VonDroid - critique welcome!

Love the design. Although I would tone down the bright white background. At 3:00 AM, that white look isn't going to make for easy reading.

But overall, I think you've done a fine job.
 
I've updated the design slightly, added new features and customised the registration button as well as the social integration design. I've also set up automated news on the front page from RSS (can't remember if that's an addon or included with XF) - either way members seem to be happy with it.
 
Very impressed!

I'm on the fence about purchasing an Android phone. A couple of certain carriers have no-contract plans and the prices look like they may be starting to get reasonable. I haven't completely looked into it yet, my pre-paid cell will expire in April, so until then I may join.

You should put in an a delay for your "hi there" notifation for unregistered users. This way uses will focus on content first, be interested, and fx after 30 seconds the notification pops up and users say "yes, I will register"

Forgive me for bringing up forum politics, but I don't see how those silly things work. I always close them out and find theme more intrusive than beneficial. The website itself is how you gain members, not bribery.
 
I've now updated the design a little and reworked the Resource Manager design to match the forum layout.

edit: we're still moving all the thread attachments over to the Resource Manager. The next step is to redesign the categories area, add icons etc.

downloads.webp
 
Looking really nice Piers (y), two things...

the "Category Items" on the left side such as Listed Tablets, Unlisted Tablets ect could use some side padding I feel.

Lastly not sure how much I like the grey title bar on this page as the grey is a little "overwhelming" from the breadcrumb and the tabs. But.... it's great work so far :)
 
Looking really nice Piers (y), two things...

the "Category Items" on the left side such as Listed Tablets, Unlisted Tablets ect could use some side padding I feel.

Lastly not sure how much I like the grey title bar on this page as the grey is a little "overwhelming" from the breadcrumb and the tabs. But.... it's great work so far :)

I agree with the padding - added 10px to the left, However the grey bars are there to keep the design consistent throughout the site. Appreciate the feedback :)
 
I've nearly completed a full redesign. Here's a screenshot. Although for some reason I've killed the active resource manager tabs css :(

Untitled-3.webp
 
You seem to have alignment issue with your breadcrumbs (by the orange part) and the arrow overlapping by a pixel or two. Might just be the screenshot fooling the eyes so unsure whether that was by design or my eyes playing tricks on me.

I think I like your other design better. I'm not a fan of the non radius look in your navigation area which seems more exposed in showing the non radius squared look.
 
You seem to have alignment issue with your breadcrumbs (by the orange part) and the arrow overlapping by a pixel or two. Might just be the screenshot fooling the eyes so unsure whether that was by design or my eyes playing tricks on me.

I think I like your other design better. I'm not a fan of the non radius look in your navigation area which seems more exposed in showing the non radius squared look.

There is an issue with the breadcrumbs and other areas, the design is in beta and still not completed. You can see the live version http://www.vondroid.com (username: test pass: test)
 
Although there are parts which I just can't seem to get working no matter what I try, actually the main one being having an image for each nod title, example: 'Tablets'. I have the CSS from before the 1.1.4 update but can't get it working :(
 
Although there are parts which I just can't seem to get working no matter what I try, actually the main one being having an image for each nod title, example: 'Tablets'. I have the CSS from before the 1.1.4 update but can't get it working :(

wouldn't the following work (this is an example) 121 seems to be the ID for your tablets area

Code:
.node .node_121 .forumNodeInfo .nodeIcon, .node .node_121 .categoryForumNodeInfo .nodeIcon {
    background-image: url("@imagePath/xenforo/icons/node121-read.png");
    background-position: 0;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
 
 
}
.node .node_121 .forumNodeInfo.unread .nodeIcon, .node .node_121 .categoryForumNodeInfo.unread .nodeIcon {
    background-image: url("@imagePath/xenforo/icons/node121-unread.png");
    background-position: 0;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
 
}
 
wouldn't the following work (this is an example) 121 seems to be the ID for your tablets area

Code:
.node .node_121 .forumNodeInfo .nodeIcon, .node .node_121 .categoryForumNodeInfo .nodeIcon {
    background-image: url("@imagePath/xenforo/icons/node121-read.png");
    background-position: 0;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
 
 
}
.node .node_121 .forumNodeInfo.unread .nodeIcon, .node .node_121 .categoryForumNodeInfo.unread .nodeIcon {
    background-image: url("@imagePath/xenforo/icons/node121-unread.png");
    background-position: 0;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
 
}

It's the category image that I previously had, it was on the right hand side. Here's a screenshot:


Untitled-2.webp

This is the code I used for it which should work unless I've missed something.

Code:
.catImage117
{
    background: url(http://vondroid.com/site-img/vnodes/tablet.png) !important;
    float: right !important;
    width: 120px !important;
    height: 47px !important;
    margin-top:-16px !important;
        margin-right:-14px !important;
}
 
And here's the bit of CSS to control that, I know I've missed something, somewhere.

Code:
.node.category.level_1.node_3 .categoryText,
.node.category.level_1.node_55 .categoryText,
.node.category.level_1.node_96 .categoryText,
.node.category.level_1.node_117 .categoryText,
.node.category.level_1.node_122 .categoryText,
.node.category.level_1.node_147 .categoryText,
.node.category.level_1.node_171 .categoryText,
.node.category.level_1.node_252 .categoryText,
.node.category.level_1.node_207 .categoryText
{
padding: 15px 12px;
background: #222222;
}
 
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