the new BS "look" [Archive]

lefutur

30 Jul 2007, 04:30 PM

i'm beginning to get the feeling that Big Soccer is trying to make the site more MLS oriented. The standard skin is a boring white and the only changes you can make to it are to switch to one of the MLS team skins.

what's up with that? Did MLS buy-out BS?

Pierre-Henri

31 Jul 2007, 07:04 AM

Personally, I use the "Soccer365" skin. I don't care a single second about Soccer365, but the light blue tones are better that the insanely crappy and unreadable default ones.

Lefutur, this could have been worse. Imagine BS following the current MLS Beckham buzz... Davidbeckhamish interface, davibeckhamian buttons, davidbekhamese mouse pointers, davidbeckhamic screens...

On mlsnet.com, they even have a regular David Beckham page, if you want to know what he is doing on a daily basis. Kim Jong Il is granted less hero-worship than him.

And it's cheap : only 250 millions $ ! What a bargain. With the same kind of money, MLS easily could have opened 2 or 3 new franchises and trained dozens of young rookies. Instead, they got an almost retired top-model who can, on his best days, carry out a few decent cross passes.

And some people still believe Americans are good at business :p.

Catfish

31 Jul 2007, 09:16 AM

I like the top red but the all the white makes it tough to look at and follow.
The old template was better. Sorry I don't know the proper terminology, I'm
not in IT nor Graphic Design.

lefutur

31 Jul 2007, 11:30 AM

Personally, I use the "Soccer365" skin. I don't care a single second about Soccer365, but the light blue tones are better that the insanely crappy and unreadable default ones.

Lefutur, this could have been worse. Imagine BS following the current MLS Beckham buzz... Davidbeckhamish interface, davibeckhamian buttons, davidbekhamese mouse pointers, davidbeckhamic screens...

On mlsnet.com, they even have a regular David Beckham page, if you want to know what he is doing on a daily basis. Kim Jong Il is granted less hero-worship than him.

And it's cheap : only 250 millions $ ! What a bargain. With the same kind of money, MLS easily could have opened 2 or 3 new franchises and trained dozens of young rookies. Instead, they got an almost retired top-model who can, on his best days, carry out a few decent cross passes.

And some people still believe Americans are good at business :p.

i'd add to your reputation for this hilarious response but my New York Red Bulls skin doesnt allow for that, although i can 'give you some wings' if you want...

Pierre-Henri

31 Jul 2007, 12:26 PM

Anyway, since I'm surfing with Opera, I can't see the pics.

http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=576716

Big Soccer is improving ! Big way ! Soon, you Americans will reinvent the Minitel.

guignol

31 Jul 2007, 03:23 PM

yes, the 365 skin is the only decengt one imo, but no rep button, nor (for mods) red/yellow card or IP buttons.

but i will make the effort to switch over to the default skin to be able to rep P-H for his kim jong-beckham remark!

http://strk3.com/mirror_files/3448297_049.jpg

guignol

31 Jul 2007, 03:27 PM

all that just to learn that i have to spread it around first... maybe i should start with those who designed these skins? :rolleyes:

alain_9510

31 Jul 2007, 09:43 PM

It's very buggy for me...I hate the kicks, but I wish I could hate a working feature...generally when I log on in the morning, they work, and in the afternoon, they don't, and they may or may not in the evening. Same with the rep button...didn't even show up for a while, then worked, then negative-repped people I tried to rep, then went back to normal, and now doesn't work again :mad:. And I discovered this a couple minutes ago in the Arsenal forum, trying to rep someone.

Pierre-Henri

31 Oct 2007, 07:34 AM

I revive this thread because we were talking about beckham.

What ? The Galaxy didn't reach the playoffs ? Right on the money, aren't they !

Maybe one day the MLS will understand that soccer is a team sport. You can have an excellent passer, if he doesn't have anyone to pass the ball to, he will be useless.

Breakwood

02 Nov 2007, 11:09 AM

I revive this thread because we were talking about beckham.

What ? The Galaxy didn't reach the playoffs ? Right on the money, aren't they !

Maybe one day the MLS will understand that soccer is a team sport. You can have an excellent passer, if he doesn't have anyone to pass the ball to, he will be useless.

The real problem was that Beckham only played about 4 or 5 games all season.