DBA
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Don't we all think that.My forum is totally one of the prettiest looking forums here on the xenforo community.
Don't believe me?
http://www.waywardinn.com
Find something prettier
/pride
Don't we all think that.My forum is totally one of the prettiest looking forums here on the xenforo community.
Don't believe me?
http://www.waywardinn.com
Find something prettier
/pride
let me give you an example of a non-boring forum, or a site that at first glance appears to not be a forum but actually is using one
http://newgrounds.com
the site is made using an extremely customized version of VB
amazing right?
My forum is totally one of the prettiest looking forums here on the xenforo community.
Don't believe me?
http://www.waywardinn.com
Find something prettier
/pride
Thanks for the compliment!that's very nice!
may I ask how you managed to put the images under the Forum-Nodes and have the forum-description showing when hovering over the image?
Thanks!
<a href="http://www.waywardinn.com/forums/ChildrenOfLondon/"><img class="OverlayTrigger Tooltip" title="[Freeform – Historical Fantasy RP] In London, during the mid 1800’s, people were giving birth to strange new races and new born children gained magical powers through celestial familiars. You are a student at the Ambrose Institute for the Magically Inclined, where you learn the basics of life, from science to math. In addition to that, you have classes dedicated to learning how to utilize your magical power, and deal with your familiars." src="http://cdn.waywardinn.com/banners/forum/childrenoflondon.jpg"/></a>
I disagree completely. Form and function are not interlinked. The function is to interact with the database. The form is how the data is displayed, entered and updated.
In an ideal world, the forum homepage would be a blank canvas. From that, any user can pick from a couple of different page layout. After that, they can drag and drop forum widgets onto their forum homepage layout and create the display they personally want. Every individual user experience could be as unique as every individual user.
While I take functionality over beauty, I will be damned before I give up trying to make something as beautiful as possible with out sacrificing any functionality, its quite possible actuallyI have sifted through the entire thread but as mention before xenporta accomplishes this look
NG uses a CMS and that's the front page you can always make a forum integrate into a cms.
This is what NG's forum looks like and it is IS boring http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/ as any other forum.
This structure works well and has always worked well. Until someone comes by and proves that this structure is old fashioned and comes up with a a new structure... then we're stock with
Category
- Sub Category
-sub sub category
And with my experience in running sites/being a webhost- You have to sacrifice beauty for function. MANY users don't have the common sense that daily web users like ourselves do. You wouldn't believe the outlandish requests people have had in the past.
I keep crossing my fingers lolWhile I take functionality over beauty, I will be damned before I give up trying to make something as beautiful as possible with out sacrificing any functionality, its quite possible actually
I keep crossing my fingers lol
I really like what you've done with this. I like the way each Circle appears to have its own visual elements to tie them together and set them apart front he others. I even like the idea of the circle itself. Its contained, unique, stands alone. When I look at most of the circles, they're not anything I'd be interested it. If you have more of a generic layout, that would be enough to send me somewhere else.jt I like interesting interpretations certainly. My business community is pretty vanilla but my own personal community has given me long hours of custom fun.
www.housemorgain.co.uk/circle
It's still obviously a forum based community, but the navigation is strong and clear featuring What's On? outside the navbar as LATEST! on the side menu, as well as navbar. Also I brought the Quickmenu out and made it prominent on the sidebar.
Both the noticeboard area above the forums list and the sidebar offer you links to the main areas of the community.
The sidebar continues on almost all pages, looking just as it does on the front page.
The Library areas don't look like forums though they are built derivatively from forums; their threads/ Article pages feed into linked forum threads.
I use Nodes-As -Tabs quite extensively with LinkForums to make the navbar intuitively helpful (I hope).
My style is not at all a majority cup of tea and it's not meant to be. The site is not a business, and it's not about gaming, or any tightly focused niche. It's a broadminded little personal community of freedom lovers, mostly people I've collected over about 45 years.
If you don't like it you don't. We do.
I like the way each Circle appears to have its own visual elements to tie them together and set them apart front he others. I even like the idea of the circle itself. Its contained, unique, stands alone. When I look at most of the circles, they're not anything I'd be interested it. If you have more of a generic layout, that would be enough to send me somewhere else.
But the Celtic circle? Thats a place to drag my Irish butt with a bottle of Jameson and hang out. I don't feel like I have to be part of the entire site. I'm okay in my circle.
You've done a brilliant job on so many levels.
http://www.housemorgain.co.uk/circle/ when I click on All circles (the first thing I clicked on) = The requested page could not be found.Circles are an important symbol to most of us in this community
http://www.housemorgain.co.uk/circle/ when I click on All circles (the first thing I clicked on) = The requested page could not be found.
Sorry, I would have PM'd this .. but I can't PM right now.
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