Forum changes

[Tweak]

Ok, so I'm a little excited!

Myself and WingedZephyr have been plotting

As was announced, the winning banner would be used on the new website and forums. The original idea was to redo the website, rewrite the information and them create a forum skin to match, but with limited time and indeed lack of funds (meaning I have to squeeze this in where I can) we've decided on a new plan.

The forums are the most stable area of the system, so why not make use of their stability, coding and security features? With that in mind we decided to merge the website and forums into a single system, the forums will change a little in appearance (although not significantly, bar the colour scheme updates) and a website will be incorporated into the forums.

We also have some plans for other areas of change and these are going to be released in a single release hopefully within the next couple of days, expect things to look different but the standard layout will remain much the same, during this time please report ANY bugs to our bugs board and we will deal with them.

During this time the forums may intermittently be unavailable as things are changed, IRC will remain online as usual should any wish to chat. Those preferring the old colour scheme (the current one) will still be able to choose it if so wanted.

Thank you for your patience and your usage of the forums, please make any bug reports or suggestions to the relevant boards.

[KittKat chunky~]

well im gonna be gone for 3 weeks in slovakia... but im so glad that your being able to keep this forum up.... well done you! 

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

We are eternally grateful to your dedication and perseverence, despite this being a non-profit thing for you.

[Tweak]

And as you can see the changes are mostly in place.

The website area is still being setup perfectly so expect this to change during the next couple of hours.

The skin has been updated to WingedZephyr's and the smilies were also redone by her. There are 4 new smiley sets - Foxes, Cats, Wolves and Dragons, the others will be made available later.

I hope you like it

[ST-84 Sahelanthropus]

The colors are a nice change, but frankly the new layout is terrible. It looks more like a personal blog than a forum.

Is there an option to change it back in my profile?

[WingedZephyr]

If you click the tab that says "Forum" at the top of the screen, it's essentially the same thing as the old layout. It's a different link, too, so if you have FF bookmarked somewhere, you can just change the link of the bookmark to open to the forums straight away.

[Tweak]

The website area is still being setup perfectly so expect this to change during the next couple of hours.

Had you also paid attention to my post you would have seen the above. The forums now have all panels removed so it looks like it did before. Calling my work terrible after myself and WingedZephyr have spent the last 3 hours working on this is harsh and upsetting. We're doing this in our free time, I worked on this over a paid project of mine.

Post Merge: July 14, 2009, 02:57:02 AMWhoops, correction on my previous time frame, more like 9 hours.

[Shenzii]

i like the work that you have done.. but it's slightly harder for me to focus on what I'm looking at.. perhaps its just me. I also miss the old smileys. Other than that.. I like the banner at the top and the colouring. It's nice to see something new.

[Tweak]

The old smilies will likely return later on, all other smilies sets have now been opened, they are available in your profile, under Look and Layout preferences.

[Shenzii]

Alright. Thank you.

[ST-84 Sahelanthropus]

Honest opinions are not always going to be just peaches and cream.

I'm sorry if I just insulted you two on a personal level for giving my critique on the layout.

[Shenzii]

Thank you lots for minimizing the windows on the pages.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

i quite like the layout, though the look is a bit too startling, but that's probably because of the contrast from the last one.

The smileys are good, cus now they're not rather rough and buggy. but these are a bit small and some of them are hard to decipher.

[Timmy Fox]

Well, i love the remake, the new smiley sets are kinda okay, but i liked the old ones better tho

[Victoria the Dark Rose]

i love it i just miss the foxy