Do not mind the pictures that do not match this layout for now ...


Hopefully this is more pleasing to the eye.

Too much blue on blue, IMO, a lot of it is hard to read. :S

Interesting that you've gone down the make your own forum skin route as well, from what I know about that I can offer these suggestions:

- It feels cramped, the whole board could be a little wider, 100px at least.
- The default blue on the index page needs to be darker like the colour the date information is, there's too little contrast.
- As TamerBrad said - you could introduce some greys just to take away the total focus on blue.

If you haven't seen the following link yet I suggest having a look to become familiar with which CSS title will change which parts of the design:

http://ifskinzone.net/main.php?p=CSS_cheatsheet

And, you'll probably do this eventually but custom buttons and such would be nice.

So, what exactly is too blue, what is hard to read and what should be grey.

The original layout idea I had was too grey in my opinion ...

The forum lists and topic lists are light blue on top of lighter blue ...

The text entry here is light blue on top of medium blue. I realize you're going for a cohesive colour scheme, but text boxes are generally white for a reason.

well i think you did a great job kai-v!

the only thing that bothers me is that it's seems to cramped, as Kuznetsov said.

To be honest, the old layout was much better.

also, Aeris Angel's posts are hard to read now (the ones in pink).

... I cannot make a whole new layout now, and I am not going to use the previous one : it was very dark and lifeless.
Is there something I can change about this one though ?

Pink posts are unreadable everywhere except against dark backgrounds.

Well, here are a few suggestions:

- Make a new banner, I am sure you are going to do this soon anyways
- Make your own buttons that match the skin better
- Change the image at the top of each forum (Official Beyblade Spirit News, Beyblade Forum, etc) to something more Beyblade related.

I was planning on making fitting graphics.

Hm, I do not really see how I could make these forum pictures look good while adding a Beyblade touch to them ... I do not want to use only anime screenshots, yet what do I do with beyblades ...

The colours look better now.

You could perhaps just simply add a swirl effect to make it more Beyblade-related without having to bringing in screenshots or Beyblade stocks.