no offence to the dudes who made the designs for this forum, but it really it absolutely, downright, absymally, terrible..

the first time here it took me about five minutes just to find the 'POST NEW TOPIC' button, and then another ten minutes the LOGOUT button , LOL

just way too cluttered, terrible background colours too

GET WORKING devs

youve been a member for almost a year now!!
are you retarded or colour blind??

I'll admit, I kind of would like a new layout for a change, but all of those functions you mentioned are quite easy to find. Perhaps you're just new to the whole forum thing? Most forums have the buttons in the same places.



[unmodly] [/unmodly]

You may not know, but a majority of our over 10,000 members aren't active around here.

actually, this account isnt mine.. i kind of ermmm 'stole' it lol
i only just came on this forum today..
thats what happens when u leave an easy username and password - hello,hello
LOL i was just randomly typing in usernames and passwords and was surprised to find it actually worked

I know i'm tired of the front page look, but you dislike both? I still somewhat like the subpages "red" look...you against both the front and the subpages or you dislike one over the other?

i wouldn't say it 'sucked' as you put it. It could do with a bit of a makeover but i quite like the front page.

nothing jerks about for me..but start a new topic as this just goes all off out of the whole layout of the site discussion

the jerks are somewhat a minor issue.. the real thing here is :
A) TERRIBLY CLUTTERED INTERFACE
TOO MANY ADVERTISEMENTS!!
C) MESSY FEEL TO THE SITE (well basicaly same thing as A)

it just needs a good cleanup by a creative and well-experienced forum designer (like me! jk!)
FYI i think the jerks only occur in firefox, but dont seem to occur in IE7

Actually, the jerks happen to me as well, and I use AOL (yes, I still use that ) and sometimes IE.

Screen jerks around for me too. I use FF.

Note: I'm not the orig "dot"...just someone who knows the fix...btw how is this account's name "hello" & shows up as "dot"?


...well travis, you should be using Firefox & you would notice the jerks...but to fix it...

Edit...

got-heroes.com/style_images/css_9.css

Find...

CODE
.popmenubutton-new,
.popmenubutton
{
        width: 120px;
        white-space: nowrap;
        background-color: transparent;
        border: 0px solid #3A4F6C;
        color: #000;
        font-weight: bold;
        float: right;
        height: 18px;
        text-align: center;
        margin: 0px;
        font-size: 11px;
        padding: 3px;
}

.popmenubutton-new
{
        float: none;
        width: auto;
        text-align: left;
        height: auto;
        padding: 3px;
        font-weight: normal;
        background-color: transparent;
        background-image: url(sharpe/menu_action_down-padded.gif);
        background-repeat: no-repeat;
        background-position: right;
}

.popmenubutton-new-out
{
        padding: 4px;
}

Replace with...

CODE
.popmenubutton-new,
.popmenubutton
{
        width: 120px;
        white-space: nowrap;
        background-color: transparent;
        border: 0px solid #3A4F6C;
        color: #000;
        font-weight: bold;
        float: right;
        height: 18px;
        text-align: center;
        margin: 0px;
        font-size: 11px;
        /*padding: 3px;*/
}

.popmenubutton-new
{
        float: none;
        width: auto;
        text-align: left;
        height: auto;
        /*padding: 3px;*/
        font-weight: normal;
        background-color: transparent;
        background-image: url(sharpe/menu_action_down-padded.gif);
        background-repeat: no-repeat;
        background-position: right;
}

Once you do that...no jerks, plus that area is nice & smaller...if you want it big, then you need to match the padding: ??px of the ".popmenubutton-new" & ".popmenubutton-new-out"...or specify both in one selector...

Before the -out was 4px & the non-out/hover was 3px, hence the jerk...also note you have alot of redundant CSS selectors which need cleanup, but I didn't feel like doing it...like you had padding: 3px in 2 (redundant) places & the padding: 4px on the -out only...note that it looks better without any padding...& works...

Also you should really drop IPB for phpBB3...IPB sucks...

i'll have a new look soon anyway

Awesome, can't wait to see what you come up with.

A update is long overdue, this site is never kept up to date. The Embedded Sylar clip at the top being an example.

... Just to say, Don't know If It's really relevant anymore... but, every Internet browser I've ever used jerks.

hey man, the comics reference at the side of the homepage sucks, you got only old ones...
plus, i can't wait for the new update....i'm tired of the old look...

i'm still messing with images and colors...actually have to go out right now but will hopefully have the look done by tonight/tomorrow

Well, I love the new look so far. It's nifty. I like keeping the same sort of color scheme with the stripey things, and how it looks more streamlined and such. Neat.

yeah i tried making it a bit more cleaner with less images and more css so the load time is quicker...i'll do more with the top of the site and stuff later

Thats was a nice surprise when you were expecting to see the same thing as usual then this came up. Good Colors and spread. Nice!

this will actually be the look of the forums, but i'll do something different for the front page.

Wasn't expecting that when I loaded the page..
It looks.. Sleeker.

i like the new look travis... two thumbs up....

I like how the red works the grey,... would look a lot better if the reply, preview post, etc were the same.

I'm undecided on the top heading though. Its minimal I know,.. but maybe just a bit too minimal.

I take it though like it says at top,.. its a work in progress.

New look's cool. And load time is much better.

Yeah, great new look, Travis. Everything looks neater.
Loving the banner too.

Yip, thats another plus. I use Opera as my browser and I always had to load the page twice before getting the whole page.

I hope Travis keeps the black and white picture links that turn to colour when you hover over them, the ones that were at the top of the old page.

love the new look...

hey but can we have other heroes in the banner too?
and is it possible to have the latest graphic novels offering somewhere in the homepage? that would be cool...
again, love the new look....

yeah don't worry...it'll all be done soon...the header and most of the look is all just a stand by until i finish the actual one

i like the new color scheme but i obviously dislike the not so great banner. I miss the side bar of shortcuts and also the countdown. I do however have one suggestion if travis could oblige: could you begin to use a divx trailer in place of original youtube one. it would be higher quality and easier to download. i could help explain how to make it work it is very simple and in my opinion faster then youtube since you dont have to wait for the videos to convert.

Edit: I forgot to mention divx hosting is free.

I like the new look, I believe it's much better than the old one I would suggest to make different ones as well, so this forum could have different styles awesome work there, really !