Hey, John,

The theme is looking very nice. My only tip would be to make sure you're thorough. There are some parts where you haven't changed the default styling and it clashes with the really valuable aspects of your theme. But on the whole, great work!

Thank you. I think I understand what your saying about the 'default styling'. I will continue to tweak it.

Thanks.

Nice work

and happy to see you are using my 3 colum river activity...

which video pluggin you are using? may i know that?

@Satheesh

  Thank you on two accounts, And I am using the Video List 1-8 beta 2

Very creative, I like it.  Probably related to what Evan was saying, some of the text probably needs a bit more contrast to be readable.

As far as rebranding the groups as "clouds", I just released a plugin you might be interested in taking a look at: http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/project/854839/developer/Beck24/pagehandler-hijack-18x

wow...   that's an excellent theme!

Nice design man :) agree with the others, but i like the idea!

My initial cursory reaction is 'wow' !!

Good evening, good morning from Suid Afrika. I must say ! Very nice theme and I am tempted to ask for a GPL release here at <<Elgg Plugins>> ;) Of course - we do not plan to actually use it verbatim - just like to study themes and schemes and plugins and things..;)

The colour contrast, for the topbar menus can most probably be handled by using a darker  /different background colour of the menu pulldown boxes. The horizontal slide-effect could perhaps be a little slowed down/ faster / some speed change. The main center piece graphic 'Welcome' seems a little too far down from the top floating cloud cover- maybe can be moved up 1/2 inch or so - to make the whole page more visible without seeming to need a little scrolling to view the whole page. Perhaps a little / some more colour contrasts for the opening-page text areas.

For some more feedback - what age group is Cloud9 targeted for ? And.. what has been your daughter's and friends' reactions to the theme ? ;-)

Cheers.

Excellent! That's an outstanding theme! Very professional and classy.

What's a Cloud?

Thank you all for the encouraging feedback. And If anyone is interested I am planning on giving the theme free after completed.

@Matt -  I will checkout the plugin link provided and get back to this thread with thoughts.

@Peter M - any age is what I hope for, I expect a younger 12-24 maybe.