Why do you hate your eyes, Remaeus?!

In all seriousness, the narrower layout... fail. I like the site to fill the whole screen. As it is, it really looks like someone's MySpace or a freeboard or something.

Huh it was changed?

I agree with Zhelir, I don't like this smaller layout.

I actually like the narrower, fixed width layout.

Against what Zhelir says, it actually looks more professional now. Fixed width is something a fair amount of business websites are going for, as it looks neater, and any screen size can view it perfectly.

I like it.

One thing I must advise though, is to make the background different. Until the bottom, when scrolling down the page, the colour is too much alike the foreground. So, it does give a look of "What the hell, why is everything centred like that?!!!" With a different background, that contrasts with the foreground, it will be really good.

OH OH! I like the new header keep it!! 5 stars!!! The rotating sounds neat to!!

Oooh, Eric. Nicely done with the background.

I must admit, though, I don't think much to the gap between posts.

Some sort of image is needed though for the background. The grey makes the site look bland.

Sorry to be a pain, but I do this sorta thing for a living.

I personally don't like the thinner page it makes the post a bit cramped when reading.

but i do really like the top bar picture, and rotating it would be an excellent idea.

Can't say I have any strong feelings either way *shrug* Sorry, lame, I know. I think both look fine, so long as the content's all there. I suppose if I really had to take a stand, I'd say go for the wide-view, keep the banner. The banner just looks really cool

The banner is cool, but it doesn't fit with the rest of the site's color scheme. I suggest either changing the color scheme, or getting a less techno'-styled banner. I would preffer the latter, as I personally like this sort of "faded parchment" style here. Also, the leafy design behind the RP Gateway logo is too hard to see now; if I wasn't looking for it, I wouldn't notice that black design on the dark grey banner.

I like the narrower screen, 'cause I have a small moniter. :p

I don't know if something changed since you guys have posted about the site being narrow. I liked the width before it was messed with. I'm sure it looks fine on my laptop because it has a wider screen, but on my work computer, I have to scroll to the right to see avatars and all the stuff underneath them, as well as the links on the top of each page. It is so not narrow on this computer, but as I said, Eric may have made it wider since you guys complained. I haven't been on since this morning.

I love the banner at the top, but as Alchemist said, I don't think it matches anything. Plus, I don't like not being able to see the rad black design in the back of the logo.

My final complaint is for the background. I guess it's too bland for me. I have my theme set to purple right now, so all the colors are light. It's almost too light. But, it may be different on the default color setting.

I love the gap between posts. I think it's clean and separates the posts very clearly. I'm all OCD about organization.

Opera Browser
The Good:
I can actually look at everything without having to scroll to the side!! YEEESSS!
And we actually have a "eye catcher" graphic image in our header!! THANK YOU.
I adore the gaps between posts.

The Bad:
I'm typographically particular. Anal, obsessive compulsive, whatever you'd like to say. That's me. I think the font displaying the 'home title', "Role Playing Games by RolePlayGateway" and the 'tag line', "Role-playing games, their players, and other skills and pastimes associated with role-playing" is disgusting. It's dull, it's pixelated, it's disgusting. In my opinion, leave the 'title' and 'tag line' blank or remove the automatic coding and load a pre-made banner image that doesn't look quite so gross.

Also, before when the page was wider, the gray background didn't quite show up as much. Now that we've adjusted the width, I think that the background should probably change. The problem is that if we have an image heavy, or none boring background, it's going to be difficult to find one that isn't white or black that matches with the switching templates.

We may want to go as far as desiging a completely customized layout for ourselves and have that be our only option, though I know most people don't like that idea. (Even I don't know how I feel about "forcing" a layout.)

This is kind of random, but on the main page, all of our cool groups on other sites (such as flickr, etc)- when you click on the link, they don't open in a new tabe/page. In my opinion it shouldn't take you away from this site, but give you a new option in another window. 'target="_blank"'

The Ugly:
I'm not insulting anyone, but I strongly dislike the logo. I think it needs to be more prominent, it's having severe font issues, and I don't like how the dark purple gets lost behind the background. Though a simple illumination would fix that, I don't particularly like the background floral thing in the logo either.

I'm going to say this again- this logo was thrown together, I understand that. Dovey and I, respectively, have both done some logo work- probably others as well, and nothing seems to mesh. And so something got thrown together and this is the result.

Logo aside, I still think there should be more images, or graphics, that don't include "soft pornography" around the site. I've myself have taken a few pictures that we didn't end up using, several people have given ideas and actual mock ups to artists and nothing seems to actually come of it. I think the audience we are trying to reach doesn't necessarily dislike 2.0, but by it's very nature 2.0 is bland. You can easily spice up a web 2.0 layout by adding a few graphics and the like.

Other than that, it's clean, it's practical, and organized.
A+

Other Browsers
The navigation, response time, load times, and functions seem to be fine in Firefox 2.0 and IE 7.0 browsers as well due to Eric's excellent coding abilities.

Remæus wrote:Added a random image to the header. We could use something else, or even rotate through a set of images.

PS: Huge fan of the rotating images. =D

PPS: I don't know if this every was mentioned but the
Began Role Playing, Favorite Role Playing Game, Game Master, and additional options in the profile is FUHmazing.

Hate the idea of rotating images, especially the header, which is key to site recognition. In the end, such a thing will prove annoying.

The gray background definitely distracts the eyes from the content.

The header image is awful, and obscures the logo.

I like the fixed width. It honestly helps with reading longer posts.

It's growing on me. Yea to the fixed width too--I used to minimize my windows to read long posts, haha. But whatever you all do with the layout, just keep it clean, like how it has been.

Circ wrote:Hate the idea of rotating images, especially the header, which is key to site recognition. In the end, such a thing will prove annoying.

The gray background definitely distracts the eyes from the content.

The header image is awful, and obscures the logo.

I like the fixed width. It honestly helps with reading longer posts.

Wow, Circ. I agree with everything you just said.

I like the header, maybe new background colors, navy and tan! idk this flesh color is drab.