http://icodes.vforums.co.uk/
Ok my forum need MAJOR help!
The skins were already there from awhile back, but I want to bring the forum back. What do YOU think should be added/taken out?
I really REALLY need it to get it done so I can help people with the Basic codes, then later on when I can get staff I can have a more advanced coding team. I have someone in mind that I hope does not mind You know who you are
But I really need the help on this one!
Thanks in advanced!
Darkmage
I am guessing i would be the one you are making a reference to?
Umm.... Yeah!
So what you say?
Anyone else? (No one has to join) Just give me a rate is all
ok sure I am down, I an still learning advanced coding, but it will be really good practice. I'll register tomorrow though.
Edit: Ok now for a rating, its a 5/10 from what I can see.
Skin: Its very nice, but its hard to read the text, maybe use a lighter blue. As well the table at the bottom could use some work, maybe using the code me and ross worked on and switch out the sites query with your copyright, just a suggestion. And thats all i can see from what I can see
Ok cool thanks ^_^ <---(wow a smiley I have not used in a while )
ok then, well I left a rate for you in my last post
Ok I most likely will change the font color to a lighter blue, and I know I need to change on the on/off icons to something else other then a single color
Oh and that 5/10 will come up to maybe 8 or 9/10 with your help
Dude.... its pretty much impossible to read the text on your banner.. And i have to say i really dislike your skin. The text is floating in a sea of black, making it hard to read and your on/off icons are just... squares... You've broken one of my colour rules, you have black on white. Maybe make the text more similar to your link colour and change the background from black to dark grey?
You also dont have any codes, and thats a turn away from the beginning. I mean i know your a new community but it just seems like you have nothing to offer, why would anyone join if you dont live up to your namesake?
Need a simple but sleek skin, and use Arial and Verdana for the fonts.
Thanks ookie, The skin is going to be made, by Dwight, and I changed the Times New Roman to the Verdana,arial fonts.
I used the roman as a test one to see how it looks, but I just forgot to change it
Thanks ookie, The skin is going to be made, by Dwight, and I changed the Times New Roman to the Verdana,arial fonts.
I used the roman as a test one to see how it looks, but I just forgot to change it
The skin is what will draw people, so go for a Web 2.0 with darkish colours, but not too dark.
Why use web2.0? That's not always the best option. To suggest web2.0 is fine, but to direct is not. While web2.0 has it's advantages and disadvantages, I think than a coding site requires a much more simplistic skin rather than what web2.0 has to offer + web2.0 on a forum is rather difficult lol.
...I know how I am going to do it already and don't need to be told how. I am going to use black as a base, but use perfect us of the fading system, giving it the perfect offset and then using a mild blue for the font, and i'll see what I can come up with for a banner. But anyways as for the members, the site isn't even open to the public yet because it's not finished, I bet this thread was opened so he would know what had to be changed.
No the forum is not Open, its only Open like it is now, so I can get some good rates, and as well as seeing what needs to be changed, what needs to be fixed, and also seeing what needs to be added or taken away.
I have had it open (Not to public but started up) for some quite time now, I just have not gotten around to do anything to it. I just recently fixed up my most successful yet unsuccessful forum. So I just got that out of the way. I just wish ideas of newer forums would stop popping in my head, but if I don't make the newer forum that sounds totally awesome, I will loose all the good ideas I had, and it wont be as good as I thought it would be.
The skin looks good except for the background. the shade doesn't match the rest of the forum and its unaesthetic. The banner looks cool, but it also looks blurry. I don't know if its supposed to look like that, but I think that maybe you could work on that.
As for the content I have a few things. One, I don't really see the difference in the Request/Complain boards and the Suggestions board. They seem to serve the same purpose. Second, I don't know why the Programming Discussion isn't in the same section as the rest of the coding boards. It seems unnecessarily split. Otherwise, i don't really see a problem.
5/10. Just a heads up, I don't think its easy running a coding forum because I think that its hard for an outside forum to have enough original coding to keep it popular. So I'll just say that as a coding forum all the codes in your database should absolutely be original.
Actually the wallpaper does match the forum It's just hard to tell, I had this forum on another service and the skin is the one that I felt deserved to move with the forum. The banner is supposed to look the way it is. I added a Blur effect.
The request/complain is supposed to serve a different purpose then the suggestions. But seeing as how the r/c board was so popular 3 years ago, I had used it allot. But I most likely will take it out.
The Programming Discussion; I put that there by accident and well never really got around to move it. I will eventually.
Yes I know coding forums are hard to run. We did use some codes from the database here, and added in our own custom ones, some that I created for Info centers, some that Dwight created for board modifications, some CSS,
I am now starting to learn some coding because vF is so flexible and easy, I can learn this software. I just need to learn JavaScript. I know some that are not of vF, but of my own, such as counting up and count down, as well as a game language translator from the Game Final Fantasy X call Al Bhed Translator, but other then that I don't know much. But I'm learning
Okay, that all works. And I believe you about the banner and background matching, as long as your members think the same or don't care.
Plus if a User don't like the default skin, they can just simply use the other alt. skins
I found the right clicking 'Stealing is Illegal!!!' message very annoying. I was clicking on a link to have it open in a new tab. =/. The default skin, text on the very bottom of the forum is very hard to read. Red against red.
However your revamped version I think it is one of your better designs. The menu links seem to have a different colour background of a pixel range offsetting to the bottom and the top. Your border doesn't seem to go with the flow; and yet, the black border on your head image doesn't exactly come down to an end and I feel if the black border remains it should perhaps be around your whole board wrapper?
The info center layouts of displaying past and / last twenty four hours confused me slightly.
on the icodesv2 skin your 'Help' and 'login' buttons seem smaller then your Home and Search. Your Register button has the top cut off. Menu of course.
The disable right clicking should only be on images only. So for regular links it should have no problem. But if you are having problem with it (Left click - Drag - Drop.) I normally do that. Much easier. I will see what I can do about that. Later on I will be making a new skin. I just never have the time. With School now, and playing games. (If you don't already know I gave up on allot of forums, mostly my RP forums. So someone else owns them now.)
It's not the menu image it's self, its the code that moves them. I can't seem to move it right. Dwight got it that way because when I was trying to do it, it was all messed up.
Which border? the one around the boards? or the outside boarder?
The top one is the members that are online now. and the bottom one is showing the members that were on.
for the iCodes V2 skin that's when I had Paint Shop Pro 9, and not when I had PhotoShop CS2. But I used smaller images for that, and could not fit the text on it
But other then that, as soon as I get more time, I will be making a new skin.