http://beta.trisphee.com/
I've been checking out the new front page, ready to give some small critiques before it goes live.
1. Avatar Boxes and text from the News Feed is too close to each other.
2. Text box for news runs off once it passes the avatar's box. The text needs to be even and on top of each other in a brick when it moves beyond that box.
3. Banners are super cool and a good way to motivate people to start using the home page more would be to put clickable rewards on the front page. Reward 500 aurum for seeing a specially made banner that appears rarely on occasion.
4. Recent posts last time posted needs to be moved. It's not good seeing on the front page that a recent post was 2 hours ago.
I think I mention this before, but changing the time to words like Recently, moments ago, or a while ago to determine time between posts to create the illusion the site is more active is the way to go. But otherwise it's a nice inclusion.
5. Featured item is pretty much random avatar no? How about instead of everytime you go on the front page there is a new item advertised, it's every few minutes and you get a 10% aurum discount for clicking on the link and choosing to purchase the item? And if you remain idle on the page the items swap out in real time as well.
6. Changed Latest News to "The Trisphee Times" for consistency with forums. If your not interested change the name of the Trisphee Times form to Latest News.
7. Add a "see previous announcements" button at the end of the announcements page that redirects to the Trisphee Times.
8. The front page needs more color. The front page runs over the background and front page logo. The only thing that breaks up the top of the page with the rest is the big purple moon. Or the orange text in the news feed. Experiment with some additional color. But in hindsight it might be time to move on from the green/white gradient. Or maybe add character art onto the main page? Ton of room to play around with things here. Change the green to a spacey like banner or something.
COLOR. JUST. COLOR.
9. Needs cupholders yo.