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Re: Kiteforum Update 2019 - any suggestions? Site can be offline sometimes!

Postby Toby » Fri Jan 18, 2019 2:33 am

GTC wrote:
Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:18 pm
Toby!
This is a mess :-?
It's very hard to tell if the forum name belongs to the upper or the lower link...

A golden rule in UI/UX design is "don't make the user think"

Make sure to empty your cache!

Then it will look like the way I show on my screenshot!

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Re: Kiteforum Update 2019 - any suggestions? Site can be offline sometimes!

Postby romainlp » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:20 am

Hi there,

First thanks Toby for the great work and to let people have a word on the design / functionality of the website. I did play a bit with the Chrome inspector to update the style of the site, just let that here :)
I just add some margin between section, also grouped the elements in the top bar. I reckon for the internal pages, the breadcrumbs could go just on top of the title.

Thanks
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Re: Kiteforum Update 2019 - any suggestions? Site can be offline sometimes!

Postby GTC » Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:45 am

Toby wrote:
Fri Jan 18, 2019 12:29 am
I assume you already saw the changes :D

Thanks to your suggestions we have now a really nice and clean overview on the home for the latest topics.

It's a list of the latest 30, in two columns with each 15.

On mobile view it changes to one column with 20 topic names.

For the ones who are used to one click to enter a forum, you can use now the forum name in front of the topic names to get to the forum.

Clicking on the topic name will take you directly to the topic.

We added more space between the lines, so clicking on it with bigger fingers on a mobile is no problem anymore.
I tested it with my quiet big fingers on a relative small screen and had no problem.

The font is still blue, but once we will change the header of the site we will also change all text colors.

I hope you like it!

And again, thx for all your input :thumb:
Glad to see that it looks better. As you've already seen, small adjustments can improve the UX a lot... which at the end translates to more $!
By the way, still a lot of work to do :wink: . KF has the look and feel of a 20 year old site.

Regards!

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Re: Kiteforum Update 2019 - any suggestions? Site can be offline sometimes!

Postby Toby » Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:53 am

Thx!
Not finished yet.
Let’s see to which age we can get it 😁

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Re: Kiteforum Update 2019 - any suggestions?

Postby Chicken-loop » Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:47 am

It ended up being cyberbullying -- one or two guys got max red thumbed anytime they posted. It was embarrassing.

Yes.. you are correct. Sadly the interwebs are full of cyber bullies.... that will type stuff that they would never say to your face.

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Re: Kiteforum Update 2019 - any suggestions?

Postby Toby » Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:51 am

Chicken-loop wrote:
Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:47 am
It ended up being cyberbullying -- one or two guys got max red thumbed anytime they posted. It was embarrassing.

Yes.. you are correct. Sadly the interwebs are full of cyber bullies.... that will type stuff that they would never say to your face.
We all know this. Trying to keep this forum as good as possible.

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Re: Kiteforum Update 2019 - any suggestions? Site can be offline sometimes!

Postby Toby » Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:14 pm

Toby wrote:
Fri Jan 18, 2019 12:49 am
There are few problems right now:

the latest should show on the left column first...looks like it goes from left to right etc...
and when clicked on the topic link you land on the first page of the topic...not the last like it used to be.

Will be fixed tomorrow!

problems fixed!

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Re: Kiteforum Update 2019 - any suggestions? Site can be offline sometimes!

Postby Toby » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:12 am

romainlp wrote:
Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:20 am
Hi there,

First thanks Toby for the great work and to let people have a word on the design / functionality of the website. I did play a bit with the Chrome inspector to update the style of the site, just let that here :)
I just add some margin between section, also grouped the elements in the top bar. I reckon for the internal pages, the breadcrumbs could go just on top of the title.

Thanks

did you notice something ? :wink:
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Re: Kiteforum Update 2019 - any suggestions? Site can be offline sometimes!

Postby Toby » Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:53 pm

we currently have a bug on the spots page, when you click a picture it doesn't show bigger.

Will be fixed soon.

Plus expect a bit weird design of the top navigation the next hours, since we will be working live on it.
Takes a bit time to have it the way we want it.

I will update you here once finished, and if it still is weird then you need to empty your cache of the browser to see the changes.

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Re: Kiteforum Update 2019 - any suggestions? Site can be offline sometimes!

Postby Toby » Sun Jan 20, 2019 8:07 pm

The picture issue has been fixed on the spots page.

Now working on the top part of the sites, so don’t wonder if it looks a bit strange.


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