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We value every body’s opinion. Please tell us how you would like Blonde Poker to look.

It's certainly nicer than the old skins.

It looks good

Can we have a link so that we can view it properly?

Could we have it in english please  ;)

Nice design, very simple and effective. Beats the yellow gunk up ATm :(

Please click the images to enlarge view. Please do not concern the texts as it is only graphics and style preview. (You can click on images several time everyone should see the new design clearly)

I may be speaking out of turn here, but I'm not too sure about the woman with the yellow hair on the LOGO.

Surely the Blonde in Blonde Poker refers to Dave "El Blondie" Colclough????

That's my tuppenth worth anyhow.

T

yep,

like it, quite sharp and things seem easier to get to...can we get a play at it befgore go live?

and who`s that chap in the hat...i though tikay was ask the pro ;D ;)

Ok on the new version we aim to be a little sexy and have a blonde of the month.  Nothing extreme what so ever and it can be Tikay Dave or a nice dealer anywhere in the world. Before anything goes live  we will vote and build this site together. O0

Blonde of the month / female logo, not sure about all that. there are other places on the net to get that. rest looks ok

caprice? i will volunteer to do the photos and interview

I meant the cartoon image over the word's blondepoker.com - not the photo of the real woman with blonde hair.

I know, but I mean both.

Lol Adam  -  My reply wasn't aimed at you but at Tony G.

OK, a lot said for using quotes!  lol

The Image is the proposed new logo but that is the first one, is the old one better?

OK, this is going to sound dumb coming from me, but in my opinion - it's too darn girlie!  lol     (or did I mean sexist??????   Hmmmmm)

But hey, I'm one voice of many.

T

I didn't like the reclining lady either.
I don't like the connection between Blonde poker and glamour models or naked silouettes.  As I say there's plenty of other places we can go for that.
I don't mind Blondite of the month though. just not Blonde of the month

Thanks a lot I would to help make this the best fun poker site that everyone is welcome to and help everyone beceom the best poker palyers. Lot of new things that will be in the new vesrion the design is easy but a poker shopr, poker school etc will be hard work.

Can nayone draw and send me a logo that would be better?

Ooooooooookkkkkkkk, that shut me up!!!  lol    :-X :-X

I agree with Trace, it looks like it should be on the packaging of a My Little Pony or something - it's either got to look sexy, or it has to be something different :)

And like Adam just put there ios something to be said that this is slightly against the norm and has a high ratio of female players/members... I dont actually care about "totty" all over the place, but it might be a deciding factor for some girlie somewhere who wants to join.

Just some food for thought :)

Blondite of the month sounds real good I would like to go with that, that is a great Idea. Do not want it sexy just Cool and Fun and some contests outside poker there would be a reward plus a bounty on the blondite of the month. Thanks so much for the Blondite of teh month the whole design office has gone GOAL!!!!

does that mean my interview and photo seesion with caprice goes out the window

I actually knocked Caprice out of the Paris WPT last year. Me Gus & her started on the same table. I suggested a tripple vodka to give her an edge. Wish she would play all the events.  That was a fun table she would not win the Blondite of teh month not good enough I guess.

she isnt a member of blondepoker so cant enter the blondite of the month but if you want to invite her to join i would be her chaparone

Tony, is your email address tonyg@blondepoker.com?

The new layout looks much more up-to-date.

Not like you need advice but here goes. As long as the site has decent content it don’t really matter to me what it looks like.

The more content the better, the current site has loads of dynamic content, which result in me and others visiting on a daily basis (lots of hits and busy forums = $).

The live tournament reports are to me what make the site stand out. I love to read them from the major events. No other poker sites I frequent have this feature to any decent standard. I hope this continues!

The front page would be great if it had a calendar of up and coming events, an example of this is http://www.britishsquad.co.uk/index2.php basically here you could have important dates outlined and can be viewed really fast by all visitors.

Live web chats with Blondie, Tony or other Special guests would be bloody great. You can’t beat interactive chats and it would give the site a real sense of community.

Basically the more stuff you can introduce that lets the average visitor feel involved in the site and give them a sense of belonging the better.

Daily competitions, caption competitions, thread of the week on the forums, picture of the week competition etc The list goes on, very simple to run, very cheap to keep going.

Hope I don’t sound too lame, just want to see the site blossom.

For what it's worth, my views are very close to Trace, Adam and Heid's. I didn't particularly like the old logo, and not overly keen on this one either. I guess what we are saying is why use a female image to sell the site, when Blonde just isn’t like that underneath.  I agree that if you push the “sexy” image in that direction you WILL put off some people (namely women) from joining the site to start with.

Does Blonde want to attract customers , because that is what we are talking about really, and sell them something that is a fabrication? It sends out a false image of what we all dearly love.  But, what do you use instead?  No idea tbh, you can hardly put a pair of comfy slippers and a armchair as a logo, and I think that is how a lot of us feel about Blonde lol. It’s a homely place, but that doesn’t get the new clients.

