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Posted: September 23, 2009 05:40 am  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
      IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49    | I have been here over five years. In that time, the clan has changed immensely. We have gone through many forums, switched hosts, gained a teamspeak server and IRC bot, and have all upgraded our computers and software. Despite this, the theme in this - our current forum - has not changed a whole lot since the day it went online. Sure, we have added a few addons, which have changed over time; My coding skills have changed a whole lot, yet the overall theme has not changed much. I think its time for a change. Take a look around - Is this forum perfect? Can you think of things that you never use, that are taking up space? Can you think of things that are a pain to use - things that would be handy? Heck, take a look at the forum width. It is ~850px wide, no matter what size window you view the forum in. Its fine for those of us who use 1024X768 laptop screens, but who uses those any more? I mean, most laptops now have widescreen displays, ones that are a fair bit wider - Does the forum suit those screens? And, its even worse for desktops - I currently use a 22" 1680X1050 LCD. I keep the forum in a small window, but even so, there is plenty of wasted space on the sides. This needs to change. Now, I know how to fix this. I could do it in a couple of hours, and it would work. But... is that really what I should do? Make yet another fix to an old and poor theme? I think we should redesign the theme. Once I have good plans for a new theme, I will have a lot more freedom as far as making it extremely usable. And this is where you all come in: I want you to figure out colors, images, possible designs. What do you like, what don't you. Show me pics of other forums, stuff you like. Think about all this, then give me feedback. I want lots of feedback, feel free to post multiple times if you need. Just give me your thoughts. Specific questions to look at: -Robbie
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Posted: September 23, 2009 07:12 am | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Kiwi011 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3052 Member No.: 40 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 21 | robbie, I trust whatever you plan on doing. You have never done anything wrong or bad for the forums, can't wait to see a new theme, although....the new part is always something people are scared of. --------------------  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 23, 2009 08:18 am | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Mickey Group: Emeritus Posts: 5305 Member No.: 48 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 282 | Spoke to you in the IRC with an idea that might be good for WG. I'll speak to you again tomorrow. --------------------    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 23, 2009 10:18 am | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: rachellove Group: Council Posts: 6955 Member No.: 173 Joined: January 31, 2008 Total Events Attended: 305 | A link to the attendance/war record. A last date event attended for people would maybe be helpful if that isn't on that record. A counter of thread starts from people might be nice. I've seen that on other websites. The darker theme has always been nice for me. Add this Smile for me:  I need it for Vephy. There may be a few that you could get rid of and give some new ones.Make it so some polls can be voted like in order that you like them. Example is what is your favorite color. Then you could put 1st purple 2nd pink 3rd red and ect . . . This could be helpful to staff. Maybe like a drop down menu for when the person is going to start the poll to choose how people will vote on it. If a topic has already been reported maybe somehow we could know that so we aren't bugging George. When someone is an allie on the forum, it might be nice to have their clan's name appear with a cursor over there name thing. If I think of more stuff, I'll post it. --------------------  Thank you Garrett and Dallar. “The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” ~~Colin Powell ~~  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 23, 2009 12:37 pm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Dallar Group: Event Leader Posts: 1899 Member No.: 1957 Joined: July 16, 2009 Total Events Attended: 137 | I actually think that a revamp will be benefitial for WG. The current theme is uber already, and with your talent for making forum themes I do believe that you could top this one. It would be nice with some changes and perhaps it will blow in some new life and atmosphere to the clan? I vote yes for changes --------------------  Click me if you need cheering up - I guarantee happiness will blossom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 23, 2009 01:23 pm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Dallar Group: Event Leader Posts: 1899 Member No.: 1957 Joined: July 16, 2009 Total Events Attended: 137 | Oh and yeah.. 1) I think the combat level indicators above our names are nice and unique.. I vote no for getting rid of them. 2) I think it works out great. The only thing where I maybe can see an improvement is the brown background. Maybe make it more "alive"? 3) Again, I think it adds personality to the forum and I'd say the more info you get on what you click the better. 4) I wouldn't mind a heavy weight theme. thinking that we are in the year of 2009, most people should have gotten an upgrade or two to their computer. Another suggestion would be to get some "theme" on the scrollbars.. They don't fit in as we speak. 5) Haven't really used it that much.. 6) I've never stumpled upon an issue similar to this. I don't see why it should be changed. Not for my needs... 7) There is a bunch that's not being used. We actually only use a few of them. It's only when people go crazy the spectacular emotes are brought up. -------------------- Click me if you need cheering up - I guarantee happiness will blossom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 23, 2009 02:59 pm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Samurai-JM Group: Emeritus Posts: 3204 Member No.: 117 Joined: January 11, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | let me do gfx design k  -------------------- -=}¤- Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici -¤{=-  W I N N I N G | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 23, 2009 03:40 pm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: DG_Keanu Group: Council Posts: 4782 Member No.: 2033 Joined: August 25, 2009 Total Events Attended: 173 | I wonder, can you have the board width relative to the forum skin? Eg. keep the 850px one and add in optional 1000/1200 etc. This smily is horribly inaccurate, I demand it be fixed to to represent the historic moment correctly.
Yes please on that one!  News and Announcement box... I think the Search tab is pretty useless considering the board search is like a few pixels away from it and I barely use it... Also the ranks tab is pretty good but clicking on it one would expect the current holders of the ranks to be displayed, not links to the lists for each... anything you could do about that? I think you should make everything that's the cyan-blueish colour atm purple. --------------------  [05:42] <+WG_Keanu> I think I got a semi just looking at the pic [05:42] <%kat> same | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 23, 2009 04:54 pm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 |
No. Cos you wouldn't design a Skills Olympics banner  --------------------    | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 23, 2009 06:10 pm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: [Randy] Group: Raid Leader Posts: 5065 Member No.: 16 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 499 | Guardianscore highscores!?!?!?!?!  --------------------   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 23, 2009 07:23 pm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Samurai-JM Group: Emeritus Posts: 3204 Member No.: 117 Joined: January 11, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 |
i would've, i was just lazy lol -------------------- -=}¤- Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici -¤{=- W I N N I N G | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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