New Forum Site - Harry Potter Forums

[Nordinho]

Originally Posted by Speysider

Well, you wanna do that for me? I'm not using vBadvanced, navigate to hpcommunity.co.uk and you'll see that I already have a front page.

I know you have, that's why I mentioned it . You current frontpage doesn't really match with the forums. Take a look around at vbadvanced.com, there you can see what's possible.

Originally Posted by Speysider

The status icons are modified. They originally said CNN, but the style author made a modification to them.

I would suggest using icons that match the background, perhaps this one could be of use. And you can find a lot more here.

Unfortunately I can't do it for you atm. Bit too busy with my own upgrade.

[ChopSuey]

Turn off that " Show lock icons to users " options in admincp.

Do you have groups? Like in the movie? Cant remember but have all different parts of school compete and stuff.

[Speysider]

Originally Posted by ChopSuey

Turn off that " Show lock icons to users " options in admincp.

I always have that enabled. I'll ask the style author to make a modified locked logo.

Do you have groups? Like in the movie? Cant remember but have all different parts of school compete and stuff.

Yes. See the usergroups thread on my forums.

[KevinL]

Everything AzH said is right on...

The header is just way to large...everything above the actual forums are just way to large. On first load you don't see any content at all...thats not good.

[Speysider]

Well, maybe someone who is good at administrating would like to help me? I can't do this all by myself.

[AzH]

Then, maybe you should quit. Running a forum is a labour of love and you can often find you're doing it just for yourself, but with time comes success.

All I can suggest is that you LISTEN when you are given advice. Don't ask for a review then get uppity if you're told something you disagree with.

Good luck!

[PukkaBen]

Here's my take on it, I have to agree with many of the things said before about your board. The main graphic at the top is too big, it takes up half of my screen easily. Then I get bombarded with a notice about registration... why isn't this just put on the Registration page, that would help you out so much to start with!! Then after I get to the end of that notice I get told the benefits of signing up, which admittedly don't show up on any other page than the forum homepage. Maybe you should set that for both of the notices?

I have also just worked out that the header, notice board and reasons to register take up more room than the actual forum... that can't be a good thing can it?!

There is also a line all the way across the forums on the background image, not sure what that's about? Don't see why you have 'Page generated in 0.05599 seconds with 11 queries' displayed at the end of the page either, I feel that should be invisible but still there (the same colour type as the background, simply).

I hope you treat that as constructive criticism and not just having a dig at your site, because you have asked for feedback and I am giving you my honest, humble opinion on the site in question!!

[Speysider]

ok.
I'll get myself and my other admin to sort this out.

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Originally Posted by PukkaBen

Here's my take on it, I have to agree with many of the things said before about your board. The main graphic at the top is too big, it takes up half of my screen easily. Then I get bombarded with a notice about registration... why isn't this just put on the Registration page, that would help you out so much to start with!! Then after I get to the end of that notice I get told the benefits of signing up, which admittedly don't show up on any other page than the forum homepage. Maybe you should set that for both of the notices?

Okay. If you want to complain about the graphic, blame the creator of it, on wsjcommunity.com forums (username is Inferno or something).

I have also just worked out that the header, notice board and reasons to register take up more room than the actual forum... that can't be a good thing can it?!

Okay. I'm sorting this out.

There is also a line all the way across the forums on the background image, not sure what that's about? Don't see why you have 'Page generated in 0.05599 seconds with 11 queries' displayed at the end of the page either, I feel that should be invisible but still there (the same colour type as the background, simply).

I am not hiding it, as it is global on all the templates. I use one master style, and every other template is based off that style.

[PukkaBen]

The reason is is on all templates and global is because there is a setting on the Admin CP to show or hide this. If you visit most vB forums you'll see that hardly any of them show this information as it really is useless unless you need to know how many queries are running to get the page loaded. If I ever show mine it's for a small amount of time as I turn it on and then off so I can just check on queries.

We're only trying to help you out, and it seems you're having a huge go at all of us as soon as we give you any criticism that you don't like or feel isn't helping you.

[Speysider]

Originally Posted by PukkaBen

The reason is is on all templates and global is because there is a setting on the Admin CP to show or hide this. If you visit most vB forums you'll see that hardly any of them show this information as it really is useless unless you need to know how many queries are running to get the page loaded. If I ever show mine it's for a small amount of time as I turn it on and then off so I can just check on queries.

We're only trying to help you out, and it seems you're having a huge go at all of us as soon as we give you any criticism that you don't like or feel isn't helping you.

I know that, but I don't like messing with the code because I can make errors.
I know that you are trying to help, but I'm in a bit of a bad mood atm.