I've redesigned the art view page a bit. I've been meaning to do it for a while but today I was sort of forced to do it because of the implementation of the new little button thingies. They are explained later in this post:

The buttons didn't look good on the art view pages so I decided to take the time and redesigin it a bit. What always bugged me about the art view pages was that if you have an art piece with multiple artists, it would only show the profile, art gallery, next and previous artwork, etc. for ONE of the artists. So now I've fixed that to show gallery nav links for all artists of an art piece.

The art view page design still needs some more tweaking though. The page is like 3 times longer now than it was before so I need to compress some text and such so that it doesn't require so much needless scrolling. There are also other things I need to change too to make it look better. Perhaps rounding off the boxes so that they don't seem so squarish.

Anyway, these new changes have been implemented on both the Paper Demon and Red Curtain sides.

Back to those buttons though, I needed a way of distinguishing the different user levels such as Admin, Mod, Premium account, Standard account, and locked/banned accounts. I was thinking about using symbols like DA but that wouldn't work because some people have symbols in their aliases due to the flexability of characters allowed in aliases. So I thought about just doing font colors which is sort of how it was before but font colors change depending on where you are on the site. In the forum, alias font colors are black, where other places are a sort of pale blue, and it can get confusing and may not look good in BOTH Paper Demon and Red Curtain. Particularly in the Red Curtain, the red font doesn't read so well. And in the Red Curtain, a lot of alias links are pink so that gets confused with the red color for admins.

SO my solution was to just do little colored image shape thingies. I just picked a circle 'cause it was simple. And with an image, I can give the colored circle a border color so that it shows up BOTH in the red curtain and paper demon sides without problem. PLUS it's consistant on both sides, as well as in the members area, so that there is no confusion.

There are still many areas on the site where your aliases don't show the little circle symbol, I'll get around to fixing that very soon. ANyway, here's the break down for the different symbols:
Administrator (Me heheheh)
Moderator
Beta testor
Premium Account
Standard Account
Locked/Banned Account

The beta one isn't in use yet. Whilst I'm creating all those snazzy new features for Premium account users, I'll probably give a few members temporary access to those new features so that they can help me work out the bugs. Any volunteers? You will be given all of the privilages of a Premium member but you'll be required to write up simple analysis report type things when you find a bug. You'll have to do THOROUGH testing too. I'll explain the details to you if you are interested. I haven't programmed in this new privilage access thingy yet but it will happen soon.

Anyway, your thoughts on any of the new changes are always welcome. Do you have something against circles? Should they be squares? triangles? :ponders: let me know what you think