In appreciation of the kindness shown to me, I really pushed to get the complete 914 Color skin set done that was promised a while ago. I took the time to create an automated process for this. So after a bunch of work, I can now create new skin colors in a matter of minutes.

But before I go through the whole process of making 30 or so colors, I thought we should test one of the new skins first. So, in the bottom left hand corner of this page there is a pop-up menu. Choosing Olympic Blue will bring you into the new skin, but you may need to reload the page a few times or clear your cache to see the color change. You can post here any reviews, comments, and errors.

ENJOY!

thanks Mark


Alaskan Blue in the future please

While I do appreciate your efforts, I still like the "buttons" with the Gemini Blue and the Willow Green.

Just a personal preference.

I though I would comment.

Dig it!

Conda Green!

Conda green Conda Green!

Zach

OOOOOOO, purty.

Schweet!

very nice....hows about sunflower yellow

Wow Olympic Blue! Get some orange highlights & we've got Gulf-Weyer colors!

Thanks Mark. I found this option last week and converted to blue. It's great to be able to change the colors on personal demand.

Thanks again for continuing to make this a great site to visit....

-- Rob

I like the way the buttons change out too!

Thanks!

Gulf skin pls.

one thing i noticed on the blue skin:

on the main forum page, with the light blue background, it's now really hard to distinguish between which posts are new and which posts are already read.

i'm guessing it has to do with the fact that both "envelop" icons are blue as well.

you might want to think about a new colorset for the envelop icons for each skin as well ...


looking good otherwise!
Andy

Mark,

I think the new skin is great.

One suggestion: look at the beta for the Guards Red skin... see how the color code is actually listed in the topic bar?

Can we add that?

-L

ha, i just saw the pink skin ...

salmonboy is going to love that one

Andy

oh, one more thing ... can we space out the buttons for "delete/edit/quote/reply" and "on/card/pm" and "fast reply/add reply/new thread" a bit more?

now that they're smaller, they're kind of easy to miss so close together.
Andy

PS: all you need to do is add some "empty" pixels on each side. 2 per button on the left and right would probably be enough ...

PPS: also, it seems that the blue squares under the members title (and the warning level) have a gray border. that looks kinda odd ...

BTW, when you click on the 914 info page, it stays green....

Again, thanks for all of the work and effort it takes to keep this site exciting...

-- Rob

Rob, yeah, that's a larger issue. The skins only apply to the forum software. All the other site pages aren't skinnable.... yet.

Very Nice Work - but I am trying to understand why anyone would want anything other than Willow Green............. but maybe that is just me and my '72 Willow Green 914......

Thanks!

this is GREAT! thanks.

Nice, thanks for the effort.
Malaga Red

Nice Mark!!!!

What about aubergine!!!!???

Just kidding, but what about bahia red?
Pat

I'll be doing all the colors (including Aubergine, Raspberry, and Sepia Brown) as soon as I finish up a few more image tweaks.

Alaska Blue Metallic is up.

Please critique the dark post backgrounds, as well as the 'metallic'. Like/don't like, etc.

Mark the Metallic looks great, i will get back to you on the blue background

1st impression is i like it

Hey Mark! Thanks for the metalic blue, thats the color of my car. Looks great keep up the great work your doing. John

I really think that the regular green is a nice style (no metallics, etc)....Im not really a big fan of the metallics -JON

Diamond silver, Diamond Silver! with black trim and a couple red accents.

God I'm a selfish fellow

I really like the metallic blue! Now how about metallic red?

Blue is one of my favorite colors.

I just turned on the Alaska blue metallic and its the best yet.

Metallic blue is very striking. Good job, Mark.

I'd like to suggest one minor tweak... scroll to the top the page.

Below, where the 914-O-World banner meets the right side of the screen, the lines don't match. Look at the bar that says "Help Search Members Calendar".

Maybe this is peculiar to my OS/browser. I'm running IE7 and XP. This issue doesn't appear in the 98-Guards Red skin.

kind regards,
Rusty

LB,

Can you take a screenshot? It lines up fine on my screen.

Sure.

Ah, okay. I know exactly what the problem is. Apparently IE doesn't know how big 0px is.

Dude, thanks! Making the site Olympic blue is an awesome touch for us 914 owners with the best 914 color (you can guess what that is...). Thanks again, R

Malaga Red & Ravenna Green added!

Now we're talkin'!

(Although I'm on the petition for the Wyer Gulf colors! )

The Malaga red looks pink on my monitor. The 914 world banner is red, but most everything else is pink.

Firefox if it matters. color looks the same of both monitors, a Dell LCD and a Sun (sony tube) crt.

Edit - and the green is yellow. Again, the banner is OK.

Yep. The colors for the pink/yellow sections is all generated automatically, and obviously my algorithm isn't quite perfect.

I think you need to have YELLOW as an option, There are many yellow 914's out there. For instance at this run one time.................................

Nice work! You should make a yellow skin, I hear it will make the pages load faster!

agreed

Okay, okay. Yellow later tonight.

Hey Mark, thanks for v2 of Ravenna, it looks much better. (I had been using v1 out of loyalty to my color regardless.)

regardless of my color preference, my eyes adore Gemini Blue . easiest on my eyes by far .

Yeah, I reworked the algorithm for how the other colors are determined. It's better. But still not perfect.

Green is green now, looks much better. Red is different and better, but i would still call it closer to pink than to red.

You are doing good work, I cant wait for yellow.

Red will probably always be pink. When you make green lighter you get light green, when you make blue lighter you get light blue, when you make red lighter you get pink.

But I agree with you.

Wow - we do enjoy !! Thank You!, you have been putting an awful lot of effort into this, you rock !!

Do you use the "web safe colors" (guessing no ) and I don't know how you create these, but if you use the standard codes, I have created the following 216 web safe colors palette here:
http://members.rennlist.com/mountain914/ColorPalette.html

Okay, folks. Canary Yellow is UP! I tried to pick a yellow that didn't quite burn your eyes out.

Nice work, I (we) sure do appreciate all the work that I'm sure goes into this. Thanx especially for L11E

Paul