Forum Changes

[Suicide Junkie]

Having an option for the sidebar being on the left or right would be nice.
Personally, I'd go with the right.

The press releases need to have sanity checking on their spread. When you only see one every other page of text (show all on this thread) it looks very silly.

I think david's backgrounds would be nice, if they were desaturated to match the overall atmosphere of the forum. They're just too bright and colourful as is

I've got a pretty high resolution going, and when at the top of a page, the bars and banners take up approximately 55% of my screen
At 800x600 resolution, there is only 20% of a screen's worth of actual thread showing when you click one.
Thus, it feels cramped in here now.

I highly reccommend that the sidebars be reined in while forumites are reading posts or replying to posts.
The top, black background bar that says shrapnel forums is good, but the sidebar should only be shown on the thread browsing page and the forum browsing page IMO.
IE:
Show the sidebar and announcements on these pages:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/ubbthreads.php
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22
Not these pages:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...&Number=336922
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...Number=337007&

The buffer issue came up before as well...
There definitely needs to be a pixel or two of space between the black separator line, and the black text on the content page.
The "F" in "Fill out the form below to post..." is touching the black bar on my screen, merging into a slighty fatter black vertical line.