Thread: Hi Everyone

Originally Posted by KCLady

same here Top,It took me several tries....I got held up on the

password thing....

I hate the password thingy. It is designed to keep the spam bots that plagued BM off the forum, so I think it is worth the little extra during the registration, to hopefully keep them out.

Sometimes I have to go through three or four images. A lot of times I can't tell if it is a lower or upper case letter.

I "think" I saw a mod somewhere that allows you to answer some sort of question instead.

I have not used it so I can't tell you how good it is but might be an alternative over the captcha images.

Originally Posted by Rick

I "think" I saw a mod somewhere that allows you to answer some sort of question instead.

I have not used it so I can't tell you how good it is but might be an alternative over the captcha images.

As soon as I get a breather, I am going to setup a test vBulletin site, which will be a mirror of this. Now that we are up and running, I will probably want to check out any mods on a test version of BroncosForums, to make sure I avoid any system outages.

Originally Posted by tnedator

I hate the password thingy. It is designed to keep the spam bots that plagued BM off the forum, so I think it is worth the little extra during the registration, to hopefully keep them out.

Sometimes I have to go through three or four images. A lot of times I can't tell if it is a lower or upper case letter.

Ya i hate those things, there confusing. But they keep spambots away so its worth it.

Just wanted to say I really like this shade of blue that the background color has; I might be imagining, but I think it looks better than the one formerly used in the old site. It looks kinda greyish-navy-blue. Whatever it is, it looks real nice.

Originally Posted by omac

Just wanted to say I really like this shade of blue that the background color has; I might be imagining, but I think it looks better than the one formerly used in the old site. It looks kinda greyish-navy-blue. Whatever it is, it looks real nice.

It's quite a bit lighter. Ironically, I started with a 'similar' color the the old BM, and had quite a few people say that it was too dark, it was nearly black. So, we played around (you might see some early posts where we are chatting about which one we like, etc.) and settled on this one.

I think it's a nice compromise, blue, but not too dark. Definately have some cleanup, on some of the borders and stuff. Dream has helped out by making the top banner, and is workin on some custom buttons to get rid of th grey/blue ones.

Some time this weekend, I will get a test server up, and I will start doing future changes on that and test them, so that people using the forum don't have to see 'on the fly' testing.

For those interested, this was the old sites's, old scheme.





The blue might have been more striking, but I think the white almost became a bit neon, almost the opposite effect of what happens with the black text on white background.

This shade of blue is perfect. The old scheme looks black when you compare the two. Keep this color Tned, it works well.

Originally Posted by broncosfanscott

This shade of blue is perfect. The old scheme looks black when you compare the two. Keep this color Tned, it works well.

I agree - I like this one

Man, I can't believe I didn't have a more recent screen shot, I only had 6 bars there!!!

Originally Posted by tnedator

It's quite a bit lighter. Ironically, I started with a 'similar' color the the old BM, and had quite a few people say that it was too dark, it was nearly black. So, we played around (you might see some early posts where we are chatting about which one we like, etc.) and settled on this one.

I think it's a nice compromise, blue, but not too dark. Definately have some cleanup, on some of the borders and stuff. Dream has helped out by making the top banner, and is workin on some custom buttons to get rid of th grey/blue ones.

Some time this weekend, I will get a test server up, and I will start doing future changes on that and test them, so that people using the forum don't have to see 'on the fly' testing.

Cool, thanks for all the effort guys. It's much appreciated.

And I don't mind the on-the-fly testing; if they considered doing that on the official site, the background color issue would've been cleared up long ago.