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Zeke
May 12th, 2003, 08:37:57 PM
NEW SETUP! THEY CHANGED THE LOOK OF IT! IT ROCKS! :eek ::dies of coolness::

Lilaena De'Ville
May 12th, 2003, 08:39:16 PM
Very nice, Mark and Morgan :D

Morgan Evanar
May 12th, 2003, 08:40:06 PM
Ogre did a lot of the getting it up stuff, thanks to my distractable self.

Zeke
May 12th, 2003, 08:40:53 PM
Some o' the subforums are old style though! I guess they'll all be changing eventually, yes? YES?

Lilaena De'Ville
May 12th, 2003, 08:41:29 PM
GOOD JOB AS ALWAYS OGRE! :D :crack

Morgan Evanar
May 12th, 2003, 08:42:54 PM
Yes. Yog's will become unique in a week or two, and some other forums will have subtle and not so subtle dfferences.

Dae Jinn
May 12th, 2003, 08:44:36 PM
Very nice, good job guys. :)

Zeke
May 12th, 2003, 08:44:53 PM
YEAH! ^___^

Xazor Elessar
May 12th, 2003, 08:46:17 PM
WHOA!!!!!!!

This is awesome guys! Great job!!!! :D


*huggles guys and new board look*

EDIT: Ya know -- my avatar kinda matches the color scheme! :D

Zasz Grimm
May 12th, 2003, 08:49:28 PM
I hit GJO, to see what was going on, due to my usual lurking. I saw a page loading (slowly), so I only saw orange / reddish bars. I was like..That's not GJO.

So I hit back and I went back in.


It was GJO....


Excellent job you guys!

Zeke
May 12th, 2003, 08:56:39 PM
::runs through all the forums:: They're all Coruscant-ified! Well, except Yog's and Home One. Were you guys gonna redo Home One like you are with Yogs?

Morgan Evanar
May 12th, 2003, 09:02:35 PM
I could, but there doesn't seem to be demand for it. Yogs will change soon...

-shrug-

Lion El' Jonson
May 12th, 2003, 09:05:47 PM
I came in, looked at the screen, and I'm all: damn, my gamma settings are screwed again...

Well, they weren't...:D

Man, guys, this is excellent. I give it mucho thumbs up.

Backgrounds rock, colors rock, new logo rocks...everything kicks serious crap. I especially like the Saber-Over-Planet thing...

You all must've been hella busy...

*Dies from the sweetness of it all*

:lol

edit: My avatar sorta matches the color scheme too...kick <smallfont color={hovercolor}>-Censored-</smallfont>, Xaz!

Hunk
May 12th, 2003, 09:09:05 PM
THis layout gets my highest rating yet: 5 thumbs up

Lion El' Jonson
May 12th, 2003, 09:10:34 PM
...you have 5 thumbs? O_o

I don't think there's any reason to redo home one, since it basically has little or nothing to do with the GJO...besides, who the hell goes there anymore? :p

Zeke
May 12th, 2003, 09:11:32 PM
People with dark avs fit in perfectly here. Means I need to go find a new one for Zeke. ::goes a huntin'::

DarthHERA
May 12th, 2003, 09:13:12 PM
Very nice - looks real classy.

Marcus Telcontar
May 12th, 2003, 09:15:23 PM
Now you know why I've switch back to my serious Avatar :)

Hunk
May 12th, 2003, 09:19:19 PM
I fits in anywhere, baby!

Zeke
May 12th, 2003, 09:38:08 PM
Muahah! I resurrect the chibi! If you didn't know better, you wouldn't know that's a black square in the Av's background. It blends just that well. :)

Taylor Millard
May 12th, 2003, 09:47:56 PM
Verra, verra nice. :)

Lion El' Jonson
May 12th, 2003, 10:01:34 PM
Well, Zeke...Black does tend to blend in with...black...

Leeloo Mina
May 12th, 2003, 10:03:31 PM
Omg. I'm scared.

Now the board has more of an open feeling.. before it felt alot more closed in.

I think I like it.

Rognan Dar
May 12th, 2003, 10:06:21 PM
:eek WOW! Thats about all I can say. Man, you guys are great. I thought the last one was fine....but then you pull something like this.....You guys deserve some MAD props! :)

Zeke
May 12th, 2003, 10:11:29 PM
Originally posted by Lion El' Jonson
Well, Zeke...Black does tend to blend in with...black...

