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Poprocksz · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2001 4:36 pm

Being bored during the Sijun shutdown.....
I thought i'd start my own dinky forum(like many others i bet)...It has no real limit to the art style....and it is about poetry and music as well....anyway....
It's called The Holocaust Of The Mind"
and here is some of the artwork for the banner and background......

go there if ya want.....
The Holocaust

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Poprocksz · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 7:48 pm

Added new background.....still would like some advice.......oh well

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NeoFun · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 8:04 pm

Too bright for me-- looks like a Keith Harring piece with your complimentary colors. Also, they don't really look right on the webpage and take up an awkward space. Interesting setup though. Hope this helped, and also gave ya a bump.
GREG!

Poprocksz · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 8:26 pm

I wanted the logo to be big.....

I was wondering if it was too bright....
What colours do you guys think would be better......

Jezebel · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 8:53 pm

That's a bit hard on the eyes methinks. You can make your logo big without using overly bright colors. High saturated colors like that are an especially poor choice for a forum since people will be reading there a lot. Try and make something that's easy on the eyes otherwise your viewers won't stick around. Browse a few of your favorite forums and think about which ones have color schemes you prefer and are easiest to read.

Personally I like low-saturated colors for the background and similar (but much darker or lighter) color for the text on top. Forums that really irritate me are the ones with pitch black bg's and bright neon green text... apparantly people think it looks really techy and matrixy or something, but it's actually just a pain in the ass to stare at for more than 5 minutes. I find myself looking away at blank walls to regain focus, hehe.

Hope this was at least a little bit helpful

(and on a little sidenote, I think the reds and greens you chose look rather Christmasy.. maybe go with a slight variation of the same colors if those are what you decided on)

Poprocksz · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2001 9:07 pm

I'll see what I can do here.....

Matt Elder · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2001 12:22 am

While the image is kinda cool, I think it is too hard on the eyes to be used effectively in a forum sense. I also think that having it so large and pushing the forum down is not a good idea. It means that anytime you want to do something, you have to scroll down. Seems kinda trivial but do it a couple of hundred times and it isn't as trivial.

Poprocksz · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2001 12:04 pm

i don't really have a choice about the size......
but i knda like it big......

I was working on it...i'll have it up later....

Darker colours should help it out