In my forum, red is a primary color in my theme. It goes with the rest of the site design. I have a few people complaining that the red is making their eyes bleed and make them want to kill themselves .

The majority of the people like it though. I've been creating websites in general long enough to know that you can't please everyone and it's hard enough to get 4 people to agree on something much less 100 or more!

I could easily modify my theme to tone down the red and offer a 2nd theme. I see that AF does that here. Is this something commonly done? Also, when people sign up I would like them to have the default RED..can a preference be set in the user control panel somehow? I'm new to vB so I don't know if say "Joe" comes to the forum and chooses the "grey" theme, will it stay the grey theme everytime he comes back to visit or is this a setting that i would need to create in vB. I tried searching google but apparently my search terms sucked.

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My own site has 4 totally different styles, there is usually one they like. I would hate to visit a site which only has one skin. Especially if its one in colors I dislike.

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Ok, so it seems like it's a good idea to offer another, do you know how the technicalities work? If someone chooses a theme, will the forum remember their selection or is that something they set as their preference in the usercp?

Thanks!

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In mine, the drop-down appears in every page.. SO, when a user selects a different color, it is remembered.

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If they dislike the red, tone it down a bit. Look at some templates with red in there and try to see why they look nice and function. I never make 2 themes for a forum. My layouts are mostly unique and branded for that forum. I would rather establish a brand than have 10 stock themes. And it looks like my folks have nothing to do with the fact I don't offer them more themes ...

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i offer a dark, a light, and a fast (loading) theme on my site.

and yes, the theme on vB is remembered and they can also set it in the usercp.

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The only thing is I have the red in the rest of the site so it's establishing a brand as it's own. they dont mind the red in the header, its the red in the threads (in the table headings) so I may change those to grey and see how everything looks. I don't mind offering an additional theme if it sticks to the branding.

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Nobody seems to be answering your question

Yes, if a user selects a skin that is not the default one, this option will be saved every time they come back...This must be a logged in member though (won't work for guests)

We offer 2 skins here at AF for that very reason...many people felt that the red (which was the original once upon a time) was too "blinding", however, there are a lot of people who like the red one and have been using it for quite some time now.

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I don't have a second theme because the one I have I like and have heard no complaints about. That said, if it were simple I might entertain a second with subtle changes in color (but same layout, graphics, etc) to retain branding while supporting choice. If you have that option early on probably worth doing.

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and thanks everyone for the input!

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