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KeenEmpire · Post by **KeenEmpire** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 11:38

Has anyone come up with a good Stylish (or other CSS style changer) theme for these forums or similar? Right now, I've only got a crude black theme I've been prodding and poking with: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=pmnVv5pe

Edit: stylebot CSS: Jul 16 2013

Benvolio · Post by **Benvolio** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 21:20

It's amazing how a simple white-to-black switch can send the appearance of a webpage back a decade stylistically.

This will be the new thing... forget modding Keen, let's all make ever-more-convoluted mods of the PCKF.

Post by **Levellass** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:08

If Lemm gets involved there's no telling what might happen.

KeenEmpire · Post by **KeenEmpire** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 9:41

I ended up using stylebot and kinda abusing the global theme: http://pastebin.com/tymWchGB Aug 18 Sep 22 Oct 30

Screenshots when I get a spare minute. It actually looks more cluttered now that I've brought many of the lines back.

Benvolio wrote:It's amazing how a simple white-to-black switch can send the appearance of a webpage back a decade stylistically.

Actually, the default one is a decade old; this is new

Commander Spleen · Post by **Commander Spleen** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 13:30

KeenEmpire wrote:Actually, the default one is a decade old; this is new

Nooo, don't do that!

Benvolio · Post by **Benvolio** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 18:28

KeenEmpire wrote:the default one is a decade old; this is new

Haha good point... time flies... perhaps 15-20 years would have been more accurate! No offence is meant by the way - I am just noting that in the first decade of the world wide web, a lot of webpages tended to have light text on a dark background (including the one-time centrepiece of the online community http://cc314.shikadi.net/) - it was thought to look 'cooler' and besides people were more familiar with the default MS-DOS text mode colour scheme.

KeenEmpire · Post by **KeenEmpire** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 19:04

I've been trying to reduce eyestrain. Unfortunately, just about every website nowadays has black on a glaring white background, so it's a slow and arduous prcess.

YMMV and the current grey-on-black might not actually be the best for this. Fortunately, I've managed to put most of the changes in one single paragraph (the very very long one) so the color should be easily changeable.

Screenshots http://imgur.com/a/kwCYb

Scarlet · Post by **Scarlet** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 3:10

It's too dark. :/

Post by **Keening_Product** » Fri Sep 20, 2013 18:21

It's very, very hard to make a black theme look uncluttered. You might be better off making a mid-grey theme with darker headers. I'm thinking a Mort theme?

If I get a moment I'll throw something together myself. Good on you for getting to work on one of these, KeenEmpire!