A sense of clutter

[Lynet]

I'm afraid I don't have as much to contribute as Muffin and Mirelly.

I'm just suggesting that the look of the forums and the library is extremely cluttered.

There was an expression I heard some years ago: file dump. We dim-witted accountants would ask the programmers for a report off the accounting system that would give us specific information, (maybe a customer list sorted by loan types, with subtotals of outstanding balances, etc.) and we'd get a three foot high stack of green bar paper covered with obscure geek shorthand. A file dump.

File dump is what I think of every time I load Worldsims now. There's got to be a way to organize it better. The library is also cluttered in appearance.

[Mirelly]

http://www.sa-fi.co.uk/images/smileys/pooknight.gif

Did someone say dump?

http://www.sa-fi.co.uk/images/smileys/dies.gif

[ManagerJosh]

Library, we're adding new features. We're just taking off a lot of the wraps and shroud right now as I'm tinkering with it in more detail. On the drawing board is to move the members listing categories to a separate page to not clutter the front page.

As for Forums, while this plan I have isn't fully complete, there is a proposal to move everything to a site oriented design.

Therefore the forums would look like this for the most part:

-Urban Online Entertainment
--Announcements Forums
--Pilot Forums
--General Chat Forums

-WorldSims & SimSational
--SimCity Societies
--The Sims 2
--The Sims 1

-TerraSpore
--All Spore Forums

-SimGames.net
--SimGames.net related forums


All everyone will see is just the site name on the forumhome.

[ManagerJosh]

Uploading the first prototype layout. Note that this is from a demo board I run and that it does not have all the data that this forum has.

[ManagerJosh]

First set of changes are up. Please feel free to comment. And yes you're welcome to say you hate it. :)

[Lynet]

My first view this morning and the site looks a lot better. I have to go to work so I can't explore at the moment.