Welcome to Born Dirty

[potatobroth]

Originally Posted by Eikman

what is it with you guys complaining about black text on white background? do you have your text editors and pdf viewers inverted as well? because the last time i checked it's pretty much the same...

1) optimized browsers
2) message boards don't often display blocks of text, they display single lines with tons of white-space.
3) header bars, icons, dates, etc just add to an eye strain on a white background. it's a usability nono for message boards.

Look at a text-editor like MSWord and then this forum. You can't honestly tell me that it gives off the same eye strain.

I'm being dead honest, and not whiny, but I have a very hard time reading this forum now because of the white. I TOTALLY appreciate the work that went into changing it, and love that its all in one place now, but to me, this site is first and foremost a forum -- and one that I've been using for ~10 years.

[Deckard]

I like. Nice work guys.

All it needs are some shiny new icons n buttons

[King of Snake]

nice work on the new site people. I like it mostly. Yeah the white could be a bit less... white (the box I'm typing this in is sort of grey, which is already better).
Also can we get something along the line of the new icons for the top navigation bar? The nav bar looks pretty bland right now and sorta ugly with that grey gradient but those icons are pretty groovy.
News page looks a bit messy and there doesn't really seem to be a consistent look troughout the site (yet?) with some weird illustrated icons on the right side of the site pages that don't seem to fit with the rest of the look (megaphone, speech bubbles, blue cartoon bird) and some of the header text (like I SAW A MAN on the news page) that seems to be badly aliased (maybe a browser thing? Looks the same in Firefox and Chrome though). And perhaps the underworld social media links should be at the top of the site (perhaps next to the RSS feed button) rather than hidden away at the bottom, since they seem to be more and more important for people following and interacting with the band.

[TheBang]

Originally Posted by King of Snake

some of the header text (like I SAW A MAN on the news page) that seems to be badly aliased (maybe a browser thing? Looks the same in Firefox and Chrome though).

It looks fine in all browsers to me. It's text, not graphics, so the rendering is up to your system. Do you maybe not have font smoothing enabled on your system?

[King of Snake]

Originally Posted by TheBang

It looks fine in all browsers to me. It's text, not graphics, so the rendering is up to your system. Do you maybe not have font smoothing enabled on your system?

hmm well I'm looking at it on the Mac at work and it does look fine here, but not at home on my windows 7 machine. I'll check my settings at home (though I never noticed any problems with aliased fonts before).

[froopy seal]

Originally Posted by King of Snake

Yeah the white could be a bit less... white (the box I'm typing this in is sort of grey, which is already better).

User CP --> Settings & Options --> Edit Options --> aaallllll the way down to the bottom, choose 'Forum Skin: not so white BornDirty'.

Originally Posted by King of Snake

Also can we get something along the line of the new icons for the top navigation bar? The nav bar looks pretty bland right now and sorta ugly with that grey gradient but those icons are pretty groovy.

I like.

[TheBang]

Originally Posted by froopy seal

User CP --> Settings & Options --> Edit Options --> aaallllll the way down to the bottom, choose 'Forum Skin: not so white BornDirty'.

Or, you could just use the drop-down menu in the bottom-left corner of every page.

[King of Snake]

Originally Posted by froopy seal

User CP --> Settings & Options --> Edit Options --> aaallllll the way down to the bottom, choose 'Forum Skin: not so white BornDirty'.

ah thanks, that's much better!

[Mike]

Originally Posted by King of Snake

And perhaps the underworld social media links should be at the top of the site (perhaps next to the RSS feed button) rather than hidden away at the bottom, since they seem to be more and more important for people following and interacting with the band.

We did consider this, but its more important for us if visitors stayed here, on this site, and not be distracted but other social interaction that is nothing to do with us - so the compromise was at the footer, with the other external links.

Originally Posted by King of Snake

some weird illustrated icons on the right side of the site pages that don't seem to fit with the rest of the look (megaphone, speech bubbles, blue cartoon bird)

Yeah, these are just placeholders, they will be replaced during the next resfresh.

Mike

[stimpee]

Originally Posted by Eikman

so, after the obvious troll post i'm going to tell what i really feel about the new site....

it's decent. i think it's a good idea to incorporate the different sources and make it more of a centralized place...they way it actually used to be.

the white is fine with me. what is it with you guys complaining about black text on white background? do you have your text editors and pdf viewers inverted as well? because the last time i checked it's pretty much the same....and nobody complains about google or the new york times being hard on the eyes either....maybe you should optimize your screens.

anyhoo, well done.

but you should definitely clean up the source code. because 115 errors is a lot. and most of it can be easily fixed.

hey eik thanks for the troll and the criticism. we'll fix the errors asap, and we are discussing a variation on a brown theme which may or may not happen. if anyone else has any suggestions then make a note of them and we'll try to take them onboard.