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archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

Well, I got the new site up and running, but it's still not complete. Post your suggestions for what you'd like to see here in the future.
Submitted on Tue, 10/09/2007 - 14:10

Re: Suggestions for new site

ronito

Decisive Battler

Location: Northern Cali, USA

Joined: May 21 2007

SHOUTBOX!!! We need a shoutbox!

Also last site it was easy to see who was leaving what comments on tabs. Is there a way to do this here?
Submitted on Tue, 10/09/2007 - 15:08

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

Shoutbox is coming, yes.

And yes I do think there is a way to see the latest comments. I'll get it set up.

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Submitted on Tue, 10/09/2007 - 15:13

Re: Suggestions for new site

Rick

Unusual

Joined: Apr 17 2007

Everything is amazing

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Submitted on Tue, 10/09/2007 - 15:44

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

Alright ron, I've added a shoutbox and a recent comments list on the home page.

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DANG
Submitted on Tue, 10/09/2007 - 17:35

demmand and supply

darkkar

Joined: Oct 13 2007

You know those songs that are not tabbed? The ones everyone goes nuts after because they're not anywhere on the web? I think that'd give this site an advantage if it had them. :roll:
Submitted on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 16:38

Re: demmand and supply

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

"darkkar" posted:

You know those songs that are not tabbed? The ones everyone goes nuts after because they're not anywhere on the web? I think that'd give this site an advantage if it had them. :roll:

Such as?

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DANG
Submitted on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 17:22

Re: Suggestions for new site

karias

Location: Belle Vernon,PA

Joined: Sep 17 2007

idk,but this is the only site on the web to have the battleship theme from u.n. squadron...for guitar atleast,other sites just have the bass tab for it.

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Submitted on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 19:58

Re: Suggestions for new site

Joined: Dec 31 1969

I'd suggest an IRC channel, I'm somehow most progressive when on IRC.
Submitted on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 19:42

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

"Enterim" posted:

I'd suggest an IRC channel, I'm somehow most progressive when on IRC.

Heh, I don't really understand the infatuation with IRC. But I'll make a poll to see if there is any interest elsewhere.

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DANG
Submitted on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 21:38

Re: Suggestions for new site

Ewahl

Joined: Nov 25 2007

I am but a humble newb, but I think it would be nice if there was an "Other" section for tabs that are not related to video games. But if you wish to keep it strictly video game tabs, that is understandable too.
Submitted on Sun, 11/25/2007 - 18:51

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

"Ewahl" posted:

I am but a humble newb, but I think it would be nice if there was an "Other" section for tabs that are not related to video games. But if you wish to keep it strictly video game tabs, that is understandable too.

We've talked about this before... what we may do is give the tabbers a place on their profiles (which are coming soon) where they can post tabs that are not video game related. But I won't put up any non video game tabs as part of the main site.

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DANG
Submitted on Sun, 11/25/2007 - 19:12

Re: Suggestions for new site

Ewahl

Joined: Nov 25 2007

I see. That is understandable and your solution seems like a good idea to me.
Submitted on Sun, 11/25/2007 - 22:22

Re: Suggestions for new site

Rembrant

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

Joined: Aug 12 2007

I think you should add under "search by" using "Tuning"

I've seen many songs using alternative tunings then standard.

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Submitted on Mon, 11/26/2007 - 16:31

Re: Suggestions for new site

rancidfetus

Classical Metalhead

Joined: Oct 09 2007

I think the new site should have a section for theme songs. We have a section for anime, but why not broaden it to include movies and tv shows as well? I know I certainly have a rough time trying to find theme song tabs.
Submitted on Mon, 11/26/2007 - 20:00

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

"rancidfetus" posted:

I think the new site should have a section for theme songs. We have a section for anime, but why not broaden it to include movies and tv shows as well? I know I certainly have a rough time trying to find theme song tabs.

That would be cool, though it's definitely not within the scope of this site IMO. I think it would have to be a separate site, and I don't have the passion for movie and tv show music to pursue that.

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DANG
Submitted on Mon, 11/26/2007 - 21:34

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

"Rembrant" posted:

I think you should add under "search by" using "Tuning"

I've seen many songs using alternative tunings then standard.

That's a good idea... it's possible that I could implement that in the future. I won't make any guarantees though.

