the whole site just needs simplifying. there's too much text and its ugly. the homepage is too cluttered and is just likely to force people away
We've realised this and we're hoping for a much simpler design which we hope will actually be contemporary compared to most of our previous versions and hopefully compared to other fansites. With the widgets feature which we will be having people will be able to have as much or as little information and bits and pieces on the page as they like.
the colours are ugly. yeah managment say 'but they're the traditional habbox colours' or whatever. every time this comes up, users object and say they're ugly. but oh no, management have to dictate what users get (which i know in a way is what they're there for, but the colouring is a key thing in layouts and having colours people don't want and have shown they don't want it just stupid)
Again, coupled with a much more contemporary design we hope there wont be awful clashes of colour all over the site however despite us dictating it to everyone, we will be keeping the orange. At the moment we don't know to what extent but it will definitely still be featuring in our new designs.
as if the main colour scheme wasnt ugly enough, the nav colours are just awful and i don't know why management insisted on them in the first place because it just makes adding things to the menu so much harder because when i was agm i wasnt actually told how to add colour to a menu item and so had to swap items for something which already had a colour, and people say i had bad communication. look at yourselvessss
I agree completely with you on this point, hopefully we wont have anything as disgusting again. I don't know if you were told but the only way to add colour is via ftp and General Managers / Jin are never that keen on giving it out, let alone to change areas of the site which could potentially be a big mistake if I / you were to change everything as though it had been hacked. I hope that the new navigation will just have one simple colour.
the navs also so cluttered. before i got fired (lol) my plan was to make all links go to a 'hub' as the guides page does as it's much neater, clearer and more user-friendly as it gives users an idea of whats on each page. don't know if this is still being done, but it should be done
a lot of content on the site is also a mess which i was slowly focusing on in my time as agm and making sure people were sorting it, but seems not. the staff page is something i was going to delay until the rest of the site was sorted so that it could be done well, but look at it, its just a complete mess and if i was the one responsible for it, i'd be ashamed.
Yeh that has become a problem, we're trying to go through and updating each page and removing what is not needed. As for the hubs one is planned for the Habbox and Fun Stuff sections, the others don't really need an entire hub. As for the quality and gradually going through things there was what I felt communication issues between myself and you when I became ACDM and when I became AGM I had no idea what your intentions were or what you had planned because of the communication. There have been a lot of other things to contend with as well and as for the staff list that will be getting another make over soon as well as elements from the original staff / management list being re-introduced. The main problem at the moment is with the images as we've merged, all of the images were ...co.uk/ where now they are all ...com/ so they've all broken.
not being big-headed or anything (well it is but whatever), i think i was what kept the quality of content up. when i quit as manager i think the first time, the site went to **** so i offered to come back and get the quality back. then i got fired, and the site's quality has gone down again. not saying i was the only factor in this, but some content staff work nowhere near as hard as required
@graham, yeh i was gna remove that whole section but got fired before i could lol
It's been merged with fun stuff but we will still be keeping some things from the graphics section for the time being. The image archive which I think was only updated once was also removed a long time ago and is now a staff only feature.
@bolt, there's a module for joomla i'm using on someones site that does that, not sure if it'd work how you said but it worked for what i wanted,
www.emergencystories.com - right hand top module. think the modules called aidanews or something
