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Post by Boomarang on Feb 14, 2011 15:53:09 GMT -8
The site looks awesome the way it is. The only thing I can spot is the highlight color when you mouse-over the boards, it's blinding, if you toned that down a tad your board would look perfect.
A suggestion for the side bar: it seems popular on HP sites to have a list of how many wizards and witches are in each house that is shown in the side bar so people know which ones are needed and don't all flock to Slitherin and Griffendor leaving Huffelpuff and Ravenclaw empty.
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Post by Boomarang on Feb 14, 2011 15:45:31 GMT -8
You don't need to get a brand new cbox, if the one who has access to the settings goes into "Look and Feel" than "Colours & Fonts" the colors can be changed that way without the need to change boxes.
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Post by Boomarang on Feb 13, 2011 22:34:13 GMT -8
Alright, you have a good start, you just need to keep going. Here's a list of things you could do to make it more organized looking. - Banner
First off let's start with the banner. You could go get a custom one made for your site by looking around on graphics forums or here in the graphics request board. Having a good looking banner is the first thing that would capture a guest's attention.
- Welcome Guest. Please Login or Register./« Home »
These two things can be removed from the header, there is a simple code that removes them. That way wen you get your spiffy new banner it doesn't look funny and distracting.
- Topics|Posts|Last Post
In stead of keeping these here you should select the option to remove them and center the category title, this would make it easier to tell which category you are looking at.
- Width
As it stands your forum is the default width. You should try making it thinner, about 650 px is the general width that you see when looking at other forums and seems to be what people like. In addition to this you could get side bars to keep information on the staff and include important links such as the rules and the character creation form or what not that you might think would be useful to have quick links for.
- on/off icons
Right now you have them with a white box around them, you should look into getting these to be transparent and match a custom banner, that would be much more appealing than the hidden leaf symbol on a white background.
- Administer text
The admin name text might need to be made lighter, it's slightly hard to read against the gray background.
That's all I can see at the moment, I'm sure your members would love to see the site after it's fixed up. Good luck :)
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Post by Boomarang on Feb 13, 2011 22:18:16 GMT -8
Ok, I see a few things that can be improved - Cursor
I know the paw print might be cute and all but it's a bit unneeded, and the banner that it makes in the top right corner is distracting since it's a bright blue, it takes away from your lovely banner.
- Text
I'm having a hard time reading the papyrus font the default works just fine and is easier to read especially if you have to read long posts.
- Board Highlight
The image for the hover-over is a bit bright, is there any way you could make it a muted dark green to match the rest of the forum? If you could it would make that much better and easier to look at.
- Forum Name|Topics|Posts|Last Post
This little header isn't really needed and can be taken care of by a code that removes it. Doing this will make the forum look more appealing and cleaner. Another thing that could be done as well as this is splitting the categories so people know at a glance where each category is instead of struggling to see the small text of the header.
- Old/new icons
If these were the same color scheme as the forum they would be great but as they stand the white cat against the moon saying "old" doesn't match your green skin at all, you might want to remove them or get new ones that match.
- Streach
As it is your forum stretches smaller laptop screens and is unappealing, most people don't want to have to scroll sideways to see the info, it would be best to make the side tables on one side, make them a smaller width -200 px instead of 250- or to make your forum thinner.
- Welcome table
Having a huge welcome table isn't very welcoming and takes away the appeal of the forum. Instead of having to scroll way down to see the forum, people like to go from the banner right into the forums. The information you have in your header could be moved into your side tables to make it so you have to scroll less to see the boards.
I like the simple black/green color scheme and the header table is neat, keep trying out new things with the skin and forum set up and I'm sure you'll come up with something that's appealing and functional. Good luck with your forum!
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Post by Boomarang on Feb 13, 2011 21:58:42 GMT -8
It's a good start but I see some things that could be fixed to make it more appealing: - Width
The width of the boards could be shorted, as they stand they stretch the screen for those with smaller screened laptops as mine is.
- Graphics
Right now the graphics don't really fit the color scheme you have going on at the moment. If you try toning them to match the board colors it would flow better instead of having a bunch of miss-matched colors everywhere.
- Background
I like the background but in all honesty it's distracting, maybe if you made it more of a muted green instead of the popping green that it is now it would take away from the boards less.
- Category text
The color of the text you chose for the category images is hard to read you might want to make it a lighter hue of blue and maybe a bit more green.
- on/off icons
There is a code to take away the folders next to the boards, it would make the site look more appealing without the icons there.
- Banner
the banner is a bit large and narrow, people would find it easier to look at if it was a tad shorter and the same width as the forums.
- categories
There's one simple thing you could do to make the site more streamlined and not so bunched up. there's a code that splits the categories, that would make the site not so compact and easier to navigate.
- Chat
You might want to make the cbox colors match your forum, having the default colors is kind of an eyesore.
- Side tables
The last thing I have to suggest that might help with the page stretching is, try to choose one side to put your side tables on instead of choosing both sides. You have enough length on your forum so it wouldn't go past your boards by having it that way. you might not have to resize them or your forum if you do this. If you don't think you have enough room you could try putting the banner next to the side tables, there's a additional code to do this.
I hoped this helped. Your site is looking good so far, keep trying!
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Post by Boomarang on Feb 13, 2011 21:04:11 GMT -8
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Post by Boomarang on Feb 13, 2011 21:03:08 GMT -8
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Post by Boomarang on Feb 7, 2011 0:00:57 GMT -8
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Post by Boomarang on Feb 7, 2011 0:00:02 GMT -8
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Post by Boomarang on Jan 30, 2011 16:08:16 GMT -8
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Post by Boomarang on Jan 30, 2011 16:07:18 GMT -8
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Post by Boomarang on Jan 24, 2011 21:27:15 GMT -8
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Post by Boomarang on Jan 24, 2011 21:26:58 GMT -8
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Post by Boomarang on Jan 20, 2011 20:29:36 GMT -8
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Post by Boomarang on Jan 19, 2011 1:25:28 GMT -8
The site's skin has recently had a major overhaul and the plot is going to be having some additions soon as well
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