posted 04-28-2001 21:29         

Like it?

Oh, another idea... check out www.desktopian.org, and look at the top right for five different colored squares. Click on them, the site color changes. If you don't like the orange of this layout... it'd be pretty easy to set that situation up with it.

Comments welcome.

[edit - screwed up the url]

posted 04-29-2001 10:50            

Just my two cents but I LOVED the design with the round list of links (Articles, Cams, etc). But this is pretty snazzy too. Except for the orange.

Are you eliminating the little box of random text under the current logo?

posted 04-29-2001 12:29         

The Random Slogans box is the "our members have members" part. It starts off as "our members have members" every time, similar to the way it starts with the outdated staff names now, and switches over to the random captions after a few seconds. So they're still there.

The Messageboard link would be directly on the top menu bar - where "news archives articles" is now. The table of contents isn't finalized yet, I'll leave that to eod and crew.

All the other things - the BBS link, TFC server, stuff like that, would ALL be on pages other than the main page, and would be accessable through the main table of contents. This is to reduce clutter, since there's no way to add them all in in the main menu without it becoming super-cluttered.

To Bex, I loved the Rotator links thing too. It's very tall, though, and I don't think I can make it much shorter and still look good. I'll make an effort though.

The orange, we could make that dynamically changeable for user preference, if we really wanted. (the desktopian.org idea)

posted 04-29-2001 15:52            

Sorry if I'm reinventing the wheel here. I'm not sure exactly what stages of "that will never work" you've gone through already.

-Bex

posted 04-29-2001 20:45         

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Originally posted by nuentoter:
goto http://www.aperfectcircle.com/
the semicircle on the top right of there is wicked cool idea
check it out ya allz

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posted 04-29-2001 23:36            

Since it's moving and has some icons on it, I tend to mouseover. The fact that it instantly pops up the name of the link upon mouseover made it obviously a nav tool to me. But then again, I have a tendency to mouseover a lot of stuff when I'm surfing. If that had words or a more obviously related icon for each link, it would make it easier to find too.

That sort of layout could still work. Either 90 degrees or 180 to save space compared to a full circle.

posted 04-30-2001 14:42            

i think it's fair to say that penis readers share a certain minimum level of intelligence. a moving rotating thingy in one corner of the page that doesnt scroll off the top along with the content sort of stands out. investigation is natural, and then people know it's a nav tool.

posted 04-30-2001 20:38            

Zippy, in principle I agree with you - but you're presuming a pre-existing level of interest in the site, for one thing. I dunno, maybe I'm just being anal, but I think often enough without that pre-existing level of interest people tend to just disappear instead of bothering... whereas if the navigability is easier, they may stick around, dig deeper, and get interested.

posted 05-01-2001 01:07            

there's something to be said for simple, easy, and efficient. a circle thing is kinda gadgety, but it's also just... cool. i wanna be cool dammit!

posted 05-01-2001 01:10            

You know.. like News, Articles, Cams... I dont know.

perhaps you could also generate a pull down menu from each word. Then you would still have the little cool thing in the corner AND full site navigation.

The Message board must be main page though