Page 1 of 1

Forum Design Changes

Posted: 25 Jul 2015, 06:30
by Forboding Angel
Ok, so I'm not done yet, but I'm working on the "material design" type things for the forum.

Lets be clear, it isn't material design. Without rewriting the entire theme from scratch I'm not even sure if true material design is even possible, and frankly, it would drive me nuts trying to make it happen.

This is a WIP. I intentionally showed the usercp screen so that it's obvious that I haven't gotten to that section of it yet.

The buttons are losing the super roundness and the shadows, and the colors are in line with the spring logo. They are dimmed a bit until you hover over them, but all the colors used were taken from the official spring logo.

Here is the work so far:

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Pull request is here:
https://github.com/spring/spring-website/pull/63

Re: Forum Design Changes

Posted: 25 Jul 2015, 21:52
by The Yak
Looks good to me.

Have you tried this out on a phone browser yet?

Re: Forum Design Changes

Posted: 26 Jul 2015, 03:47
by Forboding Angel
Yessir :-) Everything I do is responsive.

Re: Forum Design Changes

Posted: 28 Jul 2015, 20:06
by AF
The new design is wider than the main layout, draw a line starting in the top left corner of the spring logo in the header going straight down and see how many elements are almost but not quite there, then repeat with the top right edge of the download link on the other side

Re: Forum Design Changes

Posted: 28 Jul 2015, 20:27
by Forboding Angel
It isn't wider, I simply removed the outside paddings cause they were pointless. Now that I've done that it would make sense to remove the paddings from the header bar too. Good call.

Re: Forum Design Changes

Posted: 29 Jul 2015, 02:01
by AF
That'd mean changing every other part of the site, the mediawiki theme, the frontpage, the PHP standalone pages, and there'd still be alignment issues in the forum design since it isn't internally consistent

Re: Forum Design Changes

Posted: 31 Jul 2015, 18:56
by Forboding Angel
Fixed the margins. You were correct, I hadn't considered that.

Re: Forum Design Changes

Posted: 14 Aug 2015, 10:57
by abma

Re: Forum Design Changes

Posted: 14 Aug 2015, 13:41
by Jazcash
Looks awesome. Should be the default phpbb theme. Still not big on the tiny padding of the logo container though, it's the opposite of what a 'material'y theme should promote.

Re: Forum Design Changes

Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 08:48
by smoth
can we keep the alternating shades on every other row? I like the way that looks

Re: Forum Design Changes

Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 22:38
by AF
can we kill the footer and the drop shadow on Index Page?

Re: Forum Design Changes

Posted: 16 Aug 2015, 02:56
by Forboding Angel
I think I did in my trial runs. I must have forgotten to do that when I committed it.