Skins/Header Images

ExM, now that I'm looking at the skin in full size, it looks better then I originally thought. I even see that you have the SC/SE swords as low transparency BGs in posts. Good stuff.

My few gripes are:

• The banner. More specifically, the logo's placement, font, and background. The soul calibur image on the logo is cut off at the bottom. I think it would look better if the entire logo was visible. Secondly, the font of the "wayrun.com" doesn't match the fonts on either the "8" or "WR," and doesn't fit the "SC font theme," if you will. You had it perfect in this image:

8wrtexturedlogorm4.jpg


Also, while the 8WR stands out, the soul calibur sword doesn't. Is there a way the image can be made to stand out more? maybe play around with the shadowing options on the sc sword image or lowering the brightness of the background a bit? Or maybe including borders/stroke widths around the image (similar to the stoke widths around the 8WR)?

Siegfried as the foreground image for the light skin layout is perfect. My gripe is with the background. It seems a bit... plain. Is there anyway you can make it more lively and eye-catching?

Also, have Nightmare instead of Taki as the foreground image for the dark skin layout, please. :D

• The Button Icons. More specifically, the "Home", "FlashChat", "Wiki", "Forums", "Quote", "Multi", "Quick", etc. icons. The font is too plain, imo. I understand that it's the easiest to read, but if the font can be changed to a font with serifs, perhaps, like the font in your 8wr logo image above, but made big enough to be read, it would look awesome. Also, the icon images themselves don't stand out enough. It's basically the same issue as the soul calibur sword image mentioned above. If you could make them stand out more, that would be great!

Good stuff, once again!
 
@SWBeta: Can't take any credit for the SW/SC bgs in tables, that's all Jaxel's doing. :P He's the one implementing the skin and making it look way better than my mockup.

RE: Logo, banner, button concerns... I'll see if I can do something about those once I finish up this icon set I'm working on. Thanks for the detailed feedback!

@KingAce: Yeah, I think I'll go with SWBeta's suggestion and switch the font to the white serif text in the image of the logo by itself.

@Eclair: You don't actually have to know how to code skins, it's Jaxel who does the coding. All you have to do is submit your mockup PSD, layers and all, plus zips of the buttons/icons/etc.

For anyone who is interested in submitting something, I can put up the default vB style's images (includes gradients for table backgrounds and all the icons) for download so you can see what you have to modify, if you'd like.
 
Can we have the option to go back to the default skin? By selecting a skin in user cp? I don't really like this one and it really stands out at work. The default one is more neutral.

It's subjective. I prefer minimalism in design.
 
harlekein said:
Can we have the option to go back to the default skin? By selecting a skin in user cp? I don't really like this one and it really stands out at work. The default one is more neutral.

It's subjective. I prefer minimalism in design.
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The default skin is now selectable.
 
ExMachina said:
@SWBeta: Can't take any credit for the SW/SC bgs in tables, that's all Jaxel's doing. :P He's the one implementing the skin and making it look way better than my mockup.
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Wow, I can see them in tables all over the site. Looks real good. Good stuff, Jaxel!
 
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