The Cabal Cartel Site upgrade.

looking good dd, nice job.

Yeah, this is a nice new look.

Glad you like it. It's not just a new look, it's all new. PHPBB3 is gone and we are using Vbulletin.

Look around and play. There are many new features and functionality.

Man, this is very, very well done DD!

This will definitely help attract new members! Thanks for all of your hard work!

Good Jorb, DD!

Is the transparency gone for good? Looks much better now. Vbulletin is very nice.

Originally Posted by lexx

Is the transparency gone for good?

What do you mean?

Originally Posted by Devil_Dog

What do you mean?

Er last week there was a battlefield background over which type floated, now its clean and black

No.. It's still there.

What browser are you using? I can see it in Fire Fox, IE and Safari with no problems.

Anyone else having this issue.

Weird. Transparency's there for me. Using Firefox 3.6

I like the transparency, but I could stand it if the message text was brighter. More contrast.

Ha, now the background is back. I'm of course using FF latest build.

I think sometimes the background doesn't load right away - it is a decent-quality pic that needs to be downloaded. If it happens again, perhaps wait a minute or try hitting refresh.

One reason we elected not to go with a video banner for the -=NC=- site was the trade-off in graphics quality vs. load time. Unfortunately 30Mbps download speeds aren't available to all of us yet, or even most of us for that matter. I hate Prophet.

Well I only have 768k dsl so that may be it. I actually like it better just black. Its too hard to read on top otherwise.

BTW, permissions on the DC site have been fixed

ok cool thanks lexx

Nice job Double D !

First great job on the site DD! Thanks for all your hard work on it, I know it can be a royal pain to do.

One small suggestion though, could we make the background picture more subtle?
It is kind of in your face and obscures the text you are trying to read. Maybe more like a faded watermark picture effect would be better. Maybe even in B&W.

I already know of a few people that are blocking it as it kind of gets in the way.
What do you guys think?

Things are being worked on for release 2. Brighter text is one of them.

Thanks for the support and input.

Originally Posted by Devil_Dog

Things are being worked on for release 2. Brighter text is one of them.

This text is added because I was required to add text to submit my message.

Even with that I really think the picture needs to be more subtle man. Even with totally white bold text it is just too hard to read with all that going on in the background.

Don't get me wrong man, you did a great job. I am just a "professional looking site" person, comes with my job.

I am just trying to help.

I wouldn't complain if the picture were a touch more subtle. Here's a sample of what things might look like when the text color is adjusted. How does this look now by comparison? I think it helps a lot. I think this is the old text color, so that you can compare them side-by-side.