Forum Suggestion!
 

I noticed first of all there isn't a suggestion thread haha.

Well I was thinking for the sugesstion that since ASC is such a big community now, I think the community base deserves a bit of eye candy =D
Meaning a new forum skin.
I'm not talking about those crazy cg gamer forum types, but like a web 2.0 type simple, effective, professional and more exclusive.

I just google imaged forum skins and here a few examples:
http://digitalconfusion.com/images/dc1-1.gif
http://wphacks.com/wp-content/upload...pro-forums.jpg
http://secure.forummonkeys.com/image.php?id=27&type=D
http://tutorialblog.org/wp-content/u...2007/05/45.jpg

Yes yes, I know... those aren't exactly web 2.0 but you get what I mean.

And most importantly, I'm not just talking here, cuz I'm an avid user of photoshop and I will be willing to fully create this skin or part of it, and help implement it too.

I think with a nicer look on the forum, the stay on here will be more pleasant as well!

Thank you very much for your time.

ASC's fine how it is.

In the last 3 months It's changed more than it has in the past 2 years. I live ASC how it is :)

And if you scroll down to the very bottom of your screen you will see you can change the forum appearance between the many different styles of boring blue and boring grey.

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ya i'm pretty used to the boring blue and boring grey but sometimes I just wish we had another option u know

yaya but those are like
erhm ya lol
i just think a more visual appealing one should be added =]

Ditto.

Besides, you can change the skin colour (theme?) throught the drop down cell thingy on the bottom left of the site.

N/M Hades beat me to it

Bring it up with the admin. If you make a skin for it, you could probably get them to add it to the options.
The current look sure beats the black and blue, and the black and red look from back in the day.

Thing is it's not really about the colours...
It's more like a little more like getting it a bit more graphically appeasing and a nicer, more intuative layout

you mean more geek-noob friendly with powersmileys and 500X500 avatar pics and sigs?

http://tutorialblog.org/wp-content/u...2007/05/45.jpg

this one definitely IS airsoft canada! :)

lol no
more geek pro

lol... best quote about sigs (I heard it on HLP): "If your signature is larger than your average post, your posts either suck or your signature is too big."

wow off topic much

obviously it won't look like that.

I'm just asking if anyone else wants this, because I'm not gonna make a really nice skin and waste my time.

and use ur imagination lol

well the main reason we've stuck with skins that are very similar to each other is that when we make changes we only have to change one skin not a multitude. we had a problem with trader ratings not showing up in other skins because they had to be manually added.

The forum has definitely been through a huge number of modifications over the past .. what, 8 years?

I still miss the blue camo of the SoF/ASC board.

I want pink all over the place, and florentine borders

http://www.burrows.com/newwall/florentinea.jpg

to fit the nice AK angel we have today :)

well alright!

Obvoiusly accomidations can be made and I"m willing to make them as long as it's approved.

Up to lisa i guess

ASC wouldn't be ASC for me if it wasn't in Boring Blue.

It's just......that's ASC for me.

I actually like the Boring Blue skin.

Easy on the eyes.

I feel the same way about the Grey. I find it easy on the eyes and looks pretty pro to me.

Plain jane.
It's all about what's posted.
Not about the schemes and crap. I don't really care. lol

I definitely think ASC should change from the default vBulletin template. It's too plain. Changing the banner doesn't count.

there are sites with fancy skins, but i find htem hard to read the content.

I like ASC the way it is. Simple is beautiful.

Same. ASC is simple and easy to see. The colour scheme is even good, I can read it for hours (yes, I have, I'm that sad) without it bothering my eyes.

how can you know though?


why do you all talk like you've tried it.
Big corporate comapnies that have forums are well edited and well contained, muuuuuuuuuuuuuuch better than the current grey/blue. To be honest, from a web developer's view, it's a big mess, really hard on my eyes. I can assure you when I make this, all your minds on this will change, not implying you are ignorant, but you know...

Um... because I read ASC on a daily basis? So yea... I kind have tried to read the forum :rolleyes:
And for every one you say is good I can probably find 10 corporate examples that suck ass. And lets not forget big corporations employ entire media firms to develope their forums. Last time I check, ASC was done by unpaid volunteers. And yes you are implying that I'm ignorant. Out of the 6 forums I regularily frequent, ASC is the 2nd best organised and the easiest one to physically read.

little off topic here, but nice Sig pic Dragate lol;)

I took a crack at attempting to create a skin here on ASC, and it was brutal. There are a million settings and graphics that need to be made for each and every button and corner. It was just rediculous at the amount of time you would need to pull off a skin so I gave up on the idea. Also doing so requires admin privlages to be granted in order to edit and test the skin. It seemed like an easy thing to do at the time until you see what's involved. I've grown to love the default vB scheme though.

