New homepage image & color updates

[Fate Flyer]

Thanks to a bit of some helpful advice, I decided to add our information to the front homepage, so that when people first come to FOG, they know immediately what we are. I also worked on changing the background image to a better one (I think/hope).

[Fate Flyer]

I'm also working on the colors a bit. Bare with me if you see crazy changes happening, lol. I can take down FOG for everyone except us Admins while I'm doing maintenance, but I'd rather just leave it up.

[Stion Gyas]

I hope it isn't illegal for me to reply... but the thread isn't locked... so...

I like it, very surreal. Is it possible to add a fog low to the base of the trees?

[Fate Flyer]

Yep, you definitely can respond here to let me know what you think and to provide feedback and whatnot.

Thanks, I'm glad you like it. Sure -- I just added some more fog to the bottom of the image.

[Stion Gyas]

Looks very good. You could give it a more homely feel by putting Mur out there with a lantern somewhere.

[Fate Flyer]

xD lol Nice.


Here's the old FOG look:


And now here's this one:



The text is less harsh on the eyes now, I think, since it's not a bright white and seems to go better with the darker background.

[Fate Flyer]

OH MY GOD.

I just found this amazing website with free wallpapers, and they have some fantastic foggy forest ones. I think I'm going to change the entrance image again. XD

[Ragter the junior greeter]

I feel rather blind...I can't see a difference

[Lara]

I noticed the color changes immediately when I signed on this morning, but at first I thought I was just seeing things. Haha. I like it, Fate. And I like the new homepage, too!

[Adrius Frostglare]

I feel...

shiny...

[Ragter the junior greeter]

I feel stupid x-x

[Fate Flyer]

Glad you noticed it so fast, Lara, and I'm happy that you like it!

I just updated the homepage image again, and I really prefer this one now even more than the last. XD


You guys are silly.

[Reffy]

Just gotta say ... LOVE THE NEW LANDING PAGE <3 It was very surreal and mystic and the groovy coloring on the font was snazzy!

[Guest]

Fate? Just one observation...

Any way we can integrate a 'default color' option into our controls?

Not so that it can be abused or anything, but because I'd rather post a slightly lighter tone than gray.

I honestly just need more contrast in colors, gray on gray is...somewhat headache inducing.

Addendum: Or use the cyan tone you seem to favor. I like the rest a lot, and think it's very nicely done, but I feel the gray on gray text is a little bit off.

[Fate Flyer]

Another reason I didn't want the text to be much lighter is because otherwise it was way too hard to distinguish between the links and the regular text. The links just got lost in the text. (I'm hoping onenitedrive can figure out a way to make all links be bold.)

I'm not sure I can put custom colors into our color choices (but that would be amazing!), so I'll ask onenitedrive tonight. (Thank goodness we have him for these things lol.) If not though, you can always just enter it in yourself. Just type:

Code:

[color=#][/color]

And then put the color code after the #. (If you don't have Photoshop or something similar, here's a site that lists a lot of color codes: http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html)

[Guest]

Works well enough. I'll just tell everyone in the threads I am el Dictator over that we are now switching to this color.

Viva la revolucion!

[Lara]

Similarly, this has been my 'secret stash' of colors ever since I got my laptop. :3 I love this page.

The gray text doesn't bother me, luckily, since I prefer using the colors for dialogue. So viva la non revolucion!

[Adrius Frostglare]

It's "dictador", not "dictator".

La policia ortographica, al rescate!!!!!

[Stion Gyas]

I love the newest landing, Fate. I just keep wondering who left the foot steps. Was it Charlie? O:

[Guest]

It's "dictador", not "dictator".

La policia ortographica, al rescate!!!!!

Dude, you're lucky I got close to it at all. I learned French and German, not Spanish.

[Adrius Frostglare]

High five for the trilinguals!

*slap*

However, I do admit my French is rather crappy.

[Guest]

High five for the trilinguals!

*slap*

However, I do admit my French is rather crappy.

Mine isn't great anymore, it needs prompting.

But with a little polish, I'm fluent again.

[Lara]

All you people are lucky, knowing all these other languages. I just learned Italian, and even that's been so long that I barely remember anything from it.


Fate, what's the color that I see when I post in the chat box? That purple-ish one.

[ACK!]

It looks great, Fate. I really like the gray font. It's easier, for me at least, to read. X3


edit: Oh man, what you did with the FOG logo and the title of the forum is HAAWWTT. Keep it.. omg plz keep it

[Guest]

Another reason I didn't want the text to be much lighter is because otherwise it was way too hard to distinguish between the links and the regular text. The links just got lost in the text. (I'm hoping onenitedrive can figure out a way to make all links be bold.)

I'm not sure I can put custom colors into our color choices (but that would be amazing!), so I'll ask onenitedrive tonight. (Thank goodness we have him for these things lol.) If not though, you can always just enter it in yourself. Just type:

Code:

[color=#][/color]

And then put the color code after the #. (If you don't have Photoshop or something similar, here's a site that lists a lot of color codes: http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html)

Sounds like he'll need to alter the CSS code again. It always annoyed me that the link colors for forumotion were the same color as the board index links. That made it difficult to choose just the right colors for both theme and posts.

But yeah, if this forum is set to phpBB2 then he should be able to easily edit it, if its BB3, then I'm not quite sure how he'll do that. Right now you two have this so disguised that I can't quite tell what version it is...

[Ragter the junior greeter]

I only know Spanish...

By the way, I did check out the landing page, it looks nice.

[Fate Flyer]

We have phpBB3, so it sounds like it may not be possible? He'll still look into it though.

Lara -- The chatbox color is the same as this text color, unless you change it.

Thanks, ACK! Glad you guys like the landing page.

[ACK!]

Coloring ProSilver on phpBB3 is like... Worse than death.

And your welcome, it looks fantastic now.

[Lara]

No wai. Maybe it's just me...?

[Fate Flyer]

Oh! You mean the chat room, not the chatbox, right? Hmmmm. Lol You can change your color in the chat room too. It should normally be white though.

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