NESSAholics.com
Vanessa Carlton => General Vanessa Carlton Discussion => Topic started by: B on June 21, 2007, 11:55:39 pm
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Hi :)
We had a meeting of the minds tonight, and we decided we wanted to get some input on the site as we move forward in making some changes as Vanessa's new music comes out. Currently we are focusing on NESSAholics.com the website only, but changes to the forum may be coming sooner than later.
As far as Nh.com, let us know:
1) What do you like about the website?
2) What don't you like?
3) What do you think could be better?
4) What new things would you like to see on the website?
5) Do you have any suggestions for headers/color scheme/etc. for the website?
6) Is there anything I missed you feel is so important we need a #6?
Thanks for taking the time to help us out! It is the contributions of all of you which help us to keep growing and improving!
The NESSAholics.com Staff
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it doesn't look too appealing. colours are a bit dull and the layout is boring. there's too much text too, to say it's a home page.
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I would like the theme to be green, I like the blue one but I would be nice to change a bit.
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Is there a way to allow individual users to select their preferred theme? Because if we went green, it would look brown to me... and that's just no fun.
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mmhm like that idea. Have users choose their theme from a list that you's provide or something along the lines of that. I don't mind anything else on the ite. mabey just a color change.
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~Update the member profiles to include newer members and retire non-active ones.
~theme options for homepage and sub-pages
~Is there an intro page? I remember there used to be ages ago and I liked it.
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I'd really love being able to have an avatar on the forum that's more than 16kb. :wink:
New layouts would be awesome as well, not just for the forum but for the actuall website itself. I mean, Nessaholics really needs an update in terms of looks, it's looked the same since Be Not Nobody was released pretty much. lol
A shoutbox on the forum would be kinda cool too!
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Yeah I agree, but can these forums have multiple schemes? I know vB's can. I agree, a new layout would be great, and maybe introduce something new forum to get people talking more, I know there is the intro forums but I dunno they don't seem that active. :shrug:.
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Just a clarification: We're talking about the main website, not the forum. We're looking into a new package for the forum that will kick phpBB's butt and allow you guys to customize the hell out of the place if you so desire. Right now, we're having problems importing the old data from this forum (it's a lot of data!), but that should be figured out in the next few weeks. Right now, our problem is that the main website is stale and looks like it's from 2002. We want to make it useful again and make it look more modern.
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oh well that expalins it that would be a coolio plan.
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I thiink some changes would be cool... But over all I love how fast it loads... the time for loading large avatars would be annyoing... Like in the picture threads it take a few seconds to load an image....
maybe some choices to show avatars if the size is allowd to be bigger... or maybe if the colours changed a little...
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1) What do you like about the website?
I come mostly to the forum, but the tour section is really organized with the thread links and I'm glad you are all keeping the lyrics and news so updated, great job guys! =D
2) What don't you like?
3) What do you think could be better?
I think the news section is too squeezed together, there are news from 2005 on the main page, I think only the most recent news should be displayed on the main page and the others on an archive with a search engine preferably. maybe you should consider some kind of publishing platform like movable type,wordpress or something similar =)
The photo section could have a better gallery , even something like a normal coopermine where users could upload their personal pictures with vanessa
3) What do you think could be better?
the webdesign, better graphic design,afterall, it's a fan site and I think there are better alternatives to keep it clean without it being too corporate looking.
oh,and the links! they really need some cleaning, there are broken links and old fan sites that haven't been updated in a long time. I also feel that nessaholics should have other affiliates with other fan sites to be displayed in the main page, the would give nh and vanessa more exposure within other musicians fan communities
4) What new things would you like to see on the website?
5) Do you have any suggestions for headers/color scheme/etc. for the website?
yes, lots of it actually! I'll try to post later some color schemes and header suggestions =)
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I'm really excited about the new forum package :D
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The copyright still says 2002-2005
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1) What do you like about the website?
I like the simplicity of the layout and it is easy to navigate. And the Forums of course!
2) What don't you like?
Well I didn't go to the non-forums section much since Harmonium b/c most info was on the forum and there really wasn't any new content. That the membership aspect sorta died.
3) What do you think could be better?
Have sections of the site that either link to the forum sticky topics or create pages for the frequently discussed topics like fan transcribed sheet music links, downloads (with a disclaimer of course)
4) What new things would you like to see on the website?
Raise funds for the site by setting up a cafe press site or selling nessaholics/ VC fan merchandise through the site.
5) Do you have any suggestions for headers/color scheme/etc. for the website?
hmm.. I'm still thinking about this.
