I know its probably not your top priority right now but are you gona improve the banner at the top of the site?  It looks too generic.  I liked the color scheme from the old *DBL site.

Do you mean the logo or the text part? In both cases I gonna refine it later. Especially so everyone recognizes that the grey part between the 2 faces form a trophy.

I meant the logo part.  It looks like a Mac logo thats why.  I dunno maybe PC people will see that and think its a Mac only league.

Also I found an error you might be aware of already.  When I go to edit user settings and type in my verify e-mail address I get this error:

i doubt pc ppl even know the orignal macintosh logo. 

Thanks Punisher.

What about having different color themes for the site and letting users pick what color theme they want?

That's something with a very low priority right now, but I also thought about it, especially to customize your clan and user pages. So if you take a look at the source code you might see that I have used centralized colours like "col_fgmain, col_bggreen, col_bcontent,..."

I like the setup and the profile user thingie, but punisher and tin has a point about changing the colours with some kind of *DBL Logo.

Good work Mauti, as always

I know you posted this isn't the final homepage but is the final version gona have side blocks that display current standings for ladders and other information?  Some of the things the old *DBL site has.  Newest downloads, latest news, who's online...etc.  Maybe something customizable for each user so they can display the standings for the ladders they play for.  Something like this:

Yes, of course. For the release there will be a sidebar on the right. It is especially reserved for personal user data like online clanmates or on the start page some general stats, polls etc.

I just replaced the blue header from the reply infobar. I think it is easier to follow the comments this way, isn't it.

Yep much better.

Just posting some feedback from Flies from the other thread to this one because I have screwed the posting order while working with the database

Mauti-1:When a clan wants to sign up, there is a huge problem concerning the homepage. Either its the "helptext" or its the procedure - i dont know.
But its really complicated to enter a new clan, and enter the clans homepage at the same time. It ends up with the clanleader being confused and annoyed.
Mauti-2:"replies". If you post a message in the forum, you will be interested in peoples replies.
These replies arent visual right now, unless you enter the forum, and go all the way to the end of the topic.

Mauti-3:CB´s should be able to arrange via the DBL homepage. I need a "challenge-clan" button.
Mauti-4:Statistics could be more useful. The ladderpage could show the number of CB´s fulfilled, denied and forfeited
Mauti-5:You simply GOT TO implement the old forumposts into the new concept. Those posts are the backbone of the DBL-league and people love to stroll back and read conflicts years ago. Remove them from the new DBL and you remove the history, concept and reason why you have a mac-league.
Mauti-6:I need basic information to show up. You are prolly already into this, but info such as " posts-since-your-last-logon" ...."new values entered on your ladders"..."CB-invitations"...."registred clanleader comment"....would be appreciated.
Mauti-7:Rules... I expect we are all doing this evaluating for a reason, right ? So when do we start making rules for the leagues ?
 Mauti-8:Punkbuster. Are you planning to lead the games into the hands of Punkbuster ? If so - prepare some d/l for mac - if not : all admins are needed to make setups that exclude cheating the best way possible.
Mauti-9:This isnt going to be dull - is it ? Plz keep in mind - designwise as well as conceptwise - that we need something funny.

Yep i have to say (i said it already i know) but i think to be able to integrate the current yabbse forum and related info into this new DBL site is really really inportant - can't begin to imagine how complicated that might be but if you can do it mate, it would be spot on!

Just moving the *DBL topics and messages could be be possible but I don't know what to do with the user accounts. Also the formatting of the YaBBSe posts could be a challenge. So yes it's not easy.

I say create a whole new forum!  People might like reading that old forum and enjoy living in the past but its time to move on and start something fresh and new!  You need to let it go!

Oh thats a hard one to answer. - Yes i suppose in a way because of the history - because DBL isn't just something new - it has a real weight of years and years of players and CBs behind it - and i think it would be a great shame to loose that. I understand what Punisher is saying about it being fresh and new but i would say that while the site is fresh and new, while the support of games is new etc, this is still the same *DAMN BL that so many people love and have been a part of for such a long time. 

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