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Committee: Forum Appearance / Organization
Topic Started: Oct 16 2016, 06:31:40 PM (3,532 Views)
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Committee for Forum Appearance / Organization


Purpose:
To make The East Pacific forums more navigable, easier to read, and organized for both newer members and older members alike. To remove any redundancies and add / remove any links or sections in order to make these forums more understandable.


Potential points of discussion:
  • Changing / re-ordering forums
  • Forum appearance / skins
  • Top header - changing the information there, etc
  • Making it more sensible for a new member to navigate
  • Other topics initiated by any member


Participants:
Anyone with an interest to see improvement in The East Pacific. Forum administration should be involved for precautionary purposes.


Leaders:
East Malaysia, Packilvania


Timeframe:
From now until November 20, 2016, or sooner if the committee comes to a resolution sooner


End Goal:
The committee will come up with a well thought-out list of improvements and suggestions to Forum Administration including, but not limited to, forum organization, add / remove subforums, forum skin changes / ideas, header changes, navigation changes, etc by the prescribed date. Forum Administration will then be charged with initiating changes within reason upon their agreement of said changes.
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Nov 5 2016, 12:11:31 PM
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Nov 3 2016, 10:54:08 PM
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Perhaps the library could go at the bottom of the first category where the IRC channel once was?

I am cool with moving the news broadcasts to the IC forum as a sub-forum

GA/SC forum mash up is cool with me. Perhaps we could dump both of those to the main WA forum?

Yes, wholeheartedly agree with the embassy comment. I can begin merging topics and moving them to simple threads.

Somehow I overlooked this.

Yes to Library, News Broadcast (we'll make better description that links to it.

My thoughts exactly on WA
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My plan for the Executive forum is such:

1. Move the "Delegate's Office" posts into the executive forum and delete the "Delegate's Office"
2. Move the media office as a sub-forum for Foreign Affairs as that generally pertains to foreign updates
3. Delete the Immigration forum and move the posts to the Culture & Education forum. We can combine resources there and have a go of it.
4. Move the Delegate Election forum to Conclave. It makes sense to me because that's ultimately the job of the Conclave.

I am torn on what to do with EPPS. On the one hand it's good to have a place to meet if we do have an internal threat. On the other hand, we've got a good system in place and every citizen should do their due diligence to report suspicious behavior in the interest of security. I'll leave it be for now.

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Okay... gonna begin work on those embassies. If the embassy has an ambassador, I will tg them their forum thread.
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Awesome. I'll be also working on our board template with back-end work also with improvements. See my blog for details.
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Working with a menu that turned into a partial header replacement...

Examples:
Spoiler: click to toggle

Spoiler: click to toggle

Spoiler: click to toggle


I split the center block into two. Need fresh ideas for that. Also menu is expandable (colors are limited due to using a lite version of a program). For consolidation, if liked, will remove the footer and merge key areas into the menu. Thoughts?
Edited by East Malaysia, Nov 9 2016, 06:46:10 PM.
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For one of the center blocks, you could have upcoming events listed, similar to how you had the xenocon. I really like the expandable header too.
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I like the drop-down menu very much.

EM, I'm going to continue to institute some of the changes you've been working on. I have a little bit of time.
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I like the drop down menu, but will that theme shown be the theme?? It looks a little bland, and honestly boring. The one we have now is nice.



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Nov 9 2016, 11:34:03 PM
For one of the center blocks, you could have upcoming events listed, similar to how you had the xenocon. I really like the expandable header too.


Could look into doing something like that. Might be able to use the same script the is used for the FAQ page. We might have a need to keep an events subform make that happen. I'll do some testing but it would at times duplicate with Trending Topics...

Todd McCloud
Nov 10 2016, 04:41:11 PM
I like the drop-down menu very much.

EM, I'm going to continue to institute some of the changes you've been working on. I have a little bit of time.


Awesome, thanks!

Sir Starxpro
Nov 10 2016, 04:52:38 PM
I like the drop down menu, but will that theme shown be the theme?? It looks a little bland, and honestly boring. The one we have now is nice.


That's actually the classic theme :)




Banner Refresh?

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1000x90

Submit any idea. Maybe drop the wings? Make it simple?

