Site Overhaul

[Viper007Bond]

So I'm currently re-working the site, hopefully to have it done by Monday in time for Fifth Gear.

So my question -- what data should go on this page? http://www.finalgear.com/downloads/fifthgear/

I'll be abolishing the download count (you'll see why later) and it looks kinda empty with just the date, filesize, and availabilty...

 

[pdanev]

Maybe rating? (which of course implies that we need to vote somewhere on how good a particular episode was on a scale say 1 to 5)

 

[SL65]

What more do you want Viper? I mean what more could you possibly put there? I think it looks nice the way it is.

I always thought that it would be nice if when you click on an episode, you also get an image from the episode and a section for registered members to input mini reviews of the ep (blogstyle). Just a thought.
I got that idea from a guy called Malcolm who once posted a pic of what he thought the website should be like when you were developing the current one and everyone loved it.

I am a bit tired of the current colour theme...
Now why is the D/L count going Viper?

 

[jensked]

mmm I think it's fine like it is...

Download count, contents of the episode...works for me

 

[jayjaya29]

Another vote to leave it as is, everything works fine and looks great.

 

[Renesis]

What!??!

For once he wants to work his ass and you guys tell him to do nothing? No way!!!


Rework it completely, turn it upside down and back again, make it flash with blue lights, er....


well yes actually, it's already ok like that... if I wasn't for the ugly theme..

BTW, speaking of the theme, what about the famous rotating banner? I'm sick of that Viper!

 

[Ultra_Kool_Dude]

I want a "your car" thing. 8)

 

[Renesis]

^ You didn't read, did you? It's not about the forum at all... Only I can do an OT remark about it!

 

[Viper007Bond]

I'm not redoing the site from the ground up, lol, just retooling it a bit.

And the download count is going 'cause I'll be linking to torrents at Mininova. That'll avoid all legal problems and attempt to get a better overall download count.

Anyway, I'll just leave it with those 3 columns for now I guess. Can always add more later like rating.

 

[bartboy9891]

its fine! add a rating column, and maybe a small screenshot of the ep or something?

 

[Renesis]

screenshot is ?ber pointless

 

[bartboy9891]

screenshot is ?ber pointless

of course it is. But Viper feels that that page is too empty.

 

[mgkdk]

Well you could devide the links up in episodes

 

[harvsta]

I'll be linking to torrents at Mininova. That'll avoid all legal problems and attempt to get a better overall download count.

would you consider doing this for top gear also as the legality would not implicate you, or would this be a bad move?

 

[bihus]

I'll be linking to torrents at Mininova. That'll avoid all legal problems and attempt to get a better overall download count.

would you consider doing this for top gear also as the legality would not implicate you, or would this be a bad move?

Calling Earth, calling Earth...

Where have you found the latest episodes?

 

[Cruzz563]

Well, we can already vote on the eps, you have to click on it first and having an AJAX style rating dealy would be cool, like 5 stars, you can choose however many and it'll update it live w/o a page refresh 8)
What the shit, i just looked and you removed the ranking dealy, or did you remove it when you switched from the blue to the red layout?

 

[Viper007Bond]

I'll be linking to torrents at Mininova. That'll avoid all legal problems and attempt to get a better overall download count.

would you consider doing this for top gear also as the legality would not implicate you, or would this be a bad move?

Yep, that's the plan.

 

[Viper007Bond]

Well, we can already vote on the eps, you have to click on it first and having an AJAX style rating dealy would be cool, like 5 stars, you can choose however many and it'll update it live w/o a page refresh 8)
What the shit, i just looked and you removed the ranking dealy, or did you remove it when you switched from the blue to the red layout?

Ack, AJAX scares me. Hell, all JS scares me.

 

[Cruzz563]

:lol:

 

[Renesis]

Well, we can already vote on the eps, you have to click on it first and having an AJAX style rating dealy would be cool, like 5 stars, you can choose however many and it'll update it live w/o a page refresh 8)
What the shit, i just looked and you removed the ranking dealy, or did you remove it when you switched from the blue to the red layout?

Ack, AJAX scares me. Hell, all JS scares me.

JS is evil