New changes

Thank you Ricochet for saying what I was thinking.  It's sad to see the Reviews relegated to the bottom when they are far and away the most important part of the database (in my biased opinion as a PR of course).  But seriously I think most people who find the site are seaching for reviews for potential albums they want to buy.  Thats how I got here. 

Yes, more feedback is good, these changes could be good, just not in "this" arrangement. 

Ricochet wrote: I haven't seen a new thread opened to discussed the recent changes on the front page, so here goes. I pretty much think something doesn't fit the page with these new pages. Here are my thoughts: the "most recent 10 reviews" should stay on top of everything. Thinking like someone who's new to the site or just visits the front page, I'd definitely want to see the reviews that are made. by the above point, videos should follow the reviews (like they dad) and last should be the blogs. about the blogs, mind that they're not made on a daily basis. things could get stuck at these three recent ones for a long time, before any new blog is created. I know showing some of the blog materials would encourage more to be written, still... there's an advertisment between the most popular album and the "forum new topics" section. I think it could get a better spot, in a more "swifty" place of the page. the top 100 albums and top 100 reviewers are back to having scrolls. I personally like the idea of showing about 50 of the 100 prolific reviews, and definitely thought showing all the 100 top albums was great. With these changes, the lists make an abrupt end, plus, at the length of the recent reviews, the right side becomes empty after the two lists are over. Sorry if it sounds like I'm not pleased with neither of the changes (perhaps I'm not ), but I thought they were too striking. Even bit disarranged.

Ugh...maybe the changes are too dramatic for me, but I just saw the add of the reviewer's avatar along his review. It still doesn't look good. May I also suggest that we don't use avatars, but try to encourage a personal picture (think of "real" magazine, newspapers or review published notes, where the reviewer usually appears, in a little picture frame)? If not, remove the idea at all, the first lines of the review get squeezed anyway between the picture and the album's cover.

BTW, if M@X added this change, how come he didn't noticed the problem with the paragraphs and the gaps...and fix it?


Edited by Ricochet - December 06 2007 at 09:37

I FULLY agree with Ricochet on ALL his remarks. I won't repeat them here, only want to reinforce his opinion which is mine as well.

Seyo wrote: Ricochet wrote: I haven't seen a new thread opened to discussed the recent changes on the front page, so here goes. I pretty much think something doesn't fit the page with these new pages. Here are my thoughts: the "most recent 10 reviews" should stay on top of everything. Thinking like someone who's new to the site or just visits the front page, I'd definitely want to see the reviews that are made. by the above point, videos should follow the reviews (like they dad) and last should be the blogs. about the blogs, mind that they're not made on a daily basis. things could get stuck at these three recent ones for a long time, before any new blog is created. I know showing some of the blog materials would encourage more to be written, still... there's an advertisment between the most popular album and the "forum new topics" section. I think it could get a better spot, in a more "swifty" place of the page. the top 100 albums and top 100 reviewers are back to having scrolls. I personally like the idea of showing about 50 of the 100 prolific reviews, and definitely thought showing all the 100 top albums was great. With these changes, the lists make an abrupt end, plus, at the length of the recent reviews, the right side becomes empty after the two lists are over. Sorry if it sounds like I'm not pleased with neither of the changes (perhaps I'm not ), but I thought they were too striking. Even bit disarranged.   I agree with Rico!

I have enjoyed all the changes made on this site except for the latest changes to the home page. I don't think blogs should be given so much attention, even if they are very intelligent and well written.
I really miss seeing the album reviews up front with the nice album pictures.
One of the things that attracted me to this site was the neatness and nice presentation of the album pictures.
There are other progressive sites that are probably closer to my definition of progressive rock, but I have stuck with this site because of the professional lay-out.
I still plan to stay with PA, but please bring back that nice professional look and put the album reviews on top again.
Thanks

I just noticed the album pics on the album pages are stretched now to 300 pixel.
Not a good idea because most of the pics have only 200x 200px and therefore lose quality if they are displayed in this way ...

 Looks like the bolds etc are back too, but the paragraphs are yet to be fixed.

Yes Guigo - looks good - typography also changed because of the use of another font for the headlines - much better 

But once more - the pics on the album pages are not displayed well stretched to 300px