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DANG
Submitted on Tue, 11/27/2007 - 01:04

Re: Suggestions for new site

Rick

Unusual

Joined: Apr 17 2007

I have to say - with everything going on as it is right now... I don't have many ideas to throw out at you

The site just keeps getting better and its already outstandingly amazing

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Submitted on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 01:24

Re: Suggestions for new site

Rick

Unusual

Joined: Apr 17 2007

I think its been brought up already but

Maybe change it up a bit for the holidays/seasons/anticipated game releases

Stuff like that, that you could just post off the side or something, just to change it up a little bit

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Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 01:03

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

You mean like change the layout?

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DANG
Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 02:02

Re: Suggestions for new site

Rick

Unusual

Joined: Apr 17 2007

The layout as in everything entirely? Sure if you want

but I was thinking more along the lines of just adding things

Like Christmas decorations on the borders of the page, some shining lights

Just so its not always the white and blue page

Something that catches the eye etc.

We could totally Brawl out the site in February :D

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Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 02:06

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

Oh yeah definitely.

I was thinking of switching up the whole layout altogether though. I was kind of in a rush to get things up so I decided to just pick any old theme to put up. Theming takes a lot of time though and it's just hard to do that during school.

What kind of layout would you like to see?

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DANG
Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 02:08

Re: Suggestions for new site

Rick

Unusual

Joined: Apr 17 2007

lol yeah I figured coming up with themes and dressing the site up would definitely take up lots of time

I really don't have anything in mind as far as a lay out goes

But just layouts of something we're waiting for or anticipating

Or even for the projects this site does, make a layout that would reflect the project

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Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 02:13

Re: Suggestions for new site

Rick

Unusual

Joined: Apr 17 2007

Or even if you want to get really hardcore with it

Have different layouts for different tab searches

So when I bring up the Super Nintendo section I would see some of the most hyped and favored SNES games and characters that were released and then in actual games (I.E. Super Mario RPG) I would see some of the characters of that game

But then again, that's if you really want to get into it

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Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 02:16

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

Actually I'm pretty sure there is a very easy way to do that. Very interesting idea... hmm.....

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DANG
Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 02:17

Re: Suggestions for new site

Rick

Unusual

Joined: Apr 17 2007

lol I'm glad you find it interesting

I try to do what I can for the site

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Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 02:18

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

So it'd be kinda like http://www.ocremix.org/ but not random characters?

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DANG
Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 02:20

Re: Suggestions for new site

Rick

Unusual

Joined: Apr 17 2007

Yeah

A little less white I'd hope

But the general idea

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Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 02:23

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

Well I mean as far as the characters in the layout go.

I think what I'm gonna do once this semester is over is either develop a theme myself, or pay someone to do it for me, that can accommodate this site's needs really well, and implement cool ideas like the one you just said. Or maybe I'll just customize this theme a lot more.

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DANG
Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 02:27

Re: Suggestions for new site

Rick

Unusual

Joined: Apr 17 2007

Well either way you've done really well with the site so far so whenever you have time just go for it and should be good

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Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 02:30

Re: Suggestions for new site

Rick

Unusual

Joined: Apr 17 2007

The only other thing I can think of right now would be to post more videos of the music up on the site

For publicity and tutorial

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Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 02:52

Re: Suggestions for new site

Rembrant

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

Joined: Aug 12 2007

I think you should have a theme switcher

"Gametabs Classic"
and
"Gametabs 2.0"

Because I kind of proffered the old gametabs. Not that this new one isn't completely awesome, I just like the old one.

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Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 13:13

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

"Rembrant" posted:

I think you should have a theme switcher

"Gametabs Classic"
and
"Gametabs 2.0"

Because I kind of proffered the old gametabs. Not that this new one isn't completely awesome, I just like the old one.

I can do a theme switcher pretty easily. You mean the most recent layout right before this one right?

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DANG
Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 13:22

Re: Suggestions for new site

Rembrant

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

Joined: Aug 12 2007

Yeah.

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Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 14:19

Re: Suggestions for new site

Rick

Unusual

Joined: Apr 17 2007

We should have a "Things a Guitarist Should Know" Section

Like you know how you were saying you were going to put up a map for stuff like Hammer Ons - Pull offs - and all that stuff?

Should add all that in there, answers to frequently asked questions and just things a guitarist should know

I think that would help us all out lol ^^;;;

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Submitted on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 18:31

Re: Suggestions for new site

MetalMario702

The Mario of Metal

Location: Rhode Island

Joined: Oct 27 2007

"archard" posted:

Oh yeah definitely.

