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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I think that it is time that we remove some of the deadwood and put it back to were it was originally. We had a period where there was a whole lot more activity than there currently is, and that was a good reason to pull out some forums. However, I think those times are pasted for a while, and that this place would benefit from having itself tightened up. I am going to suggest the following layout: OZONE : The general forum as always, this should stay as is DHTML/Javascript: This forum has been around forever too, I say keep it. Server-Side-Scripting: This forum is still newer, but I think it should stay because DHTML/Javascript should contain this one Photoshop: This forum has been here forever, this one should stay. Multimedia/Animation: This is a really new forum but I think it should stay, it has a broader scope than PS, and good uses. Philosophy: This is new, and should stay, it gets a ton of use these days, it would clog up OZONE if we dropped it. Site-Reviews: A Staple of this place it has to stay. MS Lab: I am a bit iffy on this one. I can see its purpose, It can/should stay I guess, but I think it would be better served to be a little bit hidden, I think it should be readable by any member, but maybe just a link at the top or bottom of the page. Administration shouldn't been seen as a focal point of this place, as learning is the key. So what was cut and why: XML - XSL - XSLT - XHTML - CSS - DOM and Stupid Basic HTML: These two topics were big for a while, but they are now parts of other activities. That being Javascript or Server Side Scripting. HTML is a big part of the web, but not big enough to warrant their own forums. The focus of this place is on pushing the envelope, and that can be best done in the other forums. PS Pong/Big Sig: These topics were popular for a bit, but I think that the PS Forum can easily absorb these topics back into itself, it will make the scope of the PS forum bigger again, but it will also allow people to see more of what is happening with design, and using the tools. Photo/3D Modeling/Print: These forums are just not being used all that much, with the exception of Photography, which does get some use. I think that Photography might be able to get argued for, but I really feel that the PS forum can absorb all of these 3 and be much better for it. Outpatient: This one is dead, and we can easily have these conversations in general. The outpatient forum was created to house the offers no one really wanted to see in the site reviews forum. I think we can/should live without this one. Getting to know the Grail: I think we all know this one. Any conversations here should be held somewhere else, either in admin, or even the FAQ. There might be some problems with this, because people are attached to certain forums. The big-sig for example. I think we need to have some pain and condense these things. I feel that this place is very fragmented right now, I hardly visit any forums anymore because of the amount of time and chance for inactivity in any given forum. I think putting them back together would help things out a whole lot. I am really looking for opinions here. If you disagree with me, let me hear it, I want to know why. If you agree, let me know why you agree, you can't agree with my on every point. Well you can, but it would be better if we had some active discussion on this. And I am looking for comments from the newest members too. I don't just want to hear from those who have been here forever. If you have been here for only a day you opinion is just as valid if not more than the others. Thank you, Dan @ [url=http://www.codetown.org]Code Town[/url] [small](Edited by [internallink=191]WarMage[/internallink] on 03-24-2005 21:54)[/small] Loading...
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