The extensive FAF GUI thread :)

[csoller]

Regards Folks,

When FAF came out, I talk with Ze_PilOt about the look of the lobby and he said that it's low on his list of priorities, which is completely understandable. He also said that he will make the source code public, so that anyone with spare time can modify it.
I think FAF is still in it's early phase and a nice look could make more people stay online.
This took a tad longer than expected, and the code was/is not easy to modify.

Half a year ago I only had a mockup I created, but I dont know crap about CSS and/or coding in general, so I asked my clan buddy Blackstar to help me out. Now we have a theme file that is still far from being done, but at least we see some light at the end of FAF's tunnel.

I share the mockups with you:
this is the first one http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19423458/FAF.0.2.png,
second one http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19423458/FAF.0.3.png
I had to change the first one, because some things couldn't be pulled off.

The main reason for this thread is to ask for help, because Blackstar is having trouble with the non-CSS part of the code.
The second reason is to encourage people to make themes for FAF. I'm sure not everyone will like our theme, and having multiple choices is always a nice thing.

People contributed: Blackstar (coding), thygrrr, me (design). Feel free to send me a pm on FAF.

[Reddev32]

liking it good work

give me a link and i'll test it

[thygrrr]

I would suggest to not keep this discussion public, but instead focus on the private one in the contributor forums. Really nice to see others working on a fancy design for FAF though, that helps me keep my mind off graphical questions and focus on teh code.

[csoller]

Oki, hopefully we will soon have something we can hand out for testing, however a skin doesn't need that much testing.
For now, its just a picture