XenFans new XenForo style... gotta love it

[Kim]

It's 100% spreading, so on a bigger monitor the house is visible, like on my 20" where the browser matches up. It keeps it playful. There are more tweaks needed such as a side gradient so the image can be smaller and wrap around the design more. But I don't really want to go public with those images and ideas yet. Baby steps The original image is 1024 big, so I can imagine with a forum fixed to 976 that it's filling up your screen. Appreciate the feedback, I've updated my todo list with more checks for the future.

Here's what it looks like to me Floris... don't get me wrong, I like it a lot it's a nice image and a good fresh look, just not showing much of that nice image.



Edit.. weirdly the board here has resized this image, it was 1920x1080 from my 23" monitor.

Sorry for the poor quality gif too, it was the smallest file size.

 

[Peggy]

That's exactly what I see too ^ on a 21" monitor. I don't see the house.
I wanna see the house!

 

[Floris]

Here's what it looks like to me Floris... don't get me wrong, I like it a lot it's a nice image and a good fresh look, just not showing much of that nice image.

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That's not how it is supposed to look, hehe. Which OS and what browser is that?

 

[Kim]

That's not how it is supposed to look, hehe. Which OS and what browser is that?

Firefox latest whatever that is, and Vista.

1920x1080 res on 23" monitor.

 

[Peggy]

I see it that way on the latest FF, on Windows 7.

 

[Shelley]

I like the look of how the style is evolving. I particularly like the header above the logo something which I already had planned when I push bbsmiley to a live environment except it'll be more similar to the admincp header and about the same height as the admincp header where floris one is much thinner.

Overall, The whole style at xenfans is taking shape. A few little tweaks with the colouring and adding some padding to the top and bottom of the header and it'll (on a visual scale) feel better.

 

[Elizabeth]

Firefox and IE

Opera, Chrome, and Safari

All browsers are the latest versions. Using Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro

 

[Floris]

Here's a video of how it Should look - and does to me. I will check again tomorrow to see if I simply got confused and used a fluid background trick from 1995 rather than 2005 ;p It's been a bit of a tipsy weekend.

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VLC media player plays this original recording just fine: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/693961/xenfans_fluid_background.mov

 

[Floris]

View attachment 5065 Firefox and IE

View attachment 5066 Opera, Chrome, and Safari

All browsers are the latest versions. Using Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro

Excellent, that will help I will revisit my css tomorrow for a little tweak, so it's 75 characters long instead of 44 :/

 

[Darfuria]

It stretches in Chrome, but not in Firefox for me (OS X).

 

[Russ]

Floris they brought up my point, using a 24" widescreen at 1920 and it could use an improvement. Look forward to seeing the update

 

[Lucas]

Looking good mate.

 

[Dragapult]

I think it would look better if the background image was fixed so that when scrolling, it's always in place.

 

[Grover]

... and I don't see why it had to be pointed out in a thread talking about the fantastic new design elements Floris has added to the site

Thank you, me neither. Let's drop this now and restart the conversation on XenFans great visual design. For me it is now a really great example of how an almost stock XenForo install can look. I sincerely hope that more well-known/bigboards are going to switch to XenForo soon.

 

[Floris]

I think it would look better if the background image was fixed so that when scrolling, it's always in place.

I will do a few tests and see if I like it. Added to todo list.

 

[dutchbb]

I like the transparent effect on the sides. The background-image seems to have stretched pixels though

 

[twhiting9275]

I love this. Nice job!!!

 

[David McHenry]

Shouldn't things about 3rd party sites, be discussed at that site and not here?

 

[Carl]

Shouldn't things about 3rd party sites, be discussed at that site and not here?

Totally agree.

 

[Grover]

Shouldn't things about 3rd party sites, be discussed at that site and not here?

Totally agree.

I can not believe I am reading this. You can't be serious?