Blue Duck: You have the choice. Read the BrainKing.info blog.

Fencer: I think the castle theme looks great - for many people on the web looking for a game site, first impressions can be very important.

Of course every day playing, the castle theme could be too much - the "simple view" you have already created looks great - similar to what is here now with just a few color changes.

Plus for those who would rather having it look more like it does now, I'm sure it will not be long before someone submits a design that will be very close.

Question - can anyone use anyone's submitted site design?

BIG BAD WOLF: It would be nice if everyone could add their own CSS (which shouldn't be too hard to program as CSS cascades, so it would just be a matter of pasting something in the database to each page - or solve it with a link). For instance, the pages I've seen so far aren't that bad - except that I don't like the white background. It gives too much constrast and that tires my eyes much faster than pages with less constrast do. So if I could just inject some CSS to make the background a light grey (or light brown or light pink), I'd be happy. Fencer wouldn't need to review it, and it wouldn't look 'ugly' on someone elses screen. Others might prefer larger fonts or different colours to give them better contrast (or suffer from some form of colour blindness).

Of course, that still doesn't prevent people writing style sheets with complete different themes.

And hopefully, the site will still be useable if someone has stylesheets turned off for whatever reason.

AbigailII: Some browsers allow users to specify personal stylesheets to be used for specific sites (Opera comes to mind, I think Firefox has the same ability, but not sure). This implies no change in the server. If your problem is that you'd just like some colors to be darker, this could be the solution for you. Just download the current CSS, make your changes and set it as your personal CSS to use.

pauloaguia: There are 2 problems with that: 1) I use neither Opera nor Firefox. 2) You will have to redo the work each time Fencer changes the style sheet, or at least does something to the side that requires style sheet changes.

AbigailII: I don't think there would be some important style changes in the future, regarding the main layout parts. At least the ID based properties (starting with # at the css file) should remain constant.

AbigailII: 1) If you use IE it has this feature as well (never tested it though, but under Tools -> Internet Options -> Accessibility there is an option to specify your own stylesheet - but I don't know exactly how it works). Other browsers may have it too, I just can't know them all...
2) These features are usually incremental - that means you may build a CSS only changing some things. The original CSS will still be used for everything else. So, if you just specify the background color on a personal CSS, the other changes will still be reflected on your pages. Only if Fencer changes the background you won't realize because your own personal setting is overriding the server's CSS. I hope I explained myself properly...

pauloaguia: I don't use Windows, so no IE either.

AbigailII: If you don't use IE, Firefox or Opera, then you probably won't find people accommodating your needs. Firefox works will on Linux and Opera is good on Mac, so I'm assuming you could use one of these if you wanted to, no?

grenv: If you don't use IE, Firefox or Opera, then you probably won't find people accommodating your needs
How untrue :)

AbigailII I don't use Windows you're the wisest of us all

grenv: Firefox works well on Linux, yeah, but not on every Linux. I've tried installing Firefox on the box I'm using as a workstation, but Firefox hasn't been written with backwards compatability in mind, and it doesn't run if it can't find the versions of the libraries it wants.

And no, my box runs too many things to risk updating the libraries for a mere browser.

And beside that, I use certain little things often enough on my Mozilla that don't work, or don't work the same way as in Firefox. Little things, but often enough to not even want to use Firefox.

AbigailII: Anyway, so that deals with your objection number 1.
As to your objection number 2, you have the same problem if you upload your own stylesheet - it may grow out of date as Fencer changes things.

This said, I'd also like to have the choice of uploading my own stylesheets and use ones uploaded by others (or at least check them out). I'm not trying to argue against this particular idea at all was just trying to offer some alternatives while this option isn't made available.