New Design First Steps

smcculloch posted on February 21, 2006 11:34

The first steps of the new design are on the site.. What do you think?

The remaining immediate tasks are:-

Fix up styles to match in with new skins (module styles)
Begin to reorganise information hierarchy
Implement Subscription Tools
Implement new Friendly Url Provider
Update module walkthroughs

All this has to be done by the 28th of Feb! (The 1 year anniversary of this site!)

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# bmolzen

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:51 AM

Looking good so far! There are obvious issues in the modules.... but it's clean!

No room for banners.... not going the advertising route I assume?

# bmolzen

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:52 AM

Quick thought.... perhaps put the "latest posts" in the forums on the left, so the main forums can spread out a bit and not be so crunched? Seems like I have to scroll a lot further now to get to the bottom.

# pdsdps

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:52 AM

Overall like it. Simple, gets the job done.

Does this mean we can (finally!) get away from using the green as the default color for all the modules. :)

A blue/gray color scheme (something semi-neutral) is a better way to go...

# lomaxx

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:52 PM

I like it, the colour scheme is very striking, yet simple and effective. I liked the previous layout tho of having all 4 modules adjacent to each other

# mikeh

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:36 PM

Looking good Scott.

# stormins

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:42 PM

I like the Logo

# caroig

Thursday, February 23, 2006 5:19 AM

Wow what a surprise!!
The sexy sub-menus are too slow on loading for my patience level, but look great.
Given your audience, I wonder how many people are using a 800 width display and whether the site needs to be limited by that