Comments on: Check Out Our New Duds!

By: Hrothgar

Hrothgar — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 23:43:08 +0000

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

By: bobcat

bobcat — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 10:26:24 +0000

Thanks. This new change to a grey content panel really works. Much better than the sheer white.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 11:40:32 +0000

Good job.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 23:08:07 +0000

It could use a little work but it’s far and away better than the old turd of a website.

By: zealotasd

zealotasd — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 13:26:57 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 06:10:12 +0000

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.

By: trashcan

trashcan — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:57:11 +0000

But the white is kinda of hard on my eyes.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 14:29:01 +0000

I love it! Simple and clean design.

By: hawk

hawk — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 05:01:27 +0000

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…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 04:52:17 +0000

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.