Sorry, I went ahead and posted my suggestions in two different threads in the OOT and WoW forums.
I'll repost them here, then.
- The color change is meh. I prefer darker colors and the current creamy one doesn't exactly make me think of World of Warcraft. Look at the official site for reference. Look at the game's logo. Those are the colors you should use. In my opinion, of course.
- Margins. You need to increase the left and right margins. I can't read an entire post on a 19" monitor at 1280x1024 without turning my head. That's a very big no go. Have you ever watched a movie at the theatre where you were placed so close to the screen you had to turn your head to see everything? You lose focus and everything becomes a blurr, meaning you put strain on your eyes, something you don't want on a website. Besides, blank space to the left and right of the action is very popular these days.
- Bordered frames. My avatar is floating around in a creamy sea of space and really needs a line or two to seperate it from the post. In the same breath, please move the signature area further down as posts containing just one line are basically having sex with the signature right here on my monitor. Down, boy! Down!
- Header looks nice, but you might want to consider removing the World of Warcraft logo and stretching the Allakhazam logo out to fill its place. The logos look very different and having them placed so close together makes it look like a mess. No offense.
- New Subject and Thread Index links need to be smaller, or, preferably, buttons, just like Post Message and Preview Message are. It's a minor thing, though, but hey, now I've said it.
As for stuff that looks great.. well, pretty much everything else. There are some layout issues on the various pages. I don't know why you guys love large blank areas in all the wrong places. A huge blank area next to a tiny thumbnail is okay, but margins? Hell naw!
Edit: The URL button doesn't work, by the way. And apparently the Smileys link stretches all the way to the other side of the frame instead of only the text. And link colors need a change. Can barely see the difference. And building on Xsarus's comment, username, score and title really should be centered.
Edited, Jun 2nd 2008 11:28pm by Mazra
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