Possible Main Page Change– PLEASE VOTE

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        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on June 17, 2008 at 9:15 am #14641

          Which do you like better the current main page or THIS TEST PAGE.

          This was implemented based on some common feedback on the recent site redesign. I’m currently thinking that I’ll either:

          1). Keep the main page as it currently is and use the new page as a completely separate “LATEST” page (minus the left side bar and the rotating image header) that will be linked to in the main menu, OR

          2). Use the new test page as the main page and do away with the current main page format. The drawbacks of this option is that you will only see an unformatted shortened blog summary with no pictures and you can’t go directly to discussing the blog entry in the forum.

          If you have any suggestions for alternative options I’d appreciate hearing them.

          ELITETRACK Founder

        • Participant
          mortac8 on June 17, 2008 at 5:59 pm #70485

          Latest page looks nicer but if I’m flipping through the latest forum posts via the main page, on the ‘latest’ I have to click the forum tab again every time I go back to grab the next post.

        • Participant
          Chad Williams on June 17, 2008 at 6:23 pm #70486

          I like the way it is currently set up. I would just love to have that forum tab accessible in the forum itself, instead of having to go back to the main page.

        • Participant
          Nick Newman on June 17, 2008 at 7:16 pm #70487

          yeah i agree…

        • Participant
          J Kilgore on June 17, 2008 at 8:43 pm #70488

          I agree, and second Chad’s tab thought…

        • Participant
          Josh Hurlebaus on June 17, 2008 at 9:06 pm #70489

          I also agree with Chad

        • Member
          Carson Boddicker on June 17, 2008 at 11:22 pm #70492

          As with most others, I’d like to echo Chad’s thoughts.

        • Participant
          lumberjack on June 17, 2008 at 11:47 pm #70493

          What I like about the new one is that the list of the latest forum posts is much longer. Right now topics get buried very quickly and I think we lose some feedback.

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on June 18, 2008 at 8:28 am #70497

          Thanks all for the feedback. I’ll keep the mainpage as is and once the tabbed page gets the kinks worked out I’ll create a “latest” page, then I’ll try to include an extended latest forum posts on the forum. The last one is actually very hard to do because of the way the forum parses data.

          ELITETRACK Founder

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on July 28, 2008 at 10:55 am #71162

          Any feedback on the current setup (click on the Latest & Greatest link in the header menu)…I know it’s not completely what was suggested above BUT I switched it so that the forum posts appear as the default opened tab (eliminating a step of the previous setup) and it does make it so that the top 30 forum posts are readily visible. Also, by the end of the week, I should be done with a rating tool for members to rate blog posts and articles and there will be a top rated blog entries tab and a top rated articles tab on the Latest & Greatest page.

          ELITETRACK Founder

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