Progarchives Landing Page

It struck me today that the landing page looks pretty archaic and (may I say it?): ugly and could do with a bit of work.
I realised that I'm so used to it after many years that it never struck me until today, but to anyone new to the site it looks fairly uninviting.
What you get is an excellent banner at the top and the site sections (which are both good and useful), but apart from that you have a few blocks of writing that look chaotic at first, and several adverts. To see something interesting you have to start scrolling.
It's not up to today's standards, I find, and I can imagine that this could turn a lot of browsing newcomers off.
No offense, just thought I'd mention it.

I rather like our front page. 

Sometimes, chasing what is trendy in design just makes you look like everybody else.  Our page, despite the ads that I loathe, is cool I think. 

Then again, in the world of commercial/retail architecture in the US, I prefer an 1890s brick building with stone gargoyles to the sh*t they are building now.  So I'm not one to ask


Edited by Finnforest - June 06 2016 at 14:29

^ Could be upgrades, or maybe M@X took npjnpj's suggestion to heart.   I tend to agree the front page is a little dated and could use a makeover, maybe something a bit more grown up (?) .





Edited by Atavachron - June 11 2016 at 01:12

I saw M@X online earlier, to me that spells upgrades.  I wouldn't worry about it unless it's still like this on Sunday.

I'm not fond of following every new look & feel trend concerning websites, but the startpage is somewhat outdated for sure.
I would have packed the sub-genres and artists (not necessarily popular artists) into a particular pulldown for example, technically not a challenge to implement. Will save some space anyway and make it better on portable devices ...

Tired of the ayreon picture sporting the pa tee shirt

At least he took out the extra AD that had been placed after the first review.  That was really obnoxious. 

Finnforest wrote: At least he took out the extra AD that had been placed after the first review.  That was really obnoxious.

I wholeheartedly agree, but then again, I am terribly allergic to ads. They ruin the city and it's architectural design. They slice up movies - hacksaw style.
Advertising, in general, means as much to me as the delightful little plastic condom most of my cds come wrapped in.

I think we should get rid of the top menu and all of the text and replace them with huge randomly placed images to better suit mobile devices and cripple the user. This is 2015 folks, get on with the times.

Vompatti wrote: I think we should get rid of the top menu and all of the text and replace them with huge randomly placed images to better suit mobile devices and cripple the user. This is 2015 folks, get on with the times.

Nah. 2015 is so last year