I take it you don't like my theme. ;-) Anyhow, would you mind explaining what is not good about it? I'm not really a graphic designer, and I'd welcome any feedback that I can learn from. Update: thanks for the feedback, McDarren.

heh... I'm sure you already realised that my "dig" was very much tongue-in-cheek...
but since you asked...here goes:
• it's erm... all orange ! (yes, yes.. I know it has to be that way otherwise you couldn't call it a pumpkin theme. hmmm, but then... I've seen a lot of green pumpkins :p)
• It's very LOUD (and I don't like loud, unless it's floyd)
• I don't like underlined links - they give me the irrits
• um.. that's it :)
Of course, all of the above is just (my) personal preference :)
And having said all this, I should also mention that I really like your Soothing Green Theme, and I've started using it :)
I should also say that I did ++ your Pumpkin Post. Which I guess is a bit ironic - but hey, they're my votes and I can do what I like with them :p

Cheers,
Darren :)

Anyhow, would you mind explaining what is not good about it?

Also, Recently Active Threads doesn't look the best...

thor

Feel the white light, the light within
Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will
For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come

Update: Also, it seems that replies black text on black background. In taking a quick glance at the html, it looks like PM is putting a lot of 'bgcolor=#000000' in tr tags, which I find odd...

Update (again): I was able to fix the black on black issue with this:

.main_content td {
  color: #000;
  background-color: #ffe9ae;
}
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As far as RAT goes, I don't muck with it; to me, anyway, the CSS for that belongs to individual users, not themes. My account has left PerlMonks' defaults, and though it's a bit ugly, it isn't horrid, eye-popping, or unusuable. If you have a theme patch that makes it nice and pretty, I'd be happy to accept it, though.

As far as the replies go, I don't see that problem on any platform/browser combo. I override the bgcolor tags using CSS, so it shouldn't be an issue. Perhaps something in your user-custom CSS might have created the problem? Just guessing, here: I simply can't duplicate the issue you describe, so I'm shooting in the dark a bit.

The only other thing you might see is people who do black-on-black for spoilers, but again I have no way of knowing if that's the cause.

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