Than the Moa

I honestly just searched "Steven Segal boat movie" to try and find the name of it. And wouldn't you know, first result!

Under Siege staring Steven Segal

The Replacements

But more seriously, if you haven't seen American Hustle you should watch that one.

Pfft, I beat you by a month to having Microsoft as a client and my work is application development for them!

It should no longer cut behind anything and the mobile experience should be moderately approved. As a reminder though guys there is a mobile version of IPB for a reason. You shouldn't expect a reasonable level of support using the desktop version on a mobile device due to the wide variety of resolutions and various issues with mobile browsers.

Thanks for that change, it helps a lot. As for not using the mobile version of IPB, it refused to let me add BZP as a community, so I've been unable to use it, unfortunately.

~B~

Odd, it should automatically be enabled. Let me check if I can just enable the mobile skin from the skin selector.

That should be fixed as well. It had to do with the content blocks in your own blog being movable so they're set to be over everything.

Shouldn't be going behind the content blocks anymore. Thanks for pointing that out.

It should no longer cut behind anything and the mobile experience should be moderately approved. As a reminder though guys there is a mobile version of IPB for a reason. You shouldn't expect a reasonable level of support using the desktop version on a mobile device due to the wide variety of resolutions and various issues with mobile browsers.

If you can inform us as to which frames it is going behind that would be great, we can investigate that issue then.

Also information on browser used would be helpful too.

Kids were out of control.

I actually didn't know you lived in Minnesota! What city do you live in?

He lives in one of the many, many burbs of the Twin Cities if memory serves me correctly.

Man, if I can get in a day early or late I'll make an effort!

Soran, on , said:

 

I like the skin although the red just catches the eyes a little too much in my opinion. I get easily distracted by it so it makes me forget what I was reading.

 

I'm seconding this opinion. It's a bit unsettling since a similar red had been used in the previous skin to point out new PMs and such. Perhaps something in the vein of the old pinkish red would work better?

The dark red was used for many things other than just pointing out new Premier Members (which happened on the home page anyway ). It's our main accent color (again, see the home page). It's not going anywhere.

First off, I'll start by saying I appreciate your comment. It's obvious we both needed to cool our heads a bit, and reach some common ground and reasoning with one another.

I think when John says "warm" he isn't necessarily referring to color temperature (of which the skin is most certainly not featuring warm colors temperature wise) but more of a feeling he got from it. He described it to me once as the feeling of coming back home, a place you're comfortable at. While I agree that you can make designs that evoke that feeling with colors that pop more, they're also much more divisive. For example, our quote boxes originally featured much darker tones (even a gradient at one point) and was a huge point of contention during the process. People tend to feel more strongly about darker/brighter colors (ie. colors with more "pop"). By opting for the more gray tones, it may be more "dull" so to speak, but also comes across more neutral and unoffensive. There's a reason the Silver Chevy Impala is such a popular car, it doesn't offend anyone's tastes. You may find it boring (heck, I find the silver Impala boring, it's why I drive a dark red Mazda 3 ), but it still sells. And yes, that isn't to say other colors don't sell as well, but when you're aiming to make a default, baseline skin, you shoot for something that will be appreciated by the widest audience.

We are having preliminary talks on the idea of creating future skins and even opening things up to have member driven skin creation (through some kind of submission process or a skin contest). I know personally that John, Andrew, and I are committed to following through on this and taking our experiences from working on this and making sure we do give people more options beyond just one default experience. I can't speak to when that'll happen, but we'll make a stink about it when it does happen.

Sorry we got off on the wrong foot about this, I'm sure we both have our reasons why, but let's let the past be the past. I'm willing to get forgive and forget so to speak.

Easy on the eyes was one of the goals of the skin so I'm glad that it had the intended effect.

Don't you feel clever.

I'm sorry, next time I'll put rainbows and ponies everywhere.

Well, now that we finally have a BZPower-specific skin that's not IP.Board's default, I'm betting/hoping the staff will provide resources for members to create new skins like the Skins Contest in 2006.

That'd be a safe bet.

<3

I love the Takua you found Pat!

To anyone who does read my blog: what colors would you want BZP to be in? I'm considering making Chrome and Firefox addons that will skin it in different colors, or possibly even make a web app that lets you skin it yourself.

As cute as this exercise may be, you're of course assuming we'll never ever make alternate skins or involve the members in that process.

Glad you like it.

Minnesota, though? Traitor.

Trust me, I cry myself to sleep everyday because of this.

Skyrim is an amazing world wrapped in sub-par gameplay that will tire you out... after 90 hours or so.

Oh man, it's like everyone else that has a real job, except we actually use cars to get there instead of hour and a half bus rides.

But it's not really a truncated game, I mean think about it, people paid 50 (60?) for this game when it came out without the additonal DLC included in this pack and without the gods and kings expansion. Just because it's lacking an expansion that's only a handful of weeks old doesn't make it truncated.

I understand having a lack of funds, but 12.50 for this game is a steal and probably the cheapest you'll see it in a long time.

Thank god I decided to look at the blogs cause I've been waiting for this go flash sale and would have been mad if I missed it.

I don't want to buy gods and kings yet though, here's holding out that one goes as a daily deal at some point.

Still too much. >:[

It's only 12.50 for the GOTY edition of Civ V...