1. On the home page, I think it would be better to have the downloads, download help, and popular downloads on the right side. To give it more symmetry. The Latest Posts should be in the center, not off to one side. I feel this makes it more pleasing to the eyes.
2. I think the side panel is too big when you go into the sections themselves. It takes attention away from the threads, which is bad IMO. I think making them skinnier would be excellent. I did a quick photoshop to give an idea about how wide it could be to look better.
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One last thing, I think the side bars shouldn’t be there when posting or editing a message. Seems weird when it just appears when you hit post reply.
Cid wrote:
I love the idea Bjarne, but I have two problems.
1. On the home page, I think it would be better to have the downloads, download help, and popular downloads on the left side. To give it more symmetry. The Latest Posts should be in the center, not off to one side. I feel this makes it more pleasing to the eyes.
2. I think the side panel is too big when you go into the sections themselves. It takes attention away from the threads, which is bad IMO. I think making them skinnier would be excellent. I did a quick photoshop to give an idea about how wide it could be to look better.
*edit*
One last thing, I think the side bars shouldn’t be there when posting or editing a message. Seems weird when it just appears when you hit post reply.
Is it just my browser, or did the side panel get inflated?
Oh, I see...
Bjarne, this could be an annoyance. The sidebar appears to be stretched, making the thread part really small, because someone has a pretty long name. Maybe, if the names go too far, they can be cut off. 10 or so characters. Unless its still just my browser.
the42gamer wrote:
Is it just my browser, or did the side panel get inflated?
Oh, I see...
Bjarne, this could be an annoyance. The sidebar appears to be stretched, making the thread part really small, because someone has a pretty long name. Maybe, if the names go too far, they can be cut off. 10 or so characters. Unless its still just my browser.
No, that happened for me as well. It could be a potential problem.
Oh and, BTW Bjarne. I think the home page looks a lot better now.
Oh... And before you start to ask about it, then yes: the search feature is currently disabled. I will fix it within this week.
Much like I made this lounge site, I can (and probably will) make a site for the MVC clan.
Each site can have different base designs and and each site can also have different themes. Eventually I will get to make them more different in looks (as well as having different themes).
Each site has a unique IP address (unless I run out of IP addresses ).
Full user profiles are only viewable on lounge.moviecodec.com. This is to avoid duplication of contents (which is not good).
The left-menu on www.moviecodec.com and lounge.moviecodec.com can and WILL BE be customized towards the different sites when I get the time (ie. there no need to link to the codec forums from the frontpage on lounge.moviecodec.com).
More forums will be added to lounge.moviecodec.com over the comming weeks.
I will re-establish the front pages, rss feeds and latest posts on user profiles as soon as I have figured out how to do it without laying waste to the database that is driving the site....
BTW the database is growing rather big! Now it’s at 855MB with over 1,5 million records
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I like the changes very much.
