29-08-2008, 01:53 PM
Magdreamer Wrote:Nope, I think everything has to be of a certain quality to be viewed by anybody. Even people like Frozengod wouldn't deserve to need to look at PHPBB's default template and have his eyes burned off.
I understand.

But even as a flash developer i have bounds in how much gloss you should put over a webpage, and the ability for people to adjust to different templates. There are other features like showing your level/wins in posts, aswell as forum registration synced with game registration, so you can use your forum account as your game account. I believe features are more important than looks.
Even the most successful forums have pretty standard templates. If the ProSilver template is so bad then why do you still go to a forum that uses it? The reason is the community, the ability to make your name known, and the relationship that it has to your game. In the end visuals didn't even hinder your activity on the forum. MS has the raw proSilver template, mine has a few tweaks in it atleast.
To me creating a completely different template is far too much of a waste of time. All that needs to be changed in terms of visuals is a little bit of the colour scheme, the background, and the overall header. This is in order that people people can adjust easily and quickly but also associate it with it being another site
Anyway thanks for the tips, but i didn't need it :lol: