Korg Forums Redesign.

Post by **Sharp** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:14 pm

Hi guys.
I'll leave things as they are right now. I'm very happy with the theme of the webpages. I may just change the font, but that's about it really.

The forum I'll leave as is this time around.

Thanks for all your input.

Regards
Sharp.

Ojustaboo · Post by **Ojustaboo** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:07 pm

Thanks.

While we could have got round it easily enough, as a general rule, if I come across a site I find hard to read due to colours, I don't give it a second look, presuming I'm not alone, new members could have got put off.

thanks again

Joe

sohatyi · Post by **sohatyi** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:41 pm

This is where I put my software engineer hat on and probably get flamed to hell and back

I mention these only because you may suffer compatibility and/or rendering issues across browsers due to the below points.

As much as I love this forum and appreciate (I really do) the time people have put into it, please don't use frames... They're deprecated as a feature (i.e. do not appear in HTML5, XHTML1.1 strict doesn't allow them) and they generally mess with browsers and date your site. You will find that over time, people will struggle to view the site as the deprecation becomes removal of the feature.

Also, the homepage doesn't have a doctype declaration, meaning it's technically not valid HTML, this could cause you some wacky rendering issues on certain browsers.

Font is also deprecated, consider using CSS instead, it'll save you a lot of markup and make the page cleaner.

END PEDANTRY

Post by **Sharp** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:22 pm

lol... Your a hard crowd to please.
Frames are bad, no frames is given as an option and that's still not good enough.

When given the option to select different themes in your profile, it's still not good enough because it's too much bother for some to login

There's no pleasing some people that's for sure.

Regards
Sharp.

Pepperpotty · Post by **Pepperpotty** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:57 am

I'd like the forums in pink please with dancing ponies in the background. But I'd also like the colours to change to suit my moods. But I don't want to have to click on anything to make that happen. The forum should just be able to tell what sort of mood I'm in and change its colour accordingly. I'd also like it to make me coffee.

Thanks.

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:38 am

Pepperpotty wrote:I'd like the forums in pink please with dancing ponies in the background. But I'd also like the colours to change to suit my moods. But I don't want to have to click on anything to make that happen. The forum should just be able to tell what sort of mood I'm in and change its colour accordingly. I'd also like it to make me coffee.

Thanks.

Please keep the skin calm ... I want to read it at my work too and with pink/dancing items I probably will skip reading it during daytimes.

Thoraldus · Post by **Thoraldus** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:01 pm

michelkeijzers wrote:
Pepperpotty wrote:I'd like the forums in pink please with dancing ponies in the background. But I'd also like the colours to change to suit my moods. But I don't want to have to click on anything to make that happen. The forum should just be able to tell what sort of mood I'm in and change its colour accordingly. I'd also like it to make me coffee.

Thanks.
Please keep the skin calm ... I want to read it at my work too and with pink/dancing items I probably will skip reading it during daytimes.

Please Google "Tongue in cheek"

JPWC · Post by **JPWC** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:35 pm

"There's no pleasing some people that's for sure."

really? yeh just ask Korg.

While I like pink and purple, and drink lots of coffee................

I like black font, so when I copy it into Word, I don't have to change font color.

I routinely Copy and print the good posts for my manual in a binder series.

What ever you decide, I'll still be there.

Great work Sharp

PS. Frames are like 16 bar intros, some song need them, some don't

jazlover · Post by **jazlover** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:42 pm

A free EXs with everytime we log on..... Is this too much to ask?
Yeah, we deserve it...somehow!

If you don't have enough captial...Rich Formidoni can loan the money.

necroscope · Post by **necroscope** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 6:05 am

I will be the guy who says: It looks good! Nice work!

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 7:44 pm

Hi sharp,

I do like the new design but I have to say what I said before which is that especially with the menu frame at the top, it is important to maximise reading space so really it needs to be as thin as possible. You could easily trim 20 to 50% off the menu frame and it would make the site more readable..

Also instead of a frame you could integrate it with the various themes, but that's not so important.. Perhaps there are also other methods to include one page within another (aside from php 'include'), but my HTML is a little rusty..

Post by **Sharp** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:03 pm

Hi X-Trade.

There are no frames at all in the entire design except for when someone selects the option to view the discussion forum with the website menu over it.

If they choose this option, the menu already does reduce in size by at least 70%. If they don't select this option, the the forum loads without frames and without any link back to the main website.

The only advantage of embedding the menuinto the php of the forum would be that the menu would scroll when someone is using the forum pages, rather than staying always on your display at the top.

It's something I can certainly look at doing for sure. It's a good option.

Regards
Sharp.

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:50 pm

It is on the forum view that I am talking about. IMO on widescreen devices like the iPad (actually it scrolls here rather than staying fixed, in the latest iOS), the menu banner is still taking up too much screen space.

I do actually really like it there but it could be a lot smaller.

Post by **Sharp** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:25 pm

Got ya... ok, that's no problem. I can make it very thin.

Thanks for that.

Sharp.