Your .02 on colors

[JonB]

So heres a question for all the TCW members.

How would you feel if the board changed colors? Whole new color scheme. Are you kind of sick of the maroon gold look? Even though its our schools colors? Would it be a nice change to spice it up a little.

Also, how would you feel if the left navigation bar to your left, would be gone? Do you care for it? Would you like to see a change?

All these questions are being raised, because hour homepage was being tested around with new colors, etc. Thus it would make sense to change the board as well. Or would it?

Voice your .02 guys/gals ;)

[Bunni]

do you have any colors in mind Jon? i guess i would like a change in colors, but this isn't bad either wat we have now.
depending on what colors you picked out the change seems ok :)

[Tim]

i personally find the colors familiar and comforting

but i can deal =)

[burnitall]

why not use a pull down box to select your style using CSS it would be pretty easy.

[JonB]

bunni: well actually the maroon would still be apart of it...but the gold would be pretty much whiped out.

Burnitall: Its not as easy as it may seem. Keep it mind you would have to code it in Perl, and use the cookies from login so that it saves it for each person individually. There is something available like what you've mentioned but it causes a high server load, so I would never put it on here.

[peaches]

I too find the colors familiar, but a change wouldn't be all bad. I really don't use the bar to the left, I wouldn't miss it if it were gone or moved. I'll occasionally use the school links and the "Rate your professors" link, but that's about it.

[deviance99]

Maybe change them up a bit, but don't change the whole CMU color scheme. Just liven it up, maybe with some more yellows, or variations of the shades of our schools colors.

[burnitall]

Originally posted by Jon B:

Burnitall: Its not as easy as it may seem. Keep it mind you would have to code it in Perl, and use the cookies from login so that it saves it for each person individually. There is something available like what you've mentioned but it causes a high server load, so I would never put it on here.How is the user profile saved. My SQL or something similar I ask because if it is.
You could add a drop down box to the user profile area that selects there look that inputs the CSS file location in there database file. You could have one query to the database when the page is requested for that user inputing there CSS style sheet selection into the top of document using PHP or some type of server side would only add a few lines to the HTML document.
http://www.csszengarden.com/ - Excellent CSS Resource Page.

I am thinking of trying to make a CSS only page.

Just something to think about. For now we can come up with some kicking color themes.

[burnitall]

Was wondering what you decided on John since I see the selector on the home page. Did the links I give you Help out at all?

[JonB]

Ive been to those links in the past, they're nothing new. I'm probably not going to do anything with the board for right now. Too much work.

For the record, we dont use a database, its all flat-file :)

[deviance99]

Ouch... flat-file. Sorry to hear about that...