More WC Updates

Well, the most obvious update is that we changed the color scheme and style of the main WC2K5 site.  We did this to help answer the many complaints we had received over the pastel looking colors.  Hopefully this change will be more appealing to the masses.  However, we are not done with the overall look of the site.  There are still some areas that we wish to colorize further.  As an example, on the main site it is our plans to have each tab(section) have it's own color combination.  But we are going to try and stay away from the pastel colors and try to use more dark and warm colors. 

Finally we are starting to get some of the preferences from the old site into place.  The Max # of skins per page and Ratings filters are now in place.  Just to go your My Account page and on the Preferences page you can adjust these settings.  Over the course of the next month or so we will try and get some more settings in place but these were on the top of the list.

We are also trying to get navigation nailed down a little bit better in the forums.  There is a new navigation bar that appears when you are in a specific channel or reading a forum post.  This navigator bar allows you to jump right back to that channel or parent channel.  Also, if you are in OS Customization and click on the link to create a new post it will automatically select that channel for you saving you a click and page refresh.

And earlier in the week you probably saw that we changed the look of the main gallery page to a thumbnail view.  Now we are still working on the thumbnails.  To get this page to look its best we want the thumbnails to be a consistance size.  However, not all of the screenshots are the same so this is a little bit tougher. Right now we are forcing them all to be the same so many of the thumbnails are stretched.  We hope to in the near future change this to set max dimensions on them but we need to do some backend work first before we can make this happen.

Also I want to thank CerebroJD again for taking some time and creating new smilies for WinCustomize.  I really like the look of them and hope you do to!