As a user, I find it somewhat counter-intuitive that when I'm on the homepage
http://www.incontinentsupport.org/ and then click on the
Forum menu item to the left, I am then taken to
Welcome to your Forum Page, which is a kind of Forum title page but requires you to click on the
Click Here to go to our new forum link in the text to actually arrive at the forum.
I would expect that the
Forum menu item would take me directly to the forum ... that
Welcome to your Forum Page feels a bit superfluous, because what is written there is either implicit
("You do have to log-in or register to the forum in order to post messages") - people will find that out anyhow - or could be worked into the real forum page
here.
Also, you could consider whether stressing that it's a NEW forum still has any use? As a new member, all that it does is make me think
"Ah, they must have renewed the forum somewhere in the past ... ok, well, that's nice, I hope it's an improvement over the previous forum."That "New" sign must at one point served some function, maybe because the new forum was at another URL as the previous one - but the existing members surely have adapted to that new URL by now.
It reminds me of a traffic information sign we have around here that is sometimes put up when something has changed that could impact traffic safety: for instance, a roundabout was built, or a new exit, a crossing, or whatever.
The sign reads
"Attention! Traffic situation has changed!"It makes a lot of sense when it's new: everyone who comes there is used to the old situation, and should be notified of the change.
But those signs are left standing for quite some time, so that when I pass that spot half a year later, I think
"Oh, they changed it again? How? What's changed now? I don't see anything different .... help, maybe I'm missing something important! (blind panic ensues, I'm losing control, car careens into a ditch)"
Etcetera
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