View Full Version : New Netphoria Website


Andrew_Pakula
07-27-2008, 11:20 AM
I would just like to announce that the main Netphoria website has been redesigned and relaunched.

Check it out:
http://www.netphoria.org/

After 10 years of the old design I thought it was time for something new and fresh.

As many of you know the old site has long been suffering with inadequate updates, dated content and info, etc. I had always planned on updating the site and launching something newer but struggled with getting anything done and as the years started to go by the site began to rot. Part of the reason was simply I had lost interest, also the fact that the old site was not dynamic/automated made it difficult to keep things updated on a regular basis.

I hope everyone likes the new look of the site, I tried to keep it dark and familiar. The new site will once again have the latest Smashing Pumpkins news, information and tour dates. The photo album has been enhanced and expanded upon and the videos pages has been updated. More new content and features will be added in time. I will also be looking at ways to integrate the Message Board more into the main site.

A special thanks to MonteLDS for helping me get things rolling again.

Caine Walker
07-27-2008, 11:21 AM
first!

Caine Walker
07-27-2008, 11:23 AM
A special thanks to MonteLDS for helping me get things rolling again.

and the skin is pulled back.



looks pretty good, btw. nothing fancy or obnoxious. i like it.

Pizza Club
07-27-2008, 11:27 AM
Wordpress huh

It's too bad I will never, ever check the main page.

skipgo
07-27-2008, 11:29 AM
looks pretty good. i remember the old days when i used to check the main site more than i did the forums... good to see new life there.

skipgo
07-27-2008, 11:30 AM
a special thanks to dwight schrute for helping me get things rolling again

rofl

ohhhh rofl

duovamp
07-27-2008, 11:33 AM
This looks a balls lot better mcm mcm mcm.

emotionalfriend
07-27-2008, 11:45 AM
wait...there's more to Netphoria than the forums?

Floppy Nono
07-27-2008, 12:19 PM
yeah really, i just visited it for probably the first and last time. netphoria should just redirect automatically to the forums.

jillysp
07-27-2008, 12:31 PM
looks pretty good. i remember the old days when i used to check the main site more than i did the forums... good to see new life there.

If by "life" you mean "something that resembles content," okay. If by "life" you mean content that doesn't misspell the name of the band to which this site is dedicated, then I'd look somewhere else.

For more all the latest Smashing Pumpkin tour information see the tour date section or join the discussion of the tour on our Message Board

sppunk
07-27-2008, 12:32 PM
Holy fuck Andrew please have us read these posts before they are uploaded.

MonteLDS
07-27-2008, 01:02 PM
I have someone taking care of reading my post before I add them in the future.

Thank you for your concern

SquashinPumpkin
07-27-2008, 01:06 PM
It'd be much sharper if the picture at the top wasnt some shitty cellphone camera picture.

mayday
07-27-2008, 01:07 PM
The updates are very nice.
However, I think you should take out the part of the summary that says "the site that Billy Corgan loves to hate" why would you be happy that the creator of this band "hates" the fan site you made about his band? i dont understand why that would be something to be note-worthy.
I come here because I think some of the conversations and discussions that come about are interesting, and there are some interesting people. and i like to help people who are sad and angry and lost when i can. but honestly the aura of netphoria can be described as sad and has under-tone feeling of mean spiritedness. not everyone and not all of it but it's there. to promote these feelings seems very odd to me. why would you want to purposefully encourage a wedge between yourself and Billy Corgan?

Baffler_Meal
07-27-2008, 01:10 PM
I really like the new design. I've been a visitor of the site "since the beginning" and find that the new design is refreshing but familiar. When I opened the Netphoria bookmark this morning, I thought I had clicked the wrong one at first. The site was my daily time machine visit back to 1998. ;)

Great job, and thanks for keeping the site up for as long as you have.

Thaniel Buckner
07-27-2008, 01:21 PM
WHAT THE FUCK MAN WHERE'S THE HIT COUNTER.

Banana
07-27-2008, 01:21 PM
Nice redesign, I like it.

JokeyLoki
07-27-2008, 01:24 PM
Well done, Pakula!

???
07-27-2008, 01:24 PM
ahaha: "and home to the infamous Netphoria Message Board, the largest smashing pumpkins community forums that Billy Corgan loves to hate"

???
07-27-2008, 01:27 PM
we should just change the netphoria title/slogan to "netphoria, home of the infamous netphoria message board"

kindof like how tony roma's isn't just tony roma's, its Tony Roma's Famous For Ribs

nahmean

keito
07-27-2008, 01:30 PM
It'd be much sharper if the picture at the top wasnt some shitty cellphone camera picture.

i agree with that.

I think the photo is great for a fanpage, but it needs too be sharper. I someone finds something similar in better quality it should be up.

Skradgee
07-27-2008, 01:31 PM
we are witnesses to history.



i agree about the hit counter...it's a simple thing that might be nice to have back.

Kahlo
07-27-2008, 01:32 PM
It'd be much sharper if the picture at the top wasnt some shitty cellphone camera picture.

this.

