Popular Artists feature added to home page

M@X wrote: While trying to bring the BAND and CD Name over the front page each reviewsI realize that placing the cover bigger with the album and title name below only AND placing the reviewer name below the text drive more attention to the cover (nice prog cover) and invite us to read all the reviews , instead of filtering the BAND and REVIEWER we already know.. Opinion on this before i continue tweaking the layout ? Thanks

This is an interesting new feature, and it has both a good side and a bad side. It is indeed more attractive for those new to prog or new to ProgArchives. However, I have been using PA for about three years now and I have come to understand the ways of various types of reviewers. This is why I don't feel like consuming a lot of time reading random reviews which attract me by visual means. I always look at the new reviews and pick the ones which are written by reviewers I trust and/or written on albums I'm interested in.

Becase of this reading habit of mine, it's tiring now for me to look at the upper right corner for the album name and at the lowwer left corner for the reviewer name, in order to decide whether I'm going to read this review or not. Before, it was easier: the band, album and reviewer names were all at the beginning of the review.


Edited by Swan Song - February 11 2009 at 02:05

I'm with UMUR, put the info back at the beginning of the review.  IMO. 

I agree with Finn 

What do you think now guys ?

Looks good! Although to be nitpicky I think it would look better if the artist name was a bit bigger and maybe it said "By" behind it, so "By Ayreon" or something of the like. And maybe have the overall rating of the album a bit larger. I do like that the review count is next to the rating now though!

My opinion, anyways

I think the frontpage reviews look really good now. I have to agree with Epignosis that I miss the avatars on the album reviews page though.

I will try to find a way to load the avatar without affecting the loading times of the main content.

I'll try to load the avatar after the page is loaded..

To be continued...

Thanks M@x, good to see the heading back.

Avatars on the frontpage isn´t a good idea IMO. They take away your attention from the cover of the album. Avatars on the albums individual page is another issue completely. That feature is great IMO and as Epignosis pointed out it helps you to quickly find a review by a certain reviewer.

I forgot to mention that I really enjoy the new popular artists feature on the frontpage. Great work.

I like the update, however, there needs to be a way to edit the album art, especially with this new display. Some of them have horrible resolution, and while I'm sure there are plenty of people who would be willing to spend two seconds fixing it for the artists they like, there is no way for them to.