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New Theme?

What theme do you want?

  • Keep the one we have.

    Votes: 8 32.0%
  • Palladium

    Votes: 6 24.0%
  • Game_zone

    Votes: 11 44.0%

  • Total voters
    25
  • Poll closed .

Xyphien

Owner
Staff member
Administrator
Resource Team
Xy$
9.57
So, I was looking at some themes for the forum, and came across some amazing new themes. Now, keep in mind if we do choose a theme, we will use the new one as our main theme, however, we will either allow you all to choose from the old themes, or bring them back as a throw back from time to time. I haven't really decided yet. With the light theme being completely destroyed and having to re-make it completely I fear that it could happen again to the theme as well as the dark theme in the future, therefore I'm looking into other themes. Below are some themes I've found that are really good, allow some amazing customizations on the users end, and look fantastic whilst keeping the simplicity to our current theme.

Palladium:
https://brivium.com/demo/Palladium/ It's a lighter theme, but you're able to use the gear icon to the left to change the background, and a lot of stuff to match your desired taste. This way we don't need a light and dark theme, all we'd need is the one theme, and you have the ability to customize it to your liking. With this we can have some pre-defined backgrounds you can choose for, most likely all relating to RM including MV's.

Game_Zone
http://themescorp.com/demo/Game_Zone/ This theme is really nice, it has a footer, as well as if you click Screenshot_1.png you will be able to choose a background. For this, I'd incorporate some cool backgrounds and I would have some RM pictures (Such as MV's picture) . In my opinion this one is the closest thing we have to the current theme, and is something I believe a lot of members would enjoy. However, I'd still like to ask you all what you think about this.

Now, with the RM related content, I looked into this, and we can in fact display images from them to use as simple backgrounds as it doesn't impede on them, affect them negatively, and we're using it for our site, which is a site based off of News Reporting, Teaching, and Reporting for related content with RM.

These are both really close themes to ours, so we'd initially upgrade the site to allow more user customization, and allow you all to choose what you'd like more. Now, what I need you to do is vote on which one you'd like the most. As always, you have 7 days.
 

Cunechan

∠( ᐛ 」∠)_
Yay a bigger choice (love) Idk which to vote yet but that's awesome! One thing worrying me is the amount of work you have to put in updating the website for every theme generally ? But still I love to see new themes(blush)
 

MinisterJay

Administrator
Staff member
Administrator
If both newer options are an additional expense to the forum, the business part of me says nay.
I found it refreshing to have the update information panels on the left. Can either of the newer options do that? If the answer is no, the aesthetics parts of me says nay.
RPG Maker Forums having a different look is one of the attracters. Game Zone reminds me a darker VX Ace site. The moving forwards, and not backwards, part of me says nay.
Can either of the other two implement the seasonal graphics treats that you have given this forum so far? If the answer is no, the having fun part of me says nay.

Sometimes the most progressive move is to stay.
 

Xyphien

Owner
Staff member
Administrator
Resource Team
Xy$
9.57
If both newer options are an additional expense to the forum, the business part of me says nay.
Yes it is, but it's not too much actually.


I found it refreshing to have the update information panels on the left. Can either of the newer options do that? If the answer is no, the aesthetics parts of me says nay.
I'm not entirely sure what you're referring too :/ The sidebar? If it's the sidebar, I can put it to the left, however, one of the themes the people I showed said it'd look better on the right, so I might keep that with that them (The first choice)


RPG Maker Forums having a different look is one of the attracters. Game Zone reminds me a darker VX Ace site. The moving forwards, and not backwards, part of me says nay.
The Game_Zone looks almost identical to this I thought, so I'm not sure how it looks like VX Ace if this doesn't already :O Personal preference I guess.

Can either of the other two implement the seasonal graphics treats that you have given this forum so far? If the answer is no, the having fun part of me says nay.
Of course! Every theme is seasonally updatable with enough love, time, and effort XD

Sometimes the most progressive move is to stay.
The thing with this theme is I'd have to not only continue to update this, but also completely rebuild the light theme, whilst also maintaining both, and keeping both up and running, as well as hope that future changes doesn't effect and break the themes like it did in the past update. Getting one of the two themes would help greatly with this ordeal, and be a lot more progressive as a whole in my opinion.

Thank you for your input, and I hope I answered your questions enough to help you pick an option :)
 

Amysaurus

Digital Artist
Staff member
Resource Team
I voted for Game_Zone because I think it suits the style and length of this forum well, but like @HotfireLegend I really wouldn't mind if the other option won. Honestly, I'll be happy so long as there is less trouble with the different themes. (cheeky)
 

LTN Games

Master Mind
Resource Team
Xy$
0.01
I like the GameZone theme quite a bit, it adds depth to the flat look, and I find it looks awesome. I'm happy either way though, as long as everything works out well, and there won't be troubles in the future.
 

JibstaMan

Towns Guard
Xy$
0.00
@LTN Games I had actually the exact opposite, hahaha. When I compare the current dark theme to Game Zone, I dislike all the borders and containers in the Game Zone theme. It might actually be the reason why it remind me (and MinisterJay?) of VX Ace site a bit.

I also agree with @MinisterJay with it being refreshing to have the sidebar (with the new posts, stats, etc.) to the left. I guess I've already grown quite attached to the dark theme as is (thumbsup)

But I can understand that maintenance issues make a new theme a good investment. I ended up choosing Game Zone, since I like the dark theme and failed to reproduce it in Palladium (joking)
 
I prefer darker themes, notably greys and charcoals or darker blues. I like both themes for different reasons - and particularly the Cobalt one suggested by @Jackus for its "crispiness" - but eventually voted for Game Zone. I'm not keen on the reds, but then I'm just biased.
 
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