I'm not sure if we can do this or not already but i'd really think it'd be cool if we could embed our posts with pictures and movies. I tried before to embed a youtube post, but when i posted it all i saw was the written graggle. I don't know what the negatives could be for not doing it other then our load page time, (but hey its not face anyways) and then we wouldn't have to open new windows all the time right? Also i'm kinda at a point in my own life (not being totally healthy and all) where i spend a great deal of time infront of the commputer doing nothing, maybe theres something our site needs, that hasn't gotten done because of lack of man power hours. ( I could totally do data entry!
) another way we could also cut down on the loading of our site is the use of more drop boxes to elimenate new screens and to facilitate more effective navigating through the site. Also i was thinking we should better organize our forums creating general areas, and then doing year and models for some. for example like this :
Appearance- choice of 3 "buttons" or linked words:
all posts ( like we have it now)
General exterior
General Interior
again there might be more topics that deseve hot buttons i just dont know them
then 2 drop bars or pull down menus so to speak:
Specific Year ( 1900,1901, etc)
Specific Model (all models of that year)
more options then that would probably be unnecesary but easy to add on once this would be complete.
Audio- choice of buttons and drop menus (should be changed to electronic, or car media devices to better encompase navi, mp3,lcd screens and so on)
all posts "button"(like we have now)
general speakers button(not the talkers but the electronics)
general head units button
genral amplifiers button
again there might be more topics that deseve hot buttons i just dont know them.
Or if you wanted to narrow down info , you could choose to use the 2 drop menus.
choices would be year for the first one, and model for the next one and then it would bring you to a page with all relivant model yr info.
General - could be left alone, i have no ideas to improve it... Yet
Off Topic - stays the same could be left alone, i have no ideas to improve it
Maintenance- hot buttons and drop menus used again
-all post (like we have now)
-Exterior
-Interior
-engine
-tranny
-electical
thes hot buttons would bring up everything relating to them,
-Misc for things tht dont fit into any catagory
again there might be more topics that deseve hot buttons i just dont know them
2 drop bars
first drop bar giving you a choice of year
followed by model in the next bar
then i would spit out all threads that fit.
Finally performance could be handled in a similar fasion.
hot buttons and drop menus. the hot buttons could be all posts, exhaust, engine, brakes, suspension
or you could utilize the same 2 drop menus (year then model) if you wanted to be specific.
i think we could keep the defualt forum page to not creep out old time users but add in the hot buttons and drop menus bellow there specific areas
anyways what do you guys think? I would be interessted in helping do this so all it would take is a "yay" to get the ball rolling.
of course i've never really done any website design so i dont know really how to implement this type of thing, tho i am a design student so it wouldn't look cut rate nor would i want it to skew from this current design too much in terms of color font and more.