Feedback For Xarchology.com

[Xarcell]

Here is my xF installation. I'm a little iffy on it as I am starting to lean towards Vanilla. I actually stopped working on it until I can decide what to do. I really hate xF's editor which seems to prevent me from making nice articles.

I'm looking for feedback with everything except maybe content. I know the content is a little lacking, but I haven't had time to work on it much the past 2 weeks because I'm writing a book.

Please let me know what you think. Thanks.

http://xarchology.com

 

[MagnusB]

You should do something with your node list, for example the category description text needs a different font color, I can barely read it. I am also not sure if I like the background for the categories, but that is more of a personal taste, it goes well with the overall theme. Additionally, the RSS icons looks a bit off, I am not sure if this is intentional though.

I really like the latest topic backgrounds though (in the nodelist)

 

[Xarcell]

You should do something with your node list, for example the category description text needs a different font color, I can barely read it. I am also not sure if I like the background for the categories, but that is more of a personal taste, it goes well with the overall theme. Additionally, the RSS icons looks a bit off, I am not sure if this is intentional though.

I really like the latest topic backgrounds though (in the nodelist)

The rss icon was intentional. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Naatan]

It looks ok, I'm not a big fan of the gradient used on categories, the description is hardly readable and overall it just comes across a bit "been there, done that" and "cheap". Putting that aside though, I really like what you've done with the forum index (the topics / comments bit).

You might want to fix your background image by the way, on a resolution of 1920 wide the image is simply cut off at both ends.

When entering a forum the page just loads indefinitely for me so I wasn't able to check much else.

 

[Roach]

I like the skin. However, the navigation and the footer need some work and content. Apart from that, I love the skin. Good luck

 

[LPH]

Can you get rid of the bottom space issue when only a single post is showing - or a short page? I'm not sure how but it is always striking (in a negative way) when I see this on forums.

 

[steven s]

Aside from tighting up the footer height as already pointed out and change the color of the log in button, I like it.

Added:
Annoucements is misspelled and I can't read the text below the forum name.
http://xarchology.com/forums/annoucements.2/

 

[Xarcell]

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Can you get rid of the bottom space issue when only a single post is showing - or a short page? I'm not sure how but it is always striking (in a negative way) when I see this on forums.

It shouldn't look like that. What browser are you using and what resolution?

 

[Xarcell]

Aside from tighting up the footer height as already pointed out and change the color of the log in button, I like it.

Added:
Annoucements is misspelled and I can't read the text below the forum name.

Thanks, I fixed the misspelling. As far as the space, I don't see it in any modern browsers.

 

[steven s]

Thanks, I fixed the misspelling. As far as the space, I don't see it in any modern browsers.

Firefox 12 isn't modern anymore?

 

[Forsaken]

Thanks, I fixed the misspelling. As far as the space, I don't see it in any modern browsers.

The issue is you're using body, if you use HTML instead it should fix the issue (Talking about the style properties)..

 

[DRE]

The heck browser is that guy using? I didn't see that when I went to your site.

Nice site btw. Did you purposely delay the navtabs highlight? Pretty cool. I caught myself playing with it.

 

[Xarcell]

Firefox 12 isn't modern anymore?

I'm just not seeing it. I will tinker with it and see if I can figure out what's causing the space. I will try forsaken's suggestion.

 

[Xarcell]

The heck browser is that guy using? I didn't see that when I went to your site.

Nice site btw. Did you purposely delay the navtabs highlight? Pretty cool. I caught myself playing with it.

Yes, it was intentional.

 

[TheJoker]

Overall, I think you have a great theme.

I do have some concerns though.

Right here:

There's way too much space in my opinion. Just makes for more scrolling and an unorganized layout.

And then the giant blue box at the bottom of the page:

Other than that, looks great!

 

[Xarcell]

Overall, I think you have a great theme.

I do have some concerns though.

Right here:

There's way too much space in my opinion. Just makes for more scrolling and an unorganized layout.

And then the giant blue box at the bottom of the page:

Other than that, looks great!

I kinda like it that way though. I like having the breadcrumb at the top & bottom surrounding the content, so hat meant I had to separate the header(menu) & footer like that. As far as that blue space, I'm gonna put links and stuff in it. Just haven't gotten around to doing it, because I have another theme idea I may put to use.

 

[LPH]

The heck browser is that guy using? I didn't see that when I went to your site.

FF 12 on iMac.

 

[Gabby]

Looks great to me! Great.

 

[tafreehm]

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[Digital Doctor]

I really hate xF's editor which seems to prevent me from making nice articles.

Use Wordpress.
or
http://xenforo.com/community/thread...ymce-xenforos-editor.22945/page-8#post-370140