Those designs were by Martin, the site's original owner (and no longer a visitor). When he passed the site on to me I had the blessing of another design team to work with.Philip wrote:I've been looking back at the Wayback Archive and suprised to see that Metropol is well documented, right down to old signatures and avatars. It's funny to look at a thread from back then, and how it looks like nowadays, seeing how the design of the site has changed.
I notice back then that Metropol was a lot more friendly-looking, I mean the content has obviously always been the same (in fact there were some really quite weird threads I stumbled upon) but it had cloud imagery, red and blue, bright colour scheme, a front page, etc etc. Now it's all very self-referential isn't it, with the London 2012 inspired logo and the current theme. Not saying that it's bad, just pointing out how it's changed. Back then the theme fit in with the TV Home/TV Forum design of the day with the squares of alternating shades of blue. Now it looks like the complete opposite.
Yes, its very different, but that was intentional.
