Your Chaos color scheme

[peterh]

After a semi heated debate on the new Chaos design, elliot threw down the gauntlet for ube and me to come up with a different color scheme - and the rest of you are invited as well.

The idea is to come up with a new color scheme for Chaos we think will work, wether it be one or two tone board or a new background. Each design has to be posted in a seperate thread to allow for discussion and maybe we'll find something most of us likes. At the very least it'll be good inspiration.

My suggestion is to take a screenshot of the front page, the general forum and an actual thread and colorise those so we have examples of how each part of the board will look with the new color scheme. But ff someone have a better idea - then let's hear them. The only thing to remember is that the color palette is a bit limited but as long as we get a general idea, it should be fine.

This challlenge is open to everyone and you can enter as many times as you'd like to. The deadline is approximately the end of February and should provide enough time for everyone to get their design done. Hopefully the rest of the boardies will back this up and allow for some good constructive discussion.

Lastly, props to Elliot for allowing this to happen

[Elliot Kane]

Have fun, enjoy yourselves, and please don't crucify anyone for their design skills! Hopefully this should give everyone who wants it a chance to shine

If you have questions about the idea or how to present your entries, please contact Peter. I put him in charge of organising this, the poor guy! ;D

[Elliot Kane]

**Cough** Own thread please, Gal. Less confusion that way

[Galadriel]

Sorry, I couldn't get a hold of Pete yet. I'll start one up then.

[Elliot Kane]

Added note: these are YOUR ideas, so you can feel totally free to use whatever colours you'd like, whatever I may have said.

It's not ME you're out to impress - it's each other

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No prob, Gal

[Alrik]

I like it as it is now.

I can read things much better now.

[peterh]

This shold be a fun contest so thanks for participating. If you have a question just shoot me a pm and I'll answer to the best of my ability

Btw, there's a catch for ube and I in this. We have to contribute with at least one design each so you people have to hold us to that. I expect to get start working on designs Friday at the latest since I have a few busy days ahead

Btw - one last thing. I'd like to see how a color scheme would look both on a forum page and in a thread - so two screens of each design at the least. That way it's easier to see the full effect of the design. How does the rest feel?

[Galadriel]

Do you like how Killerzzz and me did it? We took screenshots of three different pages and coloroured them up. Let us know if you wanted it otherwise ok?

[Ubereil]

From my point of view this works perfectly.

Übereil

[LaFille]

That's a great initiative, guys.

Here is a template that might be easier to work with for the background.



If anyone would like help for something, I'll be glad to if you're not hurried.

Edited to add: FYI the text on the board is verdana font at size 10; if you want to do custom font color tests, you can just flood-fill an area and type random stuff using that font in your graphics app instead of trying to recolor the text on the screenshots if it isn't convenient.

[peterh]

Jan 21, 2009 20:17:04 GMT Galadriel said:

Do you like how Killerzzz and me did it? We took screenshots of three different pages and coloroured them up. Let us know if you wanted it otherwise ok?

Jan 21, 2009 20:48:16 GMT Ubereil said:

From my point of view this works perfectly.

Übereil

My initial idea was to have a screenshot of both a front page and a thread page so we could see how the colors would work on both - but this works as well

And thanks to fille for the template.

[rhiian]

oh mb i will do this
mb not

its similar to wot i gotta do for ICT coursework
GCSEs FTW!!!
or not ^_^;;

[Glance A'Lot]

Jan 22, 2009 16:32:27 GMT rhiian said:

oh mb i will do this
mb not

its similar to wot i gotta do for ICT coursework
GCSEs FTW!!!
or not ^_^;;

Anybody got a link to a translation bot for he who is old and a foreigner?

[Elliot Kane]

"oh mb i will do this"

Oh maybe I will do this

"mb not"

Maybe not

"its similar to wot i gotta do for ICT coursework "

It is similar to what I have to do for [Untranslatable] coursework

"GCSEs FTW!!!"

General Certificates of Secondary Education for the win.

"or not ^_^;;"

Or not.

**EK younglish to oldish translation complete**

;D

[Glance A'Lot]

The GCSE lost me... - thanks Elliot

[rhiian]

ICT = Infomation Comunication Technolgy
i believe once upon a time it was called computers, but then computers became more like programming and HTML and ICT was the name given to things like working databases, spreadsheets and word processors etc.

working on one shortly
i have a heck of alot of coursework at the minutei might have to beg for an extension to the deadline still got plenty of time tho
so

[killerzzz]

Soooo, Pete and Ube, end of February is closing in.

Was wondering how those colour schemes you promised us are coming along.

Oh no, I didn't forget. ;D

Killerzzz

[Ubereil]

Aw crap...

Übereil

[Galadriel]

Don't worry, I'm sure Pete didn't forget

[peterh]

I didn't forget either.

Life's just been kinda rough these last weeks but I will make it before the end of Feb..