New Front Page

[samisma]

I love the look of the new front page!!!!!

 

especially the hot threads preview.

[Marcster]

Brad's the man! http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/Marcster2005/Smileypad/Jobs/sultan.gif

[samisma]

and on a side note... marcster you have to apprentice some of us to teach us the way of the smiley..

[Brad]

Glad you like it :)

 

I'll be adding and tweaking a few things, but I figured it was done enough to make the switch, so there you go.

 

The forum thread listing is collapsible if you don't want to see it, and it *should* remember if it was collapsed or expanded when you go back to the page later. I know there are a lot of visitors who just go to the main site and not the forums too often, so now they can see the great deals be posted by you all here as well (deals that usually don't appear on the main site otherwise) and hopefully stop by the forum more often.

 

Right now it shows threads posted in the last 3-4 days that have been replied to recently, and sorts them by # of views, but I may change the formula in the future to get a better set of results if needed.

 

As always, if anyone has any problems or suggestions, let me know.

[zingerhil]

Wow, I'm really diggin' it!

[rabx5]

I'm liking it too A nice suprise :)

[Xfeg]

i like it lots.

[teebee]

I like it, very neato

[tokanm]

Nice job..sleek

[DaveL]

I love it...however I gotta admit, I thought I went to the wrong site for a second!

 

Looks great!

[Brad]

I love it...however I gotta admit, I thought I went to the wrong site for a second!

 

Looks great!

lol. yeah i decided not to give any advance notice. looks like the last update to the main site was in fall 2006, so it's been a little while. looking back at the old cached versions on archive.org, not much has changed in 4+ years as far as content and features, just a little more clean and streamlined.

 

for those wondering, i have no plans for any big forum update anytime soon. i will likely change the header to match the main site a little bit, but that would be it.

 

now that the main site is done, time to move on to work on the black friday 08 site

[psiu]

Usually I dislike changes for the sake of changes...especially appearance ones since often functionality is then discarded for "the look"...

 

but this is nice, and I don't know if it's optimized or just doing more with less, but it loads significantly faster for me too.

 

:thumbsup:

[Brad]

Usually I dislike changes for the sake of changes...especially appearance ones since often functionality is then discarded for "the look"...

 

but this is nice, and I don't know if it's optimized or just doing more with less, but it loads significantly faster for me too.

 

:thumbsup:

It's optimized a little more as far as PHP/MySQL, but not much as it's not too complicated of a site to begin with. With the simplified design I was just able to eliminate quite a bit of code. I checked before/after size for the front page and the new site was about 20% less, so that probably has something to do with it.

 

And as for discarding functionality, I don't think there is anything you could do on the old site that you can't do now. A few things are in different places, but everything is still there.

[chwk]

my bookmark is saved to the forum but after seeing this thread, I went to check it out.

 

hmm, may have to change my bookmark

[pearls]

Where is the link for the deal archives for the week and past weeks on the front page now?

[mudechevy]

Very nice!

[dmmiller]

Very nice.

I never get on the home page, cuz i usually just jump on the forum, but

thats a nice change. :)

[jarerice]

I really like the new front page! very up to date! looks good!

[tazolover]

Kudos on the new front page. Looks great!

[judithra]

Really looks great! Very clear and concise..

[Crazy Mama]

Agreed, I love it!

[sadmom5]

kudos brad!!!