Forum Changes

[Phoenix-D]

Stick em on the right and its fine..much less disruptive to reading that way.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

OMG... it's... it's... BROWN! They've changed the color! Much better looking guys, but then don't do the top bars of posts as well... leave that the same color as the body/side of the post. This way, it kinda cuts into the coherentness of a thread. But that's just my opinion.

[Suicide Junkie]

Having an option for the sidebar being on the left or right would be nice.
Personally, I'd go with the right.

The press releases need to have sanity checking on their spread. When you only see one every other page of text (show all on this thread) it looks very silly.

I think david's backgrounds would be nice, if they were desaturated to match the overall atmosphere of the forum. They're just too bright and colourful as is

I've got a pretty high resolution going, and when at the top of a page, the bars and banners take up approximately 55% of my screen
At 800x600 resolution, there is only 20% of a screen's worth of actual thread showing when you click one.
Thus, it feels cramped in here now.

I highly reccommend that the sidebars be reined in while forumites are reading posts or replying to posts.
The top, black background bar that says shrapnel forums is good, but the sidebar should only be shown on the thread browsing page and the forum browsing page IMO.
IE:
Show the sidebar and announcements on these pages:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/ubbthreads.php
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22
Not these pages:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...&Number=336922
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...Number=337007&

The buffer issue came up before as well...
There definitely needs to be a pixel or two of space between the black separator line, and the black text on the content page.
The "F" in "Fill out the form below to post..." is touching the black bar on my screen, merging into a slighty fatter black vertical line.

[David E. Gervais]

Suicide Junkie said:
I think david's backgrounds would be nice, if they were desaturated to match the overall atmosphere of the forum. They're just too bright and colourful as is

Ok, I made a version 2.0...



Is this better?

Cheers!

[David E. Gervais]

And here is the clean version for use as a background.. (compared to the first version)



Cheers!

Note: I made this one a .jpg because there is no 'transparent' pixels in this version.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Put them on the right. Definitly. And keep them out of the threads. Definitly.

Other than that, it is nice to be able to check the news quicly.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Especially the sidebar. Folks, why don't you just move it to the right now, OK? Or the top, EVEN better. I think many people would greatly appreciate that.

[Fyron]

The top would be terrible. There is already way too much space wasted at the top. The bottom would be fine though.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Ok. Bottom or right. Though I do think that for now, you should also try to compress the "we have made a change to the forum" text, perhaps skip the line breaks to avoid FOUR useless lines of text that could easily fit into one page-wide sentence instead of pushing the actual thread downwards and providing for much ugly empty space...?

[Joachim]

Or put the "its not an ad bar" in between every 3rd post. It would only take up a line or two, still get your message across, but give us back all the space that is wasted.