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poll wrote:What do you want on the NON-ANIMATED part of the header? (Part 1) (No means not on header at all)
Poll ended at February 23rd, 2016, 5:54 pm

Option	Votes	Percent
Music - Yes		2%
Music - No		24%
Cookie Crumb Trail ("Board index ‹ Main ‹ Site Discussion") - Yes		22%
Cookie Crumb Trail - No		2%
Ego Search ("View Your Posts") - Yes		15%
Ego Search - No		10%
Medals - Yes		17%
Medals - No		8%
	Total votes : 59

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Current: The other part of the header Part 2 of 2

This will wrap up giving the NOTs a chance to be on the non-animated part of the header.

Please note that a no vote at this point means that the item doesn't appear on the header at all.

Things to discuss now, aside from the current poll, is HOW you want it arranged. We could have it similar to what it is now with a 50/50, or possible a 75/25 horizontal split, or we could make the animated part wide, and have non-animated stuff below, or any of a number of possibilities.

Make your suggestions now, and they will go into the next poll after this one.

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Progress:

Figure out what goes on the animated header: 3/3 polls
Figure out what goes on the other part of the header: 2/2 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

Doram wrote:Make your suggestions now, and they will go into the next poll after this one.

I've already went over my vision in greater detail toward the beginning of the topic but for the sake of clarity:

• Three main header blocks- the animated block on the left, the non-animated block on the right, and a centered block underneath for special cases.
  
  • Animated portion should be tileable and extend infinitely with browser width, keeping all tab links within centered.
    
    • All links here should be "visual". Not overly wordy, clickable images when applicable, that sort of thing. This is an eye-catcher, not an information post, and if I have to go along with the amount of stuff the rest of you apparently want to shove in there, it should at least not be a ♥♥♥♥ of things all over the place. We already have one of those.*
    • If I had my way, this would include tabs for Home (basically what the News tab is now), Games, Forums, and About. Nothing else.
  • Non-animated portion should ideally be a fixed size (300 pixels wide?) no matter what.
    
    • All the links it includes would be concise- if they cannot be shortened to a word or two at most (such as the search bar), they're probably better suited to the centered block below.
    • This should have one link per line, as opposed to the current "everything on one line" approach. (I understand half of it is supposed to be right aligned and half left aligned, but this is an awful design choice.*)
    • If I had my way, this is where the PMs, UCP, Chat, Wiki, FAQ, Medals, and Logout buttons would go. Probably in that order, centered, one per line.
  • Centered block should contain only things that are not able to fit into one of the above "main" header blocks.
    
    • This is where I'd put the search bar, advanced search, cookie crumbs... things that would become confusing or meaningless if they were to be shortened or forced to fit in another block.
    • If I had my way, this is where the search bar, advanced search, search modes (egosearch and the four other variations), cookie crumb trail, MCP, and perhaps even the site time/visit information would go.

Layout Example:

Ideally both the red animated block and the green non-animated block would be the same vertical length.

*Please see http://i.imgur.com/sClqTO1.png and then accept that the points presented here are unarguable fact.

Just asking since it looks like "Members" will be deselected, there will still be any quick link to the memberlist somewhere, e.g. at the bottom next to the Team link?

That is an EXCELLENT idea, Shroom. Duly noted.

Member list is unsearchable, that might be why it's getting so many no votes. You can sort by letter but way back in the good ol' days before the spambot cleanup that was still a metric buttload of pages per letter. If we're going to keep it, can we give it a function that lets you search users instead of just praying you blindly stumble across the correct one out of 92 (and counting) pages?

thx Doram <3

"Find a member" is still incorporated, and without the spambots the letter search is also very efficient.

Where is the Find a Member? If it's superior then why not just replace the member list with that?

But yeah. It's efficient now. Just like it was when the forums were brand new, and then 60000 spambot accounts happened.

yeeaaaaaaah that would benefit from being larger and more useful looking

Well, we've stopped now at "Figure out how to arrange the two parts of the header", and there has not been any input other than Ven's ...

... and I've also looked over all of the results. Since we're gonna have Chat, Wiki, FAQ, UCP and PM notification on the animated header, we should use the full horizontal space, like in Doram's pic from here.

The non-animated header should be below, with all search stuff in one line, as Ven said. Cookie Crumb Trail is best to have above the title of a forum / topic (in the Board Index itself we don't need it obviously).

Logout is kinda dumb. I never use it, and there's a logout button at the very bottom or on the News / Portal / About pages.

Medals is kinda odd to sort in under these circumstances, too bad that it was deselected from the animated part along with Wiki and FAQ. Maybe we even replace it entirely with an announcement topic in Welcome or Site Discussion or wherever.