Redo the homepage

Love it how it is now. :P :) ;) :D ;D :-* 8)

(i tried to pick all the happy smilies)

i voted for name/descrip/date - figure mod could be listed on the board's page - maybe as an exercise in dreamweaver i can make a mockup of a hompage 4 u(s)? let me know as i dont want to step on any toes....

It's very funny that you should say that ... at the moment, I am in Dreamweaver making a mock new homepage (which I'm going to do some playing around with before it goes public).

I'd greatly appreciate it if you could make a mock template too. Maybe then I can show you what I have going and we can exchange ideas.

Basically, this is a forum for USERS. And it should be most convenient / easiest setup for the USER! ;D (P.S. that's you!)

kewl, its my Friday night so hopefully of this weekend (4 me) i'll be able to put something 2gether - wanna put some thought into it tho so i'm not gonna rush it 8)
& thanx!!! ;D

You know the Forum Stats on the index page? I was thinking of redoing their look ...

Or, optimally, creating a new homepage so the user isn't automatically thrown at the forum board index.

This new homepage would include a bunch of forum info as well as possibly "other stuff" (yeah, stuff, that's it)

I used SSI to generate this non-forum page (which incorporates forum stats) - Perhaps some of its info can be thrown into a template ;)

http://www.techtalkforums.com/temp.php

I think you should just keep it the way it its. The forums should be the home page...I hate to be a pig, but maybe change the color "yellow" to a different one... more of a mascular color (since most computer people are guys) =) Here's my friend's forums:

http://animepad.vectori.net/forums/

my mac went south Friday night so i'm not sure when i'll beable to shoot u a mockup Dani; incissor i'll keep ur post in mind, maybe u'll like it! :)

inscissor, your friend over at animepad just used the default phpBB template style. :P The only thing that was changed was the actual animepad logo in the upper left of the index page.

how abt puttin frames vs no-frames to a vote? could put thins on various layers, but, well, thats more work! i also kinda like the behavior of frames - tho i'll take mine borderless plz!!!! 8)

aeinstein, I'm really not too crazy about frames - I always end up getting stuck in them, and they don't index well with search engines :( I already yelled at Dan for having frames on his website (and see, he got rid of them for me! hahaha)

what I am going to end up doing is probably having two columns side-by-side, though (a big one with main content and a sidebar type deal)

I still don't know how the setup is going to be though.

BTW ... you can always start votes for anything yourself: just click the new vote button instead of the new topic button. ;D

no frames - ok, kewl... :-\
Dan changed www for Dani? Kewl! :-*
hmm - me setup vote ?? Empowered!! MAD KEWL!!! 8)

Haha. Yeah, I chaged it JUST FOR YOU DANI. :) Another reason why I did it was because it's sometimes a pain in the neck developing web apps with frames. I was planning on making all the sites dynamic, but recently I've been thinking of renewing the whole site in Flash. Create a mini content manage maybe. Still got lots of planning to do.

well, unfortunately, i haven't had a lot of time 2 work on this but, i did just finish a structural outline of what i'd like to propose for a new homepage. i am going 2 do the initial layout using frames ( :P ), which i will then convert to a non-frames implementation if things look good. do to work & study loads i'm not going to set a timeline for this, but i will try to keep this on the fron burners as much as possible and will provide a progress update asap.

Frames are evil... that's all I have to say. :)

LOL!!! 8)