View Full Version : Changing Design Elements - Sorry for the mess


spt
01-28-2008, 08:23 AM
Hey Everyone,

I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm testing new design options on the site. Once I get a finished design up here, I will take some screen shots so we can all vote for the best design.

This will be going on for a week or more, so please patient.

Thanks
Ali

midnitewrx
01-28-2008, 08:26 AM
AHAHAH ... YEAH . I JUST LOGGED in and was like WTF. lol

VRT MBasile
01-28-2008, 08:27 AM
haha, it looks like the cobb forums. not having finished my morning coffee I saw the layout, thought I had clicked the cobb forums, and was rather confused when there was a Monday daily thread

SpADeZ_WRX
01-28-2008, 09:19 AM
I thought I went to IWSTI for a second lol

boardoholic
01-28-2008, 09:24 AM
Doh! I thought I somehow clicked my snowboarding forum. If the other designs aren't better than what we've been working with, let's not change it.

spt
01-28-2008, 09:26 AM
Doh! I thought I somehow clicked my snowboarding forum. If the other designs aren't better than what we've been working with, let's not change it.

The old design needs to go because it had a lot of spacing issues on different monitor resolutions.

wimprezax06
01-28-2008, 09:42 AM
i thought i log in to my rx8 forum, scared me a little bit, i thought i just seeing things wrong.

i don't know i still like the old design, i never liked this forum style, but i guess i have to get use to it now...

atleast not like the my.is forum, with those +rep rating.

SubyN00by
01-28-2008, 09:43 AM
hehe, so is it gonna be a vote that obviously has one design as the winner, yet the mods decide on another one?

spt
01-28-2008, 09:46 AM
i thought i log in to my rx8 forum, scared me a little bit, i thought i just seeing things wrong.

i don't know i still like the old design, i never liked this forum style, but i guess i have to get use to it now...

atleast not like the my.is forum, with those +rep rating.

Oh, this isn't the final design. That's why I mentioned in my post: "This will be going on for a week or more, so please patient."

spt
01-28-2008, 09:48 AM
hehe, so is it gonna be a vote that obviously has one design as the winner, yet the mods decide on another one?

There will be options to choose from. A standard poll will be put up with screen shots of each.

SubyN00by
01-28-2008, 09:58 AM
I'm watching colors change as I click...this is fantastic!!!

VRT MBasile
01-28-2008, 10:00 AM
There will be options to choose from. A standard poll will be put up with screen shots of each.

he was eluding to the mt. Hammy t-shirt design fiasco of 2007.

I actually like this basic temporary styling because it loads a he'll of a lot faster on my iPhone. Could we possibly utilize the function for multiple layouts so people can pick from whatever fancy one wins and the basic one?

SubyN00by
01-28-2008, 10:02 AM
with this whole layout thing, hopefully i-club will get a little more phone friendly, it only takes a few lines of code to recognize phone browsers, and a whole lot of watering down will give you guys some extra bandwidth at the end of the month due to us phone people only needing about 30k of the 500k that typically loads...

sigma pi
01-28-2008, 10:14 AM
VRT MBasile and suby n00by

good points i have a smart phone and i club was always a slow loader for me

im going to try it now
thanks

spt
01-28-2008, 10:15 AM
I actually like this basic temporary styling because it loads a he'll of a lot faster on my iPhone. Could we possibly utilize the function for multiple layouts so people can pick from whatever fancy one wins and the basic one?

The old design was terrible for performance. It had a million images everywhere so it took time to load each one of them. Having the option for users to choose different styles is definitely something I could put in. I think what I want to do first is come up with something basic and work from there.

spt
01-28-2008, 10:16 AM
with this whole layout thing, hopefully i-club will get a little more phone friendly, it only takes a few lines of code to recognize phone browsers, and a whole lot of watering down will give you guys some extra bandwidth at the end of the month due to us phone people only needing about 30k of the 500k that typically loads...

Yes being phone friendly is in the works. It's not as easy as adding a few lines of code because of the various elements we have on the site. It's defiantly doable though.

SubyN00by
01-28-2008, 10:22 AM
Yes being phone friendly is in the works. It's not as easy as adding a few lines of code because of the various elements we have on the site. It's defiantly doable though.
Yeh, I know there are a few phone style skins for vbulletin, and basically you would include a few lines of software that would say if browser != this this or this, default to this style.

But then again, I've never really worked with vbulletin too much, so it could very well be a big thing.

spt
01-28-2008, 10:27 AM
Yeh, I know there are a few phone style skins for vbulletin, and basically you would include a few lines of software that would say if browser != this this or this, default to this style.

But then again, I've never really worked with vbulletin too much, so it could very well be a big thing.

It's not just vbulletin. It's the other areas of the site as well.

SubyN00by
01-28-2008, 10:28 AM
ahhh, well, the only part I care about is the forums...

(=

but I'm selfish like that, continue with the updates, hopefully they end up well.

jvick125
01-28-2008, 10:52 AM
I'll just say I'm not a fan of this new style, everything seems to be larger and loads slower.

I'll continue to give my opinion. So far
Old Style: 1
New Style: a bag of crap.

SubyN00by
01-28-2008, 11:01 AM
I'll just say I'm not a fan of this new style, everything seems to be larger and loads slower.

I'll continue to give my opinion. So far
Old Style: 1
New Style: a bag of crap.
reading comprehension ftl...

Oh, this isn't the final design. That's why I mentioned in my post: "This will be going on for a week or more, so please patient."

wimprezax06
01-28-2008, 01:14 PM
i like this right now. is kinda like the old forum but a little different.

i like the personal info part

sigma pi
01-28-2008, 01:16 PM
reading comprehension ftl...
HAAHHAHA

jack is in college he isnt smart yet, leave him alone

SubyN00by
01-28-2008, 01:19 PM
he's always busting my balls about my "spamming" and ish, figured I'd give it to him a little too...

sigma pi
01-28-2008, 01:29 PM
he's always busting my balls about my "spamming" and ish, figured I'd give it to him a little too...
yeah that crazy white boy hahaha

by all means let the hammer down on him haha

SubyN00by
01-30-2008, 03:55 PM
I'm not getting the notification emails (new PM, new post in subscribed thread, etc), anyone else having the same problem?

spt
01-30-2008, 05:28 PM
I'm not getting the notification emails (new PM, new post in subscribed thread, etc), anyone else having the same problem?

http://www.i-club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178265

SubyN00by
01-30-2008, 05:37 PM
http://www.i-club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178265
Thank you kind sir.