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Changing the colors of websites that give you headaches


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I never got into web design, css, etc... But this shouldn't be too difficult. Basically, there are certain websites cholor-schemes that really strain my eyes. Specifically, the official Scorpions website and messageboard. I'd visit more often if it didn't make my eyes water. Sadly, I'm not kidding. Everyone hates the layout and color-scheme but the web designer is awful / doesn't care.

I've seen sites like user-created stylish plugins that offer color-overrides and stuff. Is it difficult to do?

Here's the forum link if anyone's interested to see what I'm talking about - http://www.the-scorpions.com/phpbb3/

I don't care for the layout, but it's mainly the colors that annoy me. I'd just like to be able to get rid of the ugly lightning background, the purple, and the bright yellow-default forum text, etc. lol. So awful...

Is there a program I can use?

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Well that was futile. Not a good idea to just jump into trying to make a stylish script without knowing anything about code. At first I thought you meant I could just replace all of the Neowin URLS with the one I wanted to change and it would magically beautify the layout. :rofl:

Oh well.

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You are probably not the first person to not like the colors of the site you are referring to. Consequently there could be styles posted by other users on userstyles.org. Check it out you might be lucky to find some styles you might like from other users.

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You are probably not the first person to not like the colors of the site you are referring to. Consequently there could be styles posted by other users on userstyles.org. Check it out you might be lucky to find some styles you might like from other users.

Unfortunately, there are none. Thanks, though.

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If you can let me know what bothers you I can create the styles for you and post them here.

Thanks :D

I've been trying to fix the colors in photoshop by using the "replace colors" feature to give an idea of what I'd like to do with it, but either I'm using it wrong or it's a piece of junk. Changing colors makes the text unreadable and magically changes other colors as well...

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That looks disgusting, lol, but basically I'm trying to get it to look like Neowin's midnight theme. I didn't get around to fixing the weird purple/ lavender / greys in the actual forum yet. Maybe I could just get a base template and change all of the colors myself to save you the trouble? I'm not really sure how this works.

I wish I could just re-design the entire site. It's so ugly. I'm OK with graphics, but not htlm, css, or anything involving web-design.

Sorry for the noob-ness. Never was interested in web design until now, haha :p

edit: Maybe I can just find a stylish theme for phpBB, since that's what the site uses...

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This should get you started...

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("the-scorpions.com") {

body { background: #2e3e4e !important; }

#noframenavigation li {
background: #c9c9c9 !important;
border: none !important;
border-bottom: solid 1px #444 !important;
}

#noframenavigation a {
color: #111 !important;
background: none !important;
}

#noframenavigation a:hover {
color: #f00 !important;
background: none !important;
}

#noframeheader {
background: #2e3e4e !important;
}

#noframeheader img {
opacity: 0 !important;
}

}

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Thanks so much, sweetsam. I found a phpbb prosilver theme on userstyles in which I combined with yours and modified the colors. It's not finished yet and I don't know how to go about getting rid of the rest of the purple that's on the page. And the actual forum posts are pretty weird looking. Some have blue borders whereas some don't.

Here's what I've got so far -

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/7149/30515036.jpg

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/8333/15024041.jpg

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/5031/41783613.jpg

Code in attachment -

originalscorpionsmod.txt

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