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funinthesun
12-05-2005, 07:23 AM
Please could you spare 5 mins to take a look at my forum and offer and help/advice on improving it? Obviously the creator always thinks it looks ok but from an outside view it could look terrible :P

My forum is here.

Thanks :)

nufc fan
12-05-2005, 07:48 AM
you could do with a web links forum on there that would also create more traffic to your site.i have one on mine.

sidewinder1
12-05-2005, 08:33 AM
I like the layout,loads pretty quick and some nice color matching. vote it a 7 1/2 out of 10 here

JohnBee
12-05-2005, 10:09 AM
very nice! good work

Rickie3
12-05-2005, 10:17 AM
I like it,is that snow over palm tree's but?,nice job

funinthesun
12-05-2005, 11:23 AM
@nufc_fan, what is a weblinks forum?

@sidewinder1 & JohnBee, thank you! :)

@Rickie, yes that is snow over palm trees lol but it's because it's a forum for a hot island destination ;)

Thanks again peeps

RossOliver
12-05-2005, 03:46 PM
Although I could only bear the tune you have going for about 10 seconds, I didn't see anywhere I could turn it off! I would consider adding an 'off' button for it; like allot of people I have my own music playing when I'm surfing or whatever and when I come across a website with it's own music I just nock it off right away... (sorry if there is an off button some where, but I didn't see one...)

Other than that, looks good :)

-Ross

funinthesun
12-06-2005, 06:54 PM
Thanks Ross, yes there is an off button but it's a user profile option (tags I added myself).

Tony G
12-07-2005, 07:47 AM
Nice, but needs a change from default colour scheme into something more.. christmassy if that's the scheme you're after for this time of the year.

funinthesun
12-07-2005, 09:19 AM
What colours would you suggest? :)

Boofo
12-07-2005, 09:32 AM
Please could you spare 5 mins to take a look at my forum and offer and help/advice on improving it? Obviously the creator always thinks it looks ok but from an outside view it could look terrible :P

My forum is here (http://www.tenerifeforum.com/).

Thanks :)

I have NEVER been so disgusted and sickened while viewing a forum!

Wait a minute ... scratch that. I was looking at my own forum. :(

Boofo
12-07-2005, 09:34 AM
How did you do the total hits?

And I liked it, by the way. ;)

funinthesun
12-07-2005, 10:27 AM
You had me worried there for a minute Boofo! :o

The total hits is a mod I found on here, the link is this (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=100829&highlight=thread+hits). :)

Boofo
12-07-2005, 04:06 PM
You had me worried there for a minute Boofo! :o

Sorry about that. ;)

The total hits is a mod I found on here, the link is this (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=100829&highlight=thread+hits). :)

Ahh, ok, that is for total thread views, actually. I thought it was for total hits/views on the forumhome page itself. ;)

Chris M
12-07-2005, 05:40 PM
Sorry about that. ;)



Ahh, ok, that is for total thread views, actually. I thought it was for total hits/views on the forumhome page itself. ;)

@Booby - Such a thing could easily be created :)

@funinthesun - Music I liked, but again, no off switch:p

And for more christmassy colours, go for Greens and Reds and Golds :)

Chris

Princeton
12-07-2005, 06:15 PM
I suggest rewriting your "welcome" message. The message does not flow.

The Christmas theme looks good; but ...
The snow flake images makes the site look "busy". Also, it makes it hard to read .. eg. white text on snow flake image background.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE remove the music!
Make the sound an option for your viewers -- NEVER, NEVER play music automatically.

Your random quote table needs adjustment ...
the height is due to the empty top-left cell and paragraph tags
Here's the code to fix (just copy and paste onto an html page and test):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<base href="http://www.tenerifeforum.com/" />
<style type="text/css" id="vbulletin_css">
<!--
body
{
background: #E1E1E2;
color: #000000;
font: 10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
margin: 5px 10px 10px 10px;
padding: 0px;
}
a:link
{
color: #22229C;
}
a:visited
{
color: #22229C;
}
a:hover, a:active
{
color: #FF4400;
}
.page
{
background: #FFFFFF url(images/misc/xmas15tile.gif);
color: #000000;
}
td, th, p, li
{
font: 10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.tborder
{
background: #D1D1E1;
color: #000000;
border: 1px solid #0B198C;
}
.tcat
{
background: #5d8af0 url(styles/yyxmas/extra/tcat.gif) repeat-x top left;;
color: #FFFFFF;
font: bold 12pt verdana;
}
.tcat a:link
{
color: #ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
}
.tcat a:visited
{
color: #ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
}
.tcat a:hover, .tcat a:active
{
color: #FFFF66;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.alt1, .alt1Active
{
background: #F5F5FF;
color: #000000;
}
.alt2, .alt2Active
{
background: #E1E4F2;
color: #000000;
}
.button
{
background: #f0f0f0 url(styles/yyxmas/extra/btbg.jpg) no-repeat bottom left;
font: 11px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
select
{
font: 11px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
option, optgroup
{
font-size: 11px;
font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.smallfont
{
font: 11px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.bigusername { font-size: 14pt; }
td.thead, div.thead { padding: 4px; }
form { display: inline; }
.inlineimg { vertical-align: middle; }
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form name="voting" id="voting" action="http://www.tenerifeforum.com/quotes.php">
<table class="tborder" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" width="100%"> Random Quote </td>
<td class="tcat" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right"><div class="smallfont"> (<a href="http://www.tenerifeforum.com/quotes.php?do=addquote">Add a Quote</a> | <a href="http://www.tenerifeforum.com/quotes.php?do=list">View All Quotes</a>) </div></td>
<td class="tcat" width="15"><div align="right"> <a href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_randomquote')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_randomquote" src="images/buttons/collapse_tcat.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></div></td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" colspan="2" align="center" width="100%"><div>&quot;A dog is for life not just a friday night.&quot;</div>
<div>- adds</div></td>
<td class="alt1" width="15" align="right" valign="top">#24</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt2"> Total rating: 26 - Average: 3.71</td>
<td class="alt2" colspan="2" align="right" style="white-space:nowrap">Rate this quote:
<input name="do" id="do" value="rate" type="hidden" />
<input name="quoteid" id="quoteid" value="24" type="hidden" />
<select name="vote" id="vote" onchange="document.voting.submit();">
<option>&nbsp;</option>
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
<option value="5">5</option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

funinthesun
12-07-2005, 08:00 PM
I didn't write the message header, it is how it is when I installed the mod. How do I edit it? The music can be turned off in the edit profile options, I can change it so that it is set to no as default. How do I edit the code for the quote? This was also a mod I installed so I'm unsure. Thanks again for your honest comments :)

Princeton
12-07-2005, 08:07 PM
I'm not familiar with the mod so I suggest posting the above code and asking someone for help on the mod thread.

Tony G
12-07-2005, 10:32 PM
What colours would you suggest? :)

Green and red? That'd be a good christmas combination, only work if it was done well though. They aren't colours that go well together, but if you use red in the right places it'll look good.