Well, as you may or may not have noticed, the image of the site has changed subtly.

If you have any questions, check the FAQs first; then come here and ask if you still have more.

If you are having a technical problem, or an image fails to show up correctly, then let me know.

Let me know if you like this skin here. :) I am open to criticism and suggestions, to a point. One of the purposes of this redo was to give the site a 'professional yet friendly' feel; let me know if there's anything you think needs to be improved on to meet that.

~BR

Suggestion! I know you were asking before about transparency for stuff, but now seeing the placement of some of the stuff that you made transparent, I don't believe you even need to make some of that stuff transparent (such as the top banner, and maybe also the various reply buttons, too, but that would probobly be the limit). All you'd need to do is change the background color in your source-file to the blue color prevalent in the background clouds picture (just open the clouds pic in fireworks, and use the eye-dropper to find the exact color-code), or whatever color is behind what you have transparent. Then you could export the pics in a non-GIF format, and have everything look even better than it does now, and more like how you originally wanted (plus, you can add shadows and all that stuff, have the gradients look smoother than GIF format could ever allow, and also easily get rid of those stray white-pixels on some of the curved things).

Technically, that's cheating for transparency, but I don't think anyone will care, since it will likely look exactly like it's transparent.

Ooooh, EXCELLENT idea, DP! >:3 The color code is 1936DC; I know it offhand. :heh:
Yeh, quite a few images were messed up by the transfer to GIF; so let's see...

I can change the Report/Edit buttons, but not the buttons on the bottom of posts; I could maybe change the Markers, but then they'd show up wrong in the box that tells you what does what. I'll change some stuff for sure, though. ^_^ I'll be back later to do that.

Thanks, DP! And glad you like it! :D

EDIT: Okay, I made some changes! ^_^ I think I'll keep the Report/Edit/Quote buttons as they are, and probably the forum markers too; though I'll be deleting those white smidgens by hand. ^_^; I'll do some more later, but I have more surprises to work on now. >:3

No problems with loading times or anything? Or image viewing? No white boxes?

Skin looks mucho wonderfulo. Though we have no banner.

What?! The banner is there for me! Screenshot, por favor?

This is why we're doing this now: to prevent this kinda thing. No banner? Woah.

Damndest thing, when I'm in a thread I can see the banner, but when I'm on the main page or when I'm posting it vanishes.

I can see it all teh time. ?_? How odd.

Anyway, like I said, I love it. =) Also, I love the new variety of quotes, I'll keep going back to the main page just to read them. XD

"Minus four respect points, Rikku." - Paine, FFX-2
"Aang, this is my friend Foo-Foo Cuddlypoops. Foo-Foo Cuddlypoops, Aang." - Sokka, Avatar

Those are the ones I've seen since Kimi mentioned it and I noticed it.

XD Well, thank you! I've also updated other things. >:3 Keep looking around. I have several more updates planned, too...

As for the banner, the reason for that is the size of the image. Not the physical pixel-by-pixel size, the byte size (no pun intended). This is because, as per DP's suggestion, I updated the image from a GIF to a PNG, which made it 'bigger' byte-wise, but also made it better looking. (At least I think that's the reason for this...)
So, I can maybe try stuff... but first...
(1) Anybody else having this (or any other) problem?
(2) DP, any ideas? ^_^;

Ok.

Now I can only see the banner when I'm looking at a thread.

It's gone when I'm:
- Posting
- On the main page
- doing anything else

Only when I'm in a thread can I view it.

I have absolutely no idea what could be wrong, other than possibly an issue specific to a certain browser. Sooooo, what browser are you using, GS?

EDIT:

Great quote! :LOL:

I'm using Yahoo.

I have AOL as well, but I won't have that much longer, and I like yahoo better anyway.

It's fine with me if it never gets fixed for me. It's just a banner, and I can still see it while in threads. Now if the buttons didn't work or something I'd be irritated, but seriously, no biggie.

