A sense of clutter 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.
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.
Uploading some prototype screenshots 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.
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.
