Topic #320: soo.. this place
Posted: March 11th, 2020, 14:56
if this here is still alive and you guys (or anybody) plans to try and make it work, there's some improvements you can make.
first, is making the layout more accessible and perhaps also more pleasant for the eye.
of the blaring issues I see, I'll name a few.
-dark blue fonts in front of dark red backgrounds
this makes it hard to read. I understand the dark blue font is meant for white portions of the page, but the bits of it that display in front of red ones are not readable comfortably.
-the forum list is HUGE.
there's certainly forums you don't need among these. remember, simple is best and much more convenient. this is by far the biggest issue.
you, as a new user, don't really know which forum to post in. forums for general chat (non-games) should also be at the top of the list for convenience. at least the announcements and introductions forums are, why not the remaining others as well?
you can try to reduce the amount of forums you got by removing the ones nobody uses or is likely to use. you can also combine multiple forums into one and thus save some space.
once you're done, you can always adjust the remaining few if need be.
-huge fonts and images in signature
this is mostly aimed towards Tiger21820, but please, please don't do that.
it makes it hard to distinguish what is post content and what isn't, and pointlessly pushes the next post further down the page, making reading several posts on a single page much longer than it needs to be. it's a big turnoff when trying to enjoy reading anything here, which's not good because, well, that's the whole point of the site isn't it? you should be careful not to ruin user experience.
-those HOME, CALENDAR, FAQ, etc buttons
I'm not sure what you tried to do with them, but they're hard to read (especially the FAQ one) and frankly they don't look great. I'd advise you either use stock (aka regular) text for this or get a graphist (even somebody like me can do this much) to make decent and readable buttons.
first, is making the layout more accessible and perhaps also more pleasant for the eye.
of the blaring issues I see, I'll name a few.
-dark blue fonts in front of dark red backgrounds
this makes it hard to read. I understand the dark blue font is meant for white portions of the page, but the bits of it that display in front of red ones are not readable comfortably.
-the forum list is HUGE.
there's certainly forums you don't need among these. remember, simple is best and much more convenient. this is by far the biggest issue.
you, as a new user, don't really know which forum to post in. forums for general chat (non-games) should also be at the top of the list for convenience. at least the announcements and introductions forums are, why not the remaining others as well?
you can try to reduce the amount of forums you got by removing the ones nobody uses or is likely to use. you can also combine multiple forums into one and thus save some space.
once you're done, you can always adjust the remaining few if need be.
-huge fonts and images in signature
this is mostly aimed towards Tiger21820, but please, please don't do that.
it makes it hard to distinguish what is post content and what isn't, and pointlessly pushes the next post further down the page, making reading several posts on a single page much longer than it needs to be. it's a big turnoff when trying to enjoy reading anything here, which's not good because, well, that's the whole point of the site isn't it? you should be careful not to ruin user experience.
-those HOME, CALENDAR, FAQ, etc buttons
I'm not sure what you tried to do with them, but they're hard to read (especially the FAQ one) and frankly they don't look great. I'd advise you either use stock (aka regular) text for this or get a graphist (even somebody like me can do this much) to make decent and readable buttons.