New homepage

KdjaCL

Doesnt look right , needs more last threads and just looks weird.

kdajc

mr_angry

Overall look - not bad.
Squiggly lines - horrible.
Footer - needs to be bigger - the link at the bottom is way to close to the bottom of the page.

eth0_

Originally posted by KdjaC
Doesnt look right , needs more last threads and just looks weird.

kdajc

I like it apart from the tiny amount of most recent threads shown

Lafortezza

login didn't work for me from new homepage, had to go to usercp to log in properly
looks ok though

The Brigadier

I personally don't like it....

But then I don't like change

feylya

We fear change.

Sposs

Looks fine

Ste-

Originally posted by KdjaC
Doesnt look right , needs more last threads and just looks weird.

kdajc

Exactly.

Pablo

its a bit dark , no ?

DEmeant0r

I hate change, just when I was getting comfy in the old layout, this new fangled one comes in

SantaHoe

Originally posted by mr_angry
Squiggly lines - horrible.

Hell yeah, they remind me of intestines or a lower colon or something.

Civilian_Target

Its not just ugly, its less functional as well. Don't do it!

Pepe LeFrits

I like it, looks more professional. Still needs work though. The colours are a little dull, the squiggles are a bit dodge, there is too much space above the various forum header buttons, the about us/contact us footer is too compact, and the tags don't work in the news items.

Dman_15

its really bad at high resolution (1600x1200)
the old one was much clearer. i'm not a fan of coloured text on coloured backgrounds

ixoy

What's with you crazy young folks and your new hippity-hoppity fangled change? What's wrong with the old groove? I likes seeing more latest threads, and I don't see why we a loosin' this to make more space for Event News...

Bard

YOU'LL GET USED TO IT.

mike65

ROFL....

Mike.

Dman_15

in the latest news section none of the urls in the threads can be clicked on.....

Was it always like this i cant remember

The Muppet

There's not enought recent posts , other than that it looks ok at high resoultution. I'll probably grow on me.

Draupnir

Just had terrible hassle trying to log in. The home page doesnt work for me?

Had to use the messages button.

hedgetrimmer

I think it looks great. I like that you have kept the old menus. I agree that it needs more recent threads.

Keep it...people will get used to it

Tivoli

nice to see a bit of change

can you swap around the thread/ message topic to be message topic /thread


eg
Feedback / Suggestions: New homepage hedgetrimmer 11-06 15:19

i would prefer

New homepage :Feedback / Suggestions hedgetrimmer 11-06 15:19

Cloud

Fixed login issue.
Upped latest posts to 15.
Will have a look at replacing spaghetti on background.

Now I'm off for a very late lunch - thanks for all comments, good or otherwise

The Muppet

Just noticed the soccer moderators board is visible under the new forums list.

sutty

I have to say, I dont like it...

I find it to be very formal. I beleaved the little boards guys on the old home page to be a lot more welcoming and a more personal touch.

I find it very dark as well. In respect to the colour tones used... theres no bright colours, there all dark or dull colours. a bit depressing really.

The latest posts are harder to read. The set sections for "Board" "Topic" and "User" made the old ones alot easer to read.

I also have to say the blue squggly lines are a bit on the naff side... they just dont look like there in the right place (as in they kind of got lost and wondered on to the home page)

I do like where the User icon is now and the new PM's and stuff. Its more the first place you will look, rather than hidden away on the side

echomadman

Loads fast, looks fine, has some nifty features.

Bard

Rushing out the door to get to Dublin in time so I can vote and get back to Meath to go to work, but I'll make my brief suggestions, as made on IRC:

1> Change the cyan in the buttons down the left to white, to increase the contrast.

2> Get rid of the squiggles. Either find a better background for the left and right sections or just leave them plain navy. The squiggles on the left look amateurish especially where they show around the edges of the buttons.

3> Apply rollovers to the buttons down the left and across the top so that they light up when pointed at. Apply "title"/"alt" tags with more info to all of the buttons.

