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20 Oct 2006 > 9 Comments

Forum Junkies

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I designed this template last year for a forum called Forum Junkies, hosted by Excoboard. The design used a fluid layout (a challenge for me at the time), with fluid head and base images, and a large resizable banner that extended across the top of the page. The pixeltech style was typical of much of my work at that time, and I’m still rather proud of the techy pipes on the banner.

Overcomers gfx

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Ocgfx version 2 was created in September 2006, and is probably one of my finest forum designs to date. A ton of detail went into creating this design, esp’ the icons (inc’ animated smilies), and was greatly influenced by my love for pixel art.

Pixel Fortress Version One

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Pixel Fortress version one was my first design using Excoboards, and involved quite a large number of template modifications for the divided categories, head and base images, and other stuff; something Excoboard allow you to do directly in the html template without needing to resort to JavaScript hacks. The design was created largely using Microsoft’s paint, with a few touch ups (such as the drop shadow effects) in Paint Shop Pro.

Pixel Fortress Version Two

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The graphic design of Pixel Fortress version Two was a major advancement in my ability to create digital art. I was majorly proud and amazed at this design, and at the time I wouldn’t of thought it possible to create something in this style without a really powerful graphics program such as Photoshop. I used Paint Shop Pro entirely, and worked really hard on the code mods.

Letting Go

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I intended using this temp as a premade until a friend said that she was interested in using it for a social anxiety forum. The design is based on a pixel art mock up I created for proboards, although the real thing was created for Excoboard.

Arcane Prelude

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Arcane Prelude was the first of two pre-made template I created for Excoboard. The navi/logo table was quite complex for me at the time.

I also have created a number of premade templates for Proboards.

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9 Comments (Have your say)

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    Pingback on June 26, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    […] I’ve only had a PC since 2004, and so I’m still a bit of a Internet Noob. I originally intended to use the computer to help study mythology, but I soon learned how to create graphics, mainly for forum templates. Eventually I learned XHTML, and CSS. I have spent months learning JavaScript, and while I have pretty much all the basics covered, I’m still a long way off using it for anything worth while. […]

  2. BluAngelGrrl

    Comment on July 14, 2007 at 4:41 pm

    I really like Arcane Prelude. You should come back to Excoboard, and add it as a Template Design. I for one, would relish the thought of using it.

  3. Terry Nova

    Comment on February 13, 2008 at 4:56 am

    LOVE your blog, thanks for entertaining me Hope there will be more posts soon regards, terry ps - sorry im not that good in writing in english because I came from europe - but i understand a lot

  4. Robert

    Comment on March 1, 2008 at 1:07 am

    Is there any possible way that we are able to download “Forum Junkies”??

  5. mahud

    Comment on March 2, 2008 at 8:42 am

    Hi, Robert. I’ve sorry, but I designed that blog for Form Junkies alone (for excoboard).

  6. Momotaro

    Comment on February 23, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    Will you do anything for Invision boards?

  7. mahud

    Comment on February 26, 2009 at 2:15 am

    It’s been a couple of years since I’ve made forum templates/skins. I’ll check out Invision. Have they improved over the past couple of years?

  8. Momotaro

    Comment on March 2, 2009 at 10:59 am

    I don’t really know, since I discovered them recently, but I know that they have a new type of board called “ZetaBoards”. The overall design is different, and I don’t know if the inner workings have changed. If you want to see Zeta, their help site uses that. To see the old one, try my site. I hope you can make some for Invision :)

  9. Momotaro

    Comment on March 2, 2009 at 11:04 am

    Oh yeah, if you want to see the Admin Control Panel, I made you an account. Username is Mahud, password is skateboardeddie. Mess around if you need, I don’t care.

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