:blink:

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I never even knew Yahoo had a browser... I'll see what I can look up about that one (to see if it's similar to any of the browsers I have on my computer), but considering you are the only one who is having this problem thus far, it might just be the browser.

Try Mozilla Firefox. It's a free download, can find 'em on Google, and is the safest, most effective browser I've seen in a while. Scores of features too. ;D Of course, I now use the Apple browser, but if I was still using my new comp, I'd be using Firefox. It pwns. :3

If it still gives you trouble, I'll figure something out. ^^;

And if it is just the browser, then I don't think I need to fix anything. ^_^

XD And I have more to come!

Yeeeeeeah.

If I owned this computer, I'd download firefox.

If I download it at this time, then I won't have access to a computer until I can buy my own, and CPoC will be back before that time I'd guess.

So by doing that the site loses another administrator -- namely me -- for several, several months.

So I won't be doing that. It's FINE. The only problem is I can't see the banner on certain pages. it's not a big deal at all.

O_O; Apparently that's a bigger deal than I thought? I wonder why you're not allowed to download stuff? That's not even that big of a file...?
^^; Well, I won't pry. But I will try to solve this for ya, somehow...

You know what, I'll wait until I'm done installing everything I plan to install; then I'll post a poll about load-times and stuff like this, and see how bad it is. <.<; Then I'll see what I can do.

My grandfather won't let anyone install or download anything on his computer without his permission. Like the NFL won't let you tape football. XD It's stupid, but you have to obey.

Hmm, well... *warning:offtopic*
Remember when Readmanga.com totalled my computer that one time? Well, I was totally skr00d until somebody tipped me off to Mozilla. It's a much safer browser than usual, a lot less spyware and stuff crawls through, and plus, I'm pretty sure it's faster. It also has tabs capability and other stuff. If you're interested and wanted to ask him about it, it'd probably be a good download for all involved.

Otherwise, as I said: poll. ;D

On topic, what do you think of the new PIPs? They had to be GIFs, due to the alternate backgrounds, but I think they're a good style... are they too big? Opiniones?

I'll talk to him.

Love the new PIPs, they're fantastic.

Because the name of the current post-status is in the image, think maybe we should allow all users to edit their Member Titles? :) Everyone has a new PIP, BTW, except for CPoC himself, who of course is the ROOT and uneditable by me. ^^; But, it's in there for when he returns.

Oh... our glows are gone... *fixes*

EDIT: *fails to fix*

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...crud...

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My glow is there, KNUCKLES IS NOT. >_>

:huh:

Hey, I can change it back no prob if you want. It really doesn't stretch things that much. :)

OH! I see.

Sounds good. :3

Fine by me.

And YAY! I get a Member Rank! Iblis Trigger! >:3

Plus, Admin Iblis Trigger. All the fun of a regular Iblis Trigger, but with a nicer hat. XD

THis isn't really a question, concern, or technical difficulty... but...

In teh FAQ topic, you said you also had a SK&WS skin, BR-san. :3 Ooooh...

...That's it. XD

Yesh!

If BR-san gets the skin changer, then we'll have a Knuckles Skin under teh request of "someone" in a job of power here, and a SK&WS skin.

Although it is driving me crazy not to know who that someone is! Gah, the suspence! (XD)

SK&WS skin would be cool. I hope BR gets the Skin Changer to magically work. And I can help with graphics, if need be.

Hey, BR-san, our wide variety of colors has vanished! :o On your list of things to put back I hope? :3

:o O RLY? *cough, ahem* I mean, oh really? The colors are fine for me... it's probably just loading times... <.<; Is it better now, or...?

As for multiple skinnage, I'll get back to work. ^_^;

Like I said, it's great. My only complaint is that quote thing on the bottom is mean. I can too beat up a tree!

XD You can, but Lee can't!

LOL Lee is sUch a n00b

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/d/e/7/de7...3a89c047397.gif

Thanks to DP for that find! ^_^