Admin Addict New Owner, New Direction

Certainly this a lot more usable then IPB has ever been, I think this style improves on their default considerably as well.

Additionally, since I believe IPB uses CKEditor, how come their's is so good and vB's is...errrmm...

For starters, in Chrome vB's editor gives me a silly yellow box around the editor, which vB have said can't be avoided. Errm, except of course it doesn't do it on here....

 

Only thing I think you should do is go back to AdminAddict's original, distinctive logo. The current one is a bit..."meh"...could be any site on the internet. If you could take their original logo and match it to the new default style that would look cool.

 

IPS skinned the editor a bit, that's why it's looking better than the vB one. vBulletin it's just using the default CK skin, they're too lazy for custom work...

 

I would go as far as to say that IPB's editor is now the best of the lot. I see they also took the XenForo idea of having the user's avatar next to the editor (something I have also done on vB, though I am still pre-CK.)

 

I think the CKEditor used here better like you say in IPB 3.2, shows how XenForo could make great use of it and ditch that free crappy TinyMCE. I don't get why they stick with TinyMCE still, they are only singling themselves out as using the worst Text Editor of the three main forum products (IPB 3, vB 4 and XenForo). It would make more common sense to do away with that XenForo "Handicap" and use the the same CKEditor as the other two.

Many people will choose forum software purchased based upon the text editor it uses, it would be better for XenForo overall to "neutralize that risk" to work in their own favour by using CKEditor.

 

Although some would say I'm biased, the fact of the matter is AA's custom theme and logo was designed before I even came on-board and I too like it. It's already recognizable and known in the forum community and it would be great if it could be adapted into this new style.

 

So I am late in the game, but I accidentally hit the wrong button and landed here, and boy, what a refresh.
Nice job AWS

 

I agree, it actually has "brand value", and there's not that many forums can say that.

Come on AWS, get the old logo adapted for this style.....give AA its identity again!

 

I don't even remember what the old AA logo looked like now?

 

I did some simple mockups for the new logo, will do one similar to the old one in the next days

 

Try this one, I can adjust the placement and background text colour in the silver image part

 

Example of what it should look like

 

I was looking at the IPB default theme to base it off (blue colour). LOL

Hold on, let me offer a another version that better suits that black theme. I moved the logo down a touch as well to be more centred

 

Here is a last version I did a bit more work with, might be worth testing this one.