I was thinking of switching up the whole layout altogether though. I was kind of in a rush to get things up so I decided to just pick any old theme to put up. Theming takes a lot of time though and it's just hard to do that during school.

What kind of layout would you like to see?

if you need me to, i know some people who are beastly with photoshop and probably can make a few pictures for a friend if i beg them enough ^_^. just let me know if you acctually want to do it

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Submitted on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 16:49

Re: Suggestions for new site

doktai

Daniel

Location: Toronto, Canada

Joined: Jan 14 2008

I think the layout of the site is fine, there's nothing wrong with navigating tabs, games, etc.

Only one thing, it's a little hard to navigate the profile pages, like, when I click my username to access my profile stuff there's a lot of confusing dead space and it's a little hard to navigate.

Also, on the main page, you should be able to see past news articles, or at least there should be a section that's a list of all the GTYNPs.
Submitted on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 19:32

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

"doktai" posted:

Only one thing, it's a little hard to navigate the profile pages, like, when I click my username to access my profile stuff there's a lot of confusing dead space and it's a little hard to navigate.

What browser are you using? There shouldn't be any white space or problems navigating...

"doktai" posted:

Also, on the main page, you should be able to see past news articles, or at least there should be a section that's a list of all the GTYNPs.

Actually the link at the top "Articles" will list every article. When I upgrade the site next I'm gonna install some better organization for articles and whatnot, and you'll be able to list all the GTYNPs no problem.

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DANG
Submitted on Sun, 02/03/2008 - 01:14

Give me suggestions

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

I'm gearing up for another upgrade of the site (nothing major though), and I wanna know what you guys wanna see.

Right now I plan to get a brand new layout and make the site/forums look nice and pretty. I already have a guy working on a custom theme for me right now. I'm gonna change the way in which the tabs are listed pretty dramatically. Instead of just listing the name of the tab, there will be the name of the tab, the name of the tabber, the current rating for the tab, the game the tab is from and many other fields are possible (suggestions?). The lists will be displayed much nicer and neater, and will be separated into pages rather than just one giant list. This will not only look nicer and be easier to navigate, but will have a significant effect on the performance of the site, because the way I originally coded it was very "quick and dirty" and inefficient.

I also plan to implement tabber and composer profiles like I've been saying for a long time. I also might change the recordings section to something different, maybe like a playlist kind of thing or something. And I might get rid of the lessons section just because I don't have any desire to write anything meaningful in there.

So, if you want to see any new features or improvements to this site, NOW IS THE TIME TO TELL ME!

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DANG
Submitted on Sun, 02/03/2008 - 01:31

Re: Suggestions for new site

Stamen47

no0bzOrG

Joined: Jun 16 2007

Here's a couple of ideas:

Maybe in people's profiles, have a section for "favorite tabs" so people can see which tabs are those user's favorites and be able to quickly navigate to them.

I'm not 1,000% satisfied with how the tabs are categorized under "style", mostly because the terminology of "arranged" and "transcribed" is kind of confusing to a lot of people (I think...) and a little subjective. Also, for people who play both electric and acoustic, those terms can be very subjective (I know they are for me, but maybe I'm just weird). On the other hand, they aren't terribly confusing concepts to figure out, and I really can't offer a better system :/ You could say I'm 995% satisfied

Also, the articles section could be better organized instead of having them lined up as a long list of the full articles. If you're thinking about eliminating the lessons section, you could just incorporate it as a sort of subcategory for the articles section, and if people want to contribute a lesson-like article, they'd be free to do so.

One last thing, I noticed that it can be kind of annoying for people to constantly be commenting on tabs, "This sounds better: -1--5---7--8--3---3---3----" or whatever. Maybe make some way for people to recommend tab revisions without cluttering up the comments section. However, that might put too much unwanted responsibility on whoever goes through them. If it was on an individual basis, then the person could choose to ignore them if they want. However, if they get ignored and really need revision, that could be a problem. On the other hand, if they really need revision, they probably wouldn't get posted in the first place. AHHHH!!! :o :o :shock:

And so concludes some of my thoughts. The new layout sounds awesome and really fixes some of the initial quibbles I had with the site and forgot about and then remembered when you described how you're going to fix them. Keep up the awesome work on a sumptuous site!

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Submitted on Sun, 02/03/2008 - 02:06

Re: Suggestions for new site

nozzie

The talkbox guy.

