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General => Website Feedback => Topic started by: relux on June 10, 2012, 02:33:02 PM

Title: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: relux on June 10, 2012, 02:33:02 PM
What different features do you guys have in the works? Are we talking a proper release section?
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: Shwaggy on June 10, 2012, 02:43:06 PM
I think we were probably waiting to collaborate that with whoever would be willing to design it. This would be a good thread to throw ideas out, though.

I personally would like to see something very similar to the original frontpage.
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: 665+1 on June 10, 2012, 03:28:31 PM
For me, this site has always been about the forums so I personally don't give a shit if the frontpage was never developed.
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: sabbath on June 10, 2012, 04:24:05 PM
For me, this site has always been about the forums so I personally don't give a shit if the frontpage was never developed.

+1
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: Gabriel on June 10, 2012, 04:40:36 PM
What was on the original frontpage? It's been so long I forget. I do want the first looks to be brought back.
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: Dr_Grinch on June 10, 2012, 06:51:25 PM
Releases broken down by section with NFO links, RSS/News Feeds, Firstlooks, and a link to popular forum threads is what used to be on the old page mostly.
I'd be happy if we could get back to that state.
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: capbob on June 11, 2012, 01:22:21 AM
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815065407/http://www.isonews.com/
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: SkiLLz on June 11, 2012, 09:57:44 PM
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815065407/http://www.isonews.com/
As an interim solution, the front page can be a screenshot of that old front page. When somebody clicks the screen, it brings them to the forum front page. 99.9% of the people would click "Forums" anyway, so they wouldn't even know it's a screenshot.
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: sabbath on June 11, 2012, 10:34:28 PM
Who would keep the page updated? For me it's irrlevant, as I have this link (http://www.theisonews.com/forums/index.php?action=unread) bookmarked.
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: relux on June 12, 2012, 01:34:39 AM
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815065407/http://www.isonews.com/
As an interim solution, the front page can be a screenshot of that old front page. When somebody clicks the screen, it brings them to the forum front page. 99.9% of the people would click "Forums" anyway, so they wouldn't even know it's a screenshot.
Nah come on man, we need some fucking standards.

I'm working on a simple design with the features posted in this thread. Almost done.
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: Uncle_Mart on June 18, 2012, 04:00:57 PM
Looking forward to seeing what you have in store Relux :) Thanks for taking the time and putting some work in :)
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: relux on June 19, 2012, 11:15:47 AM
Yeah, about that. I've been busy with other stuff but i'll clean it up and post a pic so you guys can say if it's something worth going for. It's different, thats for sure.
Anyone know a good image host that doesnt require registration?
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: relux on June 19, 2012, 11:58:45 AM
Here we go:

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1125/isoalt.jpg

Image doesnt fit in spoiler but i'll look into it.
[spoiler](http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1125/isoalt.jpg)[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: Phero on June 19, 2012, 12:16:49 PM
Looks pretty swede actually.
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: sabbath on June 19, 2012, 01:33:38 PM
I approve. But keep the old logo.
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: Shwaggy on June 19, 2012, 03:47:36 PM
I approve. But keep the old logo.
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: Dr_Grinch on June 19, 2012, 04:52:52 PM
Looks amazing man.
What needs to be done to implement something like this?
PM me and we'll talk.
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: david5182 on June 20, 2012, 01:48:42 AM
Looks great, it realy does.
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: Ren-Hoek on June 20, 2012, 07:06:01 AM
Thanks for the props by putting my photoshop in relux! You rock!
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: relux on June 20, 2012, 10:12:55 AM
It's just a concept. Need someone with coding skills to actually translate all those little icons and shit into a website using the assets provided.
I'll change the logo for the current one.


Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: ViRuS_PW on June 24, 2012, 04:29:24 AM
i actually like that logo, well at least the real looking disc, everything else is dope too, good job
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: ch40z on July 11, 2012, 07:34:31 PM
Firstlooks
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: ch40z on July 23, 2012, 05:29:00 PM
Firstlooks
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: Gabriel on July 23, 2012, 10:13:21 PM
Any updates for this?
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: Dr_Grinch on July 24, 2012, 12:13:21 AM
Any updates for this?

Nobody with the skillset we need has come forward to date.
We passed around the idea of hiring a developer, but the site being pretty quiet right now, it's hard to justify the expense without more traffic.
Spending that money on a redesign/new code doesn't necessarily guarantee us more users who would actually utilize the features...
The good news is we renewed the hosting agreement, so the site is definitely here for the foreseeable future.
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: Gabriel on July 27, 2012, 04:00:24 AM
Something like this? I know it's extremely basic for now. I just whipped it up tonight. I'm not a graphic designer or anything but I'll try to spruce it up with some icons or something. But I wanted to keep it minimal like this site has always been. As far as a firstlook database that doesn't seem too complicated. I'll try to keep it as simple as I can, probably a SQLite db.

[spoiler](http://i.imgur.com/Rgqw6.jpg)[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Admins - what are the plans for the front page?
Post by: Dr_Grinch on July 27, 2012, 05:01:42 AM
That works for me man. We need to find a way to then present it through the site, be it a widget or plugin for SMF.

The issue is that nobody on staff is much of a developer. Penguin is our infrastructure guy and he's amazing at it, but he's not a webdev.

Any help the community can bring forward, we will use it for sure to make the site better!