Skin Editing - Basic Color Mode Options

New feature on skin editor by popular demand...

[Brett_Tabke]

The skin editor is powerful and allows tight control of colors and fonts for members. However, I received a great deal of feedback that it was too difficult because of the requirement to edit hexidecimal colors. To address this, a new option was created that allows you to pick colors from a drop down list.

On your system preferences is the new option Skin Interface Mode. (go control panel -> system prefs).

There are two options:
Basic Mode will use a new drop down menu of default colors (names) for each color option.
Advanced Mode uses the current system of raw hex color codes.

Set the mode to Basic, and then go edit your skin via the Edit Skin option on your Control Panel.

The default Option is now Basic Mode. While in Basic Mode, if a current hex color you have set doesn't match one of the default named colors, it will still be presented on the drop down.

Advanced mode is ideal for advanced users that understand hex colors. The new Basic Mode makes it easier to edit colors than thinking up hex colors at every prompt. The color names presented are standard HTML 4 color names.

[Marcia]

Question: are the named colors on the drop-down in Basic Mode web-safe colors? Or does that really matter any more?

[Brett_Tabke]

The palette is the html 4.0 word colors. Those are "web smart", but not necc in the 216 "web safe" palette.