Cheap. I didn't ask for your opinion on my server or my servers name for that matter.
I mostly was expecting feedback on the new layout, the background image, the logo but people are mostly interested in the guide more and by people I mean your team.
It comes as a package, I am commenting on your website for your server. Also quoted by you 'expecting feedback for the logo' which includes the name of the server. I am stating my opinion as I would on any server advert when I play mir 3.
Also how can it be generic when for years people have been using the same form of layout, way before chronicles or lomcn even started it. But if you want to head down that route we can.. Look at your background on your site and look at chronicles.. It's not exactly the same but your both using a dragon. So don't talk about originality when Mir is almost the same on every server apart from people's own ideas implemented into a server.
Generic as in the kind of blocky, two colour forum with a picture of mir characters either side of the main body. Yes I agree it's a good design for touch screen users but there is very little difference from your forum and lomcn/chronicles forum. Can I just say, what's with the use of different shades of blue across all three forums.
As you so rightly pointed out our website has a dragon which in a sense is similar to chronicles website which has a dragon but this hadn't crossed our minds when we picked our website templates, our goal was to pick something that represented mir and our apocalyptic theme. We planned everything around our name and this vision of apocalypse.
Actually my server is called The Five Heroes and it represents the five classes since it's the first files that supported five classes and considering my server was the very first server that went online using the files (not to forget that most of which my server helped develop the files considering there were a lot of bugs that were found and passed on to developers). I can't argue with the server being a bit dull but I no longer work on that server anymore (just fyi) and when I did there was a lot of issues with the files that I went through and put them first before adding custom ideas. But this weren't a subject regarding my server but you thought you would just through yourself because there's one angry third team member.
Well I was just plucking a name out from the top of my head, I had a 1 in 3 chance of getting it right - it was either EpicMir, Five Heroes or something like Legends Untold. Yes your server was one of the first servers that come up - only because it was rushed up. Apocalypse has been in development since before you put your server up. Rightfully you helped lomcn identify a lot of bugs but anyone could have done that and I am sure EpicMir have reported as many bugs as you have.
P.S. I'm not an angry third team member, I just don't want to be labelled as a part of the 'Apocalypse Team' who has jumped on the band wagon of insulting your website guide. If I was you I would chose your words a lot more carefully before accusing a group of people because not everyone you label will be involved. It's like me saying that all of LOMCN staff are biased towards Chronicles because half of them are on their team. Half of them is not all of them.
I am introducing a guide and will continue to do so, not because it 'showcase' my server but to do its job which is 'guide' my players and anyone else who plays mir who wishes to use it as resource site. It's not just a 'trend' for popular servers. People seem to think that most things I do is to do with my server, it's really not, I like web development and I'm enjoying doing it in my spare time. You are going on like it's a crime to use something that will almost look identical if I took it myself. Let's not forget to mention mirguide.com took these images from chronicles and used them but I don't see anyone else complaining? But because it's me and I am using it on my website it's become an issue from something so little and I haven't even completed yet.
Server guide's are usually to showcase work or to give in more depth about the server. If you want to work on a player guide why not build on the in game help guide and contribute it back to the community? You would helping your players, the community and reducing the amount of haters you currently have.
Fair enough you like web development but building a website that isn't your own work isn't hardly much of an achievement? Also for the record mirguide.com have created a guide of Chronicles with Chronicles images. It's not like he's ripping off chronicles content and saying it's his own content on his own server.
Some feedback on your website as you requested:
1. Gallery images would be better if they popped up on a slide show type window rather than in a new tab.
2. I think the LegendOfMir info and Gallery section could be separated a little better with some borders (at the moment they look like they are as one).
3. The text in the footer "Forum software by XenForo™ ©2010-2015 XenForo Ltd"is too dark to see, but I assume it's purposefully like this.
4. I feel like the info and gallery shoved on the bottom clutters it. It should be moved to a separate page.
5. Why do you have a whole section for your Facebook page link? Why not put a button somewhere on the sidebar?
(if your worried about there being space at the bottom of your page then possibly look into a live chat system so you can talk directly to players when your available).
6. When you start to scroll down from the top of the screen, that whole bit is really glitchy and it doesn't look smooth at all. The grey bar vanishes where the search box is but the search box doesn't vanish. I'd expect that blue bar that fades in / out to fade down wards not left to right. Personally i'd remove the sign in / log out bit at the top and attach it to the bar below that moves when you scroll.
7. Bad photo shop
case closed