Might as well get a head start and start working on one. Honestly, I would LOVE to dress up my forum a bit...but that's all I want to do, is dress it up. Not a whole new style, just a few things here and there that can be placed on the logo, forum markers and such. Pretty much what Shelley did with the snow, but maybe a little more in depth. Sometimes, simplicity is joy!Not sure if I will be doing mine or not tbh, the market for Holiday themes is not quite there yet with Xenforo, there is just not enough "regular" forum owners, most people here are Tech heads and as such not really into the pretty/fun stuff so much.
If there was enough interest I might produce a new one I think, but the prospect of one sale is not enough to entice me personally.
Might as well get a head start and start working on one. Honestly, I would LOVE to dress up my forum a bit...but that's all I want to do, is dress it up. Not a whole new style, just a few things here and there that can be placed on the logo, forum markers and such. Pretty much what Shelley did with the snow, but maybe a little more in depth. Sometimes, simplicity is joy!
I'm certainly not going to do it myselfDo you mean I should go ahead and create one, or that you are going to do one yourself?
The thing for me...is that I want to keep my image, but add some fun to it for the holidays...just like what Google does when they change their logo up a bit.And yeah, this is pretty much indicative of what I mean, whereas in the IPB world people would just purchase a new Holiday theme, in the current XF world, most people just want simple, and a few changes like the snow at Christmas which Shelley did seem to be enough for the early adopters of XF.
Personally I like to go the whole hog and a few bits and pieces just doesn't work for me Like throwing up one lonely Christmas Decoration and calling your house ready for the holidays lol
I'm certainly not going to do it myself
The thing for me...is that I want to keep my image, but add some fun to it for the holidays...just like what Google does when they change their logo up a bit.
Do you mean I should go ahead and create one, or that you are going to do one yourself?
And yeah, this is pretty much indicative of what I mean, whereas in the IPB world people would just purchase a new Holiday theme, in the current XF world, most people just want simple, and a few changes like the snow at Christmas which Shelley did seem to be enough for the early adopters of XF.
Personally I like to go the whole hog and a few bits and pieces just doesn't work for me Like throwing up one lonely Christmas Decoration and calling your house ready for the holidays lol
What's wrong with simple Christmas decorations? This is what the wife & I used for our 2010 Christmas tree...
http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Browns-Tree-Blanket-Multicolor/dp/B001MMSWGO
Yeah using the helper spans with the snow images was more of a lite touch for the xenforo community forums. it just happened that people liked the subtle visuals and brogan went on to post it so i don't think many people bothered about having a fully decorated style and felt this was enough. I agree with you totally though kim, I think for these celebration occasions a nice graphical style is better rather than minimalistic implementation, especially xmas styles. I may get an xmas style done this year but would really like to see one of yours make it to xf since christmas or more so the styles can be used for a month so it worth putting in the time where Halloween, valentines are one day events and i personally wouldn't bother spending all that time on 1 day event celebrations.
LMAO @ the last sentence. Totally agree.
Your snow was brilliant last Christmas, a very good idea and I really wasn't saying anything negative about it, quite the opposite in fact, just that the current technical bent of peeps here in this early phase of XF means they would prefer the simple things like your snow to my full blown numbers hehehe
I just hope that more of us who love the big bold brash totally over the top stuff will wander into XF soon to make it worthwhile doing some of my more OTT skins LOL
You know it's funny Shelley, I resisted doing the Halloween skins for years, hubby kept saying to do them, and customers kept asking for them, but I thought the same as you, that for a one day thing it wasn't worth it.. turns out I was wrong, people love them so much they have them up for the whole month of October, or for at least a week or two, it was always fun to go to someone's forum where they had purchased one, and see the reactions from their members, it really added to the fun community spirit.
Golly, I am thinking I might do a Halloween one after all
You've gotten me all excited about it Shelley hehehe
I really think you should. 1.1 is just around the corner so now would be a perfect time to start a celebration style, now really meaning after 1.1 is released. Out of curiosity Kim, how long does it take you to design and code up all those styles? Obviously it'll be less time consuming with xenforo but more referring to ipb styles you made. And will you be starting afresh with the imagery on your xenforo styles? or use some, all, none of the imagery from the ipb styles?
I for one would love the Halloween theme for both the TLC site and the DallastownOnline one so if you are so inclined ...
A Dark one, or a mid-toned one?
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