Forum Issues Since Relaunch (Jan 20, 2010)

[Tuscani01]

ok so i figured out a way to get out of the mobile theme. browse to http://urbantoronto.ca/forum.php and add ?styleid=7 to the end. so you're at http://urbantoronto.ca/forum.php?styleid=7

go into your user cp and forum settings and finally change your theme back to whatever it should be.

Sweeeeeeet! Thanks!

 

[LowPolygon]

got some fattening or 'squatification' happening again Ed. you're probably going to have to change the orientation of those window frames.....

 

[Edward Skira]

Or I just have to stay away from vertical shots.

 

[jn_12]

I just have white boxes where those pictures should be...

 

[Edward Skira]

You must be running ad blocking software

 

[jn_12]

I am.
I thought that might be the problem. oh well.

 

[Observer Walt]

The "blogs" area is rapidly filling up with barely literate spam.

 

[SP!RE]

The website header is still hideous.

If we're going to be going official and reporting as a real media outlet, the site design needs to change.

 

[Second_in_pie]

I dunno, I kinda like it. Gives the site a nice epic feel. Not sure if that's what we're going for though

 

[LowPolygon]

The website header is still hideous.

If we're going to be going official and reporting as a real media outlet, the site design needs to change.

i'm afraid i would have to agree. there is still far too much going on. shrinking the panorama hasn't helped because the image contains a multitude of colours and details which are impossible to discern. i really feel like i have no idea what i'm looking at, It just looks like a chaotic mess, and combined with the orange/black gradient the overall effect is still quite unprofessional looking.

to my mind the site--like all great sites--needs to have a strong, simple, easily grasped identity that visually communicates what the site represents. UT needs something memorable and something ICONIC. its a great URL, the words URBANTORONTO scan wonderfully, but you're not really using it to its full potential. its still quite a muddle....

 

[urbanboyto]

Agreed the mast head could use a bit of work... but overall an excellent re-launch. I have been on this site since 2002, before the last relaunch (when we lost our post tally).

I love the blog style home page and the links to daily stories on urbanism. All in great work guys and wonderful to see the forum mature and evolve!

 

[greenleaf]

This is a very minor detail, but most of the forum sections that have an ampersand in their title show up incorrectly on my browser.

For Example, under "Projects & Construction" it shows up as "Projects & Construction".

 

[khris]

That seems to happen every time the forum software is updated.

 

[junctionist]

I was on a forum recently that uses the old vBulletin software and marvelled at how much more functional their search feature was.

 

[Urban Shocker]

Here's a reasonably well designed site that takes reader-generated news tips about Toronto and investigates them. Of interest in that it parallels some of UT's expanded scope, with a large team of professional journalists and photojournalists:

http://www.openfile.ca/

Here, for instance, is their comment thread on the 204 Beech Avenue house:

http://openfile.ca/toronto-file/204-beech-ave-house-or-home#anchor_dialogue