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I'd like to make some cosmetic alterations to the look of FishProfiles.com.

As I lack any artistic skills and I'm not exactly sure how I want the site to look I'd like some input and submissions on what our members would like to see in a redesign.

My thoughts are to keep the blue fish logo, but everything else is fair game.

Comments and mock-up images are welcome to be posted here, or if you would like to PM or email me with a submission that is fine too.

I've seen some forums where you can choose what color you want. Some just simple as choosing between two designs or even as complex as picking the color scheme yourself (like background color, text color, link color, so on and so on forth).

Just my $0.02

The site looks pretty good as it is now. You might want to consider a new skin for the layout to give it a breath of freshness. Do PM me if you need any help with the graphics.

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Anything that doesn't look like standard phpBB

And er... danios would be nice

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

I think Longhairedgit posted some interesting pictures of stuff he did on his computer. It looked pretty cool. It was like rainbowfish or something.

The bubbles now look pretty weird. The reflections on them are all pointing different ways which prevents any sort of 3D effect from occuring.

I think the site looks kind of sterile now because it's all white. I think back when the site was yellow it felt better.. There were more People back then.

I think if you had like photographs of fish or something like there used to be that would be awesome.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

I'm trying some pastel blue just to see how I like it.

If anyone has any submissions for a repeating image across the top where the bubbles are I'd be happy to see them.

I suck at graphics... I've been trying stuff all day but nothing looks right.

Yeah... more pics of fish. Maybe run a monthly contest of fish pic's where the winners photo becomes the home page background?

I think the menu's and nav bars are pretty ordinary on this site also. At least to me, the most used bit of the site is the forum, and it's got one of the worst navigation setups of any forum i use. Feel free to PM me if you want me to be more specific, and i'll drop you a list of sites you might like to 'reference' and a few tips that i think work for navigation at least.

Oh, otherwise... the site's finctionality is fine. Big ups for your hard work to date

I'd agree that the navigation links here need some tweaking.

I can create a new title banner with an image of a real fish if Adam would permit to. Just drop me a line.

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Very quickly, I took a random photo of an aquarium from the Net and did this to create a watermark for the page. It's only a quick and dirty example of what is possible, but I'm sure that there are people here on the Board with spectacular planted aquaria that they'd be happy to see immortalised - Little_Fish's huge Trigonostigma espei shoal strikes me as an obvious candidate for this treatment ...

Here's the watermark I created:


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Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

This suggestion doesn't have much to do with the design aspect of the site, but getting all the articles back up would help. It's been 8 months since the site re-do and there are still no articles. I submitted one back in November or December and still haven't seen hide nor hair of it. Maybe it wasn't up to par for this site......I don't know, but seeing that there are currently NO articles whatsoever I somehow doubt it. Just a thought.

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~~Melissa~~
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."

I thimk that the idea of doing contests is good. Best tank, fish of the week, etc.

Also, It would be nice if more people used the chat.

-Vincent

yes, bring back fish of the week/month/etc!!!

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

I like the new background (skin) much better than the previous. Personally the bubbles have never done much for me and if they went away totally it wouldn't hurt my feelings. I think they remind me too much of the old Lawrence Welk program.

Jim

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. -- Mark Twain

The only problem with fish of the week/month is that oscars, angels and bettas always win.

call it "featured profile" then and pick a new one every week/month/etc. it doesn't have to be a popularity contest after all

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

The only problem with fish of the week/month is that oscars, angels and bettas always win.

Simple solution: make it so that the same fish can't be picked twice!

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I would like to see stuff up from our own people. LF's rasboras would be nice. So would tetratechs 72 bow.

55G Planted tank thread
19G Container Pond
[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/Wingsdlc/Ric

I agree with using pictures of our own fish on the site.
Also, is it really necassary for EVERYTHING to be blue???
I mean, blue is the traditionaly colour, but water's made of anything from green, purple, turquoise, brown, yellow.......
I'm not saying to go crazy, but it would help make this site stand out from all the others.

I liked the idea of letting people choose how they wish to view the forum in terms of colours, etc. The premie colours are not particularly accessible to people with visual or some learning disabilities and changing them from the browser (Firefox) causes the site to format oddly.


edit - and I think you should get rid of the quiz, the answers are so so subjective

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I like to think that whoever designed marine life was thinking of it as basically an entertainment medium. That would explain some of the things down there, some of the unearthly biological contraptions

I'd like to see "Latest Threads" topics in full. That saves time if its not a topic you know much about or aren't particularly interested in.

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