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Ergzay



Joined: 04 Apr 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:50 am Reply with quote
This new layout I find very annoying. On this laptop I have a 1024x768 screen. For those of you with 1600x1200+ resolution monitors the site must be nice. Unfortunately for me with the left side banner plus the right info banner they together take up 2/3 of the entire screen!!! This is VERY annoying. There is hardly any area left at all for the info that is wanted. I also liked having all the links readily available on the left side. There is no need to use fancy javascript popdown menus. This is not an art site, its a news site. It has no need to look pretty but it really needs to be functional. The current design is not functional. And something other than the Coyote Ragtime Show should be the default banner. The entire left column is COMPLETELY wasted. If you must keep the images then put the text on top of them so that the space can be used. Also shrink the banner somewhat as it is way too large as it is now.

On a side note. Many many links are not working
Ex: The melancholy of suzumiya haruhi top two news links just link to the main page. And many of the archive of news articles lists are non functional and forward to "cannot be found"
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Nagisa
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:14 am Reply with quote
Ergzay wrote:
This new layout I find very annoying. On this laptop I have a 1024x768 screen. For those of you with 1600x1200+ resolution monitors the site must be nice. Unfortunately for me with the left side banner plus the right info banner they together take up 2/3 of the entire screen!!!


I have a 1024x768 monitor and find the site very pleasant, actually. It only felt cramped when the Coyote Ragtime theme was applied, but otherwise actually felt a little more spacious to me. Instead of two columns closing in, there's only one that's about 1.5 times the width of the previous two (or at least appears that way when eyeballing it). And the forums (or at least prior to the Coyote Ragtime theme, again) were much wider and less cramped than on the original site.

Ergzay wrote:
And something other than the Coyote Ragtime Show should be the default banner.


Remember the Fuccons theme? Or the Naruto theme? Same deal. It's temporary. It'll pass.
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Tony K.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:25 pm Reply with quote
We've got enough threads about the new layout as it is: here, here, and here.

Please try to keep it all centralized into one of those. Thanks.
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