The new theme is shiny, but I really loathe bright on dark text. I really really do. It’s very troublesome for my eyes.
ChrisM - thanks for taking the time to create the new forums, it’s much appreciated.
Same here - it hurts my eyes. Dark text on a light background, please.
good choice sticking with smf!.
Logo is fine - nothing exciting, but gets the job done.
Theme well, sucks - it looked ok on the forum overview, but the actual core - the thread view, blows. A lot.
I have to agree. It looks neat, but it’s not practical. Everything is spread out more making less that can be visible on the screen at any given time…meaning you have to scroll a lot more. In addition the colors are of bad contrast in my opinion. I would prefer the default theme (like jME uses) to this.
+1 for a better forum theme…
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Definitely. Is there any chance we could swap back to the default theme for a little while? 
Kev
Thanks Chris, for the latest change in theme.
But, could you please put the user-info in the left side of the replies again? Now it just lengthens every post by 50px, still making us scroll way too much (although it’s lots better than the grey-theme!)
Thanks!
+10 to oNyx for a Firefly compliment (if you indeed use a Firefly compliment), and I will be putting up a simpler template later today.
Ok, wide theme, good contrast, good blues, but will continue to tweak it based on suggestions. I’mm keep 'em coming, but it is a holiday weekend and need to get out of the office before my family kicks me out! Again, keep the suggestions coming, and make sure you try out any e-mail function that you need. See, it actually WORKS this time!
-Chris
Like this theme much more…
Happy holidays!
Do like this new theme, nice, bright and easy on the eyes.
Some users still missing star images under there nicks.
The menu bar at the top which contains
“Home Help Search Profile My Messages Calendar Members Logout”
could stand out a bit more as those buttons are often used or looked for, maybe add a border/image/bolder or something to make them standout a bit more.
Same applies to the “Reply Notify Mark unread Send this topic Print” tool bar.
The quick reply box disappeared. Why? 
Ah ok… had to change my profile, but a initially it was there. shrug
Also had to tick on “Return to topics after posting by default.” again.
1000x better now, looking good.
A vast improvement, but there’s still 85 pixels of wasted space on each side of the screen. tbh, I can’t remember if the old forum had this as well, but it seems unnecessary.
Oh, and smilies are broken too.
Keep it up!
This is much better! Thank you Chris.
Nice theme! I likes it, it fixes everything I didn’t like about the last one.
Like people said, smilies are way broken, though. Every time I post, it takes ages to load the “Smiley Wink Cheesy Grin Angry Sad […]” links above the text window, and no images appear there. Clicking them doesn’t do anything.
Also, the entire fancy quick-ubb-code-area above them seems to be broken, none of the buttons actually DO anything.
Thanks for upgrading everything Chis. And the new theme is fine - retro beachy!
Just one thing, I can’t see any link to see my personal messages anymore? In the top-left corner it just says
Hello CommanderKeith,
Show unread posts…,
Show new replies…,
Total time logged in…
and that’s it.
Cheers,
Keith
The ‘My Messages’ selection is in the main menu bar when you login.
-Chris
Yeah, but how will you know whether you had new messages (without going to that page)?
BBC code and smilies fixed. Will be working on “My Messages” notification, but not until Tuesday.
-Chris