Half Life Theme Voting

[G6Cad]

I just wanted to say a few things.

Yes, posts were made at my site, posts about the competition, themes were posted.
But with all due respect, It wasent me or my site that announced the competition, not my site that holds the contest, so even if TP as down, my site have nothing to do with the contest in any way.

Porky run the contest, Porky have said for a month in the other thread about the rules, what day the contest starts, and what rules the themes had to follow in order for the contest to even exist.
It's bad that TP went down the day it was suposed to be the start of the contest, But even if it was down, my site or any post there regarding this contest have nothing to do with the contest what so ever.
We were a few that jumped over to familjegodis ( as we usually do when TP is down) and had some support and a chitchat there to just be together, thats about it, I havent started the contest on my site, but a didnt say anything about the themes screenshots posted there eather.

It's to sad that lyes about who done what and when, and frankly, this could have been fun, but now it's just a lot of sadness and whining and no fun at all.

The rules to me were clear
Your own creation, Posted the 15th at latest, Darkman posted his theme on my site yes, but even if he did, it took 30+ hours before it got posted here, over a day more in any timezone just as Thurnok my TP brother stated.
All the whining is tiresome, you go on to this like it's a life and death matter, Why not just see the fun of it.
I dont thing the other members here will think this is a fun thing or fun reading at all.
Do what you do, be proud of the work done, stand tall for your OWN creativity, And most of all, Stop whining like babies, that's not going to leed any where in like, 16 yers old or not, whipe your own but and stand for your actions. ( The mother in me came out )

[Bug]

I voted for Xarcell's Half Life theme!! I was having a toss between Xarcell's and kusana's because both looked great. Then on Xarcell's, I noticed up the top the icons. I clicked on them and guess what?!? SKIN CHANGES!! Woot!! That's how it got my vote.

[raxavier69]

STORM! FTW

[gfxindia]

My Opinion is that ,
This should be followed - http://www.tinyportal.net/smf/index.php?topic=8618.msg70784#msg70784

I AM REALLY NOT TO BLAME
It might be 30 hours after i posted at Familegodies. But that doesn't matter. See how many hours it was after TP was up.
http://www.tinyportal.net/smf/index.php?topic=8618.msg70781#msg70781

[eldacar]

Xarcel's:
It scrolls far too slowly for me. I don't know why, but you lost my vote because of this.
The headers are great, and I love the style changes. The main colours are good and balanced well, however aside from the headers, there is nothing graphically interesting - just plain boxes.

Bloc's:
A well balanced theme (to be expected of course). I personally think it's a bit tame however. Still nice though

StormLtd's:
Not bad overall, but some of the graphics are rough. I don't like those borders either, but otherwise it's quite nice. Would be nice to see in non-orange colours.

Jpg's:
Not bad, but a little simple. The menu buttons do not fit in with the rest of your theme.

Kusanar's:
This is a nice theme. A little simple, but overall very nice. It gets my vote.

[stormlrd]

Xarcel's:
It scrolls far too slowly for me. I don't know why, but you lost my vote because of this.
The headers are great, and I love the style changes. The main colours are good and balanced well, however aside from the headers, there is nothing graphically interesting - just plain boxes.

Bloc's:
A well balanced theme (to be expected of course). I personally think it's a bit tame however. Still nice though

StormLtd's:
Not bad overall, but some of the graphics are rough. I don't like those borders either, but otherwise it's quite nice. Would be nice to see in non-orange colours.

Jpg's:
Not bad, but a little simple. The menu buttons do not fit in with the rest of your theme.

Kusanar's:
This is a nice theme. A little simple, but overall very nice. It gets my vote.

thanks for the critique, I always love ppl that take the time to properly critique pros and cons of what they are voting/viewing/commiting on.

This is the type of thing I'd like to see more of from everyone as this is the type of post that inspires us to do better rather than leaving us in the dark about what we did wrong.

Thanks Bloc I will complete it.

And finally as I said previously, Remember a cpl things... Regardless of who wins, everyone wins.

We have done something that will help to promote not only SMF but our favorite Mod Tiny Portal and the untapped potential it can have for everyone.

~Storm

[akulion]

oh in that case ill add some critiques and comments too

Xarcell: Your themes got my vote simply because to me they presented a complete persona of the valve games and i absolutely loved the graphics. Critique: As a smf user to me the forum was too heavily based on default theme I think, it could have used more customizations.

Bloc: Your theme design and icons were spotlessley clean and beautiful and woud have definately voted for you but didnt because in my opinion this whole competition was about the game and to me personally your theme failed to present me the 'game feel and look'

Stormlord: your theme was very nice and i absoutely loved the unique menu and the scrolling downloads box at the bottom - very innovative stuff. But the reason I didnt vote for you was because the theme itself gives a very 'heavy' appearance and a bulky look which is inconsistent with the actual game look and feel in my opinion.

jpg: it was a very nice theme but to be honest a bit too simple for my taste and also at first impression did not give me a fel for the game at all.

Kusanar: your theme was simple but nice, your block header graphics are very nice, but the center blocks icons are very rough around the edges and that was the first thing that caught my eye and it quickly lost it professional look.

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all that being said - keep in mind im no designer so my opinions arent that big a deal anyways lol...and if i was too harsh on someone please forgive me - i did not mean to offend anyone in my critiques.

[kusanar]

Thx for the comments.

For the icon I know, I've remade it but I'll put it on the theme at the end of the vote, the 26. I start also to make more icons for the rest of the theme. And last thing, if you look the css, each block can have it's own header. I've planned to make a header for each but it was too short so only 2 are on the theme for the contest. The others will come after.

[Porky]

Hey Bloc I noticed on your themethat you didn't make the Site map transparent...if you put it in the top right of the blocks it covers the picture in the back..

[Jpg]

Thanks for the critique dude. I was gonna finish the menu buttons with some icons from halflife. Decided not to seeming I was tired last night and stopped working at 1:00 in the morning...yawn...