Maggie Smith did offer the observation that 'green is SUCH a difficult colour!'.
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  • marajoymarajoy
    Posts: 783
    ooh, I dont like the "routine reminder" currently - it looks just like one of the comments and blends in too much.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    It is quite identical; well -- except for the background color, the Times font, the indenting, the italics, and the blue box around it.

    C'mon, huh? :-)

    Ah, well. Not everyone perceives these things in the same way. I'm rather detail-oriented, so little differences stand out to me.
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  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,700
    Welcome to the CMAA Hospital. How may we serve thee?
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  • marajoymarajoy
    Posts: 783
    ehm, sorry... I could swear it looked a lot different (as in the same) when I first posted that!
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    I have a personal reason for not liking beige: I spent the 1960s and 70s living and working in it (my parents were hoteliers in a small town, so I saw a lot of motel decor). Finally, the flashbacks are over. . .
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  • bkenney27bkenney27
    Posts: 444
    I LOVE the background of the logo!
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  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    oh, @marajoy, I figured out why you saw things that way: it was a temporary side-effect of some technical changes to the page style.
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  • AP23AP23
    Posts: 119
    I've put a new (slightly different) set of colors on the forum. Is it still OK for readability and appearance?


    Could we just revert it completely?
  • francis
    Posts: 10,817
    This looks pretty good to me. Much easier on the eyes.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    People with nostalgia for the old theme can play with the theme selector at the bottom left of the page. It has three options:

    - standard: the current theme
    - CMAA2011: somewhat like the old theme
    - original: soemwhat like the default theme for this forum software

    I'm sure the results will not look like what you want. It can even mess up how the forum looks for you, if you tinker around.

    If that happens,
    - delete your browser cookies for "forum.musicasacra.com",
    - empty your browser cache,
    - close all your browser windows,
    - turn off your computer,
    - come back later,
    - install another browser,
    - and use that.
    :-)

    If it doesn't work, I will not fix it, I will remove it.
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  • GavinGavin
    Posts: 2,799
    People at a Catholic traditional music forum are frightened of change?? I'm shocked!
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  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,978
    What is all this talk about change? Was it change in 19th century Russia? It was not! Is outrage!
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  • BenBen
    Posts: 3,114
    G:

    Hahahahahahahaha!
  • francis
    Posts: 10,817
    changing colors to the forum is not a change in content, it is simply a school of thought.
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