New site: General design issues

[Jonathan Kay]

1. Typical top of forum page
2. Typical bottom of forum page

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[Jonathan Kay]

Suggestions:

1. All navigation elements should be at both the top and bottom of the table of threads. This currently varies between threads and there are some with page nav at the bottom but not the top.
2. Move Search to the top bar as in "Log in". It's needed from everywhere and it would save vertical space.
3. Reduce the number of different font sizes and styles. The white on blue bar is elegant. The top white on red is too small. The name of the forum in the furthest R column in the table of threads is too small and faint.
4. Then see if it's possible to tighten the vertical spacing in the table to make more threads visible at once.
5. Centre thread column titles. 
6. Make the Home> Blatchat> line totally navigable and granular down to the current area. (This may have been recently fixed.) Halve its width allowing the three tabs to come up alongide on the R.
7. ACTIVE FORUM TOPICS is too big and too shouty in all caps. And would it be better if it said BlatChat or whatever. The current filters are already shown in the tabs below (but see previous post about what the tabs mean.)
8. At the bottom there is a misaligned box overlapping the red bar.
9. Remove all the information in the blue bar at the bottom. It's available elsewhere and it's variable whether it's visible or not because of vertical page size and scrolling. Then check it can all be found from the top banners.
10. Remove the upper red bar at the bottom. That information is already at the top in the logo.
11. Move the social media buttons to the top only or both at the top and bottom.
12. Put all the info in the bottom red bar in a single line.
13. The white on grey buttons on posts eg edit are variably capitalised.

And breathe. Thanks. Jonathan