Make MacRumors easier on the eyes

[kabunaru]

Could the admins make MacRumors in some way easier on the eyes? The white-greyish background is starting to stress out my eyes after a while.
Thanks.

[rdowns]

This won't end well.

[InkMaster]

Could the admins make MacRumors in some way easier on the eyes? The white-greyish background is starting to stress out my eyes after a while.
Thanks.

What would you prefer? Black with green text? Maybe everything ruby red? :/

Works fine for me. I mean I'm not saying its not dreary looking, it is, but I'm perfectly fine with the white...

[sushi]

Personally, I like the plain and simple look.

[alexbates]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5H11 Safari/525.20)

There just needs to be another version of vBulletin. Version 3.6.10 is currently running but Im not sure if there is a later version out or not.

[Blue Velvet]

Get away from the Mac or try using a smaller window. Get your eyes checked out, you may need glasses or a change in lighting.

A pale ground background is the least visually stressful of all... and some of us spend a helluva lot more hours here than you do with no ill effects.

We can't do much about glossy displays. ;)

[ergdegdeg]

Check out, what I did: It doesn't look perfect but it's soooo easy on the eyes.

[Apple Ink]

I vote for blood red. Or even glittering silver! Metallic Bronze will also do..

[NT1440]

Arn said hes looking for someone to help redo the look but its gonna be a while because it has to be volunteer work.

[kabunaru]

A pale ground background is the least visually stressful of all... and some of us spend a helluva lot more hours here than you do with no ill effects.
A calming blue background would be nice as an option.

Check out, what I did: It doesn't look perfect but it's soooo easy on the eyes.
How did you do that?

[Blue Velvet]

Arn said hes looking for someone to help redo the look but its gonna be a while because it has to be volunteer work.

I'm not entirely sure whether the latter part of that statement is correct. We've all been talking about the site redesign process elsewhere forever and a day.

[bartelby]

How did you do that?

CTRL+ALT+APPLE+8 ??

[alexbates]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5H11 Safari/525.20)

Check out, what I did: It doesn't look perfect but it's soooo easy on the eyes.

And of course you could just do (Command Option Control 8) to make it look better

[ergdegdeg]

I use Firefox with this (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/2108) and created a custom stylesheet for the macrumors forums.

[kabunaru]

CTRL+ALT+APPLE+8 ??

I don't think it's that.
The Avatars are not inverted colours.

[sushi]

If it isn't broke, then don't fix it. :)

[NT1440]

I'm not entirely sure whether the latter part of that statement is correct. We've all been talking about the site redesign process elsewhere forever and a day.

Ah, well I was just going off the memory of the last time this question was asked that I bothered to look at. Of course you would be much more aware of the going-ons of MR :o

[bartelby]

I don't think it's that.
The Avatars are not inverted colours.

Oh yes. Of course... :o

[kabunaru]

Oh yes. Of course... :o

And to add, I don't really want to invert the colours of my entire Mac.

Just having another background colour option in MacRumors would be nice.

[AmbitiousLemon]

We're actually almost done with the redesign. Its looking great. The background isn't going to be darker though; we are going with animated gifs tiled across the background. Dancing hamsters mostly. The text is a nice bright yellow and seems to look best in comic sans for the font, but i also really like sand. We also have this cool animated graphic that follows your cursor (and we changed the cursor too!). We found this great mp3 that plays on a loop, and the buttons/tabs/links all make different sounds when you hover and click on them.

The best part though is the cool flash intro page. We made 14 different intro pages for different parts of the site like the front page, entering the forum, starting a post and so on. Its taken a long time, the flash videos amount to more than 3 hours of total play time.

We are also incorporating A LOT of ajax so pretty much everything slides or flips or collapses or pops up (cool sound effects on most of this too). Its very modern looking. Everything has a drop shadow and/or a gradient of some sort (even the ads), and everything is glossy and has reflections. And if you thought coverflow in safari was rad, just wait 'til you see all the places we have found to incorporate a web version of it!

Speaking of the ads we found a really clever unobtrusive way to display them. They are tiled around the content in a ring and stay fixed as you scroll since they are all in frames. This means the site can still make money and the ads stay out of your way (other than the inline, popup, video, and audio ads).

This provides less space for the content, but its ok because we're reducing content to tweet size so Arn and Eric can post articles while they are on the go. You'll also get updates on all events in arn's life (except for clapping he says when he is clapping he will tell us that he is sneezing or something since he thinks clapping is too private) since people always seem curious about his life.

