Express your thoughts on how to improve this already satisfying site

[SoS]

Since only moderators and hosts can imput ideas to the guitar tricks host on how to make this web page better i thought i'd run a thread about it cause i know some of yous out there probably have some wicked ideas. And putting those ideads on this thread will enable the moderators to see it and there for take it to the host.

My ideas would be
* we should have a voting system that allows us to see what score users gave us because i have seen some brilliant work and i award it 8 or so points and the next day someones given it a 1 for no reason!
* i think it would be cool to see catagorized types of music threads?..eg Metal, Punk etc so we can hang out in our own style of music...i hope that made sense! :D

I hope this thread helps this site and users.

[lalimacefolle]

I would want to see a section with "lessons in the style of: GIT, Berklee USC etc..." done by students who attended them...
By the way, I think that dividing threads in style isn't a very good idea, since I enjoy seeing what other people listen to...

[James]

I don't think we have enough people actively participating in the forum to make threads devoted to many individual genres a feasible idea - it's interesting though.

Lessons in the style of guitar schools?.. I don't really see how that would work, and also I don't believe we have very many active members here who have gone to one of these schools.

[Hootayah]

I'd like to see the site take on a more futuristic look to it. Maybe a black background as opposed to the bright white look. I'd also like to see the main host/submit your own tricks part of the site take on a more prominent role. Right now it seems that there's a whole bunch of members in the forum that don't even know the full guitar tricks site exists. Quite often I see messages asking where to find tabs etc... and they get sent elsewhere when they're already on a site that can provide what they want. it's kind of like guitar tricks needs a main 'home' page that really stands out as the front 'magazine cover' type of thing.
I'd also like to see the main part of guitar tricks editorial and interative sections expanded and completed. alot of the stuff like the jam sections and the how-to stuff haven't changed in a couple of years.
other than that.. the site is awesome. there's some amazing players on here and they deserve huge congratulations for making the site what it is.

[lalimacefolle]

Originally posted by James
Lessons in the style of guitar schools?.. I don't really see how that would work, and also I don't believe we have very many active members here who have gone to one of these schools. [/B]

That's too bad, it would be cool to have a taste of them...
On "how" I'd say that it should be like the host section, but instead of licks, it should be around concepts that those schools carry... (rock improvising as taught at berklee, as opposed to GIT...)

[Lordathestrings]

I'd suggest removing the Login from the front page. My guess is that a lot of prople are logging in because they think they have to in order to browse the site. Having the login request pop up when someone wants to reply to a thread is sufficient on its own IMHO.

[James]

Originally posted by lalimacefolle

That's too bad, it would be cool to have a taste of them...
On "how" I'd say that it should be like the host section, but instead of licks, it should be around concepts that those schools carry... (rock improvising as taught at berklee, as opposed to GIT...) [/B]

It's not a bad idea I just don't think many people here would know the difference between the methodologies the two schools use. I have to admit I'm pretty ignorant about it as well. I learned today that one year at Berklee (in Canadian dollars) is about 45 grand. There goes that dream
:(


I also agree that the site could use a little cosmetic upgrading here and there.

I couldn't really ask for much more from this site, except for one thing... get rid of the popups, especially the ones that make noise! Anyone else get that trivia one? Urgh

[Hootayah]

I haven't had any popups here in over a year and I'm using 2 different computers. I thought those things were eliminated ages ago cause everybody hated em so much.

[lalimacefolle]

I got the one that makes the broken glass noise!!! It scares the shot out of me everytime!!

[Psycho Amram]

a new system of rating will be great
for example i posted some work of mine some weeks ago and i dont even know if anyone saw it :mad:

and about that guitar schools stuuf that would be fine. i myself dont know much about the methodologies and i would like to.

and the popups are really pain in the ass i get the casino stuff

p.s
oh and stop the guys who put "tricks" like "van halen is the best
-van-halen------------------------------------|
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---------------van-halen----------------------|
----------------------van-halen---------------|
-----------------------------van-halen--------|
------------------------------------van-halen-|"

[Benoit]

About the popups...

We don't pay for this great website, let the guy make some money. I think he deserves it. Don't you?

It a small price to pay for the kind of quality ressources we get here. But I got to admit that some popups are getting on my nerves too..

The broken glass is one nasty bugger

[Lordathestrings]

I wouldn't care to guess how many hundreds of dollars it costs each month to pay for the server space that we get to use for free!

I sometimes get frustrated about not being able to include schematic drawings or pictures to clarify some of my technical explanations. Then I think about how much server space we'd bloat to if we were posting graphics.

I enjoy the inherent democracy of this site. There's no exclusionary membership fee to keep out contributors who don't happen to have coin laying around. A few pop-ups is a small price to pay.

Think of those pop-ups as a free video game! How fast can you zap 'em?

[Benoit]

lol

good one!

