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[Dixie McCall]

Hello
I know my community isn't a great fun topic but it is necessary. I'm TRYING to find a balance between calming pastel colors but not make it look like an Easter egg. The lavender looks okay on my PC but looks brown on my IPAD. I'm trying to achieve a calm, inviting and happy place.

We aren't pros obviously. I will be using the Old School template as soon as a figure out a few things with it but right now I have it on the default.

Any suggestions would be great. (Be gentle)

 

[Joe Kuhn]

Good for you for taking a difficult topic and making it presentable. One small thing: the colors of your nodes and children are a little light for me to see easily.

 

[Dixie McCall]

Thank you. Yes it's a super difficult topic but I'm sure there are many looking for a place. The node colors will be fixed. How about the rest of the colors? Do they look okay on your end?

 

[Joe Kuhn]

In my opinion the letters in your forum titles need to be black like in your public notice, but then I'm getting older (too old for divorce; just kidding).

 

[Joe Kuhn]

And your public notice is on each page. Seems overdone. In fact, once I see it, I would like to minimize it and have it stay that way.

 

[Joe Kuhn]

How did you get the flower graphic to the left of your forum titles. I'd like to do something similar. Nice touch.

 

[KSA]

If change the node/side bar header/footer to match the nav bar color it would great IMO.

something like this

 

[Dixie McCall]

Hi Joe
For some reason my PC won't paste but I found the code in this forum and added it to extra.css

 

[Joe Kuhn]

And I'm going to take my own advice and make my node children black in font color.

 

[Dixie McCall]

Hello Almusa,
yes I think you are correct. I changed the headers to blue but do you know exactly what property changes the side bar headers? Thank uou

If change the node/side bar header/footer to match the nav bar color it would great IMO.

something like this

View attachment 173103

 

[KSA]

Hello Almusa,
yes I think you are correct. I changed the headers to blue but do you know exactly what property changes the side bar headers? Thank uou

put this into your extra.less template

.block-minorHeader
{
background: #3e5476;

}

 

[Dixie McCall]

Changed to the blue block headers and it does look better also increase the color of the "read" flowers.

On a side note, it is always interesting to see what orgs visit your site after finding it here. Ban ban ban today.

 

[Joe Kuhn]

Nice. Much better contrast.

 

[Dixie McCall]

Thank you.

 

[Joe Kuhn]

Changed to the blue block headers and it does look better also increase the color of the "read" flowers.

On a side note, it is always interesting to see what orgs visit your site after finding it here. Ban ban ban today.

How did you set it up to use flowers instead of the discussion balloons?

 

[Joe Kuhn]

And is this Forum Showcase public?

 

[Dixie McCall]

Hi Joe,
Add the code below to extra css template... Change image url and opacity if desired.



.node-icon i { display: none; }
.node-icon { background-image: url('/cips/flower3.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center; }
.node--read .node-icon { opacity: 0.3; }

 

[Dixie McCall]

Yes, however I haven't really started advertising yet as it's not really ready to go.

And is this Forum Showcase public?

 

[Joe Kuhn]

Yes, however I haven't really started advertising yet as it's not really ready to go.

Where are you seeing visitors as the admin? I haven't explored that yet either, but I've got about 4 weeks before mine is announced...

 

[Dixie McCall]

click on the members tabs on main nav and the click on "current visitors" You can also research visiting IP addresses through your hosting account.