Coming Soon: Site header redesign (UPDATED FIRST POST 7/1)

[dichotomie]

You love money and the sex in your veins...

Go for it.
I personally like the idea.

...Call the police, this whole place is gonna BURN

[Acaelus]

Why not give people the choice to have the current one or the new one? just have a toggle or something.

[clandestine Muffin]

As long as there's an option for removing the footer, I wouldn't mind it. The one on myspace can be removed, and Facebook's is pretty annoying.

[Afflaetus]

Hey, I have some pending trades and NO IDEA how to access them right now since you accidentally removed it. Can you fix this soon?

Not sure if this is the right place, but the drop-down is part of the header, eh?

[Saintsaholic]

I thought bout it, and you should make a removable footer, and PLEASE KEEP THE MAP! It makes the space look nice.

[keiiii]

Wow. I read the responses first, before looking at the image. From the sheer overwhelming negativity of the responses, I expected something totally hideous, but this isn't THAT bad. (SF is always filled with complaints, I should have known better. XD)

Saintsaholic

I thought bout it, and you should make a removable footer, and PLEASE KEEP THE MAP! It makes the space look nice.

I hate the map though. gonk

If they can come up with something else to make the space look okay, I'd really like it. Like, change the background image so it doesn't need the map...?

[Prince Hi-chan]

I don't really like the footer at all. Footers have always cause me massive lag.
That's one reason I hardly ever visit myspace or facebook.

Now if it were optional, I'd be fine, but until that becomes apparent, I won't be in favor of this change.

Also, if the majority of feedback was negative, why even release the feature?

[xXDeathDogXx]

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[Extra Sharp Cheddar]

I posted earlier, but I was just wondering... What is going to go in the big empty space of the header? It looks silly without anything in it confused

[LleeIsOnline]

I am not thrilled.

[D_Marx]

I don't need an update that will make my connection lag and take up valuable space. If you do plan to keep it around, I will be closing out of that as soon as it comes up. One more pop-up to fend off on this site.

[Snafubar]

Dawgyod.
One of those horrible footers?

No, Gaia. Please don't do that.
Please?

[legos on the floor]

Hm, the changes don't look at all vibrant or community-oriented to me; I hope that the future changes you're saving space for are going to be in the very near future. The sectioned-off logo with empty space below it and the rectangular space where the map had been make the header as a whole look half-done.

As to the footer business, I really appreciate that you've decided to leave PM notices in the speech bubble, and would like to ask that trade notifications be left there as well. As the bank link has already been removed from the drop down menus and the header map is leaving, making trades will become a phenomenal inconvenience to those of us (like myself) who will chose not to use the footer.

Also, I have no idea why the page is stretched horizontally in the mock, but I can't help but notice the footer is stretched with it. You may want to address this before putting it out -- if it doesn't have a set size or float horizontally as well as vertically, anyone using it and viewing a stretched page will miss their updates.
EDIT: After reading through the rest of the thread, I was reminded some people have different screen resolutions. I dumb. Still though, it's a little strange that the footer adjusts, but the header does not. Makes them clash.

--Something really bothered me about the logo, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Llorelei got it down, though:

Llorelei

Edit: I also dislike the Logo box... It makes Gaia seem more.. hemmed in, rather than free.. if you know what I mean? And Gaia is supposed to be about the freedom to express yourself, right?

Gaia's been put in a box. sad

[Helenarth]

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Eh. I'm really not a fan of this idea. Floating footers are irritating at best, and they clog up the page. I suggest that if you do decide to add the footer, make it optional - that is to say, users can change back to the bubble if they wish. :3
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