However nice update, and I enjoyed reading the site history :)

I know you will work through the bugs, here is one - video page spelling error:

Mellon Colline & the Infinite Sadness Music Videos

duovamp
07-27-2008, 01:37 PM
I like that picture.

MisterSquishyHalo
07-27-2008, 01:53 PM
There is a main page?

Starla
07-27-2008, 01:58 PM
omg it's just terrible

Starla
07-27-2008, 02:02 PM
ok, i like the basic design, it's fresh but that awful out of focus pic needs to go

brillo998
07-27-2008, 02:07 PM
Better, but that fuzzy picture has got to go.

ChaosEffect
07-27-2008, 02:11 PM
A special thanks to MonteLDS for helping me get things rolling again.

So what did Monte exactly do again?

duovamp
07-27-2008, 02:12 PM
Child pornography.

ChaosEffect
07-27-2008, 02:15 PM
I would have never guessed.

MonteLDS
07-27-2008, 02:29 PM
I did the following
updated the news section for the past year with just the more major things that happen uploaded a majority of the photo album
uploaded all the music videos
added the links
added the tour dates

Hate the Hater
07-27-2008, 02:37 PM
good work

Kahlo
07-27-2008, 03:18 PM
Weird. Even though I have adblock on, the frontpage is worse than ever for adds.

Virex Kills
07-27-2008, 03:57 PM
Main motivation for updating front page?
Adding more ads.

Kahlo
07-27-2008, 04:08 PM
Adding more ads.

I must admit I laughed with all the ads between every story

rolmos
07-27-2008, 06:47 PM
WTF is the favicon?

wHATcOLOR
07-27-2008, 06:55 PM
how can a website rot

thewidow
07-27-2008, 06:56 PM
hOW ABOUT YOU RE-DO THE forums and not have ads in every single square inch?

Mablak
07-27-2008, 06:57 PM
Way to go Pakula, I can tell you put a solid 10 years of effort into this update

thewidow
07-27-2008, 07:00 PM
He probably got drunk one night and said "what the hell."

srt4b
07-27-2008, 08:43 PM
Looks like a Frontpage 98 template.

neopryn
07-27-2008, 08:48 PM
it sucks!!!

Starla
07-27-2008, 09:10 PM
someone notify me when the o'site puts up an o'board and then i'm outta here

Starla
07-27-2008, 09:12 PM
I must admit I laughed with all the ads

yeah I laugh every time I gotta clean viruses and spyware off my comp.

Andy /
07-27-2008, 10:31 PM
someone notify me when the o'site puts up an o'board and then i'm outta here

the o-site put up an o-board.

The Omega Concern
07-27-2008, 11:13 PM
the ad for the New Kids on the Block reunion is a nice touch.

nice transition though, well done all around Andrew (and Monte).

TuralyonW3
07-27-2008, 11:25 PM
well done

DiscoJon
07-28-2008, 05:57 AM
Too little too late. Netphoria's a fucking joke and anyone with over 1000 posts needs to get a fucking life.

Luke de Spa
07-28-2008, 06:02 AM
kill the corgan baiting and fix the miserable IA

seriously who intersperses fucking site navigation with advertising, this is dire

left column:
MAIN MENU
BLURB
<B>ADVERTISEMENT</B>
RANDOM PICTURES [this is more important than tour dates and search? no one will ever use it. get rid of it]
TOUR DATES
SEARCH [this belongs closer to the main menu]
SITE STATS [no one cares. kill it]
<B>ADVERTISEMENT</B>

main column:
CONTENT
<B>ADVERTISEMENT</B>
CONTENT
<B>ADVERTISEMENT</B>
CONTENT
<B>ADVERTISEMENT</B>
etc. this is just fucking broken. absolutely awful. unreadable
<B>ANOTHER ADVERTISEMENT!!</B>
FOOTER

right column
NEWS CATEGORIES [why is this divorced from the main nav?]
<B>ADVERTISEMENT</B>
RECENT POSTS
NEWS ARCHIVES

look. i know you need to monetise the site, and that's fine, but this is not how you do it. advertising needs to be unobtrusive in order for it to be effective. you are never going to get repeat traffic with this approach, especially if monte (of all people) is the hack writing the content

by the bye, what's with the redundant hover states on the main menu?
edit: oh, right, they're titles and on almost all links. pretty misleading; why would you style those

Luke de Spa
07-28-2008, 06:11 AM
oh jesus fucking christ you put the page-hijacking overlay ads in as well? unbelievable

wally
07-28-2008, 06:26 AM
i would be as incredulous if my visit to the main site didn't crash firefox everytime

Kahlo
07-28-2008, 07:17 AM
epic FAIL

i'll stick to

http://forums.netphoria.org

Gish08
07-28-2008, 08:09 AM
Very nice. You could use better pics of Darcy and James for the "original Smashing Pumpkins" part. And a pic of Jimmy that doesn't have Billy in it.