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4) What new things would you like to see on the website?
Raise funds for the site by setting up a cafe press site or selling nessaholics/ VC fan merchandise through the site.
You guys could easily create a source of revenue by allowing ads on the site, and there's ways of tastefully placing them on the site layout when you get around to revamping it and such.
Some Nessaholics merchandise is an interesting idea, but I don't really think a lot of people would bite on to it.
Personally I'd prefer official stuff. Unless you guys come up with some pretty awesome alternatives, like... make the fan stuff nicer than the official stuff, which has been really ugly. lol
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Id just like to see a new layout on the front page and new colors and stuff for the forums...but i cant think of anything else...im to tired...
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When are you's hoping to update and stuff anyways?
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When are you's hoping to update and stuff anyways?
ya...it´d be nice to see an update before the sfirst single release... :)
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The copyright still says 2002-2005
fixed :-P
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new graphics.
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oh,and the links! they really need some cleaning, there are broken links and old fan sites that haven't been updated in a long time. I also feel that nessaholics should have other affiliates with other fan sites to be displayed in the main page, the would give nh and vanessa more exposure within other musicians fan communities
I've been updating things here and there throughout the past few weeks, cleaning up some back end code as well. I just updated the links and removed anything that didn't return a result right now. I agree on the affiliates idea.
To anyone that has a website that isn't listed there... please feel free to PM me or email us as it says on the webpage if you want to be listed in the links section of nessaholics.com.
thanks!
-katia
p.s. more to come.
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p.s. more to come.
Teh YAY!! :D
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Oh I just had a thought. Wouldn't be easier to handle, and a lot more cleaner, if a thread had a post limit. Like say 100 posts and then you would lock it, and make a new one but like a #2 (EG. - Vanessa Carlton news! #2) . And so on. On other boards I am on, and admin/mod on it makes it look a lot better IMO, and it isn't hard to do or anything, as I am sure all you mods know :).
EDIT: Also, to make it easier, if you did go with this idea that is, make a page hold 10 posts each, so, that on the dot of the last post of a 20th page, it would be the end and you would need to lock. This should be pretty easy with the admin panel to make it like that, :).
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What, you don't like the roughly 2000-post limit we have now? 8)
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Oh I just had a thought. Wouldn't be easier to handle, and a lot more cleaner, if a thread had a post limit. Like say 100 posts and then you would lock it, and make a new one but like a #2 (EG. - Vanessa Carlton news! #2) . And so on. On other boards I am on, and admin/mod on it makes it look a lot better IMO, and it isn't hard to do or anything, as I am sure all you mods know :).
EDIT: Also, to make it easier, if you did go with this idea that is, make a page hold 10 posts each, so, that on the dot of the last post of a 20th page, it would be the end and you would need to lock. This should be pretty easy with the admin panel to make it like that, :).
I think this is a great idea. I know after a certain point, it becomes painful to try to dig back in a thread. and search just yields too many irrelevant results.
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I think the layout should have the new promo pics in it and the colours of the new album (red/brown/whatever).
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mmhmm
so any word for when the whole layout change will be done?
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Hmmm...
I think the layout of the main page should be more like the other fansites on the net...You know like with a large blend on the top of the page with news and updates below as they happen...and buttons to go to a photo gallery, video page, etc.
I cant explain it so this is what I mean:
http://oh-hilary.com/
Not saying to do it exactly like that, but just to give you an idea of what im talking about. :)
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So when do the changes come into effect?
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maybe a FAQ about vanessa would be cool or a did you know section with interesting facts
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I think the news could be presented a bit better instead of the list we have now AND I hate the fact that when I go to the site the news is the homepage, you should change that. The homepage should have links to the forum, news etc. News shouldn't be the homepage.
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Can someone update the lyrics for Heroes & Thieves? All that's there now is Fools Like Me, Nolita Fairytale, and one other song. Thanks.
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Can someone update the lyrics for Heroes & Thieves? All that's there now is Fools Like Me, Nolita Fairytale, and one other song. Thanks.
Ya i just noticed that as well :)
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They're a little disorganized they're still there, but you have to loook in live, and B-sides
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What happened to the plan to update the website? There are so many discussion whether V's fans continue supporting her or not and it's really sad seeing all these websites nobody's taking care of, especially nessaholics. It kinda looks like nobody's believing in her anymore, although I know that this is not true, but just imagine people interessted in V browsing the web and finding several sites like this. This doesn't give a good impression.
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Is there actually still an admin from the website visiting the forums regularly?