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Suicide Junkie said:
1) Using the top game-banner to show news, perhaps colour-coded by subject/category
2) Changing the backgrounds on the news items for improved contrast and topic matching.
3) Turning the "Order <game related to forum>" link at the top into a special button on the sidebar.
4) Options for location of sidebar, or hiding it.
5) Fixing the black border line and the lack of space between it and the actual forum text.
6) If the "not-an-ad" bars are too intrusive, they will simply be blocked, and there is no way to force them to be shown except on a very temporary basis.
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1) Yes, I think a much more effective way to do the very top of the page is have the new oval Forums icon on the left, ad banner in the middle, and some sort of iframe to load a random news item from the past X days (perhaps summary/link of blog posting?) I just can't seem to get myself to like the eagle logo, though.
2) The changing-of-news-item backgrounds is a good idea as well. Adds a bit more variety as well, and helps people zoom in on items of special interest (read: SEV
3) A golden "Buy This Game" button right below the Support button would fit nicely.
4) This, I think, is very much needed. On my 1280x1024 screen, the beginning of text for the forum pages almost begins in the center of the screen (!) This is a Bad Thing (TM). Then I tried scaling down to 800x600 (people do still use that resolution), and the result was squished everything, and you need to scroll all the way over in some threads (mainly, this one) to even see all the text. Then you can't even see the poster or the sidebar when reading the forum, and that is a Very Bad Thing (TM).
Two ways to resolve the problem are:
A) keep press release sidebar on the forum and topic listings only, and remove from the thread pages (ie, where messages are).
B) move the bar to the right side, or allow the option for users to move the bar to the right. Perhaps keep it defaulted to the right, requiring users to register to change it.
5) Add padding/cellpadding to the table cell the main part of the forum is held in, to prevent the border-merging. Also, it looks like there's supposed to be a drop-shadow on the PR image backgrounds, but it's cut off...
6) As soon as I get some time, I'll be looking for this Proximitron program. I always thought it was a firewall, not a way to edit out "undesirable" HTML.