This is a port of a template I had designed for our Bitmap World comic. (Though, admittedly, it was heavily inspired by a Cutecast template called “Smiley”) We use a different theme on our comic’s forum now, but I still really like the bright yellow and blue on this one. This theme is named after Harvey Ball, the creator of the smiley face.

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With the Phorum project, I tried to balance the types of themes we created, making sure there were light themes, dark themes, women’s themes, etc. I found this graphic when looking for art for the food theme. It ended up inspiring a whole separate template.

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Firey hot theme. Not much to say other than I love how the colors work. Simple theme just using color, no graphics.

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One of my passions is cooking. I come from a long line of good cooks, not to mention my grandparents/father owned restaurants I worked in as a kid. The internet has allowed so many people to share their recipes and cooking talents. I wanted to design a template that would work for a food-themed forum.

If you want to see some of my recipes, many are listed here.

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Wanted to do a template that could be used on a business site. I do use photo images in my designs, but I have to admit to preferring vector art. The great icons by DaPino-Colada worked well in the design.

Note that Jim modified the header graphic so that it is fluid, meaning that you can adjust the width of the forum to your specifications and keep the header in tact.

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Teal is one of my favorite colors. After doing over 2 dozen themes, I realized I hadn’t done a teal one yet. I was inspired by this great floral background tile by John Rawsterne.

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This is actually a theme I created for one of my own sites. I loved the background and color scheme so much, I used it as a blog and as forum template. I no longer use this design, but I loved it so much that I wanted to share it through Phorum.

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Another Cutecast port. I was drawn to this theme by the cool use of the accent colors against the black. Really happy with the way Jim managed to pull it all off.

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Another forum system Jim and I like is Cutecast. While I’ll readily admit Phorum is far superior in its functionality, Cutecast has the strong point of being flat-file based. That means that if you do not have access to a MySQL database or prefer not to use one, you can still run a high-quality forum. Cutecast is CGI/Perl based too, for those who prefers that language. Cutecast has some very nice templates, one of which was Chess. This is not a direct port of that template, but it’s close. I think the grays in this theme look very classy.

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When playing around with different color schemes, I threw together one that I thought looked like a watermelon. My problem was that I realized people might like the theme better with a green background, which made it look like a honeydew melon. For fun, I tried to do a cantaloupe using an orange background. I liked them all so much, and since they worked together, I decided to do a joint them. This theme features 3 different CSS files so the admin can choose which “melon” they like best. The perfect template for summertime!

As noted, the installation contains 3 separate style files. Simply upload (and rename) the style you like. If you want all three available to switch between, you will need to upload three separate template installations.

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