Things I'd like to see.

[Grayell]

Here's my wish list guys. A nicer background, maybe this one:

fc07.deviantart.net/fs16/i/2007/169/9/6/background_fantasy_2_by_AzurylipfesStock.jpg

Side box titles being not text, but art. Will up the look of the place. Forum category bars and such being art as well. I can do these but need dimensions. It is also we can remove side box titles altogether and I just make the whole box art (including text).

The buttons under the banner looking nice, like well buttons.

A quick nav bar on the side there, though we don't have a great deal of stuff in this game. Maybe a nav bar just for rules, to each post I guess for ease of reference.

An FAQ developed and in place.

Suggestions for what we can put in the side boxes.

A chat box other than the crap one they gave us. It's shite. Maybe a fold away c box that floats or some damn thing. Plenty of options for this.

I would also love to hear suggestions.

[Grayell]

The side boxes floating higher than the forum box is also a little weird.

[Zane]

I can put anything you want in the side boxes, the category bars look good, imo, but i'll try and get those dimensions at some point.

I could make the top left box a welcome kinda thing, the middle a nav guide, and leave the last one for whatever, or remove it.

THe top right one, I could TRY and insert a chatbox in there. But don't hold your breath

[Grayell]

The chatbox could be long enough to balance with multiple boxes on the other side.

The category bars do look nice, but some custom art would pop I think.

[Grayell]

Ok the BG is nerfing the site. I say we crop it to match what we had earlier and then simply apply a brown gradient. Switch the default bg color to match the gradient. Should look just fine.

[Zane]

small image for scrolling bg: i55.tinypic.com/29pxapj.png
big one for stationary: www.deviantart.com/download/249330059/forumrpbackground_by_raidatheblade-d44g0az.png

[Grayell]

Nicely done champ.

[Grayell]

Quicktime plugin is currently on the Adblock naughty list and DOES NOT WORK in FF 3. Isn't that great?

[Grayell]

I will be replacing the buttons under the banner, to make things a little more consistent font wise.

[Zane]

Okay, the chatbox is crashing. Hard. It dying on me. It takes forever to load, and half the time it just crashes. I was talking to Skully, and he said it's crashing on him too. I can't even post a message to it.

This is an issue. Any clue what's going on, guys?

[Grayell]

Just started doing it to me, gave me a 500 error. Could be on their end.

[Grayell]

A login widget in one of the sideboxes would be nice.

[Zane]

I'm gonna be 100% honest with you.

I think that the shield buttons for the top were a lot better. I also think that all the green looks really weird.

That's just my two-cents worth, but I honestly and truly think it looked a lot better without all of the green. Just the consistent shield icons and parchment.

If you're worried about the text on the shields, then change the bloody texts. The images looked good with the rest of the forum.

And I can understand wanting a link to your roots, but are you honestly gonna sacrifice the entire forum's look just for the sake of a very minor link to something that most players don't even know of? Roots are good, but don't let them strangle you.

[Grayell]

I honestly and truly thought it was nice, but a bit drab. I would LOVE to make the place look spectacular, but for right now I'd like to just have it functional.

I am open to other people's art if they want to throw something together. I like the green because we were green and this is a sentimental return home of sorts.

The buttons aren't my biggest concern of course. There are some very nicely done forums and a lot of bad ones. I would love to have it really shine, but that will come later. The font on the shields bugged me more than anything, it seemed very.... well not fantastic.

Feel free to try a different font on the shields or something, I am up for experimenting which is where I am right now myself. I do like the green on the side boxes though. The parchment was just too much of the same for me.