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January 30th, 2004 by jvmWe molted, and man are we happy that ordeal is over with. Please put all comments about the new layout under this news item, so we can summarily ignore them. Thanks for your cooperation.
LINUXGAMES
We molted, and man are we happy that ordeal is over with. Please put all comments about the new layout under this news item, so we can summarily ignore them. Thanks for your cooperation.
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January 30th, 2004 at 9:16 pm
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE????????
January 30th, 2004 at 9:18 pm
The pain! The pain!!!!
January 30th, 2004 at 9:18 pm
When the site is no longer quite as eye-clawingly ugly?
A little more contrast between foreground and background would be good, but all-in-all, it’s massively improved.
Thanks,
Gary (-;
January 30th, 2004 at 10:15 pm
At least there’s still a link to exciting titles like mhockey on the left! Can’t wait till that puppy is complete. Sure they haven’t updated their page since the Clinton administration, but I’m sure they’re hard at work cranking out that much needed Linux-native sport sim! Keep up the good work!
January 30th, 2004 at 10:38 pm
The goggles, they do nothing!!!
January 30th, 2004 at 11:12 pm
A little drab for my taste and the empty strip of blue across the top I could do without.
January 30th, 2004 at 11:19 pm
Quite a massive shift into the boring. If you were wanting the site to feel like 99% of all the other “newsy” sites out there, while looking like it’s fresh out of some php-nuke box, well … you’ve succeeded.
Personally, I _greatly_ prefer the old look. I think the graphics and color schemes are vastly superior with the old look.
January 30th, 2004 at 11:22 pm
Much Improved, I hated the old brown.
January 30th, 2004 at 11:45 pm
Looks good to me.
January 30th, 2004 at 11:58 pm
You gonna get the RSS feed back?
January 31st, 2004 at 12:18 am
Sorry, I did’nt care for the brown too much I actually liked the old green colored site. Something really needs to been done. It does look like some the generic themes over php-nuke!
January 31st, 2004 at 12:41 am
What happened to the good revolutionary sentiment? Has linux gaming sold out to the man? Double plus ungood!
January 31st, 2004 at 12:53 am
GONE! Because of ME! nooooooooooooooooooooOO!!!!
Still waiting for mhockey
January 31st, 2004 at 1:01 am
Is it possible to integrate the banner at the top of the page into that huge useless blue strip, or has that already been done? The reason I ask is that there’s a big-ass flash banner above the blue strip for me in Firebird 0.7.
Besides that annoying thing, I do like the layout. It could be a little darker, though, because I feel like my eyes are on fire. And not in a good way.
January 31st, 2004 at 1:55 am
On my Konqueror it tries to download some file (i think the advertisment ?)…
January 31st, 2004 at 2:43 am
… WTF is my search box?
The “Archived News” link is there, but that’s not as handy as a search box.
January 31st, 2004 at 5:37 am
* The fonts are too small
* It’s too bright
* It’s boring to look at
January 31st, 2004 at 6:21 am
I think that it looks pretty good, actually. It’s got a few minor quirks, but I’m sure it will work out.
January 31st, 2004 at 7:00 am
I like it. Blue and white makes a pretty color combination.
Regards
January 31st, 2004 at 7:08 am
Well, this incarnation of Linuxgames looks just like some arbitrary CMS-Site. The last one wasn’t great, either, but at least had some character (even if it was bad). I liked the one before that most.
Well, just wanted to say that.
January 31st, 2004 at 8:37 am
It’s not bad. I didn’t think there was anything wrong with the old design; Linuxgames.com’s problems for quite a while have mainly been usability and content.
January 31st, 2004 at 8:40 am
# cat /dev/linuxgames > /dev/eyes
Segmentation Fault
January 31st, 2004 at 9:01 am
The new design is definitely suck compared to the previous one :-( I think LG needs something like a configurable theme manager. So, the people who likes the previous design, will get it again :-)
January 31st, 2004 at 9:33 am
at least it’s not as bad as linuxgamepublishing.com
it’s like opening up a box of lucky stars breakfast cereal only to find that someone’s stolen all the sugary bits leaving the bland, unsatisfying bits of corn.
January 31st, 2004 at 10:28 am
It sure has been a lot of work. Well, at least it looks like it. Congrats.
January 31st, 2004 at 10:30 am
haha.
The jesters here really have a field day when you make a change don’t they?
To be honest I never really liked the last color scheme. But I also hate sheer white almost as much. Why not reverse this, make the white background your new baby blue, and the text white? It’s be softer all around, and my monitor would not make that crackling sound when I load the page full screen.
January 31st, 2004 at 11:24 am
Background colour isn’t defined. What is probably supposed to be white is coloured in maroon, due to my browser’s default settings.
January 31st, 2004 at 11:41 am
It looks like crap on Mozilla 1.5.
January 31st, 2004 at 12:38 pm
this looks more capitalist, i liked the previous commie theme
January 31st, 2004 at 1:36 pm
ugh
January 31st, 2004 at 2:28 pm
Nice layout, nice color scheme. I love it!
Konqueror 3.1.4 with KDE 3.1.4
January 31st, 2004 at 3:10 pm
just a litle bit boring…
January 31st, 2004 at 3:10 pm
I love this theme.