Topic Descriptions

Submit your ideas :D
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Say, why is the Delegate Election forum in the Conclave?
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Nov 11 2016, 02:13:55 AM
Say, why is the Delegate Election forum in the Conclave?
I spoke about this to Bach, our Viceroy. We both feel that the forum is a better fit in the Conclave since the Viceroy runs the elections and should therefore be under their domain.
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I like the drop down menu very much EM.
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Alright the menu will be implemented tonight and footer will be eliminated to free up template space.

The portal page will also be turned off
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Menu Bar has been rolled out to each theme, Dark Theme and bigRED, are still WIP. New banner image has also been rolled out.... the inspiration for it was 1IL and what makes TEP different from other regions. Also the infinity symbol makes me think of an owl the way I placed it and the text represents that we all come from different background in NS (and RL) but we are united together hence the Confederated East Pacific.
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I'd like more skin options! Make a dark theme too!
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Are we able to make the header image rotate like the ads do? That could be fun!


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EM, in the "Loop&Co" theme, there's a huge grey band and the right side of the browser/screen. Could you look in to that?
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Nov 16 2016, 12:47:27 PM
I'd like more skin options! Make a dark theme too!


We do have a Dark Theme. What type of more theme options are you interested in specifically?

Aelitia
Nov 16 2016, 03:19:50 PM
Are we able to make the header image rotate like the ads do? That could be fun!


I know that was discussed a long time ago between admins but their was a reason it was not implemented. I'll take a look.

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Nov 16 2016, 05:22:55 PM
EM, in the "Loop&Co" theme, there's a huge grey band and the right side of the browser/screen. Could you look in to that?


It could be the menu. Could you provide a screen shot? I was thinking of making smaller menus for the themes with width constrictions.
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Looks fantastic!

Another suggestion I have is userbars. They're fun to put in signatures. They could include citizen, Magister, Arbiter, Vizier and some IC ones such as roleplayer, etc. Thoughts?
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Nov 17 2016, 11:23:04 AM

Aelitia
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Are we able to make the header image rotate like the ads do? That could be fun!


I know that was discussed a long time ago between admins but their was a reason it was not implemented. I'll take a look.


It was a technical and design decision. Technical is a coding issue that can't really be bypassed in the current location. The alternative could have worked but it didn't look good. So we [admins and mods] went for that best option. Also a side discussion at the time also was that it could confuse members and could also be viewed as ads since they are similarish in size and that keeping it simple with refreshes gave a better identity.

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Nov 17 2016, 03:51:27 PM


Thanks. It's the same on my end. I honestly didn't notice until I thought about it after seeing it. Since I will have limited PC access it may be next week at the latest before I find the cause of the exact issue but.

Sygian
Nov 17 2016, 11:38:36 PM
Looks fantastic!

Another suggestion I have is userbars. They're fun to put in signatures. They could include citizen, Magister, Arbiter, Vizier and some IC ones such as roleplayer, etc. Thoughts?


I feel like we had them once before but I could be thinking of a user making their own. I could look into making some after major forum changes but anyone could get a head start and maybe we can set them up on their own webpage on the board.

Side note. I may prune our webpages or look into better design also.

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This committee is set to end in a few days. We could go on \ lot longer but at this time please list any last suggestions at this time. Previous suggestions will continue to be worked on with better forum descriptions, profile fields, theme development, etc. But this is not the end since you can always make suggestions in the technical forum or directly with me. If you would like to continue to help with working on items that will are still WIP and interesting in making suggestions/ideas then feel free to let me know; I could always use the help!
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I am not very good at designing, but I can definitely attempt to make a draft userbar. I know some people that know how to that could probably help out as well.
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Hey can we make a thingy like signatures but it shows what groups you're in? Like if I'ma cartographer, I'm in the EPSA, and helped Osiris, I get those three emblems, and put them under my signature or something?
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Question with the forums, what do the different coloured symbols beside topics mean? Some are blue, and others are red. I originally thought it was unread or read, then I thought it was posted in topics and those I hadn't. Now I'm just confused.
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Bach, the theme is fixed!

Blue is regular topic folder, Red is a hot topic folder
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Bach, the theme is fixed!

Blue is regular topic folder, Red is a hot topic folder
Thank you!
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I just thought of something: maybe on holidays and the like there can be a different theme for the forum. This may cause problems and confusion, but isn't that what the holidays are all about, anyway?
Just thinking aloud.
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From time to time we have had seasonal themes if time permits to make them.
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Embassy - Coming Soon
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Oops, wrong thread.[edit_reason]Wrong thread[/edit_reason]
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