Different tones/hues/values/whatever. Curse my color theory class. BTW, I nearly clicked your profile when I went to quote you. Stupid layout change. >_<

Pilot Akito
May 12th, 2003, 10:16:49 PM
Woah, they turned off the Sun!!!!

Cool, but what will we do when it gets cold?

Leeloo Mina
May 12th, 2003, 10:17:50 PM
Yeah.. I was PMing myself when trying to edit a post ^_^;

Lion El' Jonson
May 12th, 2003, 10:53:03 PM
You know what we need changed? The User Profiles.

There's one glaring weakness...

Why the hell does it say "biography" when we typed in the info ourselves? It should be an autobiography, I tell you! This must violate some law, or something...maybe I'll go and put my head on a stake in the front yard now...

Marcus Telcontar
May 12th, 2003, 10:58:27 PM
How about I pan you, ya whining pratt :p

TheHolo.Net
May 12th, 2003, 11:01:19 PM
Originally posted by Leeloo Mina
Yeah.. I was PMing myself when trying to edit a post ^_^; Your memorization must be a little off then, since the PM link is where it used to have a "Reply" link.

Lion El' Jonson
May 12th, 2003, 11:02:54 PM
No, Leeloo is just crazy.

*Runs from a panning*

PROPS TO MARCUS AND SWFANS!!! WOO!!!!

...Oh, and Morgan too, but I think I already congratulated him...oh well.

imported_J'ktal Anajii
May 12th, 2003, 11:45:03 PM
I do like the redesign, but, these planets in the message boxes are starting to drive me nuts.

I hate to say it, but, they're really distracting, sorry. Makes it hard to read long posts.

Lion El' Jonson
May 13th, 2003, 12:26:18 AM
I haven't tried reading a long post with the planets yet, but I do like them over the stars for one reason: With the little stars, all of my lower case letters started looking like R's and J's, because the little light dots looked like they were attached to the words.

...but I can see how the planets would drive people nuts.

Sage Hazzard
May 13th, 2003, 12:56:35 AM
Amazing. I could nitpick about the planets, I guess, but why? The layout rocks so much I can't really find the time to find something bad about it. Stellar, boys, stellar. :D

Oriadin
May 13th, 2003, 03:02:06 AM
Give yourself a very large pat on the back guys. I love it. Makes it feel like the Jedi really have returned to Coruscant :)

ReaperFett
May 13th, 2003, 04:49:50 AM
SO SLOW TO LOAD!



But worth it :)

Oriadin
May 13th, 2003, 05:01:27 AM
**Has broadband at home and at work**

Seems fine to me :p

Shawn
May 13th, 2003, 05:13:11 AM
I rather like the planets in the background, and I normally don't like bgs for text messages. I find it easier on the eyes and more appealing than just straight black.

(goes to twiddle with his avatar) :)

Jared Mriad
May 13th, 2003, 05:21:03 AM
Pretty nifty, this is. I like :)

Kelt Simoson
May 13th, 2003, 06:00:27 AM
Not bad, not bad atall. :)

Wei Wu Wei
May 13th, 2003, 06:21:29 AM
It's very nice. Now all those stars in the bakground are gone. Sometimes one of those little buggers in the background would just happen to come right after a word so I thought it was punctuation instead of the background. Totally threw me off.

Alpha
May 13th, 2003, 09:00:49 AM
Very nice!!! :) This is soo awsome. :)

John Nightstar
May 13th, 2003, 09:34:41 AM
Makes me feel like I'm falling.


O_o

Navaria Tarkin
May 13th, 2003, 09:42:20 AM
just like in your pic :p

John Nightstar
May 13th, 2003, 09:45:02 AM
Actually in my avatar I am upright on a pole kicking some butt.

(watch ep. 2 of Digimon frontier and you'll see!)

Navaria Tarkin
May 13th, 2003, 09:46:03 AM
I'll think I'll pass on that >_<

John Nightstar
May 13th, 2003, 09:48:37 AM
Meh.

*falls*

Ouch.....

:(

But the new look rwaks, grats Ogies Morgie and Markie.

Lion El' Jonson
May 13th, 2003, 11:43:55 AM
Oh, c'mon, Digimon isn't totally screwed up!

It's pretty damn close to totally screwed, but it hasn't reached the level of *shudder* Yu-Gi-Oh.

