New Layout

[Xyandar]

You should make a new layout like u have Liquid and Geisha. But you need one thats more evil also for the people who are mysterious:P

Black and red colors with a picture of a warrior or a cloaked rider or something. that would be amazing!

[Boo]

[color=gray][size=1]Dude, the biggest reason why they'd not do this would probably be "Then we'd have to make a lay-out for each group of people".
And then again, the layouts are based on anime and some Geisha theme thats Asian aswell... I don't see any connection with mysterious omg such cool dark cloaked rider people and anime o_O;

[b]BTW:[/b] The new site banner isn't incredible though -__-;

[i]Edit:[/i] Dude, I didn't say the character was from an anime series, I said it was based on anime, like in drawing style. [/color][/size]

[2010DigitalBoy]

I agree that a new skin would be cool, but I can't imagine destroying the cool blue style of otakuboards. Also, Boo, I don't think that anime chick is actually in any anime... Ive never seen her.

[AzureWolf]

[QUOTE]I don't think that anime chick is actually in any anime... Ive never seen her.[/QUOTE][COLOR=blue]Correct. It's fanart for the Ragnarok Online game. This Crusader fanart is from a hentai CG set called X-Ration by some popular hentai artist (I think he goes by the name of "oxo" aka "hug kiss hug" O_o). He tends to draw very "meaty" characters, and if you could see the original picture, this one is quite chubby as well.

I'd be the last one to complain about this color, but I really am sick of how blue these forums are. There's apparently more skins on the way, so there's no need to complain anymore since something is being done about it.[/COLOR]

[James]

[color=#D6A204]It's natural to get tired of a particular style after long enough. This skin has existed as the default on OB for more than a year. And believe me, I'm the first in line who wants to see a big change in terms of skin.

The problem is simply time. Not only am I heavily involved in freelance work (paid work, which always has priority), but I'm also involved in projects for theOtaku network which also have higher priority (new myO backroom, Premium, v3, etc etc). Unfortunately this tends to mean that OB is perpetually sitting on the backburner.

I can only tell you that new stuff for OB [b]is[/b] coming. I just don't want to promise a date, because even I don't quite know how my schedule will pan out in the coming months. [/color]

[Baron Samedi]

[size=1]I believe I've mentioned this before, but what if you released a folder containing every single one of OB's images, and allowed the OB public to work on it and modify it as they may. This saves you the work, meaning all you need to do is test-run the submissions on a local machine, and see if they're good enough to be added to OB's skin library.[/size]

[Boo]

[quote name='Baron Samedi][size=1']I believe I've mentioned this before, but what if you released a folder containing every single one of OB's images, and allowed the OB public to work on it and modify it as they may. This saves you the work, meaning all you need to do is test-run the submissions on a local machine, and see if they're good enough to be added to OB's skin library.[/size][/quote]

[color=gray][size=1]Go you, that's brilliant =o
You could make a competition of it like the Otaku[b]Boards[/b] Banner contests of before. I want to win once >.>;;[/color][/size]

[James]

[color=#D6A204]The suggestion has been made before. But I really don't want to open skin design up to the public.

There are a few reasons for this, but primarily, designing skins for OB isn't the same as for regular forums, because we use a lot of custom graphics (perhaps a lot more than you may first think). So it would also require me to write up a tutorial, which is more time consuming.

Secondly, the next iteration of OB will have even [i]more[/i] graphics, because we will be changing and adding components of the site. I don't want to release a graphic pack on that version now, because that would be a major spoiler. Perhaps it will be a possibility in the future.

A couple of key people were going to do OB skins for me as a kind of job, but they kind of dropped off the face of the earth. So that hasn't really helped. But having said that, I may directly recruit one or two staff to specifically develop skins for OB.

Before this can be done though, we need to re-establish our OB mule (a private duplicate/twin of OB, which is used to test new graphics and functions). So that in itself will take a bit of time.[/color]

[Stuart]

[QUOTE=James][color=#D6A204]A couple of key people were going to do OB skins for me as a kind of job, but they kind of dropped off the face of the earth. So that hasn't really helped. But having said that, I may directly recruit one or two staff to specifically develop skins for OB.
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I'd be willing to help out with any graphic help if needed. I know I'm not staff or anything but I'm not planning on dropping off the face of the earth anytime soon.

[Baron Samedi]

[size=1]If you're after skinners, I'd be interested in helping.[/size]