The whole Forum Layout...

leemay · Posted: 23 Jul 2008 02:23 pm Post subject: The whole Forum Layout...

Hi,

sorry to say that but the forum layout looks really not that serious / good.

Especially the Logo of the Forum ist 1. To large (much width) 2. It is ~40kb big, 3. it looks really unprofessional (nothing against you tramway or the creator) but the logo looks like someone work'd first time with photoshop, much beginners make logos like that.

I think the whole forum layout need to be changed, first to spare traffic and make the loading faster, because the forum is not that really fast.

And i also noticed that there are alot of Addons / Scripts which are not needed or which no one use, why do we have that much addons? The site load is not that good if we add that much scripts.

But first we really need to change the logo, i cant see it anymore (sorry sad

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I have made one logo, which is ~9kb and not that large and i think also looks a bit better.

Here:

or bigger ?

Thats if you want to use the black background, i can give you also in transparent or other color you want, any changes can be done.

What you guys think? Should we change the whole style a little bit?

greets
leemay

Tylr · Posted: 23 Jul 2008 04:07 pm Post subject:

Well, i will agree that the logo is getting a little old and looks like it got stretched out.
And the text you made on your idea is cool, but WAY to plain.
ohmy

tramway · Posted: 23 Jul 2008 04:54 pm Post subject:

the logo is nice, but can u make it a border with it also. About the wordings, we dont really need "gaming trading forums" below, but instead use "gaming community"

also, it doesnt load that slow for me at all, every page seems to finish loading < ~1 second

tramway · Posted: 23 Jul 2008 05:05 pm Post subject:

also, you know that u can change the theme urself to ur own custom colors. What scripts are extra that u think we do not need

leemay · Posted: 23 Jul 2008 05:37 pm Post subject:

@Killwithme

a logo can be plain, to much effects and colors would make it bad. Don't forget ts a Logo, not a Sig : )

@tramway

border:

transparent:

If you want use the logo on a black background, the border would not look good. Otherway, say me in which background you gonna use it? When i can make a good border if i know the base color.

To the Scripts:

Well, do we need a clock on the "Who is Online" table? Also i don't think that we need a Shoutbox if there is a chat, otherway the chat should be removed, either i would use an IRC Channel.

And all the Arcade Games... i don't think that the Users play 10% of the Games you have installed with the package.

And Theme:
I know that i am able to change the colors of the Forum.
But its not the colors, the forum theme looks somehow boring.

Tylr · Posted: 23 Jul 2008 05:42 pm Post subject:

tramway · Posted: 23 Jul 2008 06:22 pm Post subject:

i think the banners u made is kinda small

leemay · Posted: 23 Jul 2008 06:23 pm Post subject:

Ricky · Posted: 23 Jul 2008 06:38 pm Post subject:

I think it looks pretty nice smile

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Fear · Posted: 24 Jul 2008 04:36 pm Post subject:

nice the look atm is Plain jane