Forum: Community Center


Subject: New Front Page!

hopeandlove opened this issue on Jan 13, 2016 ยท 38 posts


IceEmpress posted Tue, 19 January 2016 at 3:24 PM

Sometimes I think that several members won't be happy unless all MP ads are gone and that's not realistic, at least the current incantation has a lot of stunning art work and articles linked in. My main problem is the lack of organization and not having a sales page or button in ONE PLACE. I ONLY care about sales. I don't care about the gallery, VOM (unless their store is on sale), 3D news, etc. (Sole exceptions being site changes and if somebody dies)

If I have to scroll down a bunch of stuff that is of no interest to me just to find a sale, then that is a deal breaker. Also, the accursed bigass banner doesn't scroll for me when I click on the arrows.

As for the ads, I block whichever ones I can, but as a rule, carousels and animated ads really bother me. Particularly powerpoint or similar ads that switch the image every few seconds. The DAZ carousel I've gotten used to, ESPECIALLY since it is not on every page (mostly just the MP home page) Rendo's carousels also really bother me because they overdo it. Every bundle is a carousel, then on the MP home, What's New, What's Hot, Most Popular, and Featured items are each their own carousel.

It also seems like whoever designs this site has no idea what he is doing-- it takes weeks of input from users to get things sorted out at all, such as removal of infinite scrolling, changing the 'on sale' text to something more readable, or adding a drop-down list to the shop by vendor page. It should not be this way, because it is SINFULLY EASY to find websites across the internet with tips or guides on website design. TONS. All you have to do is type "web design" "tips" (in parenthesis) into Google, and if you are thinking about implementing something in particular, type that into the search, such as "web design" "tips" "carousels" Yeah, some (if not half) of it will be advertising, but you will still find more hits than you can shake a stick at, from business web design sites to business news sites to Buzzfeed top 10's. So there truly is no excuse for it, and I hope one of the admins here relays this to the designer.