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[comp2y]

Has anyone been to the homepage of Trap17.com lately. It looks like it was a good template at one point but now I can tell it hasnt been changed in a long time. It looks very cluttered and is kind of confusing to some people. The forums here are great and the people seem to really know there stuff and I would just like to see what some of the creative minds here can come up with. Maybe even hold a contest. Trap17 is a great place and I think the homepage should show it. I challenge you to design your version of what it should look like with out loosing any important information.

Happy Posting
comp2y
PS please dont think im trying to offend.

[DeM0nFiRe]

Haha, yeah I know what you mean. It is very disorganized indeed. There's definitely way too much stuff going on there XD I don't think it would be a bad idea to go through an re-do the website. After all, it takes more than a name change to be a different place

[comp2y]

Well lets have a contest to see who can do the best. As long as its ok with the admins here. Place links to your projects here.

[rpgsearcherz]

I found it pretty confusing to get around too...In fact the last time that I reformatted my PC I went to trap17.com to get to the forums and if I remember right I had to scroll over each link until I finally read one that had to do with forums in the bottom...There was no real "Click here to visit the forums!" or anything link there.

[TheDisturbedOne]

I don't like the homepage either. The Flash icons are fine, but I think they should get rid of the sound, and make the site have a bigger width, with a center column that is larger than the other two, instead of three equal sized columns.

[comp2y]

Ok people lets see some work, I know there is alot of talent on this forum. If you need space to host a demo site please let me know. Also I would like some input form admins and mods. Any work is accepted, now I dont really have any incentives to give but thank about how you would help the community.

[TheDisturbedOne]

I agree. I think the admins and mods should post here first before anybody takes time to make something.

[Bluebear]

I think people who are actually interested in hosting would be able to find the link to the forum quite easily as it is not "secret" that is hidden. The template looks just fine, nothing special but it is bad either. Yes, lots of stuff going on though I never visit the "front page" so I do not mind. For new members it would be nice to arrive at a website which is tidy and clean... Even though I see no reason why they should rush this.

[shadowx]

I too dislike the homepage mainly because of the squashed up feel, however consider resizing your browser to 800X600 that page fits PERFECTLY in that size! and that, presumably, was the intention! If your users turn up with 600px wide screen and your page is 700px wide you've lost that visitor right there!

What i think could be done is a more dynamic page. So on the left you could have "features" "news" etc... all as links, when clicked the central area changes to fit that description, this could be done with Javascript to prevent the page reloading or frames (or even a php dynamic system )

Im not a designer so my input is limited, but from a coders point of view i can see so many dynamic things that could be done with that page to give the user only the info they want (plus a little extra but not much) but still keeping access to the huge amount of info there!

but at the end of the day Trap17 is changing a lot, so perhaps theres something planned!

If not then it wouldnt take much to de-clutter the page, perhaps remove the boxes within the centre info panel and add more dynamic, and clear links

Its still not terrible though!

[OpaQue]

I m confused between having a CMS as my home page or a Static CSS website