First Annual SBC Board Skinning Contest!

[Webmonkey]

Yes that's right ladies and gentlemen, it's time to skin you a board. For all of those web savvy types and modders out there, your loyal webmonkey is offering the first ever Seattle by Choice Board skinning contest!

The rules are simple:

1. Create a skin following the directions below with the themes of Vampire, Werewolf or Changeling.

2. Send all of your skin info to me and I add it to the boards.

3. We all vote on the best skin!

The winner gets a prize - I haven't decided what yet... Maybe I'll bump you up to the as yet unseen rank on the boards above Elder... ooOOOooooh! Or get you a custom Avatar like the STs have?

I dunno, I'll come up with something.

Regardless of which one wins as best in show, the other skins will most likely remain selectable so we have some cool choices, so no matter what your sense of design will have a chance to become a permenant part of SBC!

Anyway, step one requires the following information:

Skin Name: The name of this skin that people will see when selecting the skin they want to use.

Logo URL: This will stay as the small circular SBC symbol so that all skins have at least one common element.

Font: Choose what font you would like your forum to use. (the standard are Verdana and Arial)

Background Color: Enter the color you would like to have as the backgrond for your forum.

Backround Image URL: Enter the full http:// URL to an image if you would like it to be your forum's background.

Background Image Fixed: NoYes If you would like your background image to stay fixed (not scroll) with your forum, select "Yes." Default is "No."

Text Color: Enter the color that you would like the text on your forum to be.

Link Color: Enter the color that you would like links on your forum to be.

Active Link Color: Enter the color that you would like active links on your forum to be.

Visited Link Color: Enter the color that you would like visited links on your forum to be.

Title Background Color: This color will be used as the background color for titles on your forum.

Title Text Color: Choose what color the text for titles on your forum should be.

Category Background Color: This color will be used as the background color for categories on your forum.

Category Text Color: Choose what color the text for categories on your forum should be.

News Title Background Color: This color will be used as the background color for news title on your forum.

News Title Text Color: Choose what color the text for the news title on your forum should be.

News Background Color: This color will be used as the background color for the news on your forum.

News Text Color: Choose what color the text for the news text on your forum should be.

Window Background 1: This will be used as the color for various areas throughout your forum.

Window Background 2: This will be used as the color for various areas throughout your forum.

Board Highlight Color: When you move your mouse over the boards on the homepage of your forum, the backgrond color for that board's table cell will change to this color.

Thread Highlight Color: When you move your mouse over the threads on your forum, the backgrond color for that thread's table cell will change to this color.

Table Border Color: This will be the color of the borders for all tables.


Popup Window Colors
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Background Color: This color will be the background color for popup windows.

Text Color: This color will be used for text inside popup windows.

Title Background Color: This color will be used as the background color for titles on your forum.

Title Text Color: Choose what color the text for titles on your forum should be.

*Note: Colors need to be in Hexidecimal value, like the ones listed here: www.december.com/html/spec/color.html

Here is an example of where each color and graphic fits on the boards: www.proboards.com/images/skins-example.gif

And on board pop-up windows: www.proboards.com/images/skins-popup-example.gif

That's it! Good skinning! Email, Post or PM me with questions!

[Lady Dagger Rose]

Can we make clan specific ones?

[Barnaby Cuthbert]

Yes, but not for the purpose of this contest. Active spheres only please.

[Jean Lionel]

What us non computer people hear: blah blah blah contest, blah blah blah prize, rules blah blah blah...
:-)

[Valerie]

When do you want these by? I wanna play, but I've still got a few days of puttering through school and might not have the time to get cracking on it until next Thursday or so.

[Webmonkey]

Lets say one month from the date of contest posting. So by July 7th.

[Kevin K]

Different skins are selectable? How does one do this? I could be a *lot* more active if this all looked very boring and plain, like something containing information about software development.

Can we change the board title to "Strategies and Approaches for TPS Reports"?

[Barnaby Cuthbert]

*boot to the head*

[Justin]

yah, yah

[Webmonkey]

So it may or have may not been obvious to some, but the board-skinning contest was a bust. Nobody submitted anything. *shrug* Oh well. Eventually I may create some skins for other stuff then, and if anyone wants to create any in general, feel free to send em to me in the future. Until then, what ye sees is what ye gets. *barring a lot of random tinkering*

[Kenneth Ashland]

See, if I at all had gfx/coding skillz, I'd so make a neat-o Ventrue theme, with, like, crown molding borders, and steal those lions from the V:tDA coat of arms and have them bookend the title graphic...

But...I get about as far as stick figures.

Even with Photoshop.

I'll stick to writing...

[Barnaby Cuthbert]

Maybe if I have time later to do some clan ones I will.

[Paige Fairchild]

I just now spotted this. Obviously I haven't been on the boards for a while. *blush*

I may send you some ideas for skins at some point. I like customizing sites, I've messed with my LJ quite a bit, for example. I wouldn't mind trying to come up for something for our boards.

[Clark Davis]

Oooh, and just now I'm learning to muck with CSS.

I may have something for you soonish, contest or no.

[The Writing On The Wall]

Ah, crap! I thought you meant something else when I had seen the title.

Means I have to put this guy back in the fridge.

[The Writing On The Wall]

*Grumbles.* Went to all the trouble trying to document the process and all.