4> Give the thread titles their own table cell in the "Last 15" list at the top, so that they appear directly under each other. (Yes, plazzTT's suggestion, but I think its a good one)

Apart from that, I like the inner section and it's enhanced functionality, and the improved loading time. It's just the colours and the design of the edges that throw me off.

Kudos on the good work!

DEmeant0r

also in the homepage. When I highlight "Sports" and "Society" in the drop down menu the google ad will hide it. Do you think you could make it do the opposite so the beloved soccer link is viewable?

jank

dont like it seems clutterd or something but as said before maybe it will grow on me

Woden

i just refreshed a minute ago and went WTF? then looked for the inevitable thread in feedback and suggestions and wasn't disappointed

comments, differentiate more between the forum and the thread on the recent posts colourwise methinks, more recent posts as well as mentioned, less news and events as some of the latest posts on those go way back.

i think i'll get used to it alright, though the boards guy is gone

radiospan

I like it.

It's got the Search button on the front page that I always wanted.

Ye'll get used to it.

But it would be much easier to read the new topics, if the topic titles were listed directly under each other, ie- in a new table cell.

flogen

Its not bad... I'd like to see the user details centered rather than left aligned, but thats it (and its pretty minor too!!)

Is this the result of the test thing you did with a load of users, or is this just your own personal trial

and will the actual forums be changing too?

Flogen

phenom

Well done lads. it looks great.
Afew more recent post would be even better.

DeVore

see Cloud... I told you we needed more then 10

Seriously though, constructive feedback welcome. I think you can see from this topic already that we are never going to satisfy everyone. That said this is very much Version 0.9... however we had been faffing about with the design etc and that was holding up the new filters on the Latest 15 Posts area... I'm very happy with them. Plus its about 200K smaller so it will load faster and be less strenuous on the webserver.

Onward ever onward...

DeV.

feylya

Ah, you renamed Journals to Blogs. Good. At least it doesn't sound like a gay diary any more.

Bard

BTW...

New homepage

Old homepage

"Never made it home" page

Ronan|Raven

"I dont like it"

Woden

i'm glad that one never made it

nosmo

Looks nice.
Goes fast.
But some curiousity.

Like all the women I know..
All two of them

PiE

The blue icons on the left are hideous. As Bard said, you should consider changing them to white.

I like the center of the page, it's got a very slick and professional styleeee to it, although the greyness kinda reminds me of p45... which clearly isn't a good thing

Not too fond of the blue/grey combination over-all though, I prefered the blue/white of the old page.

Just noticed the dropdown rollovers are cyan too... no no no!

tricky D

http://www.boards.ie/images/header_left.gif and http://www.boards.ie/images/header_right.gif could be reduced in height.
Put a Number of threads option in CP perhaps??
Reduce font-size on news items down one

Under bonnet has lotsa inline styles and stuff (milo menus) outside the html, what's that about or are you not too bothered about that?
2c
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flogen

just noticed the fancy new slogan...

boards.ie, get on!

whats the deal with the bojrd on the right hand side?

Flogen

amp

Wow, cool. I love the way it resizes for smaller windows/resolution. Faster loading too.

Ste-

The http://www.boards.ie/index.php?jmode=sub dosn't actually work anymore, it now shows threads I'm not subbed too.

mike65

Originally posted by flogen


whats the deal with the bojrd on the right hand side?

Flogen

Thats meant to say boird, y'know like cuirt or milk ras
makey-upy Irish....

Mike.

MarcusGarvey

Very ugly. Too dark. Loads nice and fast though. more threads on the front page. The news section needs cleaning up. The drop-down menus aren't nice at all. Too dark and the classifieds drop-down is especially hard to use now.

Kev

Some alt tags on the images used as links would be nice as i use a text based browser most of the time.

Stephen

Yeah, the colours ming considerably. And the squiggly bits as mentioned earlier.

joePC

Looks good,

Change is always good.....

You need a footer, badly. Maybe a blue one like the top without the links.

Thanks JoePC

bizmark

I like it

Third_Echelon

im not loving it.. the old one was better...