There is a reason its been taking so long, we have a lot of great things (way more than I have already revealed) - the new logo was designed by this firm in london that designed the next olympic logo. We're very excited and hope you will just be patient and wait a tiny bit longer.

;)

[Abstract]

Because inverting the colours quickly while you're at MR is faaaaar more difficult than redoing the entire look of the forum. :rolleyes:


Just invert the colours and stop being lazy. It takes a split second.


Or do what Ergdegdeg did.

[jonbravo77]

We're actually almost done with the redesign. Its looking great. The background isn't going to be darker though; we are going with animated gifs tiled across the background. Dancing hamsters mostly. The text is a nice bright yellow and seems to look best in comic sans for the font, but i also really like sand. We also have this cool animated graphic that follows your cursor (and we changed the cursor too!). We found this great mp3 that plays on a loop, and the buttons/tabs/links all make different sounds when you hover and click on them.

The best part though is the cool flash intro page. We made 14 different intro pages for different parts of the site like the front page, entering the forum, starting a post and so on. Its taken a long time, the flash videos amount to more than 3 hours of total play time.

We are also incorporating A LOT of ajax so pretty much everything slides or flips or collapses or pops up (cool sound effects on most of this too). Its very modern looking. Everything has a drop shadow and/or a gradient of some sort (even the ads), and everything is glossy and has reflections. And if you thought coverflow in safari was rad, just wait 'til you see all the places we have found to incorporate a web version of it!

Speaking of the ads we found a really clever unobtrusive way to display them. They are tiled around the content in a ring and stay fixed as you scroll since they are all in frames. This means the site can still make money and the ads stay out of your way (other than the inline, popup, video, and audio ads).

This provides less space for the content, but its ok because we're reducing content to tweet size so Arn and Eric can post articles while they are on the go. You'll also get updates on all events in arn's life (except for clapping he says when he is clapping he will tell us that he is sneezing or something since he thinks clapping is too private) since people always seem curious about his life.

There is a reason its been taking so long, we have a lot of great things (way more than I have already revealed) - the new logo was designed by this firm in london that designed the next olympic logo. We're very excited and hope you will just be patient and wait a tiny bit longer.

;)

These updates sound awesome... Thanks for revealing them. I look forward to my processor frying while trying to access MR.... :D

[kabunaru]

Because inverting the colours quickly while you're at MR is faaaaar more difficult than redoing the entire look of the forum. :rolleyes:

Read the post above you.

[Abstract]

Did you read it? No wait.....did you understand it, and I mean reaaaaally understand it (i.e., the sarcasm)?


Good point but somewhere in another dimension, MacRumours stayed with off-white and black text, and off-white with black text was successful. So, basically, what's the point of really arguing this when all of this did happen somewhere out there?

Nice debate though. Thanks.

[r.j.s]

Although a little dated, MR is definitely one of the fastest, easiest to read forums on the internet.

[philbeeney]

Check out, what I did: It doesn't look perfect but it's soooo easy on the eyes.

Nope. White on a black background kills my eyes after a few minutes. I like the current setup.

[kabunaru]

Did you read it? No wait.....did you understand it, and I mean reaaaaally understand it (i.e., the sarcasm)?


I am bad with sarcasm. :o

[rdowns]

I am bad with sarcasm. :o


I've seen the proposed new look. Mostly as Ambitious Lemon describes it. Of course, he was kidding about the hamsters.

[kabunaru]

I've seen the proposed new look. Mostly as Ambitious Lemon describes it. Of course, he was kidding about the hamsters.

So wait, is Ambitious Lemon's post mostly real or not? I do not know who to believe.

[TuffLuffJimmy]

I am bad with sarcasm. :o

you really believed that MacRumors was going to have a tiled animated hamster gif as the background?

[iPhil]

So wait, is Ambitious Lemon's post mostly real or not? I do not know who to believe.

You can trust Ambitious Lemon just 'cuz he's a Mod... :cool: :p

[kabunaru]

you really believed that MacRumors was going to have a tiled animated hamster gif as the background?

Anything is possible.

[rdowns]

you really believed that MacRumors was going to have a tiled animated hamster gif as the background?


I already told you that was a joke.

[kabunaru]

I already told you that was a joke.

And I didn't get it right away so I thought it was real.

The website re-design, is real.

[Abstract]

Anything is possible.

In this dimension though?


Let's be clear: AmbitiousLemon was joking. Nothing that referred to a site re-design (i.e., her entire post) was true. It was all a joke. One hundred percent (100%).

[kabunaru]

In this dimension though?

Multiverse as a whole.