Ok so it’s only a logo, but it’s one of those things that really gets my goat. I think I have gone on far too long about this, long uni day and brain is working on over time but empty at the same time.

BTW, other than that, it looks great!  :)up

I like the idea of more fromt page stuff, because I admit to coming straight to the forum.
any caption comps, Blonde of the month, Blonde tourney news should be kept strictly on the front page, to make sure we all visit it on out way to the board at least once a day.

Agree 100% here.

I'll have a proper look at the design later and see what I think.

Have to agree with the above, we all know sex sells but do we really need to go down that route ? It cheapens the site and the values that I think Blonde stands for. We need somthing with universal appeal that says in an image what this site is about. Does Blonde have a mission statement or a Vision statement ? Somthing that says when all is said and done what we want it to be. IF we had this an image may be easier to come up with . I'll get me thinking cap on O0. The rest looks great tho fresh and sleek.

If sexy gets more members then I'm actually 100% behind it. I dont mean sex - I mean sexy. That was kind of why/how we came up with the current logo in the first place. It wasn't to shock, it was for business.

If it isn't helping us in the numbers game then I think it should be a logo related to DC. Like the character "El Blondie" or something. (As long as Clint Eastwood or Sergio Leone don't take legal action!)

The rest of the site looks good though.

I think it's more likely to drive people away than attract them if i'm honest.

Sexy girls do nothing for me, (but I will keep asking)

or Mr Burns

I think it looks fine maybe a bit busy, however I do realise the links pay there way. 
I do prefer the current Blonde Poker Logo just thinking about future merchadising
a good logo on a  Shirt /Cap etc.

regards

M

 

Well, it's much, much better. the logo looks like some 50s kitsch, so why not go the whole hog and make that obvious, stewardess uniform cap? I like the current logo, it's dramatic, eye-catching and will bring in more of the target audience than it will exclude. It's a bit racy but I challenge anyone to honestly say they feel it would put a gambler off. The new logo image goes well wth the typography but has little else to recommend it in comparison (in my view).

I think the body copy font is too round and am not massively keen on the sub-heads either from what I can see. I don't think it's close enough to some of the reversed out headers but no doubt your designer disagrees or would make some smart remark about negative space.

I do like the rest of the page structure, espec. the editors at the foot of the page and the band of 'favoured' poker rooms just above. Never understood why the profiles are at the top other than as a 'reward' to the staff.

Hope this helps.

I like the new design. Looks 10 x more professional.

I can understand why people might dislike the current logo, but I think that accusing the latest idea of sexism is oversensitive. It's just blonde hair in the end, nothing provocative or oppressive.

Having said that however, I do like the way TheBaron's going. If I understand him correctly, was he suggesting a little cartoon of El Blondie as the logo. Now that could be fun, yet, if done correctly, still look cool.

 :)up

How about one of Tikay?  :D

I agree with Sloppy,   ;) however I do feel it needs to be bi lingual so as the welsh speakers understand it , El blondie and me   :)up

Tony,

personal views are:

1. If I was you I would put the log in to the forum on the front page, so that people did not go direct to the forum, but went through the front page instead. Whenever I have seen anyone log onto BP I notice that they have the direct link to the forum and "log in forever" selected.

2. I don't think the logo works. The fonts look old fashioned and its plain. I would go for a sharper image using only capitals for the B and P to emphasise both these words. I would also not use white in the logo as this can cause problems with transferring the logo onto other formats. I would try and intergrate a poker image into the logo as a backdrop.

3. I would also be careful of the advertising content overbearing the editorial contact. for example, flashing banners and too much space allocated to advertising, although I appeciate revenue is important.

4. Overall, it looks mouch more professional that the current from page. I think this site already has the respect and credibility of the UK poker community, so I don't think "sexier" is as necessary as "better"

Just personal views, I'm sure everyones comments will creat the best look. Whatever it looked like, I'd still use it. Cheers Rob

if you did that i will leave and never come back

agreed

Why ironside?

because my password is approximate 16 digits long and i already have to type it in too often

Your password would be saved, just like many poker sites, you just click once and you are in. So you would see:

ironside

xxxxxxx

(you just click "log in")

This way you would not have to type it in and everyone would always see the front screen news and without having to click back from the forum.

Exactly same number of clicks as you currently do, just in a different order.

Surely you would not leave becuase of this?

if i had to type my password in every time i would seriously think about it i already get writers cramp

a form loggin would not save my password as i have that function disabled on my pc as

unlike most people i change my password nearly every week on any secure site i visit

i dont do this on most forums but i have to do it on blonde now

fair enough you awkward XXXX. Are you coming to my home game anyway?

Trying to reason with Ironside is like trying to shove butter up a porcupines arse with a hot needle

Agon, I think this prototype is fantastic. much kudos to your design skills (it might appear easy, but doing this sort of thing takes either a hell of a lot of work, or an incredibly gifted eye for composition). It would be a 100% improvement on the current site.

