New Layout

[Shelley_c]

To be brief. I find the current layout (I'm speaking of the graphics area) poor. I can't even tell if a new post/reply has been made and with me undertaking requests and performing modifications, How am I supposed to tell without me having to click a link and scrolling through four catergorys of areas.

It's like everything I said/suggested (to Brad) was just ignored. I know graphics aren't a big deal to this type of board but that's because it was neglected from the start. Now you've just thrown it in an area which leads me to think the graphics area wasn't and isn't even being taken seriously.

I'm enjoying contributing to this area but atleast show some respect for the work people have done by giving it a better placement.

[MPDev]

Which skin are you using? I use Smooth Blue and think it looks the same as it did before the conversion.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

I'd have to agree. And I'm NOT one of those types that complains everytime or just cause something is changed. but in this case, I've gone from... find stuff easily to...
where the hell is everything?

simplicity is best. and in this case you've grouped stuff so much that its either buried (inconvenient) or just not anywhere you'd expect it to be.

I'll give it some time to get used to, and though I'm sure I'll learn to find stuff again... there is no way it will be as convenient as the simple FLAT on level set up you had previously.

[ericgtr]

I have to agree as well, it looks really bland without the normal forumhome features and without going into the forums you have no idea what's updated.

[Shelley_c]

This is so fustrating. You make a suggestion (only be told forum structure is in progress) hopefully for the better, Because, to be honest, I am blue in the face trying to give suggestions to give the graphics database the content that it deserves only to see it in it's stupid location, and believe me it's possibly in the worst location that it could have been moved into. If staff start looking at the graphic database as a major source and also look at the bigger picture in regards what the graphics database could be.

Even I could have spent 5 minutes restructuring that area against the "months of staff collaboration" (which is obviously flawed) and gave this area better placement. Granted, the install intergration is nice (although I was against this) but you can't honestly expect contributors to be happy with it's placement. That's my only beef, and, a reply would be nice and hopefully staff can explain why this area just took a turn for the worse.

[Brad]

What is wrong with is placement? How do you suggest we change it?

I'm honestly at a lost with what to do with it at this point..graphics can be used over nearly every version so I don't want to place them in the other sections.

[Shelley_c]

Originally Posted by Brad

What is wrong with is placement? How do you suggest we change it?

I'm honestly at a lost with what to do with it at this point..graphics can be used over nearly every version so I don't want to place them in the other sections.

Thanks Brad for atleast asking how it can be changed.

My first suggestion would be to give the graphic area it's own catergory with the 3 forums (smileys, buttons, misc) displayed on the index page. If that's to much, atleast give the graphics area it's own forum with two subforums to make the other areas up. That way, people know when there's an update or a new submission been made.

[peterska2]

I'd like to see it moved up the modifications page too as below vB2 it will never be seen as that part is obsolete. The best location would be directly below the 3.5 mods, then move up each time a new version comes out so it is always the second box.

Shelley, you can access the graphics forum standard layout by clicking on the graphics title

[Shelley_c]

Originally Posted by peterska2

I'd like to see it moved up the modifications page too as below vB2 it will never be seen as that part is obsolete. The best location would be directly below the 3.5 mods, then move up each time a new version comes out so it is always the second box.

Shelley, you can access the graphics forum standard layout by clicking on the graphics title

Can you understand why people get so fustrated? What you suggested is not solving the problem. I'll be damned if I'm going to click every minute worrying whether someone has made a request because I don't know whether someone just made a request.

Brad asked me to give a suggestion, which i gave, which is obviously been ignored yet again.

[peterska2]

Shelley, my suggestion there is for the releases part. I've already had a word with Brad about the requests part.

In the first post of this thread you said

Originally Posted by Shelley_c

How am I supposed to tell without me having to click a link and scrolling through four catergorys of areas.

By move it to the second category, this eliminates the need to scroll to the bottom for yourself, and also places it in a much more prominent position giving it better exposure.