To hsalazar:

I did some of things you suggested such as made the line height of fonts greater and removing that blue bar.. I didn't quite understood what you meant in the point three of your suggestion. Also, i searched for tiny content download but i can't find the working link or up to date module download. Anyway.. i currently use multimenu and edit those static pages in html editors such as mozilla composer and bluefish. It's not too much of a hassle and it's good for my HTML/PHP experience and learning. And i don't know if that spaw editor in tiny content would work in mozilla and alike browsers that i use (mostly firefox). I heard that it works in IE only, but i'm not sure.
Anyway.. thanks for suggestions.

To Iolai:

I did most of what you suggested. I however still left the register now and lost password links in the login block since i somehow preffer all login related stuff on one place, that is, in that block. I don't think it's a big deal anyway..probably comes down to personal preference. I think it's fine the way it's now. I did however tried to put the login form in the horizontal manner at that bar, but i couldn't make it fit like it should so i quit wasting my time on that.
Besides that, i removed the linux banner network completely since it seems not to work very well for me.. the service looks crappy in the first place.. I don't know if theres any similar free open source software/linux banner exchange service anywhere?

Thank you for your great suggestions. Thanks to you guys the site looks much better than it did in the first place.
Now, i promised to give you Iolai a review for your site. I'll get on to it somewhere today.

Thanks again
Daniel

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Hello JasonMR.

I just did changes you suggested and already yesterday put up the webicon you provided. Thank you very much for it.. I actually put that small old one trying to have the whole logo as the webicon, but it just couldn't fit right, so this part of the logo you extracted which is actually a symbol of freedom made not by me, but by Catherine Phelps looks much better.

And, by Quote: do you mean that you used "contact us" form on libervis? If yes, i didn't receieved it and i should look into the matter.

Okay.. further tonight i'll look into implementing additional sugestions by hsalazar and others.

Thank you.
Daniel

Thank you guys for reviews and suggestions.. I highly appreciate you putting your time to it.

I will carefully read through the suggestions and implement most if not all of them. I'd say it will probably improve the overall site's experience very much.

Iolai, i bookmarked your site and will give the review as soon as i have time. I can't right now and i will implement those ideas probably tomorrow on libervis and get on to your site. :)

I'll keep you posted on what i did so that you know if i did what you suggested.
Thank you very much people!

Daniel

Well, it's not like i'm a professional in content and design arrangements or something.. So, i did most of what you proposed since your suggestions are good..

I put the login and user menu at the top right and removed the top posters block from anonymous users group (in permissions) so that only registered members can view those, while i still left "new members" block just to make new visitors aware that we do have new registrations and additionally encourage them to register too. I also left "who's online" because i think it's fun to see how many people are on and from the same reason mentioned above.

Thanks for suggestions!
More from others are welcome of course ;)
Daniel

Well, could be that, i don't see any news and notices on their site however..

Anyhow, i'll keep my head up and..

happy XOOPSing to you too.

Daniel

Thanks Iolai for the review.

I turned on caching in order to make it load faster and i also removed alot of content from the homepage which will also add up to the loading speed, but also make the homepage more easily understandable and viewable since it's not overloaded with info. You were right, i put too much content on the homepage.

I also edited that short intro, made it shorter, but more direct in telling a visitor what exactly the site is, but i also added a new section that's linked from that intro which describes them the reasons why they should join if they have ANY interest in free open source software world. Additionally, there are links to about us and mission statement pages so that they can easily see what's the site all about just by scanning all or some of those texts.

I also put the excepts from forums on the homepage at the top to show 10 instead of 5 recent forum topics and removed "mos active topics" and "most viewed topics" since i think they just choked the homepage. I'd say that from the first look on it you could tell it's a community oriented portal about free software/open source.

Okay, i think it improves the whole thing, but i'd like to hear your opinions and suggestions.

Thank you for your time.
Daniel

Hello..Thank you very much for responding.

I solved the problem, but since it happened "out of the blue" i should preserve myself from that happening again and do a debug later on..

I use news module version 1.2.

I solved the problem and succesfully submited the news by reuploading the submit.php file. I don't have a clue on how come it became corrputed. Noone used it except me since the last time u submitted news..

I'll show the debug output when i do it, just in case we're dealing with bug or something here..
Thank you.
Daniel

Maaan.. how fast it sinked all the way to the second page..

Anyone??!!

If anyone experienced the similar or same problem or anyhow knows how to fix it, please respond.

Thank you very much.
Daniel

Yesterday i tried to submit news on www.libervis.com and instead of getting the submit window with the scope and extended text boxes i got only one. Still, i wrote the text in that boxed, hit the post button and went to approve it. However, in the new submissions area of news module admin i get the _AD_NOSUBJECT instead of the title, and i did wrote the title.
When clicking on that _AD_NOSUBJECT link i am taken to the topic manager.

I really don't know what's up with it now.. I submited news before with no hassle and i didn't changed any settings in news module since then. I have only edited some in spotlight module that spotlights the recent news, but i don't know if that can actually cause this problem..
Can it have anything to do with that i switched to Linux Mandrake 10 this weekend so i'm running from linux using mozilla firefox browser which i used in windows too. I don't think it should have anything to do with it..

Anyone experienced the same? Anyone knows what's this? Solution?

O appreciate any help.
Thank you
Daniel

Thanks for reply.

Your comment is interesting since as with many other webmasters, my goal is to have a site with alot of content. Now if you meant that content is kind of un-organized or put too much on one page (you probably meant homepage) than you probably suggest that i remove recent or top articles, recent or top links, or maybe recent and most viewed forum topics which are all on homepage.

But i am not sure if i'd do that.. Homepage is meant to be the intersection of other parts of the site so i actually wanted it to show some excerpts from all sections..

What would you suggest to remove?

Thank you!
Daniel