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Hey guys recently made a forum and i need some feedback regarding my theme!
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That pink with black really doesn't suit a forum and is giving me a headache. It looks good - but it's just not great colour wise.
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I'm not much a fan either unfortunately 
The fuchsia color is so bright against the dark background - it seems a bit overpowering imo. Also - the niche is gaming. Fuchsia doesn't at all scream "Gaming forum" to me either. Simply put Keosan - your forum does not look like a gaming forum. It's also rather bland - there's no personality - no branding. I'd work on theme's color scheme, the logo (left-align it if it's so small btw) and the branding concept. The idea is to transform the theme a bit, giving it more a gaming identity, perhaps making your node icons something relevant to gamers as opposed to the notepad design.
The fuschia color is darkened a bit - it's more eggplant and not so bright. If you don't want to change the fuschia color - you should likely lighten the dark background color so that there's a bit more contrast and not so hard on the eyes. IDK if the color scheme above will work for you - but the hex code is #7c4475 if you're interested.
With a few tweaks - you can make that your Xenfocus theme quite nice.
HTH,
J.
The fuchsia color is so bright against the dark background - it seems a bit overpowering imo. Also - the niche is gaming. Fuchsia doesn't at all scream "Gaming forum" to me either. Simply put Keosan - your forum does not look like a gaming forum. It's also rather bland - there's no personality - no branding. I'd work on theme's color scheme, the logo (left-align it if it's so small btw) and the branding concept. The idea is to transform the theme a bit, giving it more a gaming identity, perhaps making your node icons something relevant to gamers as opposed to the notepad design.
The fuschia color is darkened a bit - it's more eggplant and not so bright. If you don't want to change the fuschia color - you should likely lighten the dark background color so that there's a bit more contrast and not so hard on the eyes. IDK if the color scheme above will work for you - but the hex code is #7c4475 if you're interested.
With a few tweaks - you can make that your Xenfocus theme quite nice.
HTH,
J.
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You're quite welcome. And I wasn't fishing for clients LOL - but I'd be thrilled to help you out with your current theme. Or create one from scratch OR modify any other premade theme for you. PM me if interestedHey everyone thanks for all the replies. PoetJC thanks for the advice. I've actually been debating on doing this myself or asking you(paying you) to help me out
J.
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That sounds great! I'll wait till i get 10 posts to pm youYou're quite welcome. And I wasn't fishing for clients LOL - but I'd be thrilled to help you out with your current theme. Or create one from scratch OR modify any other premade theme for you. PM me if interested
J.
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It's definitely an improvement. I'm kinda surprised you lightened the content areas. Are you using a different theme entirely?
At anyrate - I got your PM btw - just haven't had time to answer it - but will do so soon
J.
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I'm using the same theme! Just using an ACTUAL color palette this time lol. I could try to darken the content areas and play around with it and see what worksIt's definitely an improvement. I'm kinda surprised you lightened the content areas. Are you using a different theme entirely?
At anyrate - I got your PM btw - just haven't had time to answer it - but will do so soon
J.
Yeah no worries! I totally understand
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Looks good now, genuinely quite impressive. Love the colour scheme.
.navTabs .navTab.selected a.navLink, .navTabs ul.visitorTabs > li.navTab.selected a.navLink
Logo is really bad quality for some reason on nodes, not sure why.
Larger main logo
Use larger sized logos for retina displays
Logo is really bad quality for some reason on nodes, not sure why.
Larger main logo
Use larger sized logos for retina displays
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I noticed that as well. I'd have to say it was because i made it in paint.net and its not a vector image. I'll have to remake it into a vector so it won't be so bad quality. I'll up the logo size as well
Theres other issues as well such as the "new posts or recent posts tab" which is grey and transparent. I have no clue how to change the color of that.... Thanks for the feedback it means alot!Vectorized the node icons
https://gyazo.com/fda51a12b2efdb6c5db301eaf831a2d3
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I also have logos about 3 times the size I'll use them, lol.
Can you draw in paint what you mean and I'll send you a hacky extra.css fix?
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How do you get them to fit? If i put a logo bigger then the image height for the header it doesn't show a centered big logo it. Ill show a picture of it in a bit and sure!
I'm talking about these two. It gets its background from a backgroundblur image but i don't see it when i go into the ftp :/
https://gyazo.com/9c4dcaeb397b692f1f92e5fd575ae726
https://gyazo.com/ea609af2decbfc92fc80989d6f6c2760
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I've been doing it via the template panel. But ill try it and reply back
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Hey! I just realized i have no clue what you're referring to when you're talking about NavTabs!! I updated the node logos and i can now scale the size of the main logo as much as i want!
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