AO Needs a NEW LOOK, any Volunteers?

[BTAutoMag]

yea, i dont think search is working well

[RT Lover]

gallery of custom mags... not a thread like if u do a image search.... to show all the different mags

[Ando]

I love Google. Couldn't find mine on the forums

[Justus]

With almost 19,000 views you can't convince it's not important. If it were just about a reputation people would not bother to look me up. :)

That's a point well taken. But we know that at least 11,000 of those views are from you, pulling a Homer Simpson on the F5 Key.

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[luke]

[OPBN]

As long as the old feedback threads are accessible I don't have a problem with changing how they are done. I don't sell nearly as much these days as I used to and would like to be able to point people to the old thread if necessary.

[Justus]

I haven’t the foggiest idea what that means...

Oh, it was just some bad humor I suppose.

The drinking bird has been used in many fictional contexts to automatically press buttons. In The Simpsons episode "King-Size Homer", Homer used one to repeatedly press a key on a computer keyboard.

Example for laughs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iapECJKx4k0
The F5 key is used to refresh a page on most internet browsers.

[Justus]

As long as the old feedback threads are accessible I don't have a problem with changing how they are done.

Agreed. In any event, there's no reason to go and delete the old feedback threads. Even PbN kept the "old" and the "new" when they switched, didn't they? I saw so many sigs with links to both.

[Bunny]

Well that escalated quickly.....

Anywho.... What would you guys want to see as far as a theme goes.... Would you want to keep it the same as AO or something totally different? I have a few ideas, but would love to hear suggestions.

[Justus]

Well that escalated quickly.....

Anywho.... What would you guys want to see as far as a theme goes.... Would you want to keep it the same as AO or something totally different? I have a few ideas, but would love to hear suggestions.

Whoops, didn't mean to give the impression that anything was escalating. I'll try to no longer crack jokes that could be taken that way.

I like the original idea you had, Bunny, about a "light" theme and a "dark" theme. The original AO colors were a nice medium and I'd have no problem going back to that either. The current form isn't bad once you get used to it, but it is rather bland and "OEM" feeling. With some tweaking it could function as the "light" option.

[steve_81]

Whoops, didn't mean to give the impression that anything was escalating. I'll try to no longer crack jokes that could be taken that way.

I like the original idea you had, Bunny, about a "light" theme and a "dark" theme. The original AO colors were a nice medium and I'd have no problem going back to that either. The current form isn't bad once you get used to it, but it is rather bland and "OEM" feeling. With some tweaking it could function as the "light" option.

right...I think everyone got it but him. lol

[Bunny]

Justus: Lol, No worries. I got your joke as well. I didn't think the feedback idea would be that crazy, but I guess it's a hot topic. I'm quite surprised on how many page views feedback threads have. My main focus will be a few really cool designs. If I can sneak in a few add-ons/features I will

[Dayspring]

The good part is, add-ons are usually mods that are used across all templates. But for that, we'd need to test it on our dev environment first, and then have Tom install here.

[Bunny]

Dayspring: What do you think of the CMS tool in vbulletin. I think it would be a great addition to this site. There are many informative posts that seem to get lost in the shuffle and I think that the built-in CMS would be perfect. I would love to be able to have posts be promoted to articles on the fly. I also think this would be a great way to organize the large amount of information we have.

[Dayspring]

I don't have that version of VBulletin unfortunately. I don't know what Tom purchased.