Vamping Up The Site

[Irobashi Chronicles]

I've been really really REALLY wanting to do this for so long, I wouldn't change it up too much, but I've been really wanting to spiff up the site!!! Here's what I had in mind, here's one example:

ironianregion.proboards.com/index.cgi

User legend in the info center, the side tables have backgrounds, the logo is cleaner and much more fun, and not only that but I wanted to throw in a music corner in the ooc board and kind of have it be a lounge. Music, ooc board rp, ooc cbox rp, and all the fun little doodles and graphics I'm making to go with it. Plus, I had these neat little banners in mind for the side table, I'd leave the buttons and monthly award stuff alone, but I really can't stress enough how much I've been wanting to do this.

And if I do do all this, easy fix, I just put everything back to normal the way it was. So what do you guys say, give me a chance? Let's try it out?

PS: If you want certain music on the playlist, PC lists to me.

Test site, what I've got done so far: shatterdtestinies.proboards.com/index.cgi

[Leathurkatt]

Side table backgrounds as long as it's not too busy would be nice, problem is with all the themes we have it would look fine with some color schemes and horrid with others unless you did a strictly gray scale background.

I have no idea what you're talking about with a "Logo" but I cleaned up the site name already, so that doesn't need to be altered again.

Honestly removing the welcome text under the banner makes it exceedingly tedious to figure out who we are signed in as. With the welcome text we can see it at a glance instead of having to hunt down buttons and open MORE tabs just to see who we're signed in as so we don't constantly end up posting with the wrong account and have to go back and fix it. I've said repeatedly that the button at the top (which gets ignored because it's above the add and lost in no man's land) to replace the Welcome text is a bad idea. Regarding the PM Box button, several have stated they 1. Never use it 2. Generally never see it and 3. Just simply don't like it.

As for the side bar banners I had already been planning to redo all of them and you had agreed to let me redo them. I take it you decided otherwise?

I've also got top banners planned for many of the Non RP boards (same place the Annual Spotlight is on the Contests board). The two columns are unnecessary as all we need is already on the sidebar which is viewable on all boards and pages.

As for Music on the OOC board, I have two suggestions: 1. make sure it does not auto play so people can chose to turn it on or leave it off and 2. Use the character theme songs claim list for songs to put on the playlist. You can not go wrong with those or using the instrumental score from the live movies. Adding random unrelated songs just because you like them is just very ill advised. It clutters up the playlist and leaves no room for theme songs for new characters as they are added.

Additional graphics on the OOC board would make it look cluttered to be honest. Best to leave it clean unless you're talking a simple monochrome background, if that's possible. Again though, you run into the problem of it clashing with some themes and going okay with others.

Those are just my thoughts on the subject though.

[wulf]

Honestly, I'm afraid of there being too much in one area. My internet has enough trouble handling the OOC box and the main c-box at the same time. In my opinion, the site looks fine as-is. We don't need another makeover. The site looks fine, and we should be focusing on actually getting everything moving. We've been stuck where we are for nearly six months. If we can't work on getting threads started in the early months of the site completed, then we shouldn't be trying to spruce up the site.

Edit: My vote is "No." The counter won't register my voting attempts.

[HammerLane]

I think I agree with Suburban Wulf. Your better off working on the threads than working on the drapes.

[Kiwi]

I think that the site is very well decorated as it is, I agree 100% with Suburban Wolf simply because there has been many instances where Chrome has crashed all of my chatango boxes open and that causes my whole program to freeze. I think that too many more things added to the site will make it slower than a turtle stuck in the mud.