Comments on: Change and be damned http://www.thinksynergy.co.uk/2009/09/29/change-and-be-damned/ Fixed price, low cost web design and hosting based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:01:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jim http://www.thinksynergy.co.uk/2009/09/29/change-and-be-damned/comment-page-1/#comment-783 Jim Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:53:26 +0000 http://www.thinksynergy.co.uk/?p=414#comment-783 Hi Arnold, Thanks for stopping by! Very good points there. The forum software I use, phpBB, changed their layout in version 3 of their software. They were the first forum to have the avatars and user details on the right and the post content on the left. I remember they got so much abuse for that. Even I was not sure it was a good move but I quickly got used to it on their support forums... I must say that nowadays I don't even notice at all. I am certainly going to forge on with the changes and see what happens. I think the thing that shocked me so much was the venom people came out with. It wasn't a polite "I don't like it", but rather "IMHO it looks ****". You'd think I'd got up in the middle of the night and painted their house pink LOL. Hi Arnold,

Thanks for stopping by! Very good points there. The forum software I use, phpBB, changed their layout in version 3 of their software. They were the first forum to have the avatars and user details on the right and the post content on the left. I remember they got so much abuse for that. Even I was not sure it was a good move but I quickly got used to it on their support forums… I must say that nowadays I don’t even notice at all.

I am certainly going to forge on with the changes and see what happens. I think the thing that shocked me so much was the venom people came out with. It wasn’t a polite “I don’t like it”, but rather “IMHO it looks ****”. You’d think I’d got up in the middle of the night and painted their house pink LOL.

]]> By: Arnold http://www.thinksynergy.co.uk/2009/09/29/change-and-be-damned/comment-page-1/#comment-781 Arnold Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:08:16 +0000 http://www.thinksynergy.co.uk/?p=414#comment-781 People also tend to insist on doing things a certain way but they really cannot give you a reason for why they want things done that way. Let's take the sidebar issue for example. Most will tell you that on a static site the sidebar should be on the left while a blog should have the sidebar to the right. If you ask these folk why they say this you quickly find out that there is no real reason, doing things this way has simply become a habit. This type of attitude would explain why so much of the Net looks so much alike. Change is a good thing in my opinion. Make the changes you feel are right for your site, who knows, you might just be starting the next trend in site design. People also tend to insist on doing things a certain way but they really cannot give you a reason for why they want things done that way. Let’s take the sidebar issue for example. Most will tell you that on a static site the sidebar should be on the left while a blog should have the sidebar to the right. If you ask these folk why they say this you quickly find out that there is no real reason, doing things this way has simply become a habit. This type of attitude would explain why so much of the Net looks so much alike.

Change is a good thing in my opinion. Make the changes you feel are right for your site, who knows, you might just be starting the next trend in site design.

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