1 Topic by phreadom (edited by phreadom 2006-05-14 03:35)

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Topic: The Phreadom Phorum

It's a little rough around the edges, but I'm still working on it. smile

http://phorum.phreadom.net/

(image links to full size version)

http://largo.phreadom.net/phreadom-phorum-sm.png

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Re: The Phreadom Phorum

A very nice job. Consistent well applied colours, fonts and style elements, and a nice fast board. I even like your favicon too.

Dark colour themed boards usually don't work well (for me), but this one does.

HOWEVER it wasn't a good idea though to stick a big 220k, 700x1100 pixel PNG image though in your posting here on punBB... a smaller image would have done the job, if you needed to post an image at all.

And BTW: why does no-one apparently know anymore how to do image compression? That 220k image you posted took me just 1 second to knock down to a 50k GIF or a 52k PNG, with no visible decline in quality. Why waste valuable electrons and bandwidth smile

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Re: The Phreadom Phorum

Wow.  Nice forum!  If you don't mind my asking, how long did it take you to set that up?

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Re: The Phreadom Phorum

sirena wrote:

A very nice job. Consistent well applied colours, fonts and style elements, and a nice fast board. I even like your favicon too.

Dark colour themed boards usually don't work well (for me), but this one does.

HOWEVER it wasn't a good idea though to stick a big 220k, 700x1100 pixel PNG image though in your posting here on punBB... a smaller image would have done the job, if you needed to post an image at all.

And BTW: why does no-one apparently know anymore how to do image compression? That 220k image you posted took me just 1 second to knock down to a 50k GIF or a 52k PNG, with no visible decline in quality. Why waste valuable electrons and bandwidth smile

Thanks for the critique sirena. smile I'll see what I can do. wink

  • From: Michigan, USA
  • Registered: 2006-05-08
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Re: The Phreadom Phorum

deronsizemore wrote:

Wow.  Nice forum!  If you don't mind my asking, how long did it take you to set that up?

I'm still working on a few tweaks, but I'd say it took a few days. One night to get it mostly up... several more days of tweaking to get things closer to just where I wanted them.

I'm still working on a few things like moving the moderator listings from the front page to the top of the actual topic page. I want to keep the front page clean and simple.

I'm also having a few CSS issues with extra pixel spacing around my spacers. In general my code was a bit hackish and not separated out like it should have been for the CSS, and I hacked some of the main php files a bit rather than trying to force everything into CSS, so it doesn't really work as a theme per se.

But I can always worry about that later. My main point was just to get it up and running. smile

Thanks for the good words! big_smile

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Re: The Phreadom Phorum

impressive!

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