Alternate Skins

[Linkachu]

Well, you said to make a suggestion here, so you got one

Rachel knows my feelings about the current KI skin and how it was a huge deterent for me when I initially joined this place. Face it, whether it fits the site or not, the red burns your eyes.

I'm used to it now but that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see it changed... Or atleast some sort of alternate skin put in place. The black skin was a bit too black, but it was still softer to look at than this. I could start suggesting colors but seeing how I've never gotten anywhere with this before I'm going to wait for feedback first.

If you're in charge of the skins, PMJ, have you considered creating a few alternate ones?

EDIT: Hmm... After looking at my profile it makes me wonder: can this style of forum even have alternate skins?

[PMJ EDIT: You can't....]

[elexxorine]

BRING BACK THE HALLOWEEN SKIN!!!!! THE RED THE RED!!!! ARG MY EYES!!!!

[Prof. Cinders]

The red's almost a symbol of KI, admit it. Since I wasn't online to see the skin and have only seen it in the test, I can't change it. Plus Josh does the skins. And I don't think ordinary members get to choose which skin they want, either. So, if you're still set on changing the colour, make some suggestions.

[elex elexxorine]

bring back the halloween skin or simply use a background colour that's not a bright. have a pale red if you must have red...... not birght and eye burning!

[Linkachu]

I agree. Have you ever tried out a paler red instead of this current one?

[Rosie]

yes, one closer to pink if possible

maybe a paler red or a colourwith redwriting or something like that

still keep the red theme but not so bright

[PMJ]

Lets face it elex, VERY few n00bssurvive and post here, so what are you shouting about? You probably won't even read this, you will have forgotten about KI!

[Prof. Cinders]

Rosie, you know I won't let KI go pink. EVER. Face up to the fact that you don't own the forums, and the person who does, hates pink. Ha. Anyway, I'll make sure elex doesn't forget, I'll poke her harder if she does. And we still need to resolve the colour scheme problem (even though I don't view it as a problem myself; I like the red).

[Linkachu]

Considering that it almost prevented me from joining in the first place I'd view it as a problem if I were you. I can't be the only person who's looked at it and almost ran off because their eyes hurt. There are probably even people who just couldn't stand it enough to stay. I know I'm being bold saying this, but it's true

[Damien]

I was the same, it was really annoying, I would change pages constantly just so I could have a few nano seconds of relief from the eye damaging red. A lot of people won't join a site that they dislike the look of, afterall your first impression of something is usually a large factor in whether or not you come to like that thing. To continue using a colour scheme that almost every single users disagrees with is bad managment. I don't see the red as a symbol of KI, I see it as something that hinders the sites development. I know, it's just a colour, right? But it's also the very first thing people notice and it could be enough to make people leave right away.

[PMJ]

OK, so anyone got any SENSIBLE suggestions for colours?

[Linkachu]

We already suggested a paler red. How is that not sensible? It's not like I'm the one asking for pink

My other suggestion would also be a darker red, or using red and other color (white maybe?). Then there's always the idea of using two shades of red.

[elex elexxorine]

find an online clour picker, one of the good one. it should let you chose what's called 'lum', short for luminessity (sp!). KI is prolly on 255 right now! get it down to aleast half that please rachel/josh who hates me. i'd also like to point out that i am not a 'n00b', rachel will back me up as well. if any-one wants see see how 'n00by' i am, here is MY rolepaly forum.

ps: for some reason i cannot log into KI, nor does it give me an error saying i cannot, or my name/password is wrong. it just simply re-routes to the main page as a guest.