I use Mozilla-Firebird 0.7. Looks great. Thanx for eyecandy. :)
January 31st, 2004 at 3:25 pm
If you don’t like the new style, maybe you should blame the person that designed it?:
“design by negative”
http://www.digi-dial.com/
January 31st, 2004 at 4:15 pm
I also find this theme a bit too bright and fonts too small, but on the other hand the left-menus are easier to see now.
January 31st, 2004 at 4:37 pm
The old site had was more style (I liked it) but this is more user-friendly. I like the nested block display of replies.
Now just simplify the links. WTF is “Reply with History”?
January 31st, 2004 at 8:58 pm
have so many damn changes in webpage style.. and yet have them all be sooo damn ugly.
February 1st, 2004 at 12:55 am
It looks like you started well with the menu’s and the colours used there. But from then on, frankly, it’s gone to shit. It’s boring to look at, and doesn’t render correctly in mozilla (1.6)
Having had a look at digi-dial.com, I get the impression that negative is either just the db guy there, or is too busy to spend the time creating a good design for linuxgames.com.
Hmmm, anyway, thats my 2c
February 1st, 2004 at 2:13 am
Much better than the old layout!
February 1st, 2004 at 2:34 am
I like this. It’s cleaner, easier to read and much faster than the previous incarnation.[br][br]As far as the whin… er, constructive criticism goes, how about offering alternative stylesheets? There aren’t enough sites using those. You could even have some of these wiseacres submit their own and choose a few to add in as alternates. Simple as that unless someone wants to add some graphic. All major Linux web browsers (Mozilla, Konqueror, Opera) can handle that sort of thing, so why be limited?
February 1st, 2004 at 4:02 am
What about of not allowing Anonymous Users?
Really, a Portuguese Slashdot-like has made that about a year ago, ppl critizised it a lot, but the fact is that currently there are not some stupid flames and besides a lot of users that already visited the website have registered and so made the comunity stronger.
Cheers,
Ricardo
February 1st, 2004 at 4:52 am
Signature font is bigger than the font used for the comment itself, and moreover it’s bright-blue ! This should be made smaller dark-blue.
February 1st, 2004 at 5:01 am
I must say I preferred the old look. :(
The old one was much easier on the eyes, it also didn’t scream generic-boring-news-site at the top of its lungs…
February 1st, 2004 at 2:29 pm
I love it! Simple and clean design.
February 1st, 2004 at 7:57 pm
But the white is kinda of hard on my eyes.
February 2nd, 2004 at 6:10 am
More like molded… it needs to go back the way it was… easier to read and I liked the little id and tux crosses at the top… This looks horrible and is hard on the eyes.
February 3rd, 2004 at 1:26 pm
Any website that uses unnecessary HTML that could *crush* an older or non-updated webbrowser such as Dillo (dill.sourceforge.net) or Netscape 4, perhaps shouldn’t be used. I thought HTML was better thought of as being a document format and not a programming language. Dillo is a webbrowser that is designed to be small and fast; great for PDA’s. For as long as I can remember, Linuxgames.com crashes ye olde Netscape 4.x web browser. I don’t like Netscape 4.x, but it was included in many good olde Linux distributions and is good tribute despite its flaws. (who am I kidding, Netscape 4.x stinks!) The Linuxgames.com title-banner has a good touch to it, but the comments seem too spaced-out. The white background isn’t good on my eyes either and neither is helpful to extend the life of a CRT computer monitor. I liked the previous colors of the forum and think this one’s banner and quick link tab to the left side of the page looks good. I don’t know if anyone remembers the olde LINUXQUAKE.COM forums, but I liked how those were made: you had to click on a posted “subject” to receive the comment and it was verry-well nested and quick to update and load in the browser despite it being just a giant monolithic forum that was not segregated or moderated. Somewhat Off-Topic: why is Linuxquake.com abandoned, and has anyone ever tried to contact “Pestilence” or “Void” et al if they would fancy some Linuxgames.com refugees update their website?
I’ve been visiting Linuxquake.com and Linuxgames.com as far back as the year 1998, posting through a different STRAW-MAN of’course. I even still have my first peice of eMail when I ordered my first Linux from eBay: RedHat 5.2, for USD $3.00.
In-cae Dillo doesn’t HTML FROM-SUBMIT correctly,
-zealotasd
February 3rd, 2004 at 11:08 pm
It could use a little work but it’s far and away better than the old turd of a website.
February 6th, 2004 at 11:40 am
Good job.
February 7th, 2004 at 10:26 am
Thanks. This new change to a grey content panel really works. Much better than the sheer white.
February 7th, 2004 at 11:43 pm
First, this theme is much better than the old one, which was too dark and “scary” IMHO. The new one could use the following enhancements:
1) With a large screen res, the “Comments” link doesn’t work well in the bottom right of the story area. Either put the link up in the title area or right justify it.
2) Center the top banner add.
3) The banner add at the top totally jacks up the look of the top of the page. Looks like it was put there as an afterthought. For starters, consider making the background blue around it so it blends in with the LG title bar. If you’re feeling fiesty, you might see if you can create a background image for the banner ad area that would align itself to the bottom right of the box and show the beginnings of the “rays” from the LG logo. It may not be possible, but thought I’d throw it out there.
Note: I’m using Mozilla Firebird 0.7