M42club.com - Home of the BMW E30/E36 318i/iS
GENERAL => Site and club discussion => Topic started by: sheepdog on July 01, 2006, 01:18:57 AM
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Our new homepage is now up and operating.
It will be a bit before it really gets rolling, but rest assured it is happening.
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Note you need to go back to m42club.com to see it as there is no long in the forum currently to get out to it.
It needs lots of work, but it is a start.
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I came here the other day, and I noticed the new homepage. Nice job by the way... I like the layout. BUT, I have a qualm with it. It is nearly impossible (as my brother and I have seen so far) for the average user to get from the main page to the forums. There is no button for it. We had to click through way too many menus in order to find it. It was alot of random clicking, and stuff to find a drop down menu (under new posts I believe is where we found the drop down menu) to get to this area. The problem is easily solved by just supplying a button on the main page for "forums". Just trying to help here. Keep up the good work.
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I came here the other day, and I noticed the new homepage. Nice job by the way... I like the layout. BUT, I have a qualm with it. It is nearly impossible (as my brother and I have seen so far) for the average user to get from the main page to the forums. There is no button for it. We had to click through way too many menus in order to find it. It was alot of random clicking, and stuff to find a drop down menu (under new posts I believe is where we found the drop down menu) to get to this area. The problem is easily solved by just supplying a button on the main page for "forums". Just trying to help here. Keep up the good work.
I will take a look.
I have not had any time to mess with it since I put it up.
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Can we go back to an amended original format??
I kinda liked it before. Especially the "Welcome to M42Club.com" welcome page with that sweet Briliantrot iS staring at you! :D
I do like some of the new features at the top, like vBGarage and link to the Member Map. But, can we go straight through to the forums? Maybe we should put up a poll and see which one everyone likes. I can live with whatever we decide.
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i like it. a lot of forums are implementing forum based homepages.
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Can we go back to an amended original format??
I kinda liked it before. Especially the "Welcome to M42Club.com" welcome page with that sweet Briliantrot iS staring at you! :D
I do like some of the new features at the top, like vBGarage and link to the Member Map. But, can we go straight through to the forums? Maybe we should put up a poll and see which one everyone likes. I can live with whatever we decide.
The inital intro page is a bit redundant don't you think? After you have seen it one, it becomes pointless.
As for going to another page, we plan on having many articles written for and hosted on this site and we need a system in place to host them. The page will look better once I get some time to mess with it.
Remember, you cannot please everyone no matter what we do though and I can tell you from experience, putting many things to a vote can just create more problem.
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Most of the logos dont show up for me. Like, they dont load and the page looks confusing.
I agree with Phirus. I had to click around to get to the forums.
Overall I like it (but I still like to see that nice Briliantrot M42 before entering, it gets me excited.):)
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Most of the logos dont show up for me. Like, they dont load and the page looks confusing.
I agree with Phirus. I had to click around to get to the forums.
Overall I like it (but I still like to see that nice Briliantrot M42 before entering, it gets me excited.):)
There are no logos on it yet.
Once I get things situated and color coded properly, it will be a lot cleaner.
Think of this as a very crude outline.
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Not sure if this has been suggested yet but a link to the general forum on the homepage would be nice. If there is one already there, maybe placing it in the top menu bar would be better. This would be helpful for those that just want to view by forum topic.
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Not sure if this has been suggested yet but a link to the general forum on the homepage would be nice. If there is one already there, maybe placing it in the top menu bar would be better. This would be helpful for those that just want to view by forum topic.
Only about the 5th time.
No time and a severely burned out ex-webmaster makes for slow going on getting it finished.
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Only about the 5th time.
No time and a severely burned out ex-webmaster makes for slow going on getting it finished.
let me know if there's anything I can do to help, my summer is pretty busy but I will still do anything I can.
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The inital intro page is a bit redundant don't you think? After you have seen it one, it becomes pointless.
I don't think it was redundant...
I love that image of the Briliantrot iS with euros coming at me...and best thing, it had a simple link to Forums at the bottom.
Simple is GOOD!
What do you say? I vote we bring back the old welcome page.
Okay, I'm getting myself in trouble with sheepdog now... Nomex on! :cool:
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I don't think it was redundant...
I love that image of the Briliantrot iS with euros coming at me...and best thing, it had a simple link to Forums at the bottom.
Simple is GOOD!
What do you say? I vote we bring back the old welcome page.
Okay, I'm getting myself in trouble with sheepdog now... Nomex on! :cool:
Like I said, we need soem way to add extra pages to the site as we aquire how-tos and guides. The old front page was not conductive to this.
Also, the current one will clean up nicely.
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There are no logos on it yet.
Once I get things situated and color coded properly, it will be a lot cleaner.
Think of this as a very crude outline.
I was guessing they were logos. I just have a bunch of red "X's" by the as if some picture can't load. I am wondering about that.
Here is a pic.
Not trying to be an asshole but those things irritate me.
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I was guessing they were logos. I just have a bunch of red "X's" by the as if some picture can't load. I am wondering about that.
Here is a pic.
Not trying to be an asshole but those things irritate me.
Sorry, I missed this post somehow.
That is odd, as they only show up in IE. Firefox looks normal. 99.9999% of the time, if Firefox works, IE does.
Looking into it now.
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Not sure if this has been suggested yet but a link to the general forum on the homepage would be nice. If there is one already there, maybe placing it in the top menu bar would be better. This would be helpful for those that just want to view by forum topic.
There is one now in the menu.
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OK, images are now working.
The page looks a little better, still a long way to go.
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Keep up the good work. I hate to admit but when I browse through I come straight through the forums as that's where my bookmarks are created. I know the effort it takes to please all audiences and I like how you're handling the criticism and comments so far. I have nothing negative to say - just keep up the good work (again) :cool:
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Just checked out the homepage and everything is working and showing. Looks good and organized.
Good job.
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Keep up the good work. I hate to admit but when I browse through I come straight through the forums as that's where my bookmarks are created.
Thanks, and I do the same thing.
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Anyone have the image from the old homepage? I recall this being requested in the past, but couldn't find anything.
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Here you go.
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Never figured out where it is/was but a google img search has it.
Would make a great t-shirt!!!!!
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Would make a great t-shirt!!!!!
Indeed!
I was thinking about having it printed but I need the hi-res version if it even exists.