The Sonic Joint; My Joint. ;p

[Red Blaze]

Well, I posted for comments before I added hacks in vbtemplates.com and the only thing they said was that there were too many catagories for the amount of users I had there. Now the board grew to 70 (most inactive though) and I still didn't take away stuff. =j But I did add hacks. One big hack and the others are fairly small. We're running a tournament thanks to Bitsys' battle hack. (Thanks Bitsys! XD)

http://www.thesonicjoint.com

Any comments? Or anything? ^^;

[amykhar]

Take in mind I am no graphics guru, but I do have three comments.

1. I think your home page could do with a clearer link to the forums. I know to click the logo because I am familiar with how vb is set up. However, i think newcomers might not find your forums as easily. (Users are basically stupid)

2. I like the dark colors. I have some concerns that they might be hard to read long-term. If you want people to stick around colors need to be very easy on the eyes.

3. On the forumhome page, I would line up all of the circles. Your category images don't quite line up with your on/off buttons and that makes it look a bit off kilter.

Things seem a bit slow. I would hold off on hacking more unless you are optimizing.

Amy

[filburt1]

1. I agree; it blows my mind how many portals don't have a very clear link that says "Forums". I often have to guess the URL.

2. Disagree; too dark to read sometimes

3. Agree

Your new posts and no new posts icons are the same.

[Red Blaze]

Well..... who cares what you think! hehe, just kiddin'. Well, it's not really how many hacks I have, it's the damn server. My host is having some difficulties. -_-'

About the alignement on the catagories, heck with that, I'm not gonna bother. I plan to make my own style soon and will look a hell of a lot better than that. Same with the text, and yes, I will have more buttons saying "Forums" on it. =j Thanks for the tips guys. :)

[spiffy]

Looks v good to me!

[Tony G]

-Slow loading main page.
-Navbar looks wrong with the banner being longer
-'Logout' button in the header shouldn't show when you're not even logged in.
-Forums are hard to locate from portal page. (To a first time vB user lets say)

[majin gotenks]

love the logo!... except it doesnt go with the blue. and the top links dont go with the logo OR the colors. i think you should make it all match

[RDX1]

Couldn't find the forums...

Horribale design, nice logo though IMO

[Red Blaze]

By design, I think you mean the style, right? It's not mine. ^_^; Like I mentioned, I plan to make my own style. This was just picked up somewhere here. :p or was it vbtemplates.com? I dun remember, but anyway, dun know when everything's gonna change but I'll let ya guys know when I did the new style. And I gotta make a new link to the forums then. =j

EDIT: I changed the "home" button link to /forums. And I'll stop installing hacks. I'm tired of searching through the php files. -_-;

[Tony G]

The first step to making your site individual is to have it's own style. :)

Most of the ones off vBT.com aren't too good.

[Razor]

- needs a "forums" link
- nav bar needs to be longer
- it's not your own style

[Red Blaze]

04-05-03 at 10:13 AM Razor said this in Post #11 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=377845#post377845)
1) needs a "forums" link
2) nav bar needs to be longer
3) it's not your own style


1) Read the above posts.
2) I know that, will be fixed later
3) Read #1.

By god man, emphasis on #1!!! That really gets me annoyed when people don't read all the post. -_-;

At least give some ideas on how to improve it. Like I said before I will make my own style, or get someone to help me out from my board. But I'd rather do one myself.

[Red Blaze]

<a href="http://members.lycos.co.uk/thesonicjoint/index.php?" target="_blank">http://members.lycos.co.uk/thesonicjoint/index.php?</a>

I kinda updated my board alot and restarted it. Right now it's in Beta, but it's almost done. The forum home page still needs to be changed. Here's the things I made.

1) The banner
2) Edited the buttons from blue to black, silver-like color.
3) The post bits
4) The graphic borders.

I believe thats about it that I've done. I added many hacks from here, like the chat box, journal, Bitsys' RPG Hack, and others. I will put the list here to give credit.

The forum index and the home index will change layout soon. All PHP coding was done from hackers here in VB.org. I kinda changed a bit to my needs. Any ways, any comments are welcome. Please, if you spot something, point it out. I know I might of been alittle rude in the above post and I do apologize.

edit: I read above about the forum/home buttons for the portal page before, and I do plan to make a forums button for the portal and a home button for the forums. Also, I know about the Lycos frame on the side. Soon I'm going to move back to my original host of TSJ. If you're using a MAC, good luck. =/