[Hetan]

I mentioned a while back that I was looking into having a dabble at producing a blue forum skin - yeah it was a while ago.
I've been messing around with it and have come to the conclusion that there are far too many blues out there! Damn them.
So I'm asking for a little help here -maybe someone with a bit more knowledge of putting colours together successfully can come up with a range of blues that don't clash and are the kind of blue you contrary lot would like to see.

Now here's a little task for you all - maybe make a poll or whatever, but here's a list of websmart colours. The background will probably be as indicated in the image (expertly) attached. Also what colour text,highlights and stuff like that would you want to see? Please bear in mind that these colours come up a lot brighter when you see them on the screen!

 Blues.JPG (101.03K)
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Just so you can see what I mess I am getting into at the moment with these colours - see the other image below for a giggle

 Blues2.jpg (323.3K)
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Oops! need to resize!

[Salt-Man Z]

I don't care what the final result ends up looking like (I only ever use the default IPB skin) but the name of this blue skin absolutely has to be "Napan".

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

How do you go about making an IPB skin? I'd love to take a stab at it.

[bubba]

This works really well Hetan.

color scheme designer

[alt146]

Is there an example .css file we can use to play around? I'm sure I saw a firefox plugin to let you load your own shemes onto a page, but we'll need an example to work of off.

[Hetan]

 Bubba, on 02 June 2010 - 12:47 AM, said:

This works really well Hetan.

color scheme designer

Actually - that is pretty cool.

Is there a css you ask? Hmm, probably the easiest way to get a css is to create your own free invision forum and as admin of your board you can mess around with the css as much as you like.

[alt146]

 Hetan, on 02 June 2010 - 07:06 AM, said:

 Bubba, on 02 June 2010 - 12:47 AM, said:

This works really well Hetan.

color scheme designer

Actually - that is pretty cool.

Is there a css you ask? Hmm, probably the easiest way to get a css is to create your own free invision forum and as admin of your board you can mess around with the css as much as you like.

Looking at the page source for this page, there's a couple of hundred lines of inline css, so I'm guessing the skin builds the look of the forum into the page source, rather than just covering it with an external css file I assume you guys have some sort of app to help build skins in the back end, since coding all that by hand must would forever.

From Bubba's thingy I think

##### Color Palette by Color Scheme Designer
##### Palette URL: http://colorschemede.../#4h61T--yiw0w0


*** Primary Color:

var. 1 = #3200B5 = rgb(50,0,181)
var. 2 = #3E2288 = rgb(62,34,136)
var. 3 = #210075 = rgb(33,0,117)
var. 4 = #6436DA = rgb(100,54,218)
var. 5 = #8362DA = rgb(131,98,218)

*** Secondary Color A:

var. 1 = #7B00B0 = rgb(123,0,176)
var. 2 = #662184 = rgb(102,33,132)
var. 3 = #500072 = rgb(80,0,114)
var. 4 = #A736D7 = rgb(167,54,215)
var. 5 = #B461D7 = rgb(180,97,215)

*** Secondary Color B:

var. 1 = #002DB2 = rgb(0,45,178)
var. 2 = #213A86 = rgb(33,58,134)
var. 3 = #001D74 = rgb(0,29,116)
var. 4 = #365FD9 = rgb(54,95,217)
var. 5 = #617FD9 = rgb(97,127,217)

*** Complementary Color:

var. 1 = #FFD700 = rgb(255,215,0)
var. 2 = #BFA930 = rgb(191,169,48)
var. 3 = #A68C00 = rgb(166,140,0)
var. 4 = #FFE140 = rgb(255,225,64)
var. 5 = #FFE973 = rgb(255,233,115)


##### Generated by Color Scheme Designer © Petr Stanicek 2002-2009

might work, although choosing which colour goes where and fiddling with icons and stuff makes a big difference.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Um, so no help on how to create an IPB skin?

[Hetan]

I use this site for a reference on how to edit the style.css

to edit the skin and some of the buttons such as reply etc is basically one file, but I didn't get round to fiddling with all icons etc as I'd have to find a nice icon set and upload it, likewise with pretty bits like gradient bars, rounding corners.

If anyone has any pretty bits that would look cool or an idea for division bars, buttons, icons, please let me know.

@alt146 - the dark scheme is the closest in colour to the old blue skin (although there was no purple in it) so I'll try some of those colours out over the weekend and see what we end up with Thanks for your help!

[alt146]

Could you please get icons that make it easier to see if you've replied to a topic or not? I know there's a little paperclip on the malazanempire skin to show you've replied, but it doesnt really jump out at you.