I would like your feedback on the new site

[openfire]

I'm still working on a few things here, so I would like your feedback to help determine what to change...

What do you like/dislike about the new site? Do you want a feature added, something changed?

Feedback appreciated.

 

[efka]

looks good

 

[YAWN]

Not Bad, nice Forum, The top banner for Ontario Fishing Forums, reduice that to aq 728*90 far to big.


The main page: http://www.ontariofishingforums.com/ Thats need an update, I'd change that to more of a welcome page, Same friggin pix for a year now.

Need a new menu,

Honestly some of the Icons for [url=http://www.ontariofishingforums.com/forum/]http://www.ontariofishingforums.com/forum/[/url] arn't related very well and I wouldn't accept them for my company. I think we can do better here!

I'm also thinking we should add section bassed on fish species?

Anyways you asked so there are my thoughts on the newish site!

 

[openfire]

Hey Yawn, thank you for the input!

The top banner is a work in progress. I can't really change the overall width because the forum itself is a fixed width. I may reduce the width of our logo and reserve the remaining width for ad space, not sure yet. As for the height of the banner, I may well reduce it.

As for your comment about the main page, you are right on the money! I will be removing that page all together very soon. I will either have the forum as the main page or make a custom portal to match the forum style... But what you see there now will be gone.

Hmmm a section based on fish species... That's not a bad idea. It's actually an idea that I was playing around with a while back. It came down to either splitting the sections based on geographic location OR fish species. - Anyone else care to comment on this idea?

Can you elaborae a little more about the menu and icons?

 

[MikeyMikey]

I am guessing openfire tested the new forum with IE ?
Because it does not display properly with Firefox, Opera, Safari.

 

[openfire]

I am guessing openfire tested the new forum with IE ?
Because it does not display properly with Firefox, Opera, Safari.

Yup, IE.

I'm looking into fixing the firefox bug.

 

[MikeyMikey]

Hmmm.... Instead of a FLOWER...

I would like our own unique LOGO please.

Logo with design that is very urban alike? close to home? local feel? Since that is how originally our forum god started, right?

 

[frozenfire]

I agree about the logo. I'm all for the trilium, but something more fish related would be a lot cooler.

Also, the rainbow trout background looks great, but I think it would be very neat to see it change once in a while. Like, the skin of walleye, crappie, bass, pike, etc.... maybe this was the original plan anyways?

 

[openfire]

Also, the rainbow trout background looks great, but I think it would be very neat to see it change once in a while. Like, the skin of walleye, crappie, bass, pike, etc.... maybe this was the original plan anyways?

Awesome idea frozenfire.

There is a modification that I can make to have the banner randomly change on each page load (allowing a different fish skin background), but we would lose another key feature of the board in the process - the image auto re-size. Style vs. Functionality. I can however change the top banner manually from time to time without losing the image auto re-size, but it would be sporadic ie... when I get around to it. I will look into finding a work-around to see if there is a way to get the randomly rotating banner without losing the image auto-resize feature. I really like your idea frozenfire.

About the trillium flower; I agree with MikeyMikey and frozenfire. The logo is something that needs work. Logos are tough. I'm not an artist by any stretch... Any ideas will be welcomed.

 

[MikeyMikey]

Excellent...

Webpage fixed to work with non IE browsers.

Superb!

 

[halleb]

Hi everyone,

New web site looks really nice. Since you asked about feedback on the new site, just to mention what came to my attention. For instance, now is March 16 , 10:15 Pm. While I could see that some of the previous posts are dated already as March 17. It is not a big deal, but it seems there is some discrepancy between actual posting time and the time assigned to a post.

 

[halleb]

Hi everyone,

New web site looks really nice. Since you asked about feedback on the new site, just to mention what came to my attention. For instance, now is March 16 , 10:15 Pm. While I could see that some of the previous posts are dated already as March 17. It is not a big deal, but it seems there is some discrepancy between actual posting time and the time assigned to a post.

Sorry , I am not trying to double post about this, just to better explain what I meant. For instance, I posted my post from above on March 16 @ 10: 17 PM, while the time actually assigned to my post is 17 Mar 2008 02:17.

Like I said, it is not a big deal, but I just wanted to bring it to your attention.

 

[MikeyMikey]

i think you may need to change timezone in board option for youself.

 

[halleb]

i think you may need to change timezone in board option for youself.

Thanks,

I tried that and it worked, was not even aware of this option.

 

[openfire]

I'll change the default time-zone for all users when I have a chance. Thanks.

 

[Bvillefish]

im new so i havent seen the old one, but i'm a member of probably 10 diffrent forums, and this one is pretty good. I personally like the pop-up style IM's better, but thats just my opinion. And im glad there isnt 300 diffrent "smiles" to choose from like some forums

 

[Bvillefish2]

looks like a good site, you guys have been very helpful so far, looks like alot of good info and a bunch of good guys.

thanks for putting together a nice forum for locals to talk to each other :mrgreen:

Marc

 

[idesign]

I'm still working on a few things here, so I would like your feedback to help determine what to change...

What do you like/dislike about the new site? Do you want a feature added, something changed?

Feedback appreciated.

hey openfire.try to put some new changeable skins.i mean forum skin.

 

[fsh]

Can you make the main logo/banner "clickable", so it returns to home page?

 

[openfire]

Can you make the main logo/banner "clickable", so it returns to home page?

Good suggestion. I will do that.

Thanks.