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Layout improvements at AfterDawn.com
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31. August 2006 @ 00:24 |
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not sure if it's the opacity or the actual color used to highlight whichever tab is selected ie.. forum, news, etc... but it looks a greenish color which doesn't quite fit. Should be more blue in my humble opinion.
But yeah... do like the new tabs.
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31. August 2006 @ 01:19 |
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Hmmm, seems like a lot has changed since I have came back (a weeks absence), tabs are huge :-p
The [color=red]colour[/color] tag support is great though :-)
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31. August 2006 @ 02:12 |
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i made afterdawn bleed :)
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31. August 2006 @ 02:33 |
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I still think that we should have the idea where the user gets to swith between the layouts they want, a bit like the colour scheme thing on the profiles page.
I realy want to see the old AfterDawn back.
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31. August 2006 @ 04:27 |
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Same, I MUCH prefere the old aD layout, wheres the my account tab gone???!!!
:-(
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31. August 2006 @ 04:39 |
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31. August 2006 @ 04:47 |
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Well, i think it looks pretty cool. i think i prefer the old afterdawn lookout, but its still pretty cool.
The old style will always be remembered in my signature pic :D
Thanks ireland!![afterdawn legend]
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31. August 2006 @ 04:50 |
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So will we get the old AD back?
or can we get the toggle between old and new look option?
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Auslander
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31. August 2006 @ 06:07 |
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probably no and no....odds are, this is what we have until drd does the total redesign on '08. so let's try to get used to it, eh?
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I hate titles
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31. August 2006 @ 06:15 |
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BluRay: People generally dislike change -- and you and bunch of others are a living proof of that :-) But if we'd listened only the people complaining about the changes, we'd still have a frame-based thingy we had back in 1999 with WinAMP skins, no discussion forums and lovely pink menus here and there. People who have been visiting our site ever since 1999 or so, probably do remember the "v1" (the ultra-graphics rich website that was a huge overkill back in an era when 56k modem was the FAST connection to the net) and "v2" (that existed until late 2003, a completely different from v1, with virtually no graphics and no color whatsoever). And every time we've changed the layout, 99% of the feedback has been negative -- until we suggest 6 months later "hey guys, maybe we should go back to the previous layout" and people start telling us how they prefer the new look instead ;-)
That is not saying that we don't listen our user feedback -- actually the new layout was sparked by the user feedback we've been receiving for the last 3 years, people telling us how they like the site but can't find navigational elements of the site and thus, getting lost trying to figure out where to find stuff they are looking for.
So, the new layout stays. We'll evaluate stuff that is important for developing our site -- that includes feedback from our Finnish users, you guys and from the log statistics we see. As I've worked almost 9 years in web development business, been working for companies such as BBC, etc and dealt with web development issues, customer feedback, etc I know from the experience that there are certain calculational rules you can apply to positive vs negative feedback. Usually you multiply the positive feedback by 10 and compare that figure to the complaints and you get an actual satisfaction ratio, as the thumb of rule is that only people who are unhappy, bother commenting :-)
But again, thanks for the feedback and I'm sure that the changes now launched wont be the "final" for this version and we will most likely make minor improvements to the layout during the next couple of weeks/months. The tabs will stay bigger, but will they be as big as they are now? Don't know. Tabs are "rounded" and the site is "square", so that might change as well. And gree doesn't fit to the rest of the layout, but it sticks out and makes the navigation more obvious to new users. Will it stay that way? We'll see.
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silver95
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31. August 2006 @ 08:46 |
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Much as I hate to say it.. with adblock+ and Filterset.G enabled, I'm stuck with a big, ugly, almost 6-inch space at the top, with nothing but the AfterDawn logo and a couple links just floating there. I know the site is run by ads, as all other sites are, but I'm sure some of the issues might be able to be easily resolved by not using things like "ad" in a file/directory or stylesheet/script name.
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Auslander
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31. August 2006 @ 09:05 |
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a simpler fix would be for the guys that update the filterset to simply remove the AD image server from their default filtered listings...i mean, ads aren't even served from there. it's BS and incredibly stupid on the filter updaters' part.
