has begun development. Debating many ideas and colour schemes. Here are a few we have so far. Bear in mind these are only base colours so far. Gradients and such will be added in later (they're image based, this is just stylesheet/CSS/HTML based right now).

First attempt..trying to make it match with the homepage. Didn't work very well, and I suck at doing stuff like this by myself...


So MAGNUS stepped in with a suggestion, and made it look watermelon-y.. hehe
(first [22/11/07], second [23/11/07])


Cass's attempt follows. Quite liking the background, however I'm still not too sure on the header. I prefer the second, however.
 

Thyme's blue theme: [23/11/07]

(I actually kinda like this one somewhat).

Yumil's blue theme: [25/11/07]


I'll update this thread when things change and there's more selection for the debating of!

If you want to submit your own colour schemes for trying out, reply here and use this format (example uses the original ghastly version):

C1: #FBA534 (Orange)
C2: #E3912E (Darker orange)
C3: #379527 (Green)
C4: #A790AA (Purple)
C5: #75ABAD (Blueish)

These codes I've marked out in the stylesheet for easy locating for me when it comes to trying new schemes! I hope they make sense though, since I pointed out the colours they correspond to as well

I like Cass's second one.
I'm a fan of lighter colors.

updated =)

I'm in love with Thyme's theme.

updated =)

it's do-able yes. bear in mind though that these are only base colours. there's no images in place yet, but i suppose once there's a psd in existance for all the images we use (collapse/shrink, (no) new posts, etc..), then changing the colour should be pretty easy..

Well Wind Waker, here's how it works. When you're coding for the 'Net you usually cannot just type the name of a color you want. Simple colors like red or black or blue work (but not reccommended) but something like light navy blue will not nor will hot pink. Colors are represented by Hex codes, 6 character codes. You can have any combination of 0-9, a-f. Six f's (#ffffff) is white and six 0's (#000000) is black.

It's all built on RGB. The first two characters are the amount of Red, then Green, and Blue. So, red is #ff0000, green is #00ff00, and blue is #0000ff. So basically, you're just mixing colors to get what you want. Using Photoshop (or something similar) makes picking colors a lot easier.

Back in the early days of the Internet, not all computers/web browsers could show all the millions of color combinations. So, we had a set of 256 "web safe" colors. Those are really easy to play with because they all consist of groups of 00, 33, 66, 99, cc, & ff.

Once you've been playing with colors like this for a long time, it's hard to think of them any other way (working in CMYK is really hard for me). For example, one of my favorite colors is #336699. Couldn't tell you what else to call it, but it's a pretty shade of blue.

lol WW!

i've started to put on gradients and stuff. i'll do screenshots every now and again and add them to the first post. you can check for live updates at http://cs.danneh.org/forum. see what you think, and comments are greatly appreciated. after all, the more input i get, the better i can make it