Site Update

What does everyone think? Please let me know

looks much better..full of details..just hope ppl now will read b4 posting

Nice BigRob, great job!

Too many deep levels for a simple site.
And there's a few single drill throughs that seems
Weird.
Like General to just introduce yourself.
And q&a to another q&a.

I would prefer the sections with the most posts stay at the topmost level for convenience.

Just my thoughts...

the look is nice. nice job.

keep it up~

[EVO]BigRob wrote:What does everyone think? Please let me know

I think it looks good, nice job bro.

[EVO]BigRob wrote:What does everyone think? Please let me know

Some forums are missing when you're not logged in.

"Monster Warlord General Discussion" & "Monster Warlord Strategy and Advice" both are hidden when you're not logged in. These are the two most active forums; if I was visiting this site for the first time and did not see those 2 forums I'd think this place was pretty dead and I'd move on.

Also, you should turn off the feature that hides links in posts if you're not logged in. I remember months ago when I first found this website I was reading the post for FREE ATM's spreadsheet and I thought I was going crazy because for the life of me I could not find the link in all the pages of the post to actually download the spreadsheet. Finally I gave up and was going to post "I'm an idiot, where do I download this!"; so I registered, logged in and poof! the link magically appeared in the first post. I thought it was so weird, why would you hide links?

Just my 2c

Thanks everyone! Splade I have them turned off on purpose. Want people signed up if they want info.
Which goes for the links as well.

It looks really good. I like that you and Yamate are mods now, always need active mods. Only thing I have a problem with is the General Discussion and Strategy and Advice are now sub-sections off of the Introduce Yourself section. This is making it so if someone posts in the sub-section it bumps that particular area and the main section (Introduce Yourself.) It just seems like they shouldn't be underneath the Introduce Yourself section as they aren't necessarily related.

EDIT: Also, the new Question and Answer section kind of conflicts with Strategy and Advice. Like, what's the discrepancy between the two. Might cause a little confusion and have topics in different places when they should be in one place.

The introduce your self is in the general category with the other two. The problem is the category does not show up in the forum, working on that. So one has to stay in and the other two out for the visual to look good. Strategy and Advice are statements of how you think others can benefit. If you want me to change the wording to strategies, I can. I am moving all questions to Q&A.

[EVO]BigRob wrote:Thanks everyone! Splade I have them turned off on purpose. Want people signed up if they want info.
Which goes for the links as well.

I understand your desire to have more people register on the forums but why would people sign up for forums when they are hidden and don't even know they exist?

I could see this plan working if the forums were listed on the main page: "Monster Warlord General Discussion - 300 topics 3000 posts", and when they clicked the forum it said something like "only registered users can view this forum". Then people would be like "wow, over 3000 posts there, full of juicy MW discussion, I must sign up right away and get me some of that!".

It's the same thing with the links. Someone is not logged in and they read a post: "Hay guys, check out link below to my new awesome MW calculator!" and the user looks below, doesn't see a link and thinks.. "haha OP is a moron, he forgot to post the link". It would be another story if the forum software replaced the link with a message saying "You must log in to view this link". Right now it's just confusing. Not your fault, the people who designed this forum software should have done that.

That said, I love the latest layout you did. It looks 1000% better having the forums split into sections instead of nested as sub-forums. Great job!

Guests can view topics now. I am not worried about the links. If they are just guests, they can think what they want. In order to reply anyways, they would be a member so it is of no concern. Thank you for your input and they have been implemented .

Great overlay bro, it looks so much cleaner
Thanks for your good work!

Agreed. Much more organized/aesthetic now, mirin'
Great job! (in Tim and Eric voice)

Thanks Guys

Ok it's nice it was hard to find the general and strategy forum because they were next to eachother before and now they are splitted apart. But I found it eventuelly.

Btw Rob stop attack me in game lol

good job, looks pretty good now.. very clean and easy to find stuff..
there's one thing i dont like since the old forum, the icons for "No new posts [ Popular ]" and "New posts [ Popular ]" they're too similar, unless they're next to each other i cant tell one from another, can u change that?