Templates

[Emora Deen]

I don't know if I was looking at the right things or not. But, here it is.

I think this would be cool, if we could get rid of the World of Warcraft thing. I mean, I like the little forum symbols and stuff. I’m trying to stick with a color scheme that matches the .net site.

http://phpbb3.wowcr.net/

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/8164

I don’t even know if I’m looking at the right things.

THIS ONE

Hehe

http://gamexe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f ... 29&style=4

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/8506

ORRR

http://gamexe.net/forum/index.php?style=3

[Emora Deen]

Here is a few more!!

http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/GuildWarsAlliance

must get rid of WOW symbol

http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/mergenine% ... liance+BB3

Must get rid of WOW symbol

http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/mergenine%3A+WoW+Horde+BB3

This one is kind of cool with the map...

http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/Thor

http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/ThorLarge

And these are neat!

http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/wowblue

http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/wowgold

http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/wowgreen

http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/wowred

[Soran Nightblade]

Wow, those are great finds. I'm really happy with almost all of them.

We also want to keep in mind that forum styles that include a 'banner' shaped graphic at the top could be especially useful for us to customize, as we have photoshop resources and images for the world. SO a style choice for us will be largely about how we like the frames and the backgrounds. With that in mind....

The "Dark Fantasy" theme we ran last week and the "Guild Wars Alliance" theme both seem equally appropriate to the site and attractive. The guild wars theme, in particular, has a banner image at top that we could customize at will.

The two WoW "mergenine" styles are both beautiful, both the blue one and the red one, and we could definitely remove the wow-related logos and images and insert our own. It's easy to read and has a nice feel to it. Also, in case we're counting, this one would match best with the gold and black color scheme of our homepage at www.heirot.net .

The "ThorLarge" theme is touch and go for me because I LOVE the way the banner is partially faded at the top, but I'm not fond of the thread type icons, the orange font, or the yellow background color. I think we could make it work, but some editing would be in order.

For the wowblue, wowgold, wowgreen, wowred styles, my only concern is that they're quite plain, with minimal use of borders and no background graphics for the text areas. The trim around the edge is also a bit too dark to see, even on a bright LCD monitor. It seems the biggest selling point of these styles would be the graphics of WoW bosses, but considering we'd have to take those out, I think the "mergenine" wow styles have got this set beat by any standard.

It's really hard to choose between these styles. The only ones I feel like really ruling out are those last four wow styles.

[Mizuki]

I have to say that the very first was the winner for me. I liked the section icons and the banner. I also like how it really doesn't look as though we have to change it in anyway. It just fits.

I liked the map ones, but they say 'Hellfire Pen.' and it would itch at me to change it. Though we probably could, but I just like the first one better.

[Soran Nightblade]

Which one are you referring to? (Use names I guess, because there are several posts)

[Mizuki]

Woops, forgot about the VERY first post.

http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/GuildWarsAlliance

That one.

[Soran Nightblade]

Rehashing our template options:

We did our initial template search just a few weeks after the new version of phpbb - phpbb3, came out. Because a lot of new templates have come out of the works, I want to explore some options real quick before we pick.

Could take on a very different personality with our own graphics at top/thread icons: http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/INDUSTRIAL?phpbb=3.0.2

Will stretch to size of screen, nice big banner space at the top: http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/Settlers?phpbb=3.0.2

http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/starcraft?phpbb=3.0.2

And from our previous search:
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/GuildWarsA ... hpbb=3.0.2

By the way, out of nostalgia, look what they made a phpbb3 version of: http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/Chronicles?phpbb=3.0.2

Any thoughts?

[Emora Deen]

I like starcraft, guild wars, and chronicles

[Mizuki]

If we can make starcraft not look so sci-fi then I'm down with that.

[Soran Nightblade]

ok guys! The template is up, let's see if we can make it happy for us. Anyone have an idea for the forum banner/want to design it?

[Mizuki]

Did we ever get the new race and map content up? Like for the Dark Angels? If not, is there a way I can at least get the Dark Angel info up? It kinda sucks having the only Dark Angels be NPC's and then I play the Prince