Review : twisted-noise.co.uk

lloyd · 06-28-2007, 01:33 PM

Righteo....

Twisted Noise is an online magazine, which publises interviews biographies, MP3's gig dates+reviews amongst others about unsigned bands.

On top of this there is a community forum and a chat room.

This is my first foray into phpBB3, and I'm impressed by the way I can edit templates etc in the Admin Panel. What also impresses me is the fact that, without knowing it phpBB have created a syatem where you can have full table dynamic pages, along with Sidebars.....

As you can see, the Website and the Forum share EXACTLY the same skin, and I've tried to keep the uniformity going through the site into the forum by including the sidebars in the forum. UI am going to also include this in all other forum pages.

For the forum index page, I realised that the solution I was trying to impliment would be imposible due to size constrictions, therefore I had to alter the table layout to move the number of topics and posts to the bottom of the forum description. This is because, it is the least important fact, and it also frees up space for me to have the size of the description at a reasonable width....

Then I have done the same with viewforum, to again save some space.. I am having a problem with viewtopic, and therefore the page is a bit wider, however my way round this would be to force a blank avatar on a user if they do not have one, so that it mantains the column width right the way through... I have tried removing the post time and date, and then colspan="2 for the buttons, but it doesn't work....

In a failed attempt to find a gallery to work with php safe mode turned on that i can integrate into phpBB3, I decided to use a simple gallery system, and slap the template on around it. The gallery by standard likes to show the selected image at full size, but as all the images used are Camera Landscapes, I am able to get away with setting a set height and width... The only problem with this section is I have to manually edit the sidebars..... Boo Hiss...
anyway......... Let me know what you think... It is just about done with only one page missing....

http://www.twisted-noise.co.uk

LLOYD

blood08 · 07-01-2007, 04:32 AM

alright huge thread, to much information...
but anyways that template has been made before I donno if you made that on your own or if you copied it but either way it is a very nice design.

Not much I can say about it....

Almost the same layout found on phpbbhacks.com
freestylexl.com/demo/index.php?style=acidtechtiger

lloyd · 07-01-2007, 07:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blood08

alright huge thread, to much information...
but anyways that template has been made before I donno if you made that on your own or if you copied it but either way it is a very nice design.

Not much I can say about it....

Almost the same layout found on phpbbhacks.com
freestylexl.com/demo/index.php?style=acidtechtiger

I was asking reviews on the implimentation on how well the site and forum works together, the slimming down of the forums pages, etc, not about the style

navyfalcon · 07-06-2007, 11:27 PM

I viewed the site with 800 x 600 setting and firefox.
The site viewed ok without sidebars. I don't know much about the music group, so I can't comment about the content. No problem reading, question about the choice of words, but I don't know the group you are addressing.
hope this helps. Do you need it viewed in IE ??
falcon

stewart · 07-07-2007, 08:52 PM

You seemed to scale the forums down quite well, they fit in just fine. To answer that question of yours o_O

Julie11 · 07-09-2007, 06:03 AM

i like the use of the colours even though it's a little different to standard sites.

i suggest that you make it more clear what twisted noise is.

It appears on the site but after some text and most people won't have the patience to read it.

So just make the online magazine... part stand out a little more, i think.