Hello!
We are the authors of the custom skins that Ron wanted for the forums; we have also worked many times on tech tasks in the forums, like forum upgrades.
Today we upgraded the forums to vB 3.7, which adds many great functionalities; but I think Ron is still planning things, so I do not know what will be activated/implemented.
About the Skins, there are actually 4 new ones! Go at the bottom of the page and choose the ones you prefer. And since we do not want to take all credits, the yellow skin color scheme is mostly Ron's. We had used a much lighter color scheme (well, it was almost green), but it was not powerful enough for this website! We are still looking around the forums for things we can retouch. vB 3.7 first RC release came out yesterday, so we might have missed something. We will upload later new smilies and substitute the old ones that have bad edges or that do not fit the new skins - plus, we will add many more smilies.
I am also activating thumbnail creation, as it can save a lot of bandwidth , reduce loading times, and even server load. To make up for this, vB 3.7 includes lightbox. I know you are used to inline images, but maybe you will like the thumbnail+lightbox solution better. If you prefer, we can setup it to show the bigger image automatically when you go with your mouse over the thumbnail. Please wait a bit since thumbnail generation may take many hours.
But for the rest, I will leave the post to Ron, the one who hired us to do this.
P.S. Please do a full reload of the page or even delete your cached images; some browser will keep the old images and icons until you trigger them to fully reload the page.
