(05-07-2012, 12:36 AM)eng donny Wrote: The logo's colour shall be like a wolrd unity representative, ie: UNO flag.Completely disagree ! United Nations Organization is a parasite non-democratic structure that most of the time forces the poor nations to follow the commercial interests of.. guess who! It was created with the aim to redistribute the colonies of participants in the Second World War. Usually the assemblies of UNO in the last 30 years are to constitute every war that started, and are finishing with ridiculous resolutions that allow killing of people.
UNO has nothing common with engineering, so I can't see any reason to expect that UNO will "unite" the civil engineers in this form. One can suggest to use the US or UK flag as a color scheme, as the official language of the forum corresponds to these countries, and 90% of the materials here are from these countries - and this would be more reasonable than choosing UN.
I like greenish appearance as it doesn't distract reader's attention when reading the text contents of the posts. And I don't think the color scheme is a big problem, as any forum engine can support several themes and color schemes that can be chosen by the user. It is a preference of the host/administrator of the forum to choose whatever he likes. If he wants to create something distinguishing appearance, and show his friends: "folks, take a look how stylish and fashionable my forum is" - why some of us should argue - this is his vision and his motivation to maintain the forum.
By the way, a alternative light color scheme (dark text on bright background is more easy to read, especially on mobile devices outdoor).
I suppose that the idea of this thread is to give a lot of suggestions and I am sure one of these will be brilliant and will create some style of the forum appearance. Nevertheless, the most important thing of the forum is its contents, not appearance.