Hi everybody,
I'm new, but I've been to dozens of forums before. Allow me to critizice the layout of this forum. There is just too much irrelevant stuff on each page, which makes it very confusing to use. This includes:
- Icon row "Gear, News, Videos... Forums". The first time I looked at them, I thought "ok these are quick links to sections of the forum. After I tried out every single one of them, I can now conclude that they all link to a different website, "audiofanzine.com", so I consider them not relevant / "stuff to look over when I use the website"
- Box "Music Gear & Audio Pro news", "Music Gear & Audio Pro reviews" etc.: When I looked at this row, I thought "ok these are featured posts that might have some relevancy". But then I clicked on several of them, and they too link to "audiofanzine.com", so I have to not look at them in the future too.
- no distinction between content and ads on the right: Why don't you add a grey box around the ads? Currently, some ads have themselves a black background and several things on it, which makes it look like several items, not necessarily ads, so I have to look at them and find out laborously if they apply to me or not.
I suggest you rethink your layout, because it is very very confusing to first timers. And I'm pretty sure regular users just look over all the audiofanzine elements automatically, so why are they here in the first place?
Just my 2 cents, keep on rockin'!
Eldeban
I'm new, but I've been to dozens of forums before. Allow me to critizice the layout of this forum. There is just too much irrelevant stuff on each page, which makes it very confusing to use. This includes:
- Icon row "Gear, News, Videos... Forums". The first time I looked at them, I thought "ok these are quick links to sections of the forum. After I tried out every single one of them, I can now conclude that they all link to a different website, "audiofanzine.com", so I consider them not relevant / "stuff to look over when I use the website"
- Box "Music Gear & Audio Pro news", "Music Gear & Audio Pro reviews" etc.: When I looked at this row, I thought "ok these are featured posts that might have some relevancy". But then I clicked on several of them, and they too link to "audiofanzine.com", so I have to not look at them in the future too.
- no distinction between content and ads on the right: Why don't you add a grey box around the ads? Currently, some ads have themselves a black background and several things on it, which makes it look like several items, not necessarily ads, so I have to look at them and find out laborously if they apply to me or not.
I suggest you rethink your layout, because it is very very confusing to first timers. And I'm pretty sure regular users just look over all the audiofanzine elements automatically, so why are they here in the first place?
Just my 2 cents, keep on rockin'!
Eldeban