You should have seen how ugly it was 6 years ago. I think we're fine as we are.

Boring blue is the best.

lawlercopter its already too cluttered. White and blue is great.


Its good how it is.

hi there, im wondering if anyone could help me get the settting back to "boring blue:. I'm still getting use to my new laptop and it happened to click on the "mobile setting: and now i cant put it back the way it was.

Any help would be greatly appreciated
thanx scorp

This site has definitely come a long way, and is much more "user friendly" than past years;

"ASC Vintage 2001" anyone?

http://web.archive.org/web/200107201...oftcanada.com/

You know, I do a bit of work as a graphic designer, I work on website designs and layouts, and I think boring schemes just seem to fit ASC. Adding a "stylized" skin, would probably just clutter the place up, besides, the boring schemes keep a large sum of immature kids away. :P

That is so sexy.

You'd think you'd get the hint.

lol. now now janus.

anyway ASC is like an ak47 it doesn't need all kinds of shit stuck to it to be beautiful. you want it more like an AR with rails and tac-lights and vert grips and shit.

Well... I know what you are saying, but the ak is beautiful to start with.

I don't mean to be offensive or anything, but I'd just like to defend my word.

1. I do not mean it to be graphically heavy, but more consistent in professional and clean style perhaps with div sizes and just overall VBB style.
2. There are a lot of things wrong with the current styles, and I know YOU know it isn't perfect, so why not make the experience more enjoyable?
3. There are other styles, but they have the same issues. It's not an issue of colour or graphic heavy appeal, but overall professionalism asthetics.

I do a lot of professional large corporation layouts, please do not misunderstand and underestimate.

Thank you :)

Drop it, we don't want no fandangled eyecandy! We got all the gun pron we need and can always add more. No hip-hop scrawl or gangsta sign, no fashion glitz or vane ritz we like camo and guns and gear and mud. If you want to edit pages make a new myspace.

obviously you have not read my previous post...

I actually wouldn't mind having some new color and visual themes. Call me crazy but I really like the looks of the kind of websites that are artsy and have had huge PS overhauls. For example, http://photoshoptower.com/
I love how the banner looks with the details and fractals inside, as well as the buttons. As someone posted before, it would be a shit-load of work to get it done, but I bet it would look nice as hell.

I am happy that there are others out there who appreciate work of graphic artists and know the effort required.

The thing is, for a website and for what Airsoft Canada is, it doesn't require such an image heavy, grunge look. Also, photoshop tower may not actually be the best example for graphics, as they are really old and new photoshop art is quite more exquisite :)

I'm sure the reason we have airsoft canada first off, is to connect. Secondly, it also acts as a regulator as who gets help and who can play airsoft to some extent. We do not want those who pursue flashy and quick.

Let's compare... There are big companies like Nike, McDonalds... Then there are smaller companies that are professional. The difference between them on how big they get is in fact their public image. If you have a very modest and very honest group doing the best quality work, but you visit their website and it looks like it was done in the 1990's by an amateur who read an html book and thought he/she knew everything there is about website design and really just didn't care all that much about asthetics, that company doesn't get far until they pay to get a professional site done. Then, there are the more successful small companies with the same quality of work who has a good company image along with a good website. These go far. They understand that the website is only for image and should not attract customers, but definately, not loose any.

Then there are those... the "fake" companies with testimonies and showing all these benefits of the company and using the website as their main front to get new clientel. They most often than not do not actually offer what they advertise, or at least, not to that extent, so thus they must rely on a very attrative, very boastful page. But after seeing many like these, you can tell the false-ness. It's like looking at a bully. All talk, no walk.

I find Airsoft Canada to be more of the modest and professional company with a bad company image at this momment in the metaphorical sense. When I first got on this page, I thought this page was much less capable than what it is, just from the looks. I had underestimated the size and capabilities that it is possible of. Thus many noobs come here expecting the same and thus why the veterans have issues with them. If you would, take a look at Arnies Airsoft. They are a much larger community and much more organized in the sense that they are able to draw in more members and they will not underestimate. This is soley based on the website. When I first found Arnies, I thought to myself that the search was over, and there was a place where I could finally get some good information. Do not make an excuse of laws and country, you know this is true.

That is what I've been trying to say from the start. Yet again, this forum has underestimated the other and overestimated itself of it's image and what it thinks other thinks it is.

There is much more to be said, but needless to say, it comes to the same conclusion.

This is why I feel, it is almost of utmost importance we sort this amateur layout... out.