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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby Toby » Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:01 am

ok, have a look now.

forum names to the right.

I made a bit less space between lines, that should give enough space to easily click it.

Feedback please! :thumb:
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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby kite_hh » Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:24 am

That looks good! I don't think you need the bold typeface. It will look more elegant without it and the colors make it stand out just fine.


However, I still strongly advise against chaos as the first impression on a homepage.

A list with ever changing topics will take a lot ot time to understand each time you visit. For less frequent users it will be a nightmare, because they have to adapt newly every time they visit.

The home site should provide a simple and easy overview of what to expect on the site. As much as I like the "trending topics" idea it shouldn't be all you get to see on the first page. Maybe select five trending topics, then give direct access to the forums. After all this is why people come!

Keep it up. :thumb:

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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby Toby » Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:50 am

static content?

what about any news site in the world...is it static?

I think it is important to have one place where all latest comes together...then you decide if you want to see more if you didn't go on the site for some days. I am on it daily, and always want a quick glance whats new. Same I do with the news sites I use for general news around the globe.

Here a version not bold...
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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby Toby » Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:51 am

I think the right alignment is a pretty good idea. What do you guys think?

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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby robclaisse » Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:45 pm

I actually meant keeping the forum names in the first column but right aligned. But your way works too, not sure what is quicker to scan through. Also with the column layout, you could make the forum names links to the overall forum so a good way of allowing people to jump to the specific forum to drill down there.

And hacking around with the layout of the current site I think some extra padding between rows is probably a good idea to clearly separate each post.
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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby Toby » Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:46 pm

here in two rows for desktop home:
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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby Toby » Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:49 pm

ah ok, I will make a design like you suggest two.
Also with the column layout, you could make the forum names links to the overall forum so a good way of allowing people to jump to the specific forum to drill down there.
I like the idea...only problem I would see is if people get irritated that clicking on the forum name leads them to the forum view, not the topic. Sure, sounds logic if you know it...but if not?

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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby robclaisse » Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:50 pm

Look at both next to each other I think your version with the forum names over on the right is better. It makes the post subjects the main priority, whatever sub-category they are in, but you can visually look for specific types of post if you want.

I also prefer the colour differences too - keep the focus on the subjects

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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby Toby » Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:54 pm

here a bit smaller font
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Re: Making the home text visual nice - your help and opinion needed

Postby Toby » Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:00 pm

and here with left alignment and smaller font:
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