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[Hydrogen]

You all must have noticed by now that we have a new tab layout on the top of our pages. I don't think I was alone in feeling that we had gotten quite a few tabs recently. The total list spanned about fifteen different tabs on a single line. There have been a few studies in user experience that suggest that there should be no more than five to seven tabs or the human brain can't digest it all. We were clearly over that limit .

We now have a set of shiny new tabs at the top of the page. Some of them are drop-down tabs so they expand out to have more information underneath them. This should help us organize things a bit better on our site so that they are easier to find.

Please let me know what you guys think . Also, if I've missed any site feature, please let me know that too . I believe I got them all .

[Elindoril]

It looks much better.

[Keil]

It'll take some time getting use to not having tabs across the screen.

I suggest having the download program manager tab as its own different tab to the left right side because I don't like telling new people to look under the neopets tab and then they tell me off because they think I'm trolling them by telling them to download the PManager from the actual neopets site. If what I said made sense, kudos to your comprehension skills.

Edited by Slowpoke, 20 December 2012 - 04:03 PM.

[Nalah]

It looks so good, and beautifly organised! *breathes happy sigh of relief*

[Hydrogen]

It'll take some time getting use to not having tabs across the screen.

I suggest having the download program manager tab as its own different tab to the left right side because I don't like telling new people to look under the neopets tab and then they tell me off because they think I'm trolling them by telling them to download the PManager from the actual neopets site. If what I said made sense, kudos to your comprehension skills.

I did understand . It wasn't all that hard. I'll have to think about this a bit . But I see what you're saying .

[Besty2012]

Only had a brief encounter with the last layout of tabs, but can safely vote this one the way forward.

EDIT: Perhaps for the program manager, linking new users to a locked thread with the download link there/ or the actual download link itself? Just a suggestion

Edited by Besty2012, 20 December 2012 - 04:57 PM.

[tri]

Much more organized!

[Scot]

Excellent. Now I can stop downloading program managers

[Pilot]

Banner/logo to home master race.

[HappyAccident]

I feel like the "Client Area" and "Report Bugs" tabs don't really belong in the tab layout. Don't seem like big enough features and the report Bugs one is not clear that it's supposed to report about the programs.

Other that that nice work!

[kittycat]

IDB should have it's own tab IMO

[Jaws]

IDB should have it's own tab IMO

Agreed, also I don't think it's necessary to have 'Buy Neocash Cards' and 'Store' since just by clicking store you see the NC cards.

Edit: Or maybe remove store and change the other to 'Buy Neocash & more' but that's a bit too long

Edited by Jaws, 21 December 2012 - 11:01 AM.

[ShadowLink64]

Agreed, also I don't think it's necessary to have 'Buy Neocash Cards' and 'Store' since just by clicking store you see the NC cards.

Edit: Or maybe remove store and change the other to 'Buy Neocash & more' but that's a bit too long

I think we did that for search engine optimization purposes. If we explicitely write it out at the top of the board, it's a more likely chance our site will be indexed for Neocash selling by Google.

I agree that IDB should get its own tab, but I really like everything else. Thanks Hydro!

[Waser Lave]

A Home link would be nice too for the lazier amongst us.

[ShadowLink64]

A Home link would be nice too for the lazier amongst us.

The banner works just fine for that too.

[Waser Lave]

The banner works just fine for that too.

The lazier amongst us who have the banner adblocked for aesthetic purposes*.

[ShadowLink64]

The lazier amongst us who have the banner adblocked for aesthetic purposes*.

You mean our logo isn't aesthetically pleasing enough for you? q.q

[Homer]

Haha I was freaking out not being able to see the item database link. Otherwise the new layout is nicely organized and clean. I would've suggested the IDM having its own tab as well, but you know what... I can get used to it.

[kittycat]

Well if we all agree here, make it happen

[ShadowLink64]

I've made a dedicated menu item just for the Item Database.

[Homer]

Thanks Shadowlink, your the man

[tri]

Excellent. Now I can stop downloading program managers

So true. XD

[revenge1991]

great job on the new layout..