I can see the scroll bars, menu at the side but like i am also on the fence about it. There's something about it, i.e. the menu is too short people can't read it.
ya i need it to be narrow initially.. otherwise it would just take up too much space. like you mentioned, i've been thinking about allowing it to be expanded etc..
i'm pretty sure eventually it'll have some buttons on top to control it & also a setting in each user's profile to completely hide it if you so choose.
How about, i have an idea, i don't know whether it will work or not.
Can you make the menu width larger to see the whole writing, bare with me, but also have a arrow looking button which can open and close the menu so it don't get in the way and, yes i have more, make those different menus be expandable e.g. click on the arrow next to Boxing, this would create a small list underneath with new posts made on that forum or can just click on the name to direct to that subject.
keep the color for new posts made.
what do you think?
the one thing that i can't seem to like it is the size of the menu width, can't read.
that scroll bar at the side of the options menu tricks me into clicking and dragging that down which causes the menu to move up lol.
its taking shape
peace
thanks for the ideas man..
ya i like the idea of allowing you to get unread posts etc from that left scrollbar...
here's what i'm thinking..
when a board has new unread posts, you can click on the arrow (or another one), and a popup will show up on the screen.. this popup would be all pretty, kind of like the calculator ones.. fixed to the upper right... it will contain a simple list of the unread posts, clickable as links... so you can even keep that popup on screen while checking out new posts that were listed in the popup.
i dont want to put the list of new threads etc WITHIN the navbar, it just wont ever been wide enough to handle that.. but i def need that functionality, just seems a clean popup is the way to go, imo.
currently, if you hover over the 'subforum categories' in the left navbar, itll show the full title.. being able to fully expand it temporarily might be a good idea.
peace