[Christoph]

Originally posted by Hootayah
I'd like to see the site take on a more futuristic look to it. Maybe a black background as opposed to the bright white look.

I agree. I know it takes a lot of work and planning, but I'd like to see a new site design. Something that's a little easier to navigate. And just so I don't sound selfish, I can offer my services . . . :)


Originally posted by Lordathestrings
I'd suggest removing the Login from the front page. My guess is that a lot of prople are logging in because they think they have to in order to browse the site.

Another good idea. Jon said that he just deleted around 5000 users names that weren't being used. This tells me that a lot of people are signing up because they think they have to. You only have to if you're going to post, people!

[Dimitrivich]

Soloing seems to be a big topic throughout the threads...I would suggest making a menu on the first page just on soloing. We pretty much have everything else, so why not.

[Bardsley]

Maybe it's because I have allowed evil cookies while others here haven't, but I never log in, I automatically logged in as soon as I go to the forum pages. Much as I'm all for funky page design, I would hate to have a black backgound for reading. Wholenote's blue is quite nice, as it is very light, but I hate light writing over a dark background; that neon-green over black that they have in Guitar war is so irritating, and so dated.

[Lordathestrings]

I agree about not wanting light-on-dark text. And something a bit less contrasty than black-on-white would be easier on the eyes.

On a more personal note: Bardsley, if you never have to log in, that means you still have your cookies from a previous visit... which in turn implies that you haven't cleaned out your browser's cache folders since how long ago???

Now that's scary!

[Christoph]

I never log in either. Cookies are the way to go! Just make a batch file that deletes all the ones you don't want when you boot up.

[Incidents Happen]

i think the voting thing shouldnt even be on guitartricks. you know your going to have some asshole give a ****ty score when it deserves a 10 or something. I say scrap that, and make a guitartricks magazine! or a guitartricks CD or something. I dont know its pretty good as it is.

[lalimacefolle]

I agree, because the first vote on some of my tricks were 1, and then others were 10, and I stil get a pretty crappy note!!

[Willdridge]

I don't really know quite where to begin - there's been some very interesting points raised here. If you're reading this Jon though, I just want to tell you that everyone appreciates what you're doing (hell, everyone else for that matter! But I do think Jon deserves some greater credit for all this...)
Login in on the front page - yea, maybe that could be a good idea to get rid of...in defence of it though, it's the perfect time for people to login in to "rate this trick"...Other places on the site could become quite annoying and stuff...plus it's nice to get to the site and to get the login over and done with...
Ummmm...I've actually kinda lost where I was going with this...dang!
Talk amoungst yourselves while I gather my thoughts...(ahem!...)

[Incidents Happen]

HAHA!!!
Coffee Talk with Linda Richman!

[metalbob69]

they should put a jason becker and marty friedman guitar lesson thing i think that would be bad ass :0)

[Incidents Happen]

WHY is it that there isnt a JERRY GARCIA inspiration thing!?!?! tell me THAT! lol. seriously jon (right?) Jerry was a legend...cant forget about him on there.

you guys know what im talkin about right? on the main screen where it has all those guys that are 'inspirations'. if chet akins (sp?) is on there then jerry garcia should be

[lalimacefolle]

I am a pro guitarist from France, and the dead aren't really known outside of america. I know them because I have studied in the US, but Jerry Garcia, even though he deserves it, doesn't get all the attention that others do. Even pros hardly know of the grateful dead, even music fans... You can sometimes see a poster in a store, but I guess it's like the iron maiden guy, it's only because the dead head looks good.

[Hootayah]

All that those buttons do though, is to perform a search for whatever name you've selected. Just type Jerry Garcia into the search box and it'll do exactly the same thing.

[Hootayah]

I just thought of one thing that would greatly improve my enjoyment of the site.
All of the HTML pages are titled 'Guitar Tab at Guitar Tricks'. Whenever you try to use the 'BACK' menu to surf to a previous page, there's no way to distinguish one page from another.

[Incidents Happen]

Originally posted by Hootayah

All that those buttons do though, is to perform a search for whatever name you've selected. Just type Jerry Garcia into the search box and it'll do exactly the same thing.

really??? sweet thanks man! never knew bout that!

[SoS]

Very good ideas
I just thought i'd bring up the chat discussion in here since this is the most popular forum
What do you guys think of having a chat room in Guitar tricks?
I vote we should have one but we should have certain times when the chats open so all guitar members meet up instead of having an all hours which will end up destroying the forum board
But as Guitar tricks host "Jon Broderick" pointed out there are a few problems that need to solved first
1. we need alot more particapation if we are going to have a chat room ie. Supervisors and so on
2. Then theres the challenge of finding a free chat since this great site isnt a money making organisation

Say "I" if your willing to take part in making a chat room for Guitar tricks we need all the help we can get
.........I am in :D it would be my pleasure