How about a 'neutral' coloured skin?
How about a 'neutral' coloured skin?
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MagicalTrevor

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6,481 posts

258 months

Monday 10th October 2011
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When my colleagues recognise the 'Pistonheads' colour scheme on my web browser (despite scrolling to hide the header!) then I start to think that maybe I'm on here too much!?

And before people get 'holier than thou', I do my work but the nature of the job means that there's always occasional downtime.

So... how about another skin to be a bit more subtle!? biggrin

MattDell

3,302 posts

184 months

Monday 10th October 2011
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Not sure how much more neutral we can make it, to be honest. Take away the blue?

ETA: You are using Big Blue, right?

Pints

18,451 posts

223 months

Monday 10th October 2011
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Just alternate the colours you're using.

MagicalTrevor

Original Poster:

6,481 posts

258 months

Monday 10th October 2011
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MattDell said:
Not sure how much more neutral we can make it, to be honest. Take away the blue?

ETA: You are using Big Blue, right?
Yep Big Blue is best. Maybe a 'not blue' option? I know I'm being VERY picky and I realise you've got to have a 'Pistonheads look and feel' for marketing purposes

MagicalTrevor

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6,481 posts

258 months

Monday 10th October 2011
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Pints said:
Just alternate the colours you're using.
Is that at me? I'm not sure what you mean

Switch

3,455 posts

204 months

Tuesday 11th October 2011
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MagicalTrevor said:
Yep Big Blue is best. Maybe a 'not blue' option? I know I'm being VERY picky and I realise you've got to have a 'Pistonheads look and feel' for marketing purposes
I would suggest you use Firefox and assign a custom CSS style sheet to pistonheads (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/).
It would allow you to change elements of the theme to suit your needs. this would be easy enough for a moderate nerd.
A full re-skin of the forums is not an easy task (as you could well imagine) and frankly we're quite busy as it is with new things...
If you want a hand with the custom css thing, drop me a pm or something.

MagicalTrevor

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6,481 posts

258 months

Tuesday 11th October 2011
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Switch said:
I would suggest you use Firefox and assign a custom CSS style sheet to pistonheads (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/).
It would allow you to change elements of the theme to suit your needs. this would be easy enough for a moderate nerd.
A full re-skin of the forums is not an easy task (as you could well imagine) and frankly we're quite busy as it is with new things...
If you want a hand with the custom css thing, drop me a pm or something.
I've done a bit of CSS and wasn't aware of this add-on. Thanks I'll give.it a go.

Cheers for the help thumbup

Pints

18,451 posts

223 months

Tuesday 11th October 2011
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MagicalTrevor said:
Pints said:
Just alternate the colours you're using.
Is that at me? I'm not sure what you mean
Sorry, I meant you should try alternate your theme from Big Blue to Smiley to Classic.

Thinking about it, it's probably not what you're after but at least it's not the usual blue screen that your colleagues are seeing over your shoulder.

Turn7

25,708 posts

250 months

Tuesday 11th October 2011
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Ghostzilla is what you need.