Okay, so if we aren't allowed to complain about the colours in the bugs thread - and this is one MASSIVE bug!!! - so I'm posting this for the purpose.

For an art site in 2011 - this looks like the 50's, the dirty blues are painful to look at (asthetically painful) such blues do art no favours whatsoever, so the galleries are shot to h£ll, and it's taken me 2 to 3 weeks to get a style sheet even partially working for just the forums.

Please, please Renderosity, give us a choice???  Please???

(blue used to be my favourite colour - but this will put me off it for life)

We need to be able to get rid of these terrible blues, set the font size and screen size - so that things don't shoot off the screen or sit in the middle with wide useless bars either side doing nothing, and so that text doesn't dissapear under text boxes, becoming thus unreadable, or else so small you have to put your nose right up to the screen and gives you constant eyestrain.

I mean come on people, it's really not rocket science.

Hi Fran,

several members and I did already complain and post helpful suggestions... but w/o any noticeable effect so far.

Fully agreed to your statements!! That blue color scheme is imo not suitable for an Art site. Not to forget certain removed(!) basic usability/functionality due to this change. :(

I too would prefer much more neutral colors instead (e.g. shades of grey). Or to get the old site scheme back as a choice/user-option. Members having to adjust personalized CSS is no solution.

PS: Even Woody feels blue after to this "uglificationated" makeover (i.e. my approach to deal with this unwanted style):

Woody in "The R'osity Blues"
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2229169

Woody in "The Blue'rosity Fanclub"
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2230369

As you see.... you are not alone! Hope, these scenes cheered you up a little bit. ;)

Hubert

if complaining about the site's horrific color scheme makes you feel better, go for it...but don't expect any changes...it is like speaking to a brick wall.  at least go view Hubert's very well done and very funny gallery images--laughing about this mess does help a bit...

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2830775

Quote - Hi Fran,

several members and I did already complain and post helpful suggestions... but w/o any noticeable effect so far.

Fully agreed to your statements!! That blue color scheme is imo not suitable for an Art site. Not to forget certain removed(!) basic usability/functionality due to this change. :(

I too would prefer much more neutral colors instead (e.g. shades of grey). Or to get the old site scheme back as a choice/user-option. Members having to adjust personalized CSS is no solution.

PS: Even Woody feels blue after to this "uglificationated" makeover (i.e. my approach to deal with this unwanted style):

Woody in "The R'osity Blues"
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2229169

Woody in "The Blue'rosity Fanclub"
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2230369

As you see.... you are not alone! Hope, these scenes cheered you up a little bit. ;)

Hubert

Thanks, made me smile.

Goldie,

A brick wall.... a brick wall?  Nooooooooooo!  Arrrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Yes... a brick wall.

On a lighter note, this horrible color-scheme inspired me to add a series of 8 images to my own gallery, in response. The first image is here:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2229428&user_id=155416&np&np

Enjoy! (... might as well, because it looks like we're stuck with this.)

perhaps noel or somebody will tell youse how to adjust yer stylesheets to change the colours.  it may have already been mentioned.

Quote - Or to get the old site scheme back as a choice/user-option. Members having to adjust personalized CSS is no solution.

CSS Style options IS a Choice/User-option! Just because you don't like the way it's implemented doesn't make it any less of a viable option! If you go to the CSS Forum you will find several ready made CSS Options that you only have to cut and paste into the styles section of your gallery and forum options!

I, for one, have already adjusted my CSS stylesheets for both the forums and the galleries, however, there are still many parts of the site (including within the forums and galleries) which our available 'CSS options' will not effect.

This being the case, I was simply offering some light-hearted relief to someone who apparently shares my point of view.

The fact remains... We do not have a viable option which will remove the blues from this site - and no amount of exclamation points is going to change that fact. (Believe me, we've tried.)

pappy, is the problem http://www.renderosity.com/templates/renderosity/style/Blue.css

where it sez "body {
    font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;
    font-size: 12px;
    color:#ccc;
    background-image:url(../image/body_bg.png);
    background-repeat:repeat-y;
    background-color:#002b4b;"  ?

the two blue areas are body_bg.png and background-color:#002b4b.  the one-line png (http://www.renderosity.com/templates/renderosity/image/body_bg.png) propagates down (y-direction).  ya may hafta supply a new URL to yer desired png.  they may know how to change those in css forum. unless ye already tried adding lines to change them.

yeah, I tried it in FF and it replaced the blue gradient png and the blue bgcolour (on the sides) that are imposed by the blue stylesheet.  there are sevl. more blues ya can kill on that, however the other two sheets (site.css and main.css) don't appear to have any blues in 'em.  the one where ya kill the gold threadnames is the main.css IIRC.  here is how to do it: ya don't actually try to replace their sheets, but just copy the offending lines with blue or gold colours, paste 'em in yer sheet, edit to white/grey/black e.g., then yer sheet should supercede the same lines in theirs.

Miss Nancy,

No. I have changed the code which you mentioned (at 3:11 pm), but thank you.

I have just browsed through the available source code (on site) for my current gallery pages. One of the (two) offending colors which I don't seem to able to change is #007cad. 

The other offending color, I am having trouble tracking down at the moment, but it is the background color behind the main title, "Art Gallery". (I must have gone blind, just can't seem to locate it right now.)

If you have a workable code for these two areas, I would love to see it. These are the same colors/areas which are still unchanged in the forum code as well.

I am using Internet Explorer. (Yes, by choice. Lol.)

yes, I see that now.  colour #007cad can be eliminated from headers using css cut/paste, but #007cad in the table cell bgs (e.g. the ones for community and advert to the right) are not declared in any of the 3 sheets called for each page.  but there's still hope, mind ye.  however, i can't use Explorer (OS X).

there is a stylesheet in the source code that sets backgrounds to #007cad et al., however it won't allow me to change the table style ="background-color" from #007cad.  my suggestion would be to ask araneldon in html forum to write javascript to change these.  gifts might be appreciated.

Heh! I'm sure they would be... but so would a simple color-scheme option for Renderosity's valued customers. I think I'll just continue avoiding the marketplace altogether and hating what blues remain in the galleries and forums, for now.

... but on a more positive note, (and I do love to be positive...) the time which I used to spend in the marketplace, I've invested into learning how to model and rig my own characters and clothing. I've already saved myself over $100, and I've even started offering my own freebies. By the time Rendo decides to make the marketplace viewable again, I probably won't have any interest in going there.

one way they could make it user-variable is to strip out the parts of the html source that declare the table attributes as separate css page.  these are the modules including:

<<span class="start-tag">span</span><span class="attribute-name"> id</span>=<span class="attribute-value">"countdown671315194" </span>><br></br><<span class="start-tag">table</span><span class="attribute-name"> style</span>=<span class="attribute-value">"background-color:#007cad;" </span><span class="attribute-name">class</span>=<span class="attribute-value">"countdown_671315194"</span>><br></br><br></br>where javascript uses countdown from "time zero" IIRC, so we know what day it is.  <br></br>but maybe that's why they can't separate it out - the javascript.

I agree. That's the section that contains several instances of the "#007cad" color that I couldn't change. Even so, this would only allow for the galleries and forums to be modified - unfortunately, the rest of the site would still remain painfully blue. Oh well, maybe next year it will be better...

well at least we're all getting a good education in CSS thanx to the horrible default colour scheme that rendo's established!!!

Hey gang, if you can't get the CSS to work, there is another option for those who use Firefox...

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2835258

While the blue is nice, I had to change it for myself because it put a strain on my eyes..