New Style

Is there a plan to bring a new style/layout to danbooru in the future?
I think the current one is a bit boring, isn't it?

I like the one that's being used, personally. I like how simple and useful the interface is and that the website is relatively quick to load and doesn't do a number on my browser.

Didn't think about the performance-thing so far, but you're right^^

Please, please don't change the style. Or, if you have to, make it skinnable.

I really love this interface and... pretty much everything about it.

(Hmm, maybe make a "black edition" for when I have a migraine... Greasemonkey... Hmm...)

Fancier layouts also increase bandwidth which increases the cost to run the site.

wakken said:
I think the current one is a bit boring, isn't it?

Boring == Good

Fancy == Bad

Custom colours would be nice, which I dont think would cause much increase in bandwidth usage.

While I prefer a dark background to a bright background, I think danbooru looks just fine.

The simpler the layout, the better.

I don't really think new styles would appeal me, and background colors are currently used to display the "mode" while browsing/editing posts thumbnails anyways. If you want more colors, look at colorful pics? XD

I also think the same.
if danbooru getting more heavy like those others image site, I don't think my connection speed here could handle it.
beside, I'm simple myself, hecne, I prefer simple design.

I don't see what's stopping you from making a custom stylesheet and applying it while browsing. Danbooru generates pretty clean XHTML so a user-defined CSS file should make it look like anything you want. And if you amke one that looks good, you can upload it somewhere for others to use too.

It's really quite easy to make a custom style. Danbooru really does have very nice clean XHTML.

If you want to alter the style, I would recommend the Firefox plugin Stylish. It has very nice style alteration options, and you can just overload certain aspects of the style rather than creating an entirely new one.

It took me about fifteen minutes today to throw together a style that's basically the same except with a black background and green text.

kumarei said:
It's really quite easy to make a custom style. Danbooru really does have very nice clean XHTML.

If you want to alter the style, I would recommend the Firefox plugin Stylish. It has very nice style alteration options, and you can just overload certain aspects of the style rather than creating an entirely new one.

It took me about fifteen minutes today to throw together a style that's basically the same except with a black background and green text.

Looks very interesting to me, could you share the customization?
Paste it somewhere like pastebin.org or so if you would want to share

Here's the style for stylish: http://pastebin.org/7800

If you want to do it some other way, just ignore everything up to line 4. (Edit: also ignore the !important, as that's a keyword that says that those parts of the stylesheet should be overwritten)

I said 15 min, but most of that time was figuring out the parts of the pages that don't use the body text and background colors.

kumarei said:
Here's the style for stylish: http://pastebin.org/7800

If you want to do it some other way, just ignore everything up to line 4. (Edit: also ignore the !important, as that's a keyword that says that those parts of the stylesheet should be overwritten)

I said 15 min, but most of that time was figuring out the parts of the pages that don't use the body text and background colors.

Oh so that's how you use it (I was omitting the !important bit so it was being ignored)
Thanks for sharing

Just in case anyone cares, I've updated the source so that it works on nearly all of the pages on Danbooru. I would like to make the text green on the user profiles page, and make the background black, but that can't be done without losing information on the Records page.

Anyway, the most current version can be found here:
http://userstyles.org/styles/4099

If anyone has any styles that they'd like me to make, let me know, and I'll give it a shot.

This is very cool, both the style you created and especially Stylish! I'm playing around with it now. If I make something that's worth seeing I'll definitely post it. Thanks for pointing this out! :)

EDIT:
Posted a quick edit/hackjob of your style: http://www.userstyles.org/styles/4114

It's more for me than anyone else, but feel free to use it, of course.

I've been using style attributes lately in the HTML code because I've been lazy. If any of these are getting in the way of your custom stylesheet, tell me and I can convert it into an appropriate class/id. Same goes for any other HTML tag identifying issues.

The only ones that I've seen so far are the ones for the positive and negative lines on the User Records page. It would help quite a bit if those were made into classes.

kumarei said:
The only ones that I've seen so far are the ones for the positive and negative lines on the User Records page. It would help quite a bit if those were made into classes.

Done.