New forum design!!! Please read! ;)

[Kazuya_UK]

Hey all!

I have updated the forum to have a brand new design, so it now looks a bit nicer, and I have been adding some nice new features that you should all enjoy:

1. New emoticons - most of the smileys are new better looking ones and I have also added a few extras that we didn't have before! You will also notice that *all* the smilies now appear in the same place, instead of some being in a little box at the top of the screen like before.

2. Private message alert - if you are already logged in and someone sends you a message, if you happen to go back to the main page you will get an alert window to ask if you want to read it. This only happens on the main page, I could add it for all other pages too but I thought it might get annoying.

3. New forum images - you'll notice that there are few new images, for instance the rank images that appear next to your name are new ones that I made. Hopefully you will like them (I think they are a lot better cos it gives us more of a "NeoGeo theme" to the place), but if there are objections about these (or any other new additions), then they can be changed later.

4. Many other various changes - I'll leave you to find them out, but if you have any problems on the new forum, then please let me know and I'll fix them asap! ;D

Known issues:

Some things still won't work in the Firefox browser, so I will try to work those issues out (I also use firefox myself so I know it is a pain). For now I suggest using IE or AvantBrowser just for visiting this forum, but hopefully either firefox will support the extra code I added in a later version, or I will be able to find a fix for it!

edit: I added an extra option for picking smilies that should work ok for Netscape/Firefox users - when posting, look at the top of the screen and you will see a link that says "Click here to see more smilies" - click that and a box will open up containing the smilies. I also added this because it has a few extra smilies in it that were too big to put in the normal smily box... check 'em out!!

That's about the only issue I can think of at the moment, but one thing that *must* be changed is the banner at the top of the screen. As the banner used was made by someone over at Solid Snake Designs I can't really edit it too much without permission... but it is ok to change the "black drake" name part (b.d. is the name of the skin used if you are wondering).

So... if any of you with l337 gfx skills would like to do some work on the banner to make it more themed with the site, then please let me know in this thread! I think it would be ok to edit the middle part to be a little bit more SNK themed, so feel free to do that. Or... if you would like to make a totally new banner (provided it fits in with the design), that would be cool too! Before you set to work, hold on for a bit as we may hold a competition on the forum/site for someone to design us a new banner, and I may throw in an MVS cart for the winner! More on this VERY soon though!

In the meantime, let me know what you think of this design, and let me know if you encounter any problems with it!

Kaz

[Goemon]

Looks Excellent to me.

[darkschneider]

Love the new layout! Nice emoticons too, though personally I was hoping for the "drum playing" ones Raiken posted a little while ago ;D

[Greg]

I like it very much. Not that it needed the a new lay-out. But since you took the time, nice!

[Kazuya_UK]

darkschneider said:

Love the new layout! Nice emoticons too, though personally I was hoping for the "drum playing" ones Raiken posted a little while ago ;D

That's do-able - link? ;D

Kaz

[darkschneider]

I think this is on Raiken's webhosting space...

hometown.aol.com/chrisnt64/images/band.gif

Took me like 20 minutes to find this

[Tezuka0]

this is great i love the new layout

[Raiken]

Yep looks awesome ;D

[Ishimaru Matsuo]

the layout was tite! i did think the forum needed a new layout but i didn't want to be rude so i didn't say n/ething . anyway i'm not just gonna say nice or kool or anyhting dumb like that. i really wanna know how u made those pics into custom shapes, dawg. I really wanna make gfx inta custom shapes.will anyone tell me how i can do that plz? thnx to whoever does


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[sukotsuto]

i reckon a new design has got to take place, and it's very nice indeed!

BTW, where's the smileys in the reply page? is it just my Netscape browser is it simply not there?

[darkschneider]

They are there in my internet explorer.

[sukotsuto]

darkschneider said:

They are there in my internet explorer.

a netscape script prob then...

[RoninBuddha]

WOW, looks awsome, a bit narrow though, still, i ll get used to it

testing:
;D                

[supremelord]

WOW AWESOME NEW DESIGN ... EXCELLANT WORK KAZ

SHEER BRILLIANCE ... I LOVE IT

[Kazuya_UK]

Thanks for the comments everyone! ;D

Nishad: Which gfx did you mean? Some of the gfx (like the banner at the top) were made by someone else, while a few (like the Neo Geo rank logos etc) were made by me using Photo Impact.

ds: yeah, most of the scripts you can get to use on proboards don't seem to like browsers like Firefox and Netscape. I am trying to find a smilie script so I can add new ones that *will* show up in other browsers, but no luck so far. The only other thing I can do is to put the old "proboards smilies" box back at the top like we had before, although I was worried that it might look a bit weird to have all the smilies at the top and at the bottom. I'll sort something out anyway, but in the meantime it's best to stick with IE for this forum if you want everything to show up

I might be able to do one where you can click a link and a popup window will open that has all the smilies on it... which might be good so certain other smilies that are too big to put on the main reply page. Lemme have a look at it

Kaz