JPiC Forum For Writers ((redesign JPiC 3.0))

[JacquiiDesigns]

Site Name: JPiC Forum For Writers
JPiC Portal: http://jpicforum.info
Forum Index: http://jpicforum.info/forum/
Description: Poetry in Color Forum is an award-winning, non-censoring online Community where open-minded Poets & Writers can freely share in the creation of literature.


This forum is newly redesigned after a horrid issue with HostV (http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77014) left us with only a database backup and files I'd saved locally on my pc. Both the backup and files were from early 2008.

JPiC had always been a great little community. The redesign incorporates quite a few custom modifications that we are proud of, including our JPiC Magnet Poetry (http://jpicforum.info/forum/index2.php?pageid=magnet) and our Literary Articles Database (http://jpicforum.info/forum/lit-articles/). The mainsite is powered by Subdreamer CMS with vBulletin integrated w/ matching skin.

A lot of time and dedication has gone into the new JPiC 3.0 design. We lost thousands of posts, but it was better to recreate from something than nothing at all, so we're happy about that. Anyway - Hope ya'll like what I've done with it :)

There's still a little work to be done on it - but I say the site is about 98% complete. Anyway = what do ya'll think? Suggestions & feedback will be most appreciated!

Thanks,

Jacquii.

btw - feel free to login and view as a registered member.
Username: JPiC Test
Password: 123456

[Beav`]

It's really good. I don't have any suggestions, I was just very impressed with the amount of work you've put into customising it :up:

[JacquiiDesigns]

Thanks Beav! I'm glad you like it :)

[TheLastSuperman]

I was just very impressed with the amount of work you've put into customising it :up:

Same here :D.

[Randomm]

Me too. I did feel like I was scrolling down for too long but like the others have said, it looks pro...now you just gotta focus on marketing it

[JacquiiDesigns]

Thanks guys! Anything you see that needs improvement - please let me know.
Thanks for your post Randomm - I'm considering condensing some of the forums, as not all sections have a huge amount of posts. My previous style had the tabbed forum home modification so it wasn't so long a scroll - but I decided to go without the tabs this time to make navigating more simple.

Anyway - thanks again for the nice comments - I'm glad ya'll like my work ;)

Jacquii.

[FunnyMan]

site looks nice:

1) when i go to forums home page, i get the following java script error. pls take a look at it:
Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6)
Timestamp: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:16:31 UTC


Message: 'document.getElementById(...)' is null or not an object
Line: 67
Char: 5
Code: 0
URI: http://jpicforum.info/forum/


2) Initial page forum home page loading time is more than 20 secs for me...can you please check the page using firebug (or google page speed) to see where the issue is? it could be because of image files or java script files, not sure please check on this as well.

3) Left side navbar header are smaller than the widget size, you may need to increase the size to match the width.

overall the design looks good...good luck!

[Brandon Sheley]

very nice design, it's good to see the forum back online
don't forget to take some backups ;)

[JacquiiDesigns]

site looks nice:

1) when i go to forums home page, i get the following java script error. pls take a look at it:
Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6)
Timestamp: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:16:31 UTC


Message: 'document.getElementById(...)' is null or not an object
Line: 67
Char: 5
Code: 0
URI: http://jpicforum.info/forum/


2) Initial page forum home page loading time is more than 20 secs for me...can you please check the page using firebug (or google page speed) to see where the issue is? it could be because of image files or java script files, not sure please check on this as well.

3) Left side navbar header are smaller than the widget size, you may need to increase the size to match the width.

overall the design looks good...good luck!

Sounds like you are using IE6 or some dinosaur of a browser perhaps? LOL
Can you verify please which browser you saw those errors in?

As far as pageload - the site is obviously a bit image-heavy. I believe the header is 90KB - My main css file is 40KB -- Is that too large a file size? I've often wondered about that...

But generally speaking - I personally do not have issues with pageload - server is very fast and my internet connection is blazing speed, so that may be an issue on your end?

Thanks for the feedback!

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very nice design, it's good to see the forum back online
don't forget to take some backups ;)

Thanks Brandon and yes indeed = I've been doing manual backups until I get my automated system in place.

[EddyMaxx]

Site looks great. Love the features.

What helpdesk system are you using?

[JacquiiDesigns]

Site looks great. Love the features.

What helpdesk system are you using?

Thanks!
The mainsite is powered by subdreamer (http://subdreamer.com). The Helpdesk is a customized version of the subdreamer plugin.

[FunnyMan]

Sounds like you are using IE6 or some dinosaur of a browser perhaps? LOL
Can you verify please which browser you saw those errors in?

As far as pageload - the site is obviously a bit image-heavy. I believe the header is 90KB - My main css file is 40KB -- Is that too large a file size? I've often wondered about that...

But generally speaking - I personally do not have issues with pageload - server is very fast and my internet connection is blazing speed, so that may be an issue on your end?

Thanks for the feedback!

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Thanks Brandon and yes indeed = I've been doing manual backups until I get my automated system in place.

I am using IE 8 and getting the javascript error...i have noticed the script error while loading the page, after the page loaded completely the error is gone....may be there is some issue with one of your onload()... not a issue, when you get a chance check it out :)

Internet speed i am using the DSL, may be that could be the reason...

good luck!

[Pinto Pony]

I really like the "JPiC Forum Login Panel" on the homepage. Do you have instructions somewhere on how I can do this on my forum? I have tried searching but can't find anything?

[JacquiiDesigns]

Internet speed i am using the DSL, may be that could be the reason...

good luck!

I'm in the process of optimizing the forum -gonna give vB Optimize Pro (http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/vbecommerce.php?do=purchase&act=product&id=1) a try. DBT are wonderful coders with a lot of useful products. Also - I have a lot of images being served from the database, so gonna be optimising these settings as well. Hopefully afterwards, pageload will be quickness personified :)

Thanks for the other tip as well btw - I've since edited my vBadvanced settings - they were slightly off - weird thing is that was only an issue in IE (go figure) - anyway = fixed.

I really like the "JPiC Forum Login Panel" on the homepage. Do you have instructions somewhere on how I can do this on my forum? I have tried searching but can't find anything?

Hi Pinto - my mainsite is powered by Subdreamer CMS (http://subdreamer.com) - so that is a module configured to pull login info from the integrated vB install.

You could purchase a Subdreamer license - or perhaps you might check out vBadvanced (http://vbadvanced.com) if you're interested in a sidecolumn with login panel ;)

on a sidenote - thanks for the tips and feedback everybody! We actually managed to get in the vB.org BOTM voting for January (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=256414) = So - I'm kinda excited about this = it's a close one thus far :) -- so I've been tidying up all aspects of JPiC - hopefully it looks really good on everybody's browser - no onward to promoting. Anybody got any promotion ideas? ;)