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Should Menus Be On Forum Page?
should the menus be on the forum page or do they make the forum too small?
1. yes they should be on the forum page [ 3 ] [42.86%]
2. no they make the forum look to small [ 4 ] [57.14%]
Answers total: 7
EmSeeD Date: Saturday, 26/Jun/10, 3:30 AM | Message # 16

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the main page is fine now, i think before it made the page load slow because of the music player we had and the autoplaying videos but we don't have that anymore. the main page is good now and is getting more views than we've ever had

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Chinita Date: Saturday, 26/Jun/10, 4:05 AM | Message # 17

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I don't know.. I never stay on the main page for more then 2 seconds because all those videos and all those widgets make my pc go nuts.

true mark, it does'nt slow down my pc either and i have this old petnium 3 with no memory, until i get mine fixed or a new one..
mine freezes on myspace and bad on lastfm but on the mainpage, its fine
there really are not widgets on the mainpage lol..those are blocks that are part of the template..adam, u dont need to hit the mainpage, the navigation is right there.. u can just go to each categories like new video, alternative news, bboys, dj culture ect. just a click.. its all broken down..


TheWatcher Date: Saturday, 26/Jun/10, 9:20 AM | Message # 18

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no they are not at all, they are good for navigating around here and getting more people on the mainpage

It's incredibly annoying to me and well, the current forum activity speaks for itself unless something else is to blame for that..

EmSeeD Date: Saturday, 26/Jun/10, 9:34 AM | Message # 19

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do you have to scroll to the left to see the full forum each time? or does it just look too small for you to post on?

http://chirbit.com/emseed
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Chinita Date: Saturday, 26/Jun/10, 12:12 PM | Message # 20

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It's incredibly annoying to me and well, the current forum activity speaks for itself unless something else is to blame for that..

sorry to hear that, we'll think of something..lets work together and figure something out..is it the links, the blocks, the chat also? the ones that like it, gave good answers as to why the links are good..but its strange, for me the forum is wide and big, so we need to try and work with something..i dont get it, do u have a small pc screen or are u using cell phopne? i'm curious why for some its good and for some its not..also i wonder if we can move them on top or maybe to the right side instead, so that the forum is first..mark, try removing the chatroom and the ad spaces to start.. the menus i can make smaller because those links are also in the categories. i'm sure we can work something out to please everybody, and that will remove some clutter. this is why me and mark especially mark worked hard in here but no one got involved though..

oh and the forum activity has been like this since we lost the website blog and came back in here, that was before these changes, so i don't think they are to blame for low activity, plus its summer now, people are out of school, out of college, on summer vacations, having fun in the sun, it usually gets slow in the forums for this time of year.. at least the site has gotten higher views and traffic :) then mark made changes and we were the only ones here trying to work with the templates..we put up a thread to discuss templates, yet no activity either, only ones that responded to that was erik, meth and thatonethere, that also said he liked this layout.

template, join the discussion or forever hold ur peace (check it)
http://realhiphop4ever.ucoz.com/forum/16-4399-1
(join the discussion) pleaseee

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thats what i dont get, this happens all the time..we discuss something, work hard, then make changes in a long thread but the ones that never get involved in the discussion, complain later, after its already done :( and this can't happen anymore..this is not directed at u watcher, just in general, this happens all the time, thought i'd throw that in there..where was everybody's two sense in the proper thread discussion lol..ah well..thing is mark worked hard changing this template to red from blue and hard to add them blocks..we lost sleep fixing this up, when no one else helped or even tried, many gave up but we kept going because life goes on after a downfall like we all had.....i even changed the title to the thread lol, so that many knew this was it, we posted in the chat..decided on the template, i even sent out a mass message to everyone...its not really fair, if u ask me and i guess many of u would not understand but put yourself in our shoes.. we will go by the votes, i see uncharted, hip hop head, enzzie, myself and emseed, don't have a problem with the left side of the forum.. lets figure it out and lets see what others have to say as well...mark, please..if its not to hard, lets try the menu only, on the right side instead..and remove the rest.


Chinita Date: Saturday, 26/Jun/10, 12:14 PM | Message # 21

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do you have to scroll to the left to see the full forum each time? or does it just look too small for you to post on?

i don't understand why no body answers marks questions, this is important and if anyone wants to be involved this time around with templates and changes in here, its important u get involved now and not later. he asked a thousand questions, me and him both but no one answered in the template forum, so we moved on, come on..its get frustrating, same thing happend over in vbulletin after we worked hard adding elements lol no one said anything while the discussion was going on but after the changes..people talked...mark the forum is big and wide..looks good from my side, not small at all..its the same size lol..if i want to see the menu's, then i move over to the left but after that, the forum is the same size..maybe bigger..


Chinita Date: Sunday, 27/Jun/10, 3:01 AM | Message # 22

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mark, if we remove the menu from the forum. is there any where else we can at least put the mainpage link only? its hard to read it up on the top right corner of the site..

EmSeeD Date: Sunday, 27/Jun/10, 5:17 AM | Message # 23

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yeah the links in the top right corner are hard to see because of the image, NtG used to have a button image thing there so you could see it maybe i can find them and put them on

http://chirbit.com/emseed
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EmSeeD Date: Sunday, 27/Jun/10, 9:09 AM | Message # 24

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we can change it so the menu is horizontal at the top but it doesn't look as good but it may solve the problem, check it out on the bodescu site

http://bodescu.ucoz.com/forum/


http://chirbit.com/emseed
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Chinita Date: Sunday, 27/Jun/10, 1:02 PM | Message # 25

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i actually love it like that and it should def. solve the problem, aliminating the menu from sharing the screen and taking away from the forum. :)

http://bodescu.ucoz.com/forum


EmSeeD Date: Sunday, 27/Jun/10, 9:43 PM | Message # 26

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ok but to change the width of the forum we'll still need to take the ad space and chat box off the side, i tried putting the ad block at the top and it didn't work. and idk if the chat box looks good at the top so we might have to take it off the forum but we can still have them on the main pages. what do you think?

http://bodescu.ucoz.com/forum/
theres what the forum will look like when its full width


http://chirbit.com/emseed
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Chinita Date: Sunday, 27/Jun/10, 11:56 PM | Message # 27

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just remove all the boxes and menus from the sides completely, blocks, ad space, chat box and put it like bodescu now or it will still be sharing the forum, it looks good with the links/menu on top and neater..and everyone will be happy also and it can get active again.. the chat, try it on the bottom to see how it looks and if not, we'll just have it on the mainpage like always..

EmSeeD Date: Monday, 28/Jun/10, 0:11 AM | Message # 28

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alright sweet so everyone wins, new members can navigate and the forum is wider.

http://chirbit.com/emseed
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Chinita Date: Monday, 28/Jun/10, 0:19 AM | Message # 29

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yesssssssssssss everyone wins..this is great and it looks good, maybe even better :)

Chinita Date: Monday, 28/Jun/10, 0:34 AM | Message # 30

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now the forum seems to wide lol have to keep scrolling left and right..is it because of the top header?

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