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As we've previously mentioned elsewhere, switching over to XenForo has meant that we've had to pretty much start from scratch as far as forum styles are concerned. Sadly, there's no simple process to just convert those over.
While we are intending to have the old forum styles (in terms of colour schemes) return progressively over the coming months, this will be a fairly slow process. In fact, the process is taking a lot longer than we initially expected. We'd initially hoped to have the Christmas skin ready for you by the beginning of December, at currently it's looking like it won't be available until the 20th. The reason for the delay has been due to the development of a updated layout and general feel for the Christmas style, which is intended to be the base for our forums styles moving forward.
Because of that delay, we've decided to have a separate team of people working on some stop-gap styles, using the basic XenForo look and feel. These stop-gap styles will eventually be moved over to the new look, but for now they'll serve to give you a few additional options in case the Red of the ORAS style is a bit painful for you. It's a lot easier for us to produce these than it is to work on an entirely new layout, so we can afford to create a few of these for you to give you a lot more options sooner.
The first of these stop-gap styles is Bulbagarden Classic. We've used several variations on this colour scheme since 2000, and it was the original style that the Bulbagarden Forums reopened with in late 2002 when I took over as webmaster. You can switch to this style right now. At the bottom left of the forums, simply click on the style name (which should be ORAS for all of you currently) and open up the style chooser. Bulbagarden Classic should be the only other option in that list for now.
The next style however is completely up to you. If you go over to the MEMO: - Forum Style Development thread, you'll see I've uploaded preview images of most of the old Bulbagarden forum skins. We've selected 10 of the most popular skins from various eras of the forums. Go take a look, then vote for your top skin from that set. We'll develop the most popular skins from this list as placeholders (along with a few staff selected ones), and should have those ready for you before Christmas. This poll will close at the end of the weekend
While we are intending to have the old forum styles (in terms of colour schemes) return progressively over the coming months, this will be a fairly slow process. In fact, the process is taking a lot longer than we initially expected. We'd initially hoped to have the Christmas skin ready for you by the beginning of December, at currently it's looking like it won't be available until the 20th. The reason for the delay has been due to the development of a updated layout and general feel for the Christmas style, which is intended to be the base for our forums styles moving forward.
Because of that delay, we've decided to have a separate team of people working on some stop-gap styles, using the basic XenForo look and feel. These stop-gap styles will eventually be moved over to the new look, but for now they'll serve to give you a few additional options in case the Red of the ORAS style is a bit painful for you. It's a lot easier for us to produce these than it is to work on an entirely new layout, so we can afford to create a few of these for you to give you a lot more options sooner.
The first of these stop-gap styles is Bulbagarden Classic. We've used several variations on this colour scheme since 2000, and it was the original style that the Bulbagarden Forums reopened with in late 2002 when I took over as webmaster. You can switch to this style right now. At the bottom left of the forums, simply click on the style name (which should be ORAS for all of you currently) and open up the style chooser. Bulbagarden Classic should be the only other option in that list for now.
The next style however is completely up to you. If you go over to the MEMO: - Forum Style Development thread, you'll see I've uploaded preview images of most of the old Bulbagarden forum skins. We've selected 10 of the most popular skins from various eras of the forums. Go take a look, then vote for your top skin from that set. We'll develop the most popular skins from this list as placeholders (along with a few staff selected ones), and should have those ready for you before Christmas. This poll will close at the end of the weekend