[sushi]

We're actually almost done with the redesign. Its looking great.<snip a really funny and sarcastic post>.
Say, when you get a chance, can you publish the minimum hardware requirements for both Mac and PC for accessing MR after the update? :p

On a serious note, one reason MR is nice to browse and use is that it is quick and simple. Let's keep it that way in the future.

[r.j.s]

Say, when you get a chance, can you publish the minimum hardware requirements for both Mac and PC for accessing MR after the update? :p

On a serious note, one reason MR is nice to browse and use is that it is quick and simple. Let's keep it that way in the future.

You'll need at least a 2.4Ghz C2D running Windows 7 or OS X 10.5.7 for the basic mode. For advanced features, such as replying and starting threads, you'll need a 3.0Ghz C2D.

[Sun Baked]

You'll need at least a 2.4Ghz C2D running Windows 7 or OS X 10.5.7 for the basic mode. For advanced features, such as replying and starting threads, you'll need a 3.0Ghz C2D.

I thought that was Spymac, while the requirements for MacRumors were lower almost as low as a spiral notebook and sharp number 2 pencil.

[kabunaru]

one reason MR is nice to browse and use is that it is quick and simple.

It can still be quick and simple with a new design. Sure, the current design is quick and simple but it doesn't mean it's the only one that's like that.

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Mmmmn it'd be nice if the background were #555555 with text being #666666.

Mmmmn low contrasty goodness.

[mgguy]

I like MR's clean, uncluttered design and open space. I don't like bright pretty colors when I am reading, and that is what we do here. Hopefully, if changes are made they will be minimal. Garish is as garish does.

[iMacmatician]

Say, when you get a chance, can you publish the minimum hardware requirements for both Mac and PC for accessing MR after the update? :piPhone too. :D

[sammich]

Maybe a Whirlpool-like scheme? (http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1165792)

[sushi]

It can still be quick and simple with a new design. Sure, the current design is quick and simple but it doesn't mean it's the only one that's like that.
True.

But as the design gets more complicated, with Flash for example, or avatars become bigger, more bandwidth is required.

For me, the content is what is important on MR.

I like MR's clean, uncluttered design and open space. I don't like bright pretty colors when I am reading, and that is what we do here. Hopefully, if changes are made they will be minimal. Garish is as garish does.
Agree. Simple and plain is easier to read and navigate.

iPhone too. :D
No problem. Probably the 4th gen version. :p

Maybe a Whirlpool-like scheme? (http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1165792)
No bad. Still prefer MR.

[dmmcintyre3]

I prefer black background with green text. Much easier on the eyes at night with no light on and a super bright PowerBook screen even with the brightness turned down to the minimum that the backlight is still on. This screen is not bright enough during the day but too bright at night.

[kabunaru]

I prefer black background with green text. Much easier on the eyes at night with no light on and a super bright PowerBook screen even with the brightness turned down to the minimum that the backlight is still on. This screen is not bright enough during the day but too bright at night.

Doesn't vBulletin allow options for different forum colours/themes available to a user?

[iJohnHenry]

Doesn't vBulletin allow options for different forum colours/themes available to a user?

Hacks are always around, but, with the volume of traffic here, I expect they are not advised.

[rdowns]

Doesn't vBulletin allow options for different forum colours/themes available to a user?

Someone please make kabunaru a hack that's shaved, uses British English and utilizes a color palette that suits him. :D

[AmbitiousLemon]

Doesn't vBulletin allow options for different forum colours/themes available to a user?

If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page you'll find a dropdown menu on the left that lets you choose a theme. None with animated hamster goodness though :(

[joshellis625]

The reason it works so well is because it's simple! It's easy to navigate, it's familiar. I love it. (my 2 cents)

[Cromulent]

Mac Rumours should redesign their site to look like this (http://www.tracyskarate.com/).

Much easier on the eyes.

Or even better, this (http://www.havenworks.com/).

[Sun Baked]

Mac Rumours should redesign their site to look like this (http://www.tracyskarate.com/).

Much easier on the eyes.

Still lacks the nice line replacements, I've always had a soft spot for these.

http://pages.prodigy.net/bestsmileys1/emoticons3/strobe.gif

[creon]

Would you like some cheese with your ..... ?

[jodelli]

Not what you had in mind, I suppose. Went with the 1988 look:

[kabunaru]

Would you like some cheese with your ..... ?

What do you mean?

[dmmcintyre3]

If there is any flash I will stop visiting macrumors until I get a 8 core Mac Pro with 32 GB RAM and 4 SSDs raided together because flash sucks. I never use flash. I actually disable flash. It sucks battery like electric car.