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First four options- no. My monitor will thank you guys not adding a ton of massive buttons to the header. Because there is literally no way to condense the "cookie crumb" thing, or PM notifications (so that they still display whether you have mail without actually going to the inbox).

Chat- absolutely, chat is basically a sub-community of the forums. Once we get the embed stuff fixed, of course.

Wiki- eh. If we ditch some of the current buttons it'd be nice to have.

FAQ- no. This should be covered under the Rules thread somewhere and displayed to members upon registration. Rules on the other hand would definitely be a nice addition.

Please keep in mind that this is only the ANIMATED part of the header. The left half of the current header. NOT the non-animated part to the right.

I'd rather see the FAQ in a finished state before we consider it in the animated header at all.

"News - Portal - Games - Forums - About" are what have been voted for already, which is only one button less than what's currently in the animated header. I feel like the only other major parts of the site significant enough to warrant an animated header spot are the Chat and the Wiki, and like others have said, maaaybe the FAQ but only if it gets a major rework.

Highly emphasizing the fact that this poll is for the animated header because I don't know if you guys actually realize how much of a cluttered mess this is going to be if we just shove every option onto the animated portion.

EDIT: What I'm saying is mostly that I'd like to see the animated header be used for major divisions of the site, not subsections of the forums. It makes more sense to have things like the off-site wiki link and chat and everything up there, since they should be accessible from all areas of the site. Other stuff, like the UCP and PM inbox and egosearch and newposts and cookie crumb trail and all that, are very much forum-specific features, which don't need to be on the site-wide animated header.

Ok, I DO see the possibility of putting everything on the animated header, without it looking like crap (partially by having images instead of text for a number of things, but this is stuff that we can discuss further).

Here's what I see in that case:

Full animated header, with everything except Music, FAQ, and ego search - Country style, 1024px wide x 280px tall



Clearly it's a bit big, but I can cinch it tighter in a number of ways (make the mountains shorter, shrink text sizes, etc.). Or maybe it looks better a bit on the big side. Again, we can discuss.

That's niiiiiiiiiiiice. Maybe change the Runouw.com logo a bit and make it plain (without the border or the bevel effects) and use another font, and the buttons dark?

Also please make the Message icon stand out like a police siren when you recieve a message. This way it'll be more noticeable, specially for the ones who don't even know what is a PM.

What are the other buttons supposed to stand for?

EDIT: lawl, the medal button rather looked like a stylized exclamation mark to me

On December 18th, 2015, 10:02 am, I wrote:I thought they were all pretty self-explanatory, but I was also going to have hover text anyways.

Gold disc with black loop (stylized RL medal) -> Medals
Blue circle over rectangle (anonymous bust) -> Members
White square with downward angled line (envelope) -> PM Inbox
Gray bubble with dots and squiggles (a couple of option buttons with text) -> User Control Panel
Rectangle with arrow coming out (literally coming out of the "screen") - Log Out

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omfg, I have been so busy. I have literally had this sitting in my Notepad++ for more than a week. Let me get part 3 together, FINALLY...

poll wrote:What do you want on the animated part of the header (part 2)?
Poll ended at December 23rd, 2015, 6:18 pm

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Option	Votes	Percent
Cookie Crumb Trail ("Board index ‹ Main ‹ Site Discussion") - Yes		5%
Cookie Crumb Trail - No		10%
User Control Panel - Yes		10%
User Control Panel - No		5%
PM Notification ("(0 new messages)") - Yes		10%
PM Notification - No		5%
Ego Search ("View Your Posts") - Yes		6%
Ego Search - No		8%
Chat - Yes		13%
Chat - No		1%
Wiki - Yes		11%
Wiki - No		4%
FAQ - Yes		8%
FAQ - No		6%

wow, many no-votes already ... at least Members is important for me, because it gives very quick access to user profiles.

This poll is for the animated header

There will be another text-only portion of the header on the right side where the non-animated buttons will go

We're not going to just completely remove the buttons that get voted "no" from the header

DoramEdit: Thank you for the reminder. Shouting is not necessary, though.
OJEDIT: You're welcome for the reminder Quite frankly I don't care, something seems really wrong with the fact that people want to cram every single possible option into the animated header and not have anything in the text-only section. If we're going solely off of these polls, this is NOT going to turn out well.

Progress:

Figure out what goes on the animated header: 2/3 polls
Figure out what goes on the other header: 0/2 polls
Figure out how to arrange the two parts of the header: 0/1 polls
Figure out if there is any issues with graphics: 0/1 polls
Figure out any extra options: 0/1 polls
Make the headers: 0/2 parts
Install the headers: 0/1 process