Forum layout ideas

Erik Friesen

As a reference, see here - http://www.microchip.com/forums/tt.aspx?forumid=203

Just some thoughts here, but after using this forum for a number of weeks, I have a few points I'd like to make -

1. It seems hard to read, and scan quickly.

2. Some of the main colors should be more neutral, which could be done without changing the theme.

3. Some of the icons could be smaller without sacrificing understandability.

4. Why couldn't the text be black, or more contrasting then currently? purple text on a light purple background doesn't have enough contrast to be read easily.

5. The sticky's could be separated, as most users don't use them.

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

Regarding your comments:

1. I agree.

2. Again, no quibbles there.

3. Yup. But the thread index pages seem more dominated by the three lines on the right than they do by the icon sizes. Those lines need to be collapsed into two before we can talk about icon sizes.

4. Where do you see purple? I missed that one!

5. Yes. Or given a different background color.

Ken Gracey

Erik, I agree on the points you made, too.

We'll be making a number of adjustments to these forums once the re-migration being done by Phil is totally finished. Until then the IT Guy has asked me to "freeze it" and be patient (I can't do either of these things very well).

Next step is to upgrade our vBulletin 3.8 to version 4 so you can have your own blogs.

When that's done we'll start to customize the look and feel of these forums.

Please hold your thoughts and take comfort that we'll address all of your points.

Ken Gracey

Erik Friesen

The bold unread titles in the different (forums propeller for example) are purple, or dark purple to my eyes, which my wife says are color blind.

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

They look black to me, but actually they're a dark navy blue, according to Corel PhotoPaint:



I guess I'm the one who's color blind.

-Phil