I totally
love what XenFans has come up with, look:
http://www.xenfans.com/
A nice background picture and even more so nicer glass border effect. It is totally simple (and as always that is a strength), but combined with the stock XenForo style it just looks beautiful.
Great advertisement for XenForo if you'd ask me.
Hey Grover,
I really appreciate your feedback, the current style is at a minimum. Only 2 template changes for all our customizations and only 2 plugins to power a popular page and something else. Upgrading will be a breeze.
After every upgrade I will complete more of the localhost version of the style I've made since alpha2 - and implement something I am sort of happy with on the live site. Upon good feedback, I push the changes through dropbox.
Yep, you heard that right.
With vBulletin we had a network plugin which also supported a remote CDN for optimization. Running a network of sites, unlimited designs, forums, sites, licenses, etc.
Since vB is so outdated we're limited by technology and performance. And so I've decided to discontinue the network and gather things up under the simplicity on top of the complexity of XenForo.
But didn't leave it at that.
The XenNetwork plugin I have running localhost powers currently 54 instances, with 25 different styles - among other things. And it has an ofcourse smart way of dealing with template changes.
Using dropbox, mobileme, isync, amazon, .. doesn't matter. It's now possible to have a MASTER-NETWORK style that has a few unique attributes.
If you like something, click on [approved] and it syncs to the network sites, updating those templates, respecting their customizations (simply replacing unique attributes).
So the old outdated vBulletin network plugin has been moved to a version 2, with 7 additional features. Including template syncing.
I got some positive feedback from the updates to xenfans, that I clicked on approve on the master network style, and the dropbox version got pushed to my localhost instances and the wetalknation.net web site.
Anyway. For now: A new background and simple glass border around the content, and I can focus on the content and our free resources again. Thanks for your feedback, it helps me motivate to keep doing what I like doing.