Thoughts On the New Homepage

[gumby013]

He used himself as an example when he made the guest database.

[horo]

Originally Posted by gumby013

He used himself as an example when he made the guest database.

It's in a database? Add a "first show appeared on" and/or a "last show appeared on" field, and sort that bitch!

[dionigi]

looks good, kinda generic but feels more usable than the old design. renders well on osx, safari and firefox, except for this little detail:

[paul_r]

and why is the page enclosed in an html form

[mape]

Originally Posted by paul_r

and why is the page enclosed in an html form

Because the site uses javascript to send post data for example in the episode listing.

[bithead]

Originally Posted by Bebe

Oh, nerdy geek-speak.

That's hot

01001001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101000 01101111 01110100 ?

[paul_r]

Originally Posted by mape

Because the site uses javascript to send post data for example in the episode listing.

so this is supposed to be session tracking?

<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="/wEPDwULLTEwMDUyNjYzMjgPZBYCZg9kFgICAw9kFgYCAw8WAh4 HVmlzaWJsZWhkAgUPFgIeBmhlaWdodAUCMTVkAgcPDxYCHgRUZ Xh0BQk1MjY6IEh1cnRkZGRtLqtjL1vMFgqXhThsMYA0ugv/vA==" />

[mape]

Originally Posted by paul_r

so this is supposed to be session tracking?

<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="/wEPDwULLTEwMDUyNjYzMjgPZBYCZg9kFgICAw9kFgYCAw8WAh4 HVmlzaWJsZWhkAgUPFgIeBmhlaWdodAUCMTVkAgcPDxYCHgRUZ Xh0BQk1MjY6IEh1cnRkZGRtLqtjL1vMFgqXhThsMYA0ugv/vA==" />

Meh started drinking now so I don't know, but I assume he uses forms through javascript to enable him to dynamically sort/cut/change shit without polluting the url.

Don't seen any reason to use sessions on the website since there is no user login or data to keep track of.

Edit* em not thinking clear, think thats somekinda validation thingy, not familiar with asp so not sure what but yeah. Doubt its useless since its in there.

[kayepants]

Originally Posted by gumby013

Have any thoughts?

Yes - what are you doing up at that godawful time of the day, and also I hate the header image and wish it was more personal and less generic blog looking.

[mape]

My suggestion would be adding the KATG logo to the header so its there regardless of what page you are on, that would take focus of the grunge graphics and take away some of the "hate"...

And to make the site look less templateish, something that could help would be adding icons more or less related to the show for the menu items. That ofcourse would force the menu to be wider or decreasing the fontsize of the already created graphics.

Might also be useful to add more of the community related things to the front page, ie the forums and chat. Great way to make sure people stay is of course getting them involved in the community.