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I'd like your suggestions for a theme for Jacurutu.
If you have any cool images that might be manipulated into a Arrakis banner that would be helpfull too.
I was thinking of a banner all the way across the top of a desert mountain skyline. Day and night would be cool. Either a white sun in a silver sky with grey rocky mountains and yellow sand or a stary night with two moons.
A simpler would be Eyes of the Ibad. A graphic of the spice saturated eyes up in the left corner and a blue theme.
If you have any cool images that might be manipulated into a Arrakis banner that would be helpfull too.
I was thinking of a banner all the way across the top of a desert mountain skyline. Day and night would be cool. Either a white sun in a silver sky with grey rocky mountains and yellow sand or a stary night with two moons.
A simpler would be Eyes of the Ibad. A graphic of the spice saturated eyes up in the left corner and a blue theme.
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Why not both?
I'll see if I can do anything with some images, put some banners in here.
I'll see if I can do anything with some images, put some banners in here.
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Whatever you go with, could you keep the banner down to a reasonal size?
That sucker on Arrakeen is 84 KB, for example, which is WAY too big IMO. (10 times the size of the current phpBB banner, for comparison.)
A cool theme (or skin) is nice and all, and should be distinctive, but above all it should be simple and fast to load. (Not everyone is on broadband, after all.) The board is about the content first, right?
Placing too much emphasis on form over substance is what killed another site, after all.
Just my 2.1644 yen's worth.
That sucker on Arrakeen is 84 KB, for example, which is WAY too big IMO. (10 times the size of the current phpBB banner, for comparison.)
A cool theme (or skin) is nice and all, and should be distinctive, but above all it should be simple and fast to load. (Not everyone is on broadband, after all.) The board is about the content first, right?
Placing too much emphasis on form over substance is what killed another site, after all.
Just my 2.1644 yen's worth.
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I don't think I'm going to be able to be that picky. My wife's a wiz with photoshop.Omphalos wrote:Thats not what I meant, silly. Find a pic with no clouds. That would be more representative of Arrakis. At least early on, during the time when Jacururt was really alive.Freakzilla wrote:I can take clouds out.
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Bumping...
Freak, when you do settle on a new theme, please make sure it's lightweight and loads just as quickly as this default one.
I just popped over to Haven for the first time in a while. I really like the theme over there, think it's neat and all that, and really hate to be critical...but with all the image files used in the theme, it takes forever to load.
Just something to keep in mind....
Freak, when you do settle on a new theme, please make sure it's lightweight and loads just as quickly as this default one.
I just popped over to Haven for the first time in a while. I really like the theme over there, think it's neat and all that, and really hate to be critical...but with all the image files used in the theme, it takes forever to load.
Just something to keep in mind....
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Clouds out-Dusk-Add two Moons-more visible dunes on the left of the picture-the rocky formations to the right are .Freakzilla wrote:
this picture is cool it looks like sietch or it could look like just outside of Arrakeen when touched up.
Why is this ..... thread? so Wide in my screen?
Just a suggestion
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There may be a mod for it. I havent looked yet, but I will. As it is, I do not believe the base package allows for it. One other thing we will be doing shortly is updating the forum software to the current version, which just recently came out. Perhaps it is in that one.GamePlayer wrote:Can't the forum software handle user-selectable message board themes?