Spiritual Vagabond - Complete Overhaul

[AWMGolfer]

The website is pretty much done, just finishing up a couple of template issues but otherwise the site is basically finished. Anyway, would love to hear some feedback!!

http://www.spiritualvagabond.org

[Action-N]

Does the comunity links dropdown nessecary? It took a minute to find the link to the forums. I'm thinking a picture of a house that links to the index, then a forums, an blogs link eliminating the commuity dropdown. I say a house for home link cuase your bar with Spiritual Vagabonds has a graphic at the head of it. I made a rough image to show what I mean. Also your whos_online.gif seems to be missing, rest look fine.

[AWMGolfer]

Thank you for taking a look!!

I am working on adjusting the navbar to be, well, a little more user friendly as far as finding things!!

Thanks again!! Always appreciate the feedback!

[Rick Sample]

Looks pretty good. Job well done :)

[AWMGolfer]

I have just completely redesigned the homepage from the ground up and would love to hear any and all feedback!! I'm always looking for ways to improve things. I still have a couple of graphics related things to finish up on the homepage but can't do that till I get back from vacation.

All modules I used are ones I found on vbadvanced and just really customized them from there on my own. Had a lot of fun doing this as it was the first time I really have delved this deep into customizing the modules to what I want.

So fire away!!..lol.

http://www.spiritualvagabond.org

[Marco van Herwaarden]

To prevent problems with our Piracy Department, i suggest you correct your URL on your license:

spiritualvagabonG.org
should be
spiritualvagabonD.org

But a funny error.

[jlew24asu]

ha that is funny.

my only suggestion is to get rid of the border around your ads. I got that advice from here..

http://www.duoblogger.com/psychological-adsense-optimization/

[AWMGolfer]

Woops..lol. Thanks for pointing that one out :)

Thanks for the suggestion, I will try that out and see how it looks!!

[Gladhatter]

I cannot agree with the other posters here. I can give it a 2 out of 10 and a 3 if I were being generous. It is clutterd to hell pun intended for a spirtual site.

[AWMGolfer]

Thanks for checking it out! I will be spacing things out a bit more as it is too tight for my taste but I held off on doing more because of 3.8. Are you referring to how much I have on there or how close together it all is? Once my theme is updated to 3.8 I plan on making it so people can choose the best size for the monitor size. Aside from that the only issue I just found out about was the random and latest images don't display correctly in IE, figures..lol. They display in a single vertical line all the way done the page instead of four images per column and four rows.

Anyway, would be curious as to find out which way you mean it is cluttered. Thanks!

[GSeybold]

Oh Yeah. I'm sorry I'm not liking it. Oh I hate to post stuff like this...

My first impression was that it has a cluttered feeling. The long verticle line of pic on the right side. Not liking it as it scrolls down past a lot of blank space.

I'm so sorry. It's not a site I would post or stay at for long. :o:)

[AWMGolfer]

The long line of verticle pics is a coding issue I am working on as it should be 4 images across and four images down, so a small block! It works fine in all the browsers as it should except for IE. Just discovered that issue the other day. Once I get upgraded to 3.8 I will be adding a bit of space between each column which will give things a little more space. Anyway, that long line of pics going down is not how it is supposed to be and if you view it in firefox, opera, or safari it will look how it should..lol.

Thanks again and don't worry about it :) Also, not everyone is going to like every site out there. I'm going for a very social type of site which many of those modules I am working on are very similar to something you would see on a social site. Once i get those dang image modules to display properly..lol.

[AWMGolfer]

I was having issues making the theme I was using work so I purchased a brand new theme that I am very happy with. It did have a few minor bugs, but all seem to be worked out except for one. The last issue I'm waiting to find out about is the drop down menus don't work all the time in IE otherwise the site is complete. Would love to hear some feedback on my new look/layout!! Thanks again in advance as the reviews I have already received have helped me out a lot!!

http://www.spiritualvagabond.org

[Gladhatter]

Xhaiden, I wish to be supportive here but am having difficulity in doing so. I would expect maybe wrongly that it slould be a serence peacful look to the site. Mellow and a calming effect. What I see however is a cluttered glitzy city that was not organized with thought not by design. I see commercialism everywhere and a very immature over all when the sound of the name whispers serinty and more.

I wish you much success but I feel you are way scattered too thin and grasping at fog make that smog over there.

It is just one person's opinion never the less but an honest one that is not mean to be hurtful but I do not see anything you have that is going to bring you any members but if you do get them maybe there is some content to keep them.

[AWMGolfer]

No problem as I can handle any kind of review :)

Thank you for taking the time to look at it!! I personally don't see it as being glitzy but again, all comes down to personal opinion. Not sure why you would see commercialism everywhere when I just have an ad under the navbar and in the footer unless you go into the archives.

Anyway, thanks again for checking it out!!

[Wayne Luke]

Missing a few religious philisophies in your forums. Namely Judaism, Islam, and Paganism/Heathenism as well as Native American. I think you would find that most people who consider themselves to be Pagan or Heathen, rather those following old world religions, will fit rather nicely into your vagabond spirit. They range from modern Wicca to following Celtic, Roman, Greek, Norse and many other religious mythologies often including spiritual aspects of several different cultures in their daily paths.

[Gladhatter]

OT Wayne, I assume you are familiar with the works of Joeseph Cambell and the "Power of myth" ?

Got to agree with Wayne here that you need a draw and expecially the vagabonds like myself do not have any place much to affialiate with as there is not many that has came to the place in their journey that we have reached. As of today, I have spent a half a century getting to there. No complaints at all and mighty glad to be on the part of the spirtual mountain I am at and look forward to climbing higer still.

[AWMGolfer]

Thanks for taking a look!! Joseph Campbell is always an enjoyable read!! He has written some great things.

I will definitely get those sections added in and probably will reorganize a little bit so the forum doesn't look massively huge. Thanks again guys!!

[Gladhatter]

Good thinking Xhaiden. Does not need to look like a city only a quaint community village.