Location: Utah

Joined: Apr 06 2007

I wish to see 2plumbers1up :D (my animation) but i dont want to post because my school will probably block :S

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Submitted on Sun, 02/03/2008 - 02:18

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

"Stamen47" posted:

Maybe in people's profiles, have a section for "favorite tabs" so people can see which tabs are those user's favorites and be able to quickly navigate to them.

Oh that's a great idea!

"Stamen47" posted:

I'm not 1,000% satisfied with how the tabs are categorized under "style", mostly because the terminology of "arranged" and "transcribed" is kind of confusing to a lot of people (I think...) and a little subjective. Also, for people who play both electric and acoustic, those terms can be very subjective (I know they are for me, but maybe I'm just weird). On the other hand, they aren't terribly confusing concepts to figure out, and I really can't offer a better system :/ You could say I'm 995% satisfied

I understand that. Do you have any suggestions as to how it should be categorized otherwise?

"Stamen47" posted:

Also, the articles section could be better organized instead of having them lined up as a long list of the full articles. If you're thinking about eliminating the lessons section, you could just incorporate it as a sort of subcategory for the articles section, and if people want to contribute a lesson-like article, they'd be free to do so.

Yep, that's pretty much what I plan to do with the lessons. There are a number of ways I can organize the articles list, including by month and category. Any suggestions?

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DANG
Submitted on Sun, 02/03/2008 - 13:08

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

Oh yeah and one more thing I forgot to include in my previous post. I'm gonna make it so that you can narrow down the tab lists by certain categories by selecting from drop down lists.

So for example, say you're on the Electric > Transcribed list. That's a huge list. Maybe you wanna see tabs that are Electric > Transcribed AND from the Final Fantasy series. No problem, just select it from the drop down list. Still too big a list? You can narrow it down even further.

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DANG
Submitted on Sun, 02/03/2008 - 14:55

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

So does anybody have any suggested for how to improve the "Style" categorization as Stamen alluded to? I can see why the current model may be confusing.

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DANG
Submitted on Sun, 02/10/2008 - 16:43

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

"Stamen47" posted:

Here's a couple of ideas:
Maybe in people's profiles, have a section for "favorite tabs" so people can see which tabs are those user's favorites and be able to quickly navigate to them.

I figured out a way to let people make their own "favorite tabs" list, so like you'd get your own personal block on the sidebar that lists the tabs you've added to your favorites. I haven't quite figured out how to put that list on a person's profile, but I'll see what I can do.

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DANG
Submitted on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 20:03

Re: Suggestions for new site

BluePhoenix

give me a dollar

Location: Earth, Universe A

Joined: Jan 21 2008

"archard" posted:

I figured out a way to let people make their own "favorite tabs" list, so like you'd get your own personal block on the sidebar that lists the tabs you've added to your favorites.

wait, is it up right now?
Submitted on Sat, 02/16/2008 - 13:29

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

"BluePhoenix" posted:

"archard" posted:

I figured out a way to let people make their own "favorite tabs" list, so like you'd get your own personal block on the sidebar that lists the tabs you've added to your favorites.

wait, is it up right now?

No not yet. I'm planning to implement it when I get the new layout and all that other stuff up. I have the layout pretty much done now, just fine tuning everything.

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DANG
Submitted on Sat, 02/16/2008 - 15:07

Re: Suggestions for new site

Phazondragon

Joined: Feb 14 2008

How about a thing where you can narrow it down by difficulty and number of guitars in tab?
Submitted on Sat, 02/16/2008 - 20:06

Re: Suggestions for new site

Stamen47

no0bzOrG

Joined: Jun 16 2007

I had an idea just now (sorry if you've already thought of it). I think it would be cool to have a box at the side of tabs that gives you a list of similar tabs. At the top of the list, maybe have tabs from the same game, style, and tabber, and get less specific as you go down to maybe just tabs in the same series or by the same composer.

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Submitted on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 16:18

Re: Suggestions for new site

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Interesting. I can see Robo's Theme would link to We're No Strangers to Love.
Submitted on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 16:32

Re: Suggestions for new site

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

"Stamen47" posted:

I had an idea just now (sorry if you've already thought of it). I think it would be cool to have a box at the side of tabs that gives you a list of similar tabs. At the top of the list, maybe have tabs from the same game, style, and tabber, and get less specific as you go down to maybe just tabs in the same series or by the same composer.

Cool! I was actually going to make a topic asking you guys what "lists" you'd like to see, considering the ability to generate lists is a very strong point of Drupal. I can do that definitely.

What other lists would be cool?

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DANG
Submitted on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 17:04