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17 Sep 2007, 19:58
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The new PA Forums look and feel
Im sure it isnt finished yet, but i have some comments:
- the top banner is way too high
- under that, the login section + adverts is too high, takes too much space, and generally, its irritating to have a flashing thing on your screen constantrly (the ads)
Add to that the navigation bars, and you have (on a 1280x1024) a screen thats filled with 40% rubbish on top.
Way to go for ease of use. Good that there is still the old skins. Dont dare remove them :P
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17 Sep 2007, 20:07
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
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Originally Posted by Remy
Im sure it isnt finished yet, but i have some comments:
- the top banner is way too high
- under that, the login section + adverts is too high, takes too much space, and generally, its irritating to have a flashing thing on your screen constantrly (the ads)
Add to that the navigation bars, and you have (on a 1280x1024) a screen thats filled with 40% rubbish on top.
Way to go for ease of use. Good that there is still the old skins. Dont dare remove them :P
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Unfortunatly I think the issues you've pulled out are the hardest to do anything about. If you make the top image smaller it will look insignifcant in relation to the ads, and the ads have to stay (and I don't think there is anywhere better to put them).
I'm glad you like the general look though
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17 Sep 2007, 20:10
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
You can combine the 2, like in the old forums.
- delete the grpahics on the right of the top banner
- move the middle section of the top banner to the right, replacing the removed graphics
- move the add banner to the middle in the top banner
- move the login info to the left in the top banner, putting it on top of the shown planet surface on the left
- fiddle with it intil it fits
done.
a number of varioations is possible
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Originally Posted by Kal
I'm glad you like the general look though
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Im sure that was meant ironically :P
Also:
Puttign R.23 under the word Planetarion is amateuristic. its Round 23, not R.23.
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Last edited by Remy; 17 Sep 2007 at 20:17.
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17 Sep 2007, 20:14
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
I sure hope that my skin will go unchanged or I will show up on Kal's doorstep with a baseball bat and a bunch of blind japanese batters.
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17 Sep 2007, 20:15
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
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Originally Posted by Kargool
I sure hope that my skin will go unchanged or I will show up on Kal's doorstep with a baseball bat and a bunch of blind japanese batters.
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This was YOUR idea? Or is there some skin thats your doing in the alternatives?
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17 Sep 2007, 20:17
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Up The Hatters!
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
No.. I meant my preferred skin How on earth would you assume I had added something constructive to the game!
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17 Sep 2007, 20:18
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
Hmm, you got a point there :P
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17 Sep 2007, 21:15
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
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Originally Posted by Remy
You can combine the 2, like in the old forums.
- delete the grpahics on the right of the top banner
- move the middle section of the top banner to the right, replacing the removed graphics
- move the add banner to the middle in the top banner
- move the login info to the left in the top banner, putting it on top of the shown planet surface on the left
- fiddle with it intil it fits
done.
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It becomes too wide then - look at how wide the ad banner is you would never fit login+logo+ ad banner on one line.
You also loose cohesiveness with the portal, PA ad banner etc.
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17 Sep 2007, 22:48
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
Round 5-7 Default skin has always been my preferred forum skin. So long as that one doesnt dissapear i will be happy.
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17 Sep 2007, 23:06
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
Personally I really like the new skin (note there are three versions for people with different tastes) , I find it clear and easy to use, it has nice graphics and it "feels" nice. The only downside's are the ones remy has mentioned. We feel it will be good to have a consistent look and feel across all sites. It is posisble that once the portal is finished we might change the forums again, but I wouldn't expect a major change to the top image.
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17 Sep 2007, 23:26
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
i like the new skin, somehow i find it "easier" to read now
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18 Sep 2007, 02:41
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
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Originally Posted by Chef!
Round 5-7 Default skin has always been my preferred forum skin. So long as that one doesnt dissapear i will be happy.
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same here
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18 Sep 2007, 10:26
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
The forums thermselves are good, but the top shud be more compressed, thats all
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18 Sep 2007, 13:43
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
Not too keen on the new skins myself, not completely sure how to phrase it, they all just seem a bit, disproportional.
I think the locations of the banners needs to be re addressed. I don't get why on some of them there is two banner ads where as on a skin like 'Retro v1' there is a nice discreet one at the top.
Retro v1 is what I use, I like the Orange on Grey, it's easy on the eyes.
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18 Sep 2007, 14:43
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The BOFH
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
I quite like the Nuclear Ashes and Mobile Infantry styles, the main 2.0 style introduces too many different colours though.
I'll stick with Retro v1!
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18 Sep 2007, 15:20
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Inactive peon
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
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Originally Posted by Marv
Not too keen on the new skins myself, not completely sure how to phrase it, they all just seem a bit, disproportional.
I think the locations of the banners needs to be re addressed. I don't get why on some of them there is two banner ads where as on a skin like 'Retro v1' there is a nice discreet one at the top.
Retro v1 is what I use, I like the Orange on Grey, it's easy on the eyes.
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basically, on the old skins we could get away with only one banner, but now the requirement is to have two.
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23 Sep 2007, 17:12
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
i like the new skin, tho the R.23 doesnt really look nice in the logo
the new graphics and style is cool and i want that back ingame !!
btw. whats so hard in implementing the login on the portal ?
and why is rnd 23 skin not finished be4 the round starts but still called rnd 23 skin ? :/
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29 Sep 2007, 06:21
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
Need sponsers, but think the big pa banner on top could be dropped. Most of the times i read the first post in a thread i'm interested in knowing what the person has to say without scrolling, not to know that i'm discussing pa on pa-forum
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2 Oct 2007, 23:39
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
Only just seen the new design on the forum, been way too busy with other things.
First thoughts - way too much space wasted with the header at the top (just like the portal) - login could, and probably should, be integrated into that.
Banner placement could be better, on long threads, you end up with so much wasted space at the right.
Some of the colours need a bit of tweaking, white text on grey when in advanced mode of a new post.
Certainly better than the one that was removed a while ago though.
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2 Oct 2007, 23:40
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Let battle commence
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
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Originally Posted by Kal
Unfortunatly I think the issues you've pulled out are the hardest to do anything about. If you make the top image smaller it will look insignifcant in relation to the ads, and the ads have to stay (and I don't think there is anywhere better to put them).
I'm glad you like the general look though
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If you could swap the horid sky for something else (another wide perhaps?) then its really easy to 'hide' both of the banners within the content - they are known to have a much better click through rate there too - less obvious "its a banner" and more part of the content.
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4 Oct 2007, 02:29
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
possibly not constructive but for less bannerage
try R5-7, R8-9, dreammaker and R XIV (banner doesnt fit properly but the mottled grey and white txt for me and my mild dyslexia is the best colour read i've ever had on a forum )
none of theese have 2 banners .. only the top one.. no side one so the forum is as wide as the screen still.
now the 2.0's are fine well crafted designs but the posts get so squashed up because of that side banner it makes reading longer threads alot more tedious.
So putting that 2nd one elsewhere would be a good plan
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4 Oct 2007, 07:12
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The PropaGhandi
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
The skin like the portal design, is horrible.
Why would anyone put their eyes trough wearing that when they have the option of using the retro skins?
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4 Oct 2007, 07:57
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Re: The new PA Forums look and feel
The new PA Forums look and feel
that is eazy: CRAP
What tard figured out to put more advertizmnt crap then aktual infermation on 1 page. I tought most pai to play this geam.
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