Maybe a change is in order?

Dont hate. Im just saying we've had the same look for quite a long time. I think we should change the site up just a little bit. we can definitely do some improvements.
Usually how it works in the web design world is: The better a site looks, the more people view it.
The more people that view it = more users (and lurkers too lol)
The more users we get = the more content we get
The more content we get = FUN FOR EVERYONE!

I love the site just as much as most people, but the style is a bit dated.
If you have a suggestion feel free to post it below!

I would like the sides to have a different color and maybe some artwork. Just some suggestions.

I guess yes, but just don't make something too different, that can confuses us that already are used to this. ^u^

Yea when I get the admin privileges on this site, I would definitely look to have this redone.

Mephistopheles wrote:

I guess yes, but just don't make something too different, that can confuses us that already are used to this. ^u^

No problem on that. Trust me. I have loads of experience with this sort of thing. In fact After Ive developed a website for my clients (as part of my IRL profession) I immediately build the future websites layout (no scripts or functionality) So I have something to work with two or three years later when they look to upgrade. xD sounds silly, but then again I build sites for businesses before I even contact them so the thought of zero development time persuades them to join up!

For example. to start we can stretch the current logo to fit the borders of the forum, then we can have a nice parallax scrolling banner where the whitespace is beneath the navigation menu, probably about 100px in height. the effect is similar to the background pics on this site: www.bayfront.com
for the banner we can have a background of an awesome kissing scene of some sort. perhaps even make it animated, as for the pink sidebars. We can literally have a built in color swap option for each viewer that stores their selection in cache so when they come back to the website they can set the color to whatever they like
And beneath the forum we can add another banner, perhaps a collage of most of the kissing pics we find around the forum? Doesnt matter if they get small due to so many pics as I can code a script that will transform the size of the image as the user hovers over it.

Thats just a start

It's a good idea
btw i love the 3rd option in the poll.xD

xD there is always an option 3 in my book :3

dant35tra5t wrote:

Mephistopheles wrote:

I guess yes, but just don't make something too different, that can confuses us that already are used to this. ^u^

No problem on that. Trust me. I have loads of experience with this sort of thing. In fact After Ive developed a website for my clients (as part of my IRL profession) I immediately build the future websites layout (no scripts or functionality) So I have something to work with two or three years later when they look to upgrade. xD sounds silly, but then again I build sites for businesses before I even contact them so the thought of zero development time persuades them to join up!

Seems fine, just try to make something that even though being all pretty and awesome, doesn't takes too much time to load. XD

Mephistopheles wrote:

dant35tra5t wrote:

Mephistopheles wrote:

I guess yes, but just don't make something too different, that can confuses us that already are used to this. ^u^

No problem on that. Trust me. I have loads of experience with this sort of thing. In fact After Ive developed a website for my clients (as part of my IRL profession) I immediately build the future websites layout (no scripts or functionality) So I have something to work with two or three years later when they look to upgrade. xD sounds silly, but then again I build sites for businesses before I even contact them so the thought of zero development time persuades them to join up!

Seems fine, just try to make something that even though being all pretty and awesome, doesn't takes too much time to load. XD

Absolutely. All web pages that I ever work on are constantly load time tested as this is a large part of SEO. People dont want to visit pages that don't load.
That is not to say I build every page to be compatible with dialup internet, but on average I build pages based on DSL 5mbps Speed packages and I hard cap load times at 2s. if it takes longer... I'm not satisfied