Final stage of redesign is done on STR

Forums Get a New Look

The forums now have a similar style to the rest of the forums and at the risk of sounding cocky - it looks damn good!

I found the direct compliment of the darker brown that was used on the rest of the website and it turned out to be a blue/teal’ish color. I really like how it accents the brown. Most of the rest was kept neutral, either gray or black. Link have an orange hover state.

Long Time Coming

I’ve wanted SocalTrailRiders.org to have a consistent look and feel throughout the website for a long time now.

The old design, with it’s bar on the left and vertical navigation, didn’t lend itself to well to having a forum style created out of it. This created a big problem as I couldn’t simply style a header and footer template but would have had to customize many templates, found a way to style those with the same CSS as the rest of the website, and it just would have been a big mess.

I created the V3 redesign with this in mind. That’s why I included horizontal tabs, a rectangle header section, and a consistent footer. This enabled me to easily adapt the design to a forum style. Luckily it worked out well.

One More Thing . . .

Created a DVD case and sweet cover for the STR Volume 1 DVD. People who get one tomorrow at the Blackstar/Motorway ride will get a treat!

Enjoy!