Like the new theme!

The polygon thing is actually Link from Calc84 TI-Nspire 3D stuff (for those who don't frequent IRC).

Also thanks, but finally I don't like the background image on the forums , it seems more like a christmas style image and I feel it doesn't fit with the banner and the rest.

On a side note this theme isn't fully finished either, there migth still be some changes. The first step was to make gradients darker to match the banner. Next is the plain colors, then maybe make the lighter gradient even darker, since it still is too light for my needs, and I want to get rid of the green-ish color in it

The banner has just the right amount of Netham45s and Rickrolls! Perfect!

I was a bit relunctant about a fixed background at first, because I witnessed the horror of Myspace custom profiles and on the old board I remember the forum scrolling framerate was choppy , so I was afraid using a massive 1024x768 bg image that is fixed would make things even worse. To my surprise, even on my old comp I got no slow downs, though. Also the bg is 315 KB ish so not too big either. I didn't want to have a 1 MB bg, not a good web design practice. Our design is alerady not so common style in the first place lol (most sites with dark bg have the entire board layout made so it's dark too, like white text on dark blue. Sites that has light content but dark backgrounds often wraps the entire content in a lighter div with plain color.

On another note: I finally fixed CODE tags. It was about time, after 2 years. Text as so friggin small before . I also made sure pinned topics and child boards stands out more by using a more different blue. Had it been possible to use a different color in both, I wouls have made pinned topics with an extremly bright background like #00FFFF

Ug, I like it a lot, but the new background IS giving me horrible horrible scrolling problems X.x

mhmm strange, on the old forums (2005-07 designs) I had choppy scrolling on my Pentium II 350 MHz but nothing too bad. We had fixed backgrounds back then too. On my other comp (Intel Celeron 2.93 GHz from 2005) I also had some slow scrolling but more like 20-30 frames per seconds. I tested this new background on that old comp again and I have absolutely no slow downs during scrolling. Couldn't it be your internet browser? Also do you browse at native text size/zoom? Browsing sites like this at higher or lower zooming can be very slow. I tested the background on my old comp to be certain it won't slow things down too much so I am unsure why you would get any extreme problems when I got full 60 fps on a 5 years old comp with crappy video card

Either your browser has issues with fixed backgrounds, either your comp is loaded with viruses and slow things down or your video card is either too old or even dying

Btw I tested in Opera 9 and 10, no slow downs. In Firefox 3.x , smooth scrolling was disabled so it's hard to tell but scrolling seemed to be at the exact same speed as on regular sites. I haven't tried in Google Chrome, Safari nor Internet Explorer, though, but if you use IE, it isn't a supported browser for our site (if you checked the copyright since 2008, you will notice it was never listed in our "best viewed in" list) because it's impossible to keep a site IE compatible when you want it to not fail both W3C validators

yeah it might be that , I haven't used Firefox much in 7 myself, and even if I did, it would be hard to detect any slowdowns on a 8-core processor