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I saw a post yesterday in which someone was experimenting with using a different color scheme on the forum... as in instead of all the headers being various shades of blue, they were changed to being different various colors. I'm curious as to if there is a way to customize your own personal forum color appearance that could be implemented? You could do something similar to this with your profile on the old forums but it only changed how your profile looked. It would be an interesting feature to have... I'd like to have a forum with the faded red color theme like I use in my avatar ;). Would anyone else want something like this?

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56 minutes ago, Avera9eJoe said:

I saw a post yesterday in which someone was experimenting with using a different color scheme on the forum... as in instead of all the headers being various shades of blue, they were changed to being different various colors. I'm curious as to if there is a way to customize your own personal forum color appearance that could be implemented? You could do something similar to this with your profile on the old forums but it only changed how your profile looked. It would be an interesting feature to have... I'd like to have a forum with the faded red color theme like I use in my avatar ;). Would anyone else want something like this?

Waaaaay ahead of you. Check out the mess n.b.z. started. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/126808-made-a-user-style-to-increase-forum-contrast-and-available-space/

2 minutes ago, Flymetothemun said:

I'd love to be able to customize the colors. A portion of the trouble I have with this new forum is the horrible low-contrast "ultra-modern" (AKA unusable & frustrating) color scheme.

You can install what he has and customize it completely by just tweaking the colour codes.  It's crazy fun! ;) 

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Anything would be better than the current off-white on white eye-burning glare, but as there appears to be little interest in doing this server-side atm (or providing any user settings for that matter) you could start with something like this stylish theme and tweak the colours to suit.

I'd definitely support some server-side personalisation though, it certainly seems to be lacking in this new IPS thing.

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31 minutes ago, Trann said:

Waaaaay ahead of you. Check out the mess n.b.z. started. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/126808-made-a-user-style-to-increase-forum-contrast-and-available-space/

You can install what he has and customize it completely by just tweaking the colour codes.  It's crazy fun! ;) 

Aha! This is the post I was referring to. Thank you very much. ;)

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On 12/2/2015 at 4:20 PM, steve_v said:

I'd definitely support some server-side personalisation though, it certainly seems to be lacking in this new IPS thing.

Nope...not lacking in the software itself, or across the internet... ONLY lacking in the specific implementation of THIS forum...

There are whole websites, devoted to producing and offering generic and customized IPS themes...And not only themes: but plugins for specific forum functionality....

Just Google "custom IPS themes", and you'll get all these and more:

(all images from Google "images" search): https://www.google.com/search?q=custom+ips+themes&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP_ubp3MfOAhXJTCYKHadaA6wQsAQIRA&biw=1398&bih=710&dpr=1.09

http://www.ibtheme.com/

http://www.ibtheme.com/forums/store/

https://invisionpower.com/files/category/147-themed-skins/

https://invisionpower.com/files/category/162-themes/

http://ipsthemes.com/themes/

http://ipsthemes.com/pricing/

http://www.ipsfocus.com/themes/

This is from the pricing button on the link above:
Pricing & Features

Custom skins for Invision Power Board vary greatly in price due to the complexity and requirements of each skin. Detailed skins are naturally more expensive than basic skins since more work is generally required. All custom skins for IPB from this site start at $350 USD, payable via Paypal or Skrill.

Your custom skin comes complete with the following:

  • Custom skin design which will only be sold to your site
  • Access to a development board where you can track the progress of your skin
  • Complete skinning of the Invision components if required: Gallery, Blogs, Downloads Manager, Chat, Portal and Nexus.
  • Clean, modern and formatted code allowing for easier modifications in the future
  • All .psd (Adobe Photoshop) files created when making the skin
  • One-on-one (customer to designer) communication throughout the entire skin production process
  • Browser compatibility with all modern browsers including: Internet Explorer 9+, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera
  • Unlimited support: if you run into a problem caused by the skin, just ask for help!

 

And one example of plugins:
https://invisionpower.com/files/category/160-applications-and-plugins/

 

 

 

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