Dubbing is pissing me off.....:lol

Navaria Tarkin
May 13th, 2003, 11:48:00 AM
Subtitles are the way to go... :)

But digimon pokeman yu gi gon can just go away

Lion El' Jonson
May 13th, 2003, 11:57:03 AM
Oh, especially Yu Gi Oh...Pokemon enjoyed its 15 (well, 150) minutes of fame, but it still sells like hell.

Digimon sorta went:

1st Season: Excellent

2nd Season: Good

Movie: Bad->Excellent, it was hard to tell

3rd Season: SUCKED!

4th Season: Mediocre

5th Season: Excellent

So, it took a really bad fall and is slowly coming back...they rehired some of the old voice actors, got a new storyboard team, and got animators from some now-defunct excellent Japanese Animes.

It's going uphill...chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga-WOOO WOOO!!!-chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga...

Yes, that was possibly disturbing...:lol

Dasquian Belargic
May 13th, 2003, 11:57:42 AM
It's certainly very different.

Nice, but will take a while to get used to :)

Droo
May 13th, 2003, 04:57:56 PM
I share Vega's sentiments. I was sort of in love with the traditional GJO look, probably because it felt very homely and comfortable. This new style looks top notch and all involved in the production process bitsy-witsy have done a bang!bang!-up job. Well done you people.

(Embarks on the getting-used-to-it therapy)

:rollin

Sage Hazzard
May 14th, 2003, 12:16:47 AM
This just looks more professional. No offense, but the last style seemed like we were a RPing group... well, you shouldn't take offense to that anyway. But now it just seems so professionally done. It's like an official site's mb would need to be. Really seems like seasoned veterans were payed loads of money to overhaul the site and it took 6 months. Probably not far off, but without the money. ;)

Excellent, excellent, excellent job. The color scheme most of all is amazing. It could have no graphics and I'd be happy. They just come together, and blend together. I'd swear most of the type is high grade images, instead of simple text links, because it looks so well together. :)

Kelt Simoson
May 14th, 2003, 05:18:31 AM
I simply love it, thumbs up to the Shawnster and Morgy

Marcus Telcontar
May 14th, 2003, 05:38:08 AM
It was Morgan, with Ogre and Marcus co-conspiring with him.

Kelt Simoson
May 14th, 2003, 05:39:18 AM
Oh im sorry, well thumbs up instead to you 3 :)

Morgan Evanar
May 14th, 2003, 09:15:53 AM
Originally posted by Sage Hazzard
This just looks more professional. No offense, but the last style seemed like we were a RPing group... well, you shouldn't take offense to that anyway. I'll be the first to say that what I came up with was a step up from what we had before on EZBoard GJO, and I was very constrained by my meduim, aka EZ-ily-crapBoard. I hate(d) it even more after doing that layout, trying to make it behave a certain way after litterally over 10 hours of fighting that piece of trash.

This was pretty easy. HTML-ize it, fix the colors, insert the headers, edit the image links. Ogre did a lot of color and link fixing since he is more familiar with it than I.

It was time for a change, and I'll probably make another style pretty soon, although for SWF and not GJO. GJO will get more indivdual forum wrinkles over the coming weeks.

Sameer Aryan
May 14th, 2003, 06:44:18 PM
It really nice of you guys to work so hard on it. I mean, you spend you personal time doing this...It's great! Can't wait to see the SWF one!

Morgan Evanar
May 14th, 2003, 07:03:35 PM
I did do Coruscant Night, you know.

Sorry, that was short. I'm having a lot of crap to deal with at home right now, but I'm not unfamiliar with making a style, and I like doing it. I do stuff like styles for me, because I want to change or fix something.

Sameer Aryan
May 16th, 2003, 04:11:00 PM
Well I admire you then :lol I don't have enough patience for stuff like that...I'd start off all cool and end up rushing to finish it all! I can't leave something pending. :\

Sage Hazzard
May 17th, 2003, 01:36:35 AM
I'd probably ask Ogre if I could do a style, but it'd end up with grids and glows up the kazoo. Not to bright neon borders! :lol

Great job dude. I'll be honest, I like Coruscant Nights but it's not mind blowing. This is awesome. It just oozes profesionalism. I hope your next style for the main board looks half as good as this. :) I think it's the simplicity of it, along with the color scheme. It has just enough of everything.

Kelt Simoson
May 17th, 2003, 03:08:29 AM
Coruscant Nights simply rocks but i only use it for one of my chars cecause i try to stick with the theme of my chars. I mostly use EP2 Dark