Luke de Spa
07-28-2008, 08:15 AM
and why the hell does the big "netphoria" image up the top – you know, the one everyone will assume links back to the home page BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS ON EVERY OTHER SITE ON THE ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET – take me to a goddamn rss feed?

do you really do this for a living?

mayday
07-28-2008, 08:21 AM
i like the glowing letters

i can only use the mac when i visit this site because the pop up ads dont work on it, when i use the pc or anyone else's pc it's just non-visitable. lots ads and i do not appreciate the porn-like ads. gross.

an o borad would be a wonderful thing but there's always blamo i guess. they have recipes there too which is cool

Pizza Club
07-28-2008, 09:32 AM
an o borad would be a wonderful thing but there's always blamo i guess. they have recipes there too which is cool

Seriously?

ravenguy2000
07-28-2008, 09:37 AM
Don't quote mayday.

Pizza Club
07-28-2008, 10:11 AM
Oh okay.

thewidow
07-28-2008, 10:19 AM
Yay I got AdBlock...

I didn't know it was free haha

duovamp
07-28-2008, 10:31 AM
I didn't even know there were ads...

Pizza Club
07-28-2008, 11:04 AM
I didn't even know there were ads...

Yeah me either. I went back and checked in IE and it was ridiculous. How can someone put that many ads on a legit website?

Virex Kills
07-28-2008, 01:37 PM
oh jesus fucking christ you put the page-hijacking overlay ads in as well? unbelievable

Thats what I was thinking. It's one thing to have those on your forums, but the main page? Terrible.

Esty
07-28-2008, 01:45 PM
Shouldn't this thread have been on the gen board?

threnody33
07-28-2008, 02:04 PM
Thats what I was thinking. It's one thing to have those on your forums, but the main page? Terrible.

agreed .

i was honestly afraid to click the link to the main page because i didn't want to see a wall of advertisements . but i did it anyway . shame on me .

it's pretty fucking annoying that the forums don't allow enough time to log in before being sent off into ad-world . what's the point of my lifetime membership that i bought if i'm forced to see ads anyway ? and now they're on the -main- page too ?!

pretty lame .

. m

p.s. where's my zeitgeist flag that i won in your contest years ago ? did anybody else not get theirs ?

Esty
07-28-2008, 05:43 PM
Shouldn't this thread have been on the gen board?


mayday said this

====Esty i feel really bad for you. I can't imagine what causes you to feel so bad about yourself that you have to behave the way that you do. Unless it's all about being a drama person for attention. does your mean spirited behavior really bring you happiness?===

I replied with

===I do it for the pussy. Chicks love pricks.===

That little shit deleted it. I can't believe it.

Caine Walker
07-28-2008, 07:06 PM
ok, so i admittedly didnt look around much.

but fucking knock it off rocklobster.

neopryn
07-28-2008, 08:38 PM
Pakula your site sucks and making Monte mod was the worst decision in a long line of terrible ones!!! stick my lifetime donation up your ass!!!

maoi
07-28-2008, 09:44 PM
making monte the front page news editor of this site is akin to giving a bored retarded kid a sock to play with. so now that he has that can we take him off the moderator beat?

and holy shit the ads are on the front page now hahaha

neopryn
07-28-2008, 10:20 PM
I can't even tell that there are ads on the front page because of donating I guess, or maybe Adblock Plus, but I still think it sucks!!!

SP MediaMilitia
07-29-2008, 12:28 AM
good work! It's always a bit sad to see sites change that have been the same for so long, they are like time capsules.

IWishIWasBlank
07-29-2008, 09:21 AM
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CKiK29Wb3Lq9ehB4GMIEMghpFQf7macPQQ

Andrew, we need to work on some of your sponsors here...

The Melty Man
07-29-2008, 09:23 AM
I forgot it existed I've been visiting the forums so much!

jczeroman
07-29-2008, 10:26 AM
Netphoria - bringing the light of Christ to smashing pumpkins fans

http://www.netphoria.org/wp-content/themes/scuba-10/images/sidebar.jpg

jczeroman
07-29-2008, 10:26 AM
but seriously dude, the design is great. kudos for all the hard work!

Luke de Spa
07-30-2008, 02:57 AM
but seriously dude, the design is great. kudos for all the hard work!
no no no NO NO NO NO NO NO you don't know what you're doing, you don't know what you're saying

redbull
07-30-2008, 03:00 AM
you'll have to excuse him, he's a libertarian

Bleakest Harves
07-30-2008, 02:08 PM
All the ads give me ring-sting and hurt my face.

jjbjjbjjb
07-30-2008, 02:42 PM
Ah, Netphoria. Home to the infamous Netphoria website, the site that Netphoria users love to hate...

Tribute2JohnnyB
07-30-2008, 03:07 PM
people still go to the main page?

Tribute2JohnnyB
07-30-2008, 05:02 PM
well shit on me...

redbull
07-30-2008, 08:06 PM
where will we discuss the new lawsuit now that the thread for it is closeD?!

buttercup
07-30-2008, 09:24 PM
I love the new look.