On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Andrew Janssen wrote:

Hmmm. I think I like the Gameropolis mock-up best.

My biggest complaint about that one (aside from it looking like the punchline to a "black and white and red all over" joke) is the fairly limited real estate actually dedicated to content (640 x ~320). But that seems to be the way of things with vBulletin (and phpBB, for that matter). I just measured vBulletin's own forum, and their front page goes 288 vertical pixels before starting on the actual content table - 350 before starting on the first actual group. Bah.

I've now added a vBulletin-emulation version of the index page, and then a revised "semi-emulation" version, which gives more real estate to content but loses the familiar-to-vBulletin/phpBB-users locations of menu bar things (though now that I look at it, not quite so much as in that mockup... there's a bar missing above the first red "Discussion" bar. And of course the second "Discussion" bar should really say "Games." But you get the idea.)