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Old 04-07-2009, 11:03 AM
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Default Updated forum (DS Ultimate), reviews wanted

Not sure when exactly my last topic in this forum was made, but I'd like some feedback on a few new things such as some new images made by certain members. First up, here's the site in question:

http://dsultimate.net/Board/upload/

Secondly, here's what's changed since last time:

1. New moderator crowns by turpinator (such as this )
2. New images for the arcade add on, from I think Mario All Stars.
3. New images for the blogs (control panel especially, icons which are here so people don't have to register):



New images for 'Blog this Post' and the like have also been added, and I'd also like opinions on some of the colour changes that are the styles at the bottom of the screen (there's about 40 of them by now).

So, any opinions on the site in general, the even more added Nintendo based sprites and icons, the new moderator crowns and various post buttons, and anything related to community management?

--------------- Added [DATE]1239189719[/DATE] at [TIME]1239189719[/TIME] ---------------

Added new post icons and some new blog icons.
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Old 04-08-2009, 10:39 PM
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You have way too many styles, none of them are even updated. On every one, the navigation bars, and everything look different (have different links, way too crowded).
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Old 04-09-2009, 10:28 AM
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I know, I ought to update those styles. The reason for many of them still existing though is because a good three quarters have members using them, strangely enough.

What I mean by used:

http://dsultimate.net/Board/upload/s...ighlight=style

I'll get to updating templates soon or later though (I wish vBulletin used CSS for layout at this point in time).

Any other comments?
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Old 04-16-2009, 01:18 AM
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mainly the styles is my problem
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Old 04-16-2009, 01:53 AM
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it, it, its just bad man...

the style is crazy all over the place, no color pallette, icons are rough, header is rough, the postbit....are you kidding? people actually need scrollbars cause their sigs are so big. i have a big monitor and peoples sigs are filling it, totally unacceptable IMO.

i literally felt like i was going to have a seizure if i didn't close the page......
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Header image is a little big - both size and weight.

Meta description - ok

Theme and layout - ok to good.

Too much use of images in the forum descriptions.
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Old 04-16-2009, 09:52 PM
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it, it, its just bad man...

the style is crazy all over the place, no color pallette, icons are rough, header is rough, the postbit....are you kidding? people actually need scrollbars cause their sigs are so big. i have a big monitor and peoples sigs are filling it, totally unacceptable IMO.

i literally felt like i was going to have a seizure if i didn't close the page......
For the signatures, there are actually signature rules, I just haven't really enforced them in a darn well long time. There's actually meant to be a sig limit, just it's become a complete pain to moderate with such a semi young member base and the like.

As for the icons, those are by a certain member on the site, not by me:

http://dsultimate.net/Board/upload/member.php?u=103

He's a spriter by the way.

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mainly the styles is my problem
I'm fixing it, slowly. So far, about 14 of the needed template edits changed, just another 20 to go then sorting out the damn navbars. This could take a while.

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Header image is a little big - both size and weight.

Meta description - ok

Theme and layout - ok to good.

Too much use of images in the forum descriptions.
Thanks for your comments. Yeah, I agree, I have got to possibly downsize the header a bit, especially in file size and the like. As for images in forum descriptions, I guess maybe making some forums sub forums might help, right? I've been suggested to make two inactive forums sub forums, and the rest is partly due to using the category icons mod from here. But thanks, and I'll take your comments to consideration, especially the header and description ones.
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Old 04-18-2009, 11:17 AM
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Nah man, you don't need to fix your templates, you need to remove some of them (styles, whatever).

A lot of them are very ugly, and rough, and you should just stick to around 5 of your best.

I'd say the best style you have is Clean Red style, I'd delete most of the others and use this as a main style. Although is doesn't really match your content, it is much cleaner, and doesn't have those rough status icons.
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I've been removing some, yes, the others are due to demand (as in, about 10 members demanded it and as an artifact of the contest used to get the current logo).
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You still have way too many styles. I have more advice, but if you're not going to follow it, then I will not be giving you the advice.

That many styles, and having them all look like that, with the rough/ugly status icons and banners, and way over sized banners... Will turn people away from your forum.

Who cares if you have a few unhappy members. At least edit the ugly status icons and banners.
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