A few small changes.

[Gumboots]

The original default was blue, but more intense. I found it a bit much, so toned it down some. I've been doing the same with some of the other colours too.

I like the top and bottom links not being visible all the time, but I might think about having them visible off hover. If I did, they'd be low opacity. I'd probably also change the shape, because they'd look daggy if they were permanently visible with the current shape. They'd probably have to be about half the current height to work well visually.

I've got the boards layout the way I like it though. Looks much cleaner now, IMO.

[Gumboots]

Ok, I made them as visible as I can tolerate them. Wotcha think of them now?

(I can always restyle them to suit myself in Stylish anyway, without affecting what runs on the forum).

[Hawk]

I think the side links are more effective now. Folks can see them and know to use them without them being to outstanding.
Looks good.

Are you planning on adding them to the other styles?

[Gumboots]

I suppose I could, although there's no guarantee how long they'd last.

Since this place has a critters theme going, I figured I should have a wombat avatar.

By the way, I added that WIP light style to the switcher in the footer of Dark. It's the button on the far right of the switcher strip. Still need a bit of detailing (buttons, selects, etc) but is coming along nicely.

Note that it's getting a bit of FOUC on page load at the moment, as the "snowy.css" is getting a slight conflict with buttonmenu.css, because for all this quick testing I've been using buttonmenu.css to hold a lot of declarations. Once I get everything rationalised the page loads will be smoother.

[Gumboots]

Got a green one roughed out. I'm really liking this one. Current plan is I think we'll end up with a light and dark version, in two separate installed styles, with four colour variations of each. That should keep everyone happy. They'll share the same templating and most of the same CSS, so maintenance should be reasonable. Once they're sorted I'll probably disable the default Prosilver, and set the light custom one to the site default.

Green_light.jpg

[Hawk]

Even though green is my least favorite color, it still looks good.

[Gumboots]

You must have a real problem with grass and trees.

[RulerofRails]

Just to let you know that I have two logins visible in the Prosilver Dark Edition. I did try to press Ctrl+F5.

Double login.jpg

I sort of like the light blue option (first one), as in the screenshot.

Is the idea with light/dark being that for example the green text shade must be the same for both styles?

[Gumboots]

No it's just a way of having different looks. I'll just do the colours any way I like. Sometimes I like light styles. Sometimes I like dark ones. Depends on my mood and the ambient lighting.

I've fixed the double login forms. Only has one now.

[Gumboots]

OK, it is possible that some of you may have been trying to check the site while I was borking things.

I was messing around with Prosilver Dark, trying to fix the "flash of the wrong link colours" glitch when changing pages. Have got it fixed now, after much messing with cookies and CSS trickery. Can probably improve load times a bit more, but it's pretty good as it is.