Global Trade Station

Nick

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    So, I've been wanting to start my own development for a PokéCommunity style for a while now but always gave up on it until tonight. I was talking to Luke Jr., who's one of the main people I use their themes from and get the most tips for web design from, and I decided to give it another shot.

    So, with that said, I began looking up an idea. I searched www.pokemon.com for some ideas, but most of them weren't very helpful apart from the new game coming out. Then I checked the Japanese site, and that wasn't any help either since there's going to be a lot of the Heart Gold and Soul Silver related themes coming out in the future, or so I predict.

    I went back to the official US Pokémon site and found a link to the Global Trade Station. I clicked it and was awed at what I saw: that globe thing. I remade it the best I could without screwing up in Photoshop and started attempting to create a theme from it. With that said, I have:

    MOST UPDATED PIC: https://i39.tinypic.com/2drxr46.png
    https://i43.tinypic.com/35iuh3d.png <- With text and all that.
    https://i43.tinypic.com/ab1kw6.png <- Without text and all that (for view of background).

    Please take your time to look at that. Obviously it isn't completed yet since there's a lot missing from it and I haven't moved it over to an actual testing forum yet. Plus, the forum_new icon will be animated...

    If I release this, I'm thinking some time next month (around the 17th, maybe)?

    My question for you guys (since this is my first vBulletin style) is how does it look and do you have any ideas?
     
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    I really like it. It's nice and dark, and that globe is pretty amazing. The one thing I don't like is the sprites in the background :/ They just don't look good to me..
     
    Might as well post it here so others don't comment on that either:

    Nick says:
    *Know that those Pokemon sprites aren't going to be there, either.
    *I have something planned with those.
    *I just haven't implemented it yet.
     
    A solid dark theme that PC users have been begging for.

    Animated how? (forum icon) will the tiny spheres circle the globe or something? :O
     
    I don't mind the sprites, though if they were an animated gif slowly moving back and forth per line that would be cool. (you should definitely try to use GSDS sprites if you can.

    Overall I like this theme and I would definitely use it. (if you need any image help, I'd be glad to offer my services)
     
    Yeah, that looks great with the rounded corners. It melds well with the orbs.
     
    Rounded it is then!

    And in case anyone's concerned with the ranks and how they'll look, the only one that has a problem being able to be seen is the supporter color.

    https://i44.tinypic.com/2qs593b.png

    But that's just under the secondary alt window. So that can easily be fixed by changing that to a darker color.
     
    eh, just a minor detail, I wonder if there was a way to add a highlight to a groups names based upon style choice?
     
    Alright, so it seems the only reason that that comparison between the window colors didn't work out is because I didn't update that cell, so I updated it with the other color I had and set the opacity back to 100.

    https://i41.tinypic.com/2nuoe8.png

    Much better, no?
     
    actually yes, that does work fine!
     
    Finally! A solid dark PC theme. I mean sure there are some dark themes but they got some lighy color in em and all Its pretty good and all and I hope things go well.
     
    Its pretty nice and uh the expanded collaped image one can you post the old one like that so I can see the difference?
     
    It's gorgeous. It looks a lot like what you see on the GTS official site. I just love it.
     
    Todoroki Is said:
    Its pretty nice and uh the expanded collaped image one can you post the old one like that so I can see the difference?
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    Just look at other posts in the thread with links in them and you'll see the differences? :|
     
    the left and right borders look extremely out of place.. perhaps removing or replacing them is needed
     
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