when ur content consists of hundreds of thousands of works made my amature artists... u cant turn ur image into 'professionals'.... its simply impossible!
Also it's not as much the graphical appearence in terms of eye-candy. It's mainly the layout, the way you 'get to options', the way functionalities are placed on the screen etc.

For instance, I'll run through the page as u can see it now in this forum thread:

1st we've got a set of links at the top going:
[forums] [start thread] [mark all forums read] [make all visible] [search] [my forum options] [my forum stats]

Everyone totally looks over it, most of the functions are never used, yet they're somehow permanently there... its a waste of screen space.

Then underneith that comes the header.... which is exactly something that belongs at the top that's what it's a header for....

Then theres a list with stuff like:
[top of forum] [mark all read] [mark all before 7:33pm read] [new thread] [archive] [unsubscribe]

Now these are important functions mostly. These could be placed inside a bar of different color then the main background, pulling the users attention to them, so that we may actually notice and use them. Also I'd reconsider the name "top of forum" because you dont know what it means untill u clicked on it to see what it does. just call it "back to index" or "Bryce forum index" or maybe even just plain and simply "index".

Next follows the subject of the thread, put outside the "thread container" making it feel detached from the thread. which is probably the worst thing you can do to a thread title....

Then under the title is a list going:
[reply] [unsubscribe] [print] [save]

This list should be put at the top right above the thread. Not at the left! the left side is cluttered enough as it is!

Further down things make sense again mostly (Though the profile page is absolutely totally useless! just change the damn profile link to a link to the users 'rosity homepage. After all that's what u'd expect to find there.)

Oh and theres also some visual details, like the content area, (the part where the main content goes) its got the same color as the fill spaces at the left and the right of the site! Divided only by a 1px black line... This is not good, it makes it look like the content is floating in a void. It'd be a tremendous visual improvement if it would clearly visually 'detach' itself from the fill spaces...

ok now that i've given the example... i hope 'rosity peeps will read it and think about analizing everything on the site this way.

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