Color scheme black issue

psypher · Post by **psypher** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:14 pm

Several of the icons/buttons (ie. Bold) are just black so can't see them.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 6:20 pm

I'm afraid to poke around with the color settings in the admin page because it's rather daunting, but I did manage to get the Quake Black style to work pretty well a while back. It's a modified version of the black style and it's what I use. Also mostly black, but that particular window you screen shotted, and some others, are white background for better visibility. It still has some minor issues in some places, but it's the one that works best for me. I like a dark background.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 7:59 pm

I have been using the Quake them since Blade made it for me a long time ago.. It's high contrast and easy to read.

psypher · Post by **psypher** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 12:21 am

ok, I switched it. It does take care of the editor. I'll just have to get used to the yellow text

Losbot · Post by **Losbot** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 5:31 pm

psypher wrote:ok, I switched it. It does take care of the editor. I'll just have to get used to the yellow text

Been using the Quake/Black with yellow text since I arrived here.
Looks fine to me. I've become accustomed to it.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:12 pm

I could try to clone the Quake Black skin and change it to white text. I'll have to dig into those settings again. There's also a Black Head theme for vBulletin 3 here if I can figure out how to install it:

http://www.themesbase.com/vBulletin-Ski ... -Head.html

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 2:18 pm

I uploaded the "Blackhead" theme. Interesting looking dark theme. I like that it seems to restrict the width of the page which might be useful for mobile.

Give it a try and let me know if there's anything broken in it.

If anyone finds a theme they want to add, let me know. Needs to be a vBulletin 3 theme. There's a bunch here:
http://www.themesbase.com/vBulletin-Skins/?version=3

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:31 pm

Hmm, a few things like smilies runn off the right side of the page in Blackhead, but still seems functional. I'll see if I can find another dark theme.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 4:50 pm

I'm growing to like the Blackhead theme. I fixed the icon that signifies new posts - I made it bright white. Originally it was gray and easily missed.

psypher · Post by **psypher** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 5:46 pm

I searched around and found some really cool ones, but most required a newer version of vBulletin. I'll try out Blackhead.

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 7:30 pm

FlyingPenguin wrote:I'm growing to like the Blackhead theme. I fixed the icon that signifies new posts - I made it bright white. Originally it was gray and easily missed.

Just now i clicked new post and it came up with none even though the icons indicated new post and there are in fact new post.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 8:03 pm

The icon that indicates that there's new messages in a forum while in the forum list looks like a sheet of paper - lighter color means new messages. I was thinking of making it a bit brighter but they're quite easy to tell apart:

The one I did modify was the new post indicator when looking at the post list in a forum. It's the white down arrow:

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:11 pm

I normaly click on the new post link when I visit but now its saying "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms. " when I click it even tho in thread view I can see that there are new post.