Post by Night Wolfe on Jun 3, 2007 18:31:33 GMT -1
Alrighty I have a few suggestions for your forum skin.... hope you don't mind. There are a lot of little things that I would change or add to so please don't get mad at me for the long list... Also if you need/want any help creating graphics or finding codes I am more than happy to help you out.
So...
1. IMHO the default graphics SUCK!!!! That means the menu buttons just under the banner, the smilies, the posting buttons, the new post buttons, the profile icons, etc. etc. Luckily you can create or download all of these and replace them very easily. I would think about doing that and the menu and posting buttons should be done first since they are the most noticeable of the graphics.
2. I really like the board borders.... the only problem is that your forum is MUCH wider than the borders which ruins the cool effect of them. This can be fixed VERY easily with this code:
3. Also having to do with the board borders.... they look great IMO but the only problem is that the red borders (the lines that appear in all the tables) distract from them so you no longer notice how cool they are....
4. The New Post/No New Post graphics are really interesting... cool images and they are animated which is very neat.... there is just one problem.... for people that are new to the forum they don't mean anything. Yes they are both cool images but one does not stand out from the other which to me would signify that THAT is the one that means new posts. So I would suggest picking just one of them and have that be your new posts graphic and then come up with something boring in comparison for your no new posts graphic. Either that or change one graphic to a grayscale image so that the fact that one is in color tells you that is the new post graphic.
5. There are TONS of colors throughout the forum which kinda distracts from the content of the forum IMO. I would try for a theme with maybe 3 colors at most...
6. There are soooo many boards on the main page that it takes FOREVER to see them all... is there some way you could condense them to make navigating the forum easier? This is where sub-boards come in really handy.
7. The only place people can see if they have new PMs is in the info. center at the very bottom which I personally don't look at very often. You might want to think about using one of the many PM Bars available so it draws people's attention to the fact that they have a new PM. (I say this because I JUST realized that Demon had PMed me 13 days ago.)
Okay so far thats all I got.... again I am really sorry if you guys think I am criticizing too much. I don't mean to, but I think guys are a great clan and could have a really great forum. But I have found in my experience that even small things can turn people off and make them run away. Once again if you guys want any help improving things around here just let me know
So...
1. IMHO the default graphics SUCK!!!! That means the menu buttons just under the banner, the smilies, the posting buttons, the new post buttons, the profile icons, etc. etc. Luckily you can create or download all of these and replace them very easily. I would think about doing that and the menu and posting buttons should be done first since they are the most noticeable of the graphics.
2. I really like the board borders.... the only problem is that your forum is MUCH wider than the borders which ruins the cool effect of them. This can be fixed VERY easily with this code:
Global Footer
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
fWidth = document.getElementsByTagName('table');
for(t=0; t<fWidth.length; t++) {
if(fWidth[t].width=="92%")
fWidth[t].width='750';
}
// -->
</script>
3. Also having to do with the board borders.... they look great IMO but the only problem is that the red borders (the lines that appear in all the tables) distract from them so you no longer notice how cool they are....
4. The New Post/No New Post graphics are really interesting... cool images and they are animated which is very neat.... there is just one problem.... for people that are new to the forum they don't mean anything. Yes they are both cool images but one does not stand out from the other which to me would signify that THAT is the one that means new posts. So I would suggest picking just one of them and have that be your new posts graphic and then come up with something boring in comparison for your no new posts graphic. Either that or change one graphic to a grayscale image so that the fact that one is in color tells you that is the new post graphic.
5. There are TONS of colors throughout the forum which kinda distracts from the content of the forum IMO. I would try for a theme with maybe 3 colors at most...
6. There are soooo many boards on the main page that it takes FOREVER to see them all... is there some way you could condense them to make navigating the forum easier? This is where sub-boards come in really handy.
7. The only place people can see if they have new PMs is in the info. center at the very bottom which I personally don't look at very often. You might want to think about using one of the many PM Bars available so it draws people's attention to the fact that they have a new PM. (I say this because I JUST realized that Demon had PMed me 13 days ago.)
Okay so far thats all I got.... again I am really sorry if you guys think I am criticizing too much. I don't mean to, but I think guys are a great clan and could have a really great forum. But I have found in my experience that even small things can turn people off and make them run away. Once again if you guys want any help improving things around here just let me know