Forum Changes

[Richard]

Sivran said:

Huh wha? I don't get what you're saying. I suppose you're talking about something I could possibly do from the front page of the overall shrapnel forums or something I could do with threaded view..

I was talking about an issue with too much scrolling space in the forum area because of the press releases going too far down on the left. Some folks on the forum close the forum areas they are not interested.

[Fyron]

Another thought... do the press releases need to be spaced evenly? It looks kind of silly to see them spaced out evenly with a long page. It would look better IMO if they were just positioned one after another right at the top, in the same place, no matter the length of the page.

[Fyron]

Richard said:
Some folks on the forum close the forum areas they are not interested.

I was not aware I could do that. Thanks for the info!

[Combat Wombat]

Do the "press releases" have to spread out more as the pages gets longer? They would be better if they stayed at the top.

Also you could make them a forum setting so say if I didnt want the press releases because I check the main page daily anyways I could turn them off if I so choose.

[Fyron]

Richard said:
I take it you have the other forums closed, with just SE:IV forum open. If that is the case then the posts would scroll downwards, past your active forums, and unless you scrolled downwards would not affect you.

There is a lot of wasted space inside each box. They don't really need to all be the same size, do they? Also, when you have just a post writing page or a short post page or something, they have tons of wasted space between each box, which causes the section with "powered by infopop" bar to be way farther down than it needs to be. It would make the site look cleaner if these issues were resolved IMO... the minimum height can be lowered without aversly affecting large post pages.

When I hover the mouse over the links in the ad boxes, the middle portion of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th lines of the link have strikethrough on them. It is very strange. I attached a screenshot. Image has been reduced in color quality so as to not waste so much space.

[Fyron]

Also, is there really a need for two logos at the top that both say Shrapnel Games? Isn't that redundant?

I like how posts no longer alternate in color. Much more appealing scheme now.

Could the "Order Space Empires IV Gold" type links be moved to the side bar please? It would reduce the wasted space at the top, making the site much cleaner.

[Atrocities]

This is going to take some time to get used too.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

PLEASE put the press releases on the right side of the screen. Or the top, even better. Now, as I've got my settings showing me 25 replies per thread, I've almost always got this big ugly brownish-greyish-sidebar-like-thing taking up approx. 15% of my screen width. No offence, but...

Ugly.

And David, no offence either but I agree with Kwok.

[Spoo]

Why does the sidebar need to be shown on the individual posts level (i.e. this page)? Why not just have it go as deep as "Malfador Machinations >> Space Empires: IV" and no deeper? That way, when I'm browsing the current topics, I can also look over and see what's new at Shrapnel. Once I click on particular topic, I no longer need to know what's new, since I've already read the sidebar.

[Alneyan]

I like David's picture myself, and I much prefer to have the press releases on the left than on the right. If possible, the top would be much better though.