Muse
Apprentice Scribe
I'm not a man to cross. I'm a Ranger.
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Post by Muse on Jan 19, 2010 10:05:14 GMT -5
The quivers that show arrows when there are new posts to be read. Tandar already told her to keep them.
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Post by Brandwyn on Jan 28, 2010 15:18:53 GMT -5
I like the site just the way Tandar has it. I vote for no change at all.
I need to have those flags that say "new" when someone posts a new message I haven't read. I use them to do my global mod job and cannot function without them. So don't take those away. Please don't. I also need the little boxes to click on the thread titles to be able to move them around and lock and all of that stuff.
I don't know what you mean by "on/off" buttons though. what the heck is that? you talking about those boxes? If so, then NO, do not remove them.
I find the sample page there difficult to read and it gives me a bit of a headache squinting at it. It is too dark overall, though the pic in the very background is cool. I don't like the banner at the top running off the top of the page above my tool bars, It makes me feel there is more web site up there. The home buttons and stuff right under there are too small.
anything animated is being blocked on my screen here at work. as are most of the pictures too, but that is jsut a personal thing with where I work. However if you put too much animation on here, they will block me from the entire site and then how would I play hooky from work while still being at work? GRIN
One of the main reasons I have stuck with this site for so long is because it is NOT like so many cluttered up sites out there with all that animation junk distracting you and so many things crowded into the windows. I like the way this one looks. I like the layout and the fact there are not boxes on the sides full of other information.
The look of this site is simple and airy and it is very easy to navigate. Why change it if is working? Why make it look like everyone else's site?
I disagree with the statement you made about getting more peole to join if we made it "sleeker" as you put it. The content is why people join or check it out in the first place. The way it looks and how much fun people have here are what is going to keep people here or chase them away. And that has more to do with how much fun they have and how we who are oldtimers here treat them than the look of the site.
The only thing I would suggest to add is a button on the bottom of every page with a link to the home page so you don't have to scroll back up to the top to get ot the home page. That is a bit tiresome.
And perhaps changeing the default font from garamond to ariel might be good too. This garamond is hard to read smaller and ariel is easier, so that could possibly help if you are dead set on shrinking the boxes. Personally I am of the opinion : Bigger is Better!
Other than that it is perfect like it. Leave it alone. That is my vote.
And I dont' mean to put down your work, I just think it is fine just like it is. I really like Tandar's layout and appreciate all of the work he has put into this site so far. If it ain't broke, why fix it?
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