More Skins?

[DBZgirl88]

[COLOR=#004a6f]It would be nice to have a wider variety of skins on the boards. Is there any way we members can contribute? I don't know how to make a skin exactly, but I could submit all the graphics necessary to make one, and will also make sure they match a specific color scheme.[/COLOR]

[NekoHige]

[quote name='Chabichou][COLOR=#004a6f']It would be nice to have a wider variety of skins on the boards. Is there any way we members can contribute? I don't know how to make a skin exactly, but I could submit all the graphics necessary to make one, and will also make sure they match a specific color scheme.[/COLOR][/quote]

[B]hmmm ya I mean the geisha and liquid ones are ok but it would make this sooo much more fun to have different varieties[/B]

[Sara]

[QUOTE=James][color=#707875]In regard to new skins, I can only agree with everything said here. I would love to have new skins up on OB. But the people who were making skins for me seem to have disappeared, so...my skin outsourcing plan didn't quite work. lol

But don't worry. OB will see new skins in due course. I'm going to have to make them myself though, I think. I haven't really been able to do this in recent times because I've always got a lot of work on my plate, much of it being pretty urgent. So poor ol' OB has suffered as a result.

But I do agree that only two skins in several months is going to get pretty boring. I'm planning to keep both of these skins, but to add an all-new default skin soon. This will actually be part of something bigger (updating OtakuBoards to ver. 7.5). But I'll talk about that at some point soon.[/color][/QUOTE][size=1][color=purple]That's about all I can give you, heh. James posted this a few months ago.

out like an infield fly,
Sara[/size][/color]

[Baron Samedi]

[size=1]Just a suggestion to James, what if he put together a file containing all of OB's current graphics, and put it up for distribution in an Art Forum sticky. Then people could come, and make new skins easier, by changing whichever of the graphics they thought could do better. Obviously, main ones would be banners, sidebars, and buttons, but if members had the opportunity to personally create every signle colour in their new theme, then I think that could work well.

Bit rambly there....essentially, what I suggest, is a file containing all of OB's graphics to be made available.[/size]

[Gavin]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting.

Honestly I would like to see a few other skins, I've always been a fan of the [B]Liquid[/b] skin as opposed to [b]Geisha[/b] one. If Baron's idea is possible, I'm afraid I don't know enough about the layout of OB or it's HTML to say whether it is or isn't possible, however if it is I think it would honestly cut down on James' work load. Maybe a few more colourful skins would be in order if he is taking requests, some yellows or light greens might be nice.[/SIZE]

[Kareiyasha]

I completely agree! I love both signs greatly. A few more to select from would be awesome though ^_^

[Inu500]

Yeah we want some more skins! There are only two skins to choose from. Maybe we could have 10 at least. Or maybe even five! :(

[James]

[color=#811C3A]Skins take a really long time to make, if you do them properly. On average I'd say a full forum skin can take maybe five or six hours of work -- and that only includes the actual icons/buttons/forum elements. The actual banner and logo designs are more significant and they take a while to get right.

After we launch 7.5, I am possibly going to make a ZIP file available that includes all of our graphics.

The difficulty is that OtakuBoards contains a lot of unique graphics that other forums don't have. As a result, there's a lot more editing to do than one might initially expect (announcement images, rollovers, banner, three left column images, etc etc).

Still, I'll see what I can do.

OB has suffered a bit from lack of attention, because my mind has mostly been focused on the new things we're cooking up for myOtaku. But I promise you that you will see something new on OB sooner rather than later and it will be exciting.[/color]