SocomCity

[Kirk Y]

Well, the WOL is more important for me... lol. I like to know who's on, who's been on, and I'd like to see the latest S3 Blog. As for cutting the forum's down... I don't know what I could take away... all those things are neccessary, in my mind. I can think of maybe 2 things I might be able to get rid of... what do you think I should take off? The Portal seems to load fine for me... what do you suggest I do to reduce the amount of queries on the page?

[Tony G]

So what's important to you is more important to everyone else, too? As an admin, you should put the needs of the members in front of your own. It's pretty selfish to say that because YOU want to see who's online it should make an unnecessary scroll to your forum list on your forumhome. If you want to see who's online, scroll to the bottom, and if you want that to be easier, take some of the forums away.

And even if the forums are all 'necessary' in your mind, there are stil too many. Merge some, make the forum names more general so more can fit into one forum. You should really aim for a number under 15 AT LEAST.

[Hawkbizkit]

or do like i did and make it userselectable where the whats going on? box and my shoutbox and my welcome panels are displayed if at all. :P

[Kirk Y]

I'm not being selfish, that's just how WE as the Administrators, want it. If you think that moving your mouse's scroll-wheel two times is "unneccesary", then perhaps you should try exercising your thumb. (Don't take this negatively, I appreciate your criticism, but that's just how we want it...)

I suppose I could make it User-selectable with IF Conditionals, would that be better?

And you never answered my question as to which forums I should get rid of... they all seem unique to me.

[Princeton]

good start but, there are many issues that needs to be addressed

• why 2 LOGIN? (view attachments)
• why column/block width different? (view attachments)
• bug in calendar (shouldn't the start of the month be at the top?)
• what's the difference between titles in center column and "Recent Threads"
• why have the "What's Going On?" table at the top? Do you really think that your readers/members are interested in these stats? Everday?
• why is your "What's Going On?" table breaking out of the layout? (view attachment --without looking my bet is that you have "nowrap")

I notice multiple font sizes on your portal page. Normally, this is not an issue but, you are using different font sizes on your content. eg. center content vs. birthday content vs. post content

What this does is it confuses the reader. (eg. The bigger the font size the more important the text -- So, why does your center content has the smallest font size?)
It also makes it hard to 'scan' the page for something specific.

[Snake]

Not bad not bad, its alright.

[bigcurt]

Ok, I just have a few things to add

• The "Whats going on Box" at top, needs to be moved in my opinion. It looks ridiculous up there. Just my opinion though .
• Also, those are WAYYY to many forums, I see atleast 10 of them that can be removed because they either have 0 thread in them or they have like 10 lol..get rid of some, it will help activity...trust me.
• Also I agree with princeton, make your font 1 size on front page or changed it around to make your center font bigger. ( I know this is not your fault, as you did not make skin..I believe KALL did.)

Thats really about it for me, do some of those things and I believe it will help you .



~Curt

[Kirk Y]

Originally Posted by princeton

good start but, there are many issues that needs to be addressed

• why 2 LOGIN? (view attachments)
• why column/block width different? (view attachments)
• bug in calendar (shouldn't the start of the month be at the top?)
• what's the difference between titles in center column and "Recent Threads"
• why have the "What's Going On?" table at the top? Do you really think that your readers/members are interested in these stats? Everday?
• why is your "What's Going On?" table breaking out of the layout? (view attachment --without looking my bet is that you have "nowrap")

I notice multiple font sizes on your portal page. Normally, this is not an issue but, you are using different font sizes on your content. eg. center content vs. birthday content vs. post content

What this does is it confuses the reader. (eg. The bigger the font size the more important the text -- So, why does your center content has the smallest font size?)
It also makes it hard to 'scan' the page for something specific.

• The login in the header is what's normally included with vB & the other login comes default with vBACMPS.
• The width difference is caused by the news posts. Some of them are retrieved via RSS from a SOCOM blog. As they're HTML, sometimes they mess with the page alignment.
• There's no bug in the calendar, it's showing the rest of September at the top & then continuing with October.
• Threads in the Center Column are News Posts and "Recent Threads" are threads most recently replied to in the forum.
• We've already had this argument about the WGO box... we want it like that.
• I don't see it breaking the layout when I view it. (See Attached)
• As for the multiple font sizes, I cannot get the Birthday font to change. There's no template for it... just birthday.php, and I've tried (to no avail) to get it to be identical with the others. The font sizes on my Center Content are identical to those of the Post Content, aside from some of them being bolded and perhaps the next font size up since they're titles. (Assuming I understand what you mean by Post Content and Center Content)