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31. August 2006 @ 09:07 |
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hey, i was just curious, what language is ad written in, (for noobs I mean computer language) Java or what
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Stu_M
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31. August 2006 @ 11:10 |
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SWEET! HUGE tabs though. And the black bar could be another color! I think the main site is cold fusion (.cfm), thats macromedia's (i dont like saying Adobe) soloution for dynamic pages.
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31. August 2006 @ 11:47 |
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It took a day or 2 to get used to it, but I think it looks great. I can tell many hours went into it, simply for the fact that there are so many different languages or computer codes that its hard to get things bug free.
Those hours are appreciated.
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31. August 2006 @ 13:31 |
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it's impossible to bug free, when one bug is fixed it causes another problem, and so on an so forth, until some can creat a machine language that si different from now, bug will always be in our lives.
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Ankoku
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31. August 2006 @ 16:01 |
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"Much as I hate to say it.. with adblock+ and Filterset.G enabled, I'm stuck with a big, ugly, almost 6-inch space at the top, with nothing but the AfterDawn logo and a couple links just floating there. I know the site is run by ads, as all other sites are, but I'm sure some of the issues might be able to be easily resolved by not using things like "ad" in a file/directory or stylesheet/script name."
Has anybody found a fix to this, I used IE to see the new page, and it looks awesome, but AD just ain't the same on Firefox.
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Auslander
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31. August 2006 @ 16:10 |
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you have to either uninstall the filterset or deal with the castrated top.
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31. August 2006 @ 16:13 |
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speaking of AD blocking,I ahd a Ad blocker that could block and remove all ads from msot sites made AD and gamespot seem CLEAN but I forgot what ti was cant recall if it was zone alrm or a Firefox exstention ><
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I hate titles
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31. August 2006 @ 22:48 |
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21Q: The site is programmed using a language called CFML (aka ColdFusion Markup Language), pretty much equivalent to PHP is many aspects, although the code looks quite different. We used to use Adobe's Coldfusion as our application server, but switched to an another CFML-compatible server product, called BlueDragon about 2 years ago. BlueDragon is also used by sites such as MySpace.
The reasoning why we use CFML and not, say PHP or JSP, is that I've worked as a CF developer ever since 1998, so I'm quite familiar with the language..
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31. August 2006 @ 23:34 |
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Adjusting to the new layout isn't working for me. It feels incomplete...
- Guess I should have read this first but, it took me about 10 minutes to find the "My Account" link.
The tabs stick out worse than any other graphical change. For example:
- Why, when I am on a page, is tab is green? There isn't any other graphics on the page of the color green.
- The tabs are round(and green) but, the page is square and the colors do not match.
I hope there are plans to finish the rest of the page. Are there?
- I like the wider page.
- Like the experimenting with colored text. Also, I'm glad for this. :D Both, the link and the parsing improvement.
- Guess you could say I like all the BBML/UBB parsing improvements.
Edit: corrections.
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1. September 2006 @ 00:11 |
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I think the new style looks good, keep up the great work!
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1. September 2006 @ 02:21 |
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dRD
mod and site dev...ggaa they are working you to death 0_o
*L*
I tried to send ya a PM,can you PM any mod? jsut if you have a qaetion you would rather not have noobs swarm around and such.
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1. September 2006 @ 02:25 |
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Sorry to psot it here but I thought better here than a a topic in the game thread and have noobs swarming and pooping around it *L*
- so you thought you'd be better off posting in the bosses' thread ?
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1. September 2006 @ 02:41 |
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Creaky
*jepardy music plays for 2 min then a large echoing hommer DOH can be heard*
oops LOL
I tried going to the news comment forum and to remove half the post and well its not there 0-o the Layout improvements at AfterDawn.com thread so i can reword my post 0_o
Creaky
thanks givieng me the link ^^
if you dont mind I thought I might post it here,so anyone can edit there psots to,least untill the link on the news commnet thread is fixed.
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/3/387825
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