lqdmindz Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Hey guys, im fairly handy at photoshop and know my way around the coding, but it would be nice to get feed back from my peers. My site is quite successful so far amongst the students at my uni, and that all i really want, but i strive to make the experience of using the site more and more enjoyable. the site is http://www.h1vem1nd.org and you can use the username: Test password: TestTest It is phpbb and the coffetime theme. i have added a chat mod, karma and a rotating banner(with im trying to change to rotate hourly) Feed back from you guys would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcandiottix Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 I personally find it hard to comment on sites that use a template. Reason being I can't really judge what work you did and what work was provided for you. That being said, your rotating banner would be catchy if you made the "city" picture color and the color of the picture reflected the 'home' time of day. For example, when its dark the buildings lights are on and during day time the colors are vivid. Just an idea. As for the color, its muted but well done, my eye feel relaxed looking at it and data is leisurely found. I'll assume this is still under construction as many tabs, buttons, etc are non functional. I think your header should decrease in size upon logging in, once I'm ready to view the forum I don't really care about the city picture, buttons, tabs, etc. I would shrink them for logged in users. Other then that, the site has some neat mouse over gizmos.. as a layout it's nice... as a functioning site though I would have no reason to stay as it's not clear to me what content is being provided. I refer back to my 5 W's of web design.. all of which should be answered on the front page: Who's this page for? What does the site "do"? i.e. what service does it provide me? Why do I care? When was content last added? Where can I contribute? i.e. sign up, comment, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lqdmindz Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 Thanks for the in depth critique. What you brought up was really helpfull and you gave me some stellar ideas for making the site better. I quite enjoyed the minimised or simple header idea. The buildings at time of day was also quite great. The site is actually an engineering forum(civil mainly) that allows the users(student at my uni) to interact outside of their usual groups. It allows ppl to ask questions of ppl they would usually not interact with. Students can also see old reoprts and formats that they usually wouldnt see. The main aim is to help members fill in the gaps that the uni creates. I was wondering if you were anygood at php and mysql. Wouldnt mind picking you brain about a mod i have in mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 there is an application design forum specifically for that. you would probably get better results on your mod idea by starting a new thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lqdmindz Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 Haha i tried that i was met with 'sounds like you need a good tutorial' and that was the moderator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewooleymammoth Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 link to that thread please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lqdmindz Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,302113.0.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcandiottix Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 I read your php help question, let me see if I understand correctly... you have a new thread in your forum as such: NEW | Engineering Ideas | Thread content summary Where "NEW" is, you want an image and the image should only appear when a user logs on and this thread is new to them. Upon clicking on the thread it reverts to: | Engineering Ideas | Thread content summary Like that? And you solution is assign a value of 1 or 0 to a new field? or to a pre-existing field? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lqdmindz Posted June 25, 2010 Author Share Posted June 25, 2010 Ill try to better explain it. With announcements its hard to make individuals aware of new things. What i would like is a line of code that would check to see if a users Anounce Field in the DB = 1...if so then it would display the image that linked to the announce.php file. If the user field did not = 1 then it would not display the image with the link. Does that clear it up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcandiottix Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Does the announce field already exist? Does the announce field already get set to a 1 or a 0? Does the location of the image file change or is it the same image all the time? So far I think the pseudo-code would be like: connect to database get value of announce field if announce field = 1 then show the picture else if announce field = 0 then do nothing end That's assuming that the ones and zeros are set by another piece of code already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lqdmindz Posted June 26, 2010 Author Share Posted June 26, 2010 For the announce field i will have to change the register fields to include the new announce field. The announce field will then be assigned 0 as the default. The algorithym you have is pretty much spot on...if its 1 it will show the picture(which will always be the same) if not it will not display it. Also on clicking this picture it will assign the users announce field a 0 value. Does this sound do-able? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcandiottix Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 Ok, I'm glad we know what each other is talking about Yes it is do-able connect to database get value of announce field if announce field = 1 then show the picture clicking on picture points to a page with this code: mysql_query("UPDATE register_table SET announce = '0' WHERE username = 'the_users_name'"); else if announce field = 0 then do nothing BUT, a potential problem could be that if there are 5 new announcements, if the user only clicks on 1 then the other four will no longer be considered new since the field will be zero. I think this may not be an issue in your situation the way i understand it but just thought i'd bring that up incase i'm misunderstanding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lqdmindz Posted June 26, 2010 Author Share Posted June 26, 2010 The issue about the announcement isnt that bad...because the image will link to the anounce.php page...and that page will have the last 5-10 announcements. Dont suppose you know anything about how to connect to the phpbb database do you? Ive been searching around but i dont know what the user database is called. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcandiottix Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 No, I'm sorry I don't. There's a lot of support across the web for it though so i'm sure phpbb support forums could help there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lqdmindz Posted June 26, 2010 Author Share Posted June 26, 2010 They might have a site dedicated to help but there is none. I literally had to make my own music mod there because they wouldnt help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazerenix Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 just a suggestion, with the buttons referring to login/register etc. It seems a bit off putting that they turn gray when you hover over them. I suggest making them gray to start with and then making the coloured when they are hovered over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lqdmindz Posted June 27, 2010 Author Share Posted June 27, 2010 That is a pet peev of mine aswell. I will be making new ones soon...and they will be "turning on". Thanks for the suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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