I've seen every design, redesign, CMS, and general cluster**** this site has had to offer when upgrading, hacking, or switching servers. This was one of the smoothest transitions with minimal down time that this site has ever experienced.
WTG Keebs, thanks for keeping the Icrontic spirit alive and well with new technology.
I think the new skin looks really clean. Great job with it Keebs. The fact that even more archived content came online with the change in CMS is phenomenal.
I have a few suggestions, for what it's worth:
First, the header on the forums is really large when viewing forums and threads on a 1360x768 display; enough so to get pretty annoying due to all the scrolling. I imagine that it is pretty bad at 1440x990 as well. If the area displaying the hot threads and news could be collapsed down to the size that it is in the CP areas, that would really help people who are browsing the forums with lower resolution laptop displays. Attached super awesome picture to illustrate this point.
Second, I would like to see the navigation links to various sections on the main page displayed with more prominence, but maybe that's just me.
I actually like the black buttons -- you just need to fix the white anti-aliasing fuzzies around the edges. I am sure blue would work fine as well, but having the buttons large and black makes them relatively easy to find and click, but also not too distracting.
I think the new layout of the forums are ugly and kind of suck myself. I much rather have the borders and colors instead of this ugly white blob of nothingness.
In response to feedback from several people, I've added a dotted border between forums and threads to improve legibility. Look for other minor tweaks to crop up as I work though our list of bugs and usability issues.
Today was the first day I noticed the ticker on the main page. I didn't think we had it anymore. That's because it's not visible on my laptop screen until I scroll down to about the third news post. 1440x900, maximized browser.
We did that on purpose. We decided that they weren't quite useful enough to feature prominently, but not quite worthless enough to drop altogether. They provide traffic from us to other sites, which builds good karma.
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WTG Keebs, thanks for keeping the Icrontic spirit alive and well with new technology.
You made the best technical place on the Internet even better
I have a few suggestions, for what it's worth:
First, the header on the forums is really large when viewing forums and threads on a 1360x768 display; enough so to get pretty annoying due to all the scrolling. I imagine that it is pretty bad at 1440x990 as well. If the area displaying the hot threads and news could be collapsed down to the size that it is in the CP areas, that would really help people who are browsing the forums with lower resolution laptop displays. Attached super awesome picture to illustrate this point.
Second, I would like to see the navigation links to various sections on the main page displayed with more prominence, but maybe that's just me.
I actually like the black buttons -- you just need to fix the white anti-aliasing fuzzies around the edges. I am sure blue would work fine as well, but having the buttons large and black makes them relatively easy to find and click, but also not too distracting.
Agreed. It doesn't look right to me without the separation.
At least they have some folks that actually post tech stuff instead of BS.:tongue2:
Thanks for coming in tonight and being absolutely nothing but negative, unfair, and unhelpful :shakehead