Well, I may be the only one - but for me this board has some issues in regards of user friendliness.
The various forums is "hidden" in various subforums, and I for one do often have to use the "search" form to find the simplest forums. I really miss some kinda overall page with links to the various sections.
I recall that this has not always been the case at HC, but the latest site update really did something to the general layout of this site. I have not earlier addressed this, thinking I was just unused to the new layout, but it really bugs me. :chin:
Just a thought for the staff to consider.
Cheers
JR
A designer knows he has achieved perfection - not when there's nothing left to add - but when there's nothing left to take away
1 thing ive noticed (might be wrong so SORRY in advance) if u click a link eg:mayhem and then reply to it theres no way back to the standard screen unless u reload the page, like i say im proberley wrong but it drives me nuts havin to click bookmarks all the time to reload site (refresh just refreshs that certain page)
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Thank you for this post. We honestly do love the feedback, and do our best to make everyone happy.
A couple of site hints that may help out in all of these areas:
The new "look and feel" that we added to the site was nothing more than installing a new skin, and then setting it as the default skin. The old skin is still available (and two others), if you prefer. At the very bottom of the page, you will see these two dropdowns: [attachment=3798:skins.jpg] The left one is a skin chooser, and there are four listed: Hirescovers - this is the old default, and puts the site back to the way it was for you. Black Crystals - almost identical layout as Hirescovers, just different colors. vRocking - Our "dark" skin, if you choose it, you will see what I mean. I-Tab - the new default. This is the ONLY skin that has the forums/subforums arranged in "tabs" - which is what I believe is making it hard to find your favorite forum. (If others are finding the tab format on the forums hard to navigate, even now after getting used to it, please let us know. We really like this "look", but if the "feel" is not working, maybe we can do something about it.)
As sauron mentioned, the site logo in the upper left hand corner of all the forum pages is clickable - and takes you back to our home page: [attachment=3797:logo.jpg]
In case you want to "just go back a little bit", there are "breadcrumbs" that allow you to find you way back. For instance, when reading this article, the breadcrumbs look like this: [attachment=3796:breadcrumbs.jpg] Clicking on "Site Suggestions" will take you to that forum, a lit of all the articles in the "Site Suggestions" forum. That is the forum that contains this article. Clicking on "Discussions" will take you to THAT forum, which will show a list of all sub forums and (if the "Discussions" forum allows it) a list of articles in that forum. Clicking on "Hirescovers.net" will take you to the main forum page. This is the same as the menu option Community Links|Forums. Notice that it is not the same as the home page.
I hope this reply helps - and please continue to post your feedback on the site.
Thanks!
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