Okay, so I figured I'd start this thread with an intended purpose. I, myself think that the overall design of tbs is quite good. The html is used well, and the site, in my opinion, has a nice feel to it in general. However, I figure that there are some of you out there that may not agree with me and would like to see some things changed. Well, I can't be the one to change things, but maybe if enough people wanted this stuff done, it could be. So here's what to do. If you have any ideas to improve the look and feel of the site, post them here. And please, let's not start a fight in here over this. I just want to here any ideas that you guys may have. Don't flame if you think someone else has a stupid idea. Cheers!

With all due respect Element, I don't see why you would start a suggestion thread without a suggestion yourself. It seems kind of silly if you ask me. I'm not saying that b-s.net couldn't look better but if you're going to start a thread about how it could you should atleast have some ideas yourself. Otherwise this post seems useless.

Okay then dw33b, I'll make a suggestion. I wouldn't mind seeing a few different color options. The red, blue, yellow, and green are good, but I'd like to maybe see a check box in the myaccount option where you could choose a lighter color option (ie: brighter, more vivid colors) and a darker color option (ie: some black, gray, and dark greens and reds.) This was my reason to start the thread in the first place, but I figured that I would wait to state my opinion until I heard some more from other users. But since you asked, those are my ideas. Although, making a change like that would be extremely time consuming and difficult, it was just a thought.

color themes are not that hard to do. afaik most of it is done through cascading stylesheets,
you could just download them, adjust them locally, and then send them back to one of the
admins, If you put in the effort I'm sure they would consider it. Asking developers
to be creative, usually results in a fairly large latency. However if they do decline,
you can just hack firefox to use your stylesheets It's opensource afterall.
(or use some javascript magic, but i'm against that )

If I had the time and power, I would really get rid of this frame mess that we currently call
home. Perhaps use webservices instead of that javascript to display an up to date userlist.

Those changes, require quite some work do develop, so please do not interpret this as
something I'm asking to get done.

Since we are discussing it, I'll add a few gripes.

The first is easy: I often want to go back and look at a challenge when reading a new message in the forum. Adding links on the forum pages to the challenges they refer to would be helpful.

Second are the nearly invisible cursors in edit boxes. Honestly, I can't see the mouse cursor until it goes over text or leaves the box, and the text cursor is only slightly more visible. I actually wonder if things like this are done to annoy users, but I don't actually ascribe bad motives to the site's creators.

Third: Why oh why doesn't hitting return send my login info after entering username and password on the home page??? tbs is the only site I log into with that behavior.

The last is likely a bigger project: Fixing the site to work better with tabbed browsing and the back button. For example, if I select a challenge from the "Challenges" page, then go back, the page .... slowly ... reloads ... then places me back at the top of the list, rather than where I was. I'm no fan of frame-based web pages, so I'd start at the top and redesign the site, but anything to help tabbed browsing and the back button function better would be good.

No, I'm not volunteering to do the work. I'm just trying to give some specific suggestions that would make the site better. At least for me.

I could answer this question: you need a submit button. Atm tbs is using css to imitate the submit button, that's why it doesn't work!

Which does not make sense when you can just use css to style a button!!... much better semantically, and SO much easier to maintain. Take a look: CSS Submit buttons

Using css to style a button is good. But using a div tag to imitate a button isn't.

That was my point... The current buttons are div imitstions.. and it is not necessary

Well there are much more problems with the current web 1.0 design. And since the admins are not quite active I suppose it will take time to fix that.