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Orble Revamp - perhaps a competitoin?

February 18th 2009 21:54

Does anyone else think that Orble needs a bit of a revamp?

No offence to Jon but I think Orble is looking a bit dated, both the home page and the logo. I'd like to see it modernised a bit to bring it into line with other blogging networks which look very up-to-the-minute. I know Jon is doing all of this on his own but perhaps a competition could be run to get a new design.

Any thoughts on this?

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Comment by Bryn

February 19th 2009 08:10

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Cheryl, do you have an blog sites you can cite as examples of what you think look stylish and modern? I don't (have time to) surf other blogs outside of Orble. All I know is a lot of American ones seem to use exactly the same font and banner style.

Comment by Janet Collins

February 20th 2009 04:04

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I can't really speak for this as my blog looks totally dated compared to other Orblers but a competition sounds a good idea.

Comment by Teresa Ralton

February 20th 2009 07:56

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I recently styled my 3 blogs - took me ages but I am very happy with the results- and now I find it easier to work with because it contrasts with the regular pages on the Orble site. What sort of things were you thinking of, Cheryl? I have finally settled into this but anything for simplicity and clarity would be good. By the way, have you changed your posting icon lately? It looks really good. How did you do it?

Comment by Morgan Bell

February 22nd 2009 13:21

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maybe the channel buttons could be smaller or more organised to take up less space

also the options at the top that say:

maybe they could be coloured tabs

an example that is not a blogging network would be YouPlay, an online game and puzzle site that utilises colour well

some blogging networks and writing sites have a weekly or daily "featured writer" box where they highlight a users bio

or a "feature issue" box where they select a hot topic and conveniently bunch a few related articles for readers to access from homepage

i made some other Technical Suggestions back in September 08 to make the site more user-friendly

i competiton for a logo could be a good idea, i like the little globe, but a slight variation might be refreshing . . . the logo might be a registered trademark or something that cant be altered too much

Comment by Teresa Ralton

February 23rd 2009 01:31

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Morgan,
I agree with tabs being a diff. colour. What are the channel buttons? Bunching related articles is a great idea too. Maybe someone (You?) should do a post and link it back to this since it seems to have slipped off the radar and many others may have suggestions. Great as I think Orble is, my main problem with it is trying to track back to posts I have seen. And the 'notify me of replies' facility seems to only work up to a point

Comment by Morgan Bell

February 23rd 2009 06:37

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Channels are the catergories or subject types that are displayed in the column down the left on Orble homepage

Channels

Film
Sport
Music
News
Politics
Gaming
Technology
Science
Business
Culture
Entertainment
Environment
Food
Health
Lifestyle
Motoring
Travel
Miscellaneous

i think the current buttons take up alot of space - it could even be a drop-down menu, or a link that directs to a seperate web-page

Comment by Cheryl J

February 23rd 2009 09:55

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Bryn, I'm not in a good space at t he moment but when I get my head together I'll cite some examples.

Janet, you'll get there! Keep at it, your writing is fabulous.

Teresa, I'm not sure if you're asking how I changed the icon or how I made it. The icon was a photoshop art project that I uploaded onto my profile page.

Morgan, great ideas as usual. I'd love to see coloured tabs and channel buttons and also 'report abuse' buttons added for posts.

I just think the home page looks a bit early 90s and I'd love to see it funked up a bit with some more colour.

Comment by Cheryl J

February 23rd 2009 14:57

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I also think a block button in the comments would be a good idea. I know people have the choice of whether or not to delete a comment but may not be able to check back to their post every five minutes. A block button would block a particular person from being able to comment when things are getting vicious...as they often seem to do on Orble.

Can you actually block users? I know you can turn off anon comments but can you prevent chosen people commenting? Just curious?

Comment by Bryn

February 23rd 2009 22:35

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Cheryl, I agree about "funking" up the homepage.

Comment by jkund17

May 28th 2009 05:01

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yes i agree, and we should also be able to add widgets to our blogs. Every other blogging network has them but this one..

Comment by Morgan Bell

May 28th 2009 05:25

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hi jkund17,

you can install widgets on Orble, you just have to do it manually

follow the instructions on THIS POST about how to create a Blogroll and enter the HTML code for whatever widgets you want into your Blogroll post

remember to write "HTML3456" before and "/HTML" (square brackets where inverted commas are) after any HTML code you want to work

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