Thanks for all the posts everyone.
So I guess a search bar in which you can pick the brand and the model of the car and it shows you in which episodes it appeared would be a very nice addition, I think.
There's already a search page. Type in the name of the car and it'll tell you what episodes it was in.
I always wounder why you have no frame on the left side to navigate especially in the forums, why I always have to scroll so much torturing my poor little mouse-wheel.
This thread is for the main site, not the forum.
Although I will answer your question: because there breadcrumb navigation at both the top and bottom and you can easily press the "Home" key on your keyboard. Plus I think that'd just look ugly. It'd take up screen space for essentially nothing IMO.
And why the Forum isn?t integrated into the site so when you enter the forum, you practically leave the main site ...
Because the main site is really narrow and the forums would look crazy fixed width. The colors match -- isn't that enough?
Ditch the top-navi for a side one (contend rises to the banner - MORE news to read and see on the Frontpage), implement the Forum with the side-nav so that you can acess the main-site from the forums/wiki.
There's a link to the main site at the bottom of every single page as well as on the homepage of the forums (which can easily be gotten to via the logo a the top of the forums).
Make the forum more narrow, use a smaller font /fontsize.
That definitely isn't gonna happen. Forums work best full width.
I don?t know what resulution on what size monitor you guys use, but my on 17` on 1024x768, the whole site and especially the Forum is just wasting SPACE in huge amounts. The Forum would look a lot better if it?s width was limited to 3/4 of my monitor and if the Text wouldn?t look like it?s for People who are half-blind. You do get stats about what your users use as hardware and setting, don?t you? Use them ... view the Site like your Users do, not only your own settings.
I run 1920x1200 on a 24" monitor.
The main site is fixed width as my news posts are short, rarely contain images, etc. Plus it ensures it displays the same for all users. A fixed width site is generally agreed upon by most developers as being the better solution for a site such as ours.
The forum is fluid width as images are often posted, posts can be long, and it's just the norm for forums. It'd drive me nuts if I had to scroll after reading like 10 words.
How about adding reviews for all the Top Gear episodes from Series 1 and 2?
I need to actually watch them first, heh.
I could certainly help with this and I'm sure other members would be willing to help too.
Yeah, when overhaul the site, I'm going to copy/paste in descriptions from the wiki as a bandaid (possibly a permanent bandaid).
Perhaps a tracker for the torrents?
Erm, why? We ran one for a while, but all trackers bring is trouble. I don't see what's wrong with our two current ones that are donated and using The Pirate Bay as a backup.