As to the password box - yeah it should be on the front page. As the site grows from strength to strength there may be a whole number of features that require a login. Having to travel to the forum to do so is obviously village. And with but a wee bit of code you can invisibly utilise the forums password security and db tables anyhow. Advertising will have to be put somewhere, but i think the proposed layout here is not too bad - just insist that advertisments aren't too distracting.

Again, I think this is really great work.

(And Iron,, saying that you'd leave the site if you had to type your password in on a different page, is hardly what I'd expect of an admin on uk's best poker site >:(.  You have to type you're password in somewhere, there's no reason it should be on the posting page rather than the front page! you're cookies will work just the same....)

ok ok ok i might not leave but would be extrmely pissed off if i had to type in my password

without typing it in i cant see anyway they can make you go via the front page and personally i hate having to type in my pass i have to do it enough as it (admin security checks)

if they was a cookie remember the pass so i didnt need to type it whats to stop me going straight to the forum via the url its impossible to mask the true url so that you cant come straight here and then the cookie would give log me in

are you using firefox to browse the site Iron? It has an autofill for logins, which updates itself when you change you're password (i also change my passes every so often), which is damn useful.

(In fact if anyone is still using crappy internet explorer to look at the web, tsk to you. download firefox now: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/))

tried the old netscrap hated it tried firefox didnt like it

IE has that lived in feel for me and the fact i know my way round it means i prefer it

also helps when my family phone me up asking for help with IE cause my knowledge of IE is still fresh

I am not designer of the prototype :) I am programmer :)

like the new layout - especially the bottom one , the dodgy 60`s housewife on the top one looks like she should be advertising soap powder and is rather cheesy , the new logo aint bad , definitley an improvement on the old one which always reminded me of the front of one of those  lap dancing bars that some of my friends visit ;D
was a good from tony g i reckon - get the blondes to come up with a logo and have a vote on the most popular

I don't know if it's just me that has this issue, but I find that as I access the forum a lot at work, the current home page with the reclining female must look a bit 'dubious' to any wandering eye who may catch it over my shoulder, I'm therefore always very careful to bypass the home page and come straight into the forum. I think the new designs retain that 'edginess' needed to attract interest to passing visitors, but in a more subtle way which would avoid problems like the above. Just my two cents...

I think the new proposed page is awesome, it looks modern with a retro feel, is well designed and a warm feel to it. I think there are a efw good points that have been raised. My first one I think Rob said. I understand the economic reasoning behind the sponsors but it certainly should not overtake the editorial content. I think it is in danger of doing that. The first thing I saw when I logged in was Full Tilt, not the Blonde Logo. Maybe that is intentional....
Regarding the "sexy" side of things, I think it is working fine "as long as it is not overdone" and there is not a huge emphasise put on it. Just another part / addition to the site.
Overall, very impressive.

            We appreciate the great  input. This is just a first
            draft design and we will work on it taking into account
            everyone's suggestions.

Can I add another NO to the logon through the front page please.

I already get warned at every appraisal about my internet browsing on work time - I like the forum because it's quite discreet, going through the front page might annoy my boss enough that I have to cut down & do some work. As I'm paid for what I know more than what I do - I want to keep it that way  ;)

No we need a new blonde each week, to download and use as desktop wallpaper. Like a poker babes calendar. Instead of babes drapping themselves over modded cars with go faster stripes, we can have them over poker tables and such like!

i agree with the comments about the logo and the font of blonde poker, the only other thing i would like to see and im not sure wether your planning to do it or not is to have it central rather than off the the left of the screen.

pervert ;D

I like your way of thinking Mikky ;)

I think the logo you have now is good, its eye catching. Also the new site looks very retro professional.

TBH I dont like the blonde of the month idea, and the new logo looks like something you would see in a salon, there has to be an ace of spades in the logo somewhere too :)

how about a newbie section where i can ask stupid questions without fear of looking stupid ~:

There are lots of newbies hanging around here, the joy is that if you ask any question there is likely to be somebody who is saying to themselves " I wish I asked that"

There are very few stupid questions but stupid answers are rife, but thankfully not here.

cheers :) Nice to know. 

Just as a point, I ment to put this in the forum post, not the website post - apologies

looks great to me, particularly the blonde of the month. good luck with it.

Thanks Jeff, & welcome to blonde! Ladies & Gents, I give you one of the UK's gretest poker players, Jeff D.

Take care Jeff, see you soon. And make sure you wear a pork pie hat - I LOVE your hats!

just a plee to those hard-working designers grafting the booootiful new site...

I see from the prototype the style is in a thin "magazine style" format - that looks great for the main pages, but could you not put the forum in that narrow width too. I find it really annoying to not be able to read messages to the full width of the screen. GUI guidelines to the ready!

Jammer (quite prepared to be ignored ;))