[Darian Ennels]

Hey community, and hey to you fellow Elegant users!

"Elegant? What the jumping Jaguars are you talking about, tgl?"

Okay, I will back it up a bit. For those who do not know, at the bottom of the page is a small drop down menu called "Change Theme". Clicking it, you have the choices of the mobile version, Warrior (the default Steam-looking theme), and of course: Elegant! I cannot guess as to why people like Elegant but personally I like using the theme because of it's simplicity, easier to read posts, and the best (if not, fun) part of it--the color wheel! Yep, adjust the forum skin to any color you want (Note: This is only for the Elegant theme!). It can be found by clicking the little paint can image in the top right, under the search box.

Once I started to get used to the wheel itself, I have been wanting to adjust to my favorite color or the color that looks the best. Some may know this already but for those who do not know and want a easier way to get a "official" color set, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors

What good does a list of colors do for you and picking the right color? For each color, it has shades. And for each shade has a page where you can find a type of code called a "hex triplet" or just simply "web colors".http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae50/tgl_2010/color_zpsf1a318ac.png~original

Notice when you use the color wheel on the forums here, you see a small box with a hashtag (#) and funky looking combinations of numbers and/or letters? Those are the numbers for the web colors I explained above.

Below is a list of each color. Clicking one will send you to a list of shades of that color. Clicking on a shade of that color will send you to a page of that specific color.

Warning: Picking a specific shade of a color will simulate effects of being at Home Depot.

When you see a color you like or want to test it out, simply copy paste the code from the color's wiki page to the color wheel's code box. Once pasted, press enter.

I personally loved what I found and thought I would show others who were in the same boat as me. Now you have a "template" of colors instead of mindlessly moving the color wheel around! I like the colors Blue, Green, Teal (You know, the "calm" colors!) but once I found Cerulean (a shade of Cyan) I fell in love with the color! A perfect balance for me! Personally, of course...

Hope this helps!

[Loane]

Woah, this is something new. All these years and I've never bothered to scroll down and notice the "Change Theme" option. Thanks!

[Mylizards Dot com]

Sure thing!

I only recently discovered the theme last year (IIRC). It is easily missed and not mentioned much anywhere on the forum

[Eibe Novy]

I don't expect it to be there much longer, honestly.

When I joined, there were like 6 themes, went up to like 8 I think.

Then we updated to IPB 3. Theme count was dropped to 3 (including mobile). It then grew to 4 (Elegant was introduced)

Then in the last upgrade, theme count was reduced to 2 initially (Warrior and Mobile). After we begged and begged, they finally gave us Elegant again, but we never got IP.Board back. Leaving the site with 3 themes (one of which is crap on desktops).

What makes the matter worse is that after the upgrade, the IP.Board theme was still on the server. A simple URL hack would allow you to re-enable it and it was working 100% flawlessly. There was no technical reason for us to not have IP.Board. I then posted how to do the URL hack, and in a matter of hours the admins broke it, taking away any hope of users having the option to choose a theme that's included by default in IPB software.

[Tanya]

I think I joined shortly after that upgrade, I do remember there being 4 themes (IP board theme as well).

[Chris Cross Cabaret Man]

Just for the record, I usually use greenish: I had my regular colour code but I got fed up with digging it out every 10 days (God knows why the cookie has such a short lifetime... it was briefly set to three years before being promptly changed back to just over a week), so it's currently #63871d, though next time it resets it'll be another approximation. Of course no colour scheme before or since ever came close to the awesome TESF Tan of 2006.

[Annick Charron]

Was that also the color scheme in the TES forum before the dark, Skyrim theme with the Dragonborn in the background? I remember the scheme similar to CD as well as the old banner it had

[Chrissie Pillinger]

There was the FO3 theme before Skyrim, which was another rather gloomy overcast one: dark grey on darker grey or something like that, as I recall. And before that was the Tan theme, which was nice and cheerful; I don't have a link handy, but it was not dissimilar to the http://cs.elderscrolls.com/index.php?title=Main_Page. And before that are the days of green and purple that the forum fossils go on about!

[Jessica Lloyd]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xagcxyz7rofhdm6/tanskin.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d0f2ew6vbkq1zm0/oldskins.jpg

Images taken via an MHT of a page I saved from 2008

Most of all, I remember how the default text editor wasn't horrible broken.

[Batricia Alele]

To be honest, I like that scheme a lot better than Warrior. I wonder why the themes were taken out