What’s Happened?!
December 2nd, 2007 by CrusaderChange… and not a moment too soon!
We’ve finally undergone a long overdue renewal of the site design; we hope you like it! Be sure to update your RSS reader.
Many thanks to Marv for spearheading the upgrade and, as always, maintaining the servers, kig for creating the site’s new look, Alkini for converting it to WordPress, my fellow news posters zakk, Lightkey, and jvm, everyone who’s contributed to the site over the years, and all of our readers as we near our tenth anniversary.
Here’s to gaming on the Linux platform!
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Yay!
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Unbelievuble!
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Wow! Very different!
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:48 pm
cool, are the text boxes supposed to be white?
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Not sure what you mean – can you take a screenshot?
December 2nd, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Wow nice new look although the anoying popup ads are back :(
December 2nd, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Doh – I’m usually out of the loop on what our advertising network is doing; apologies :(
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:39 am
Duuude! That is a good overhaul! Congratulations!
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:42 am
By the way: Can you put an RSS link to the news on the frontpage?
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:45 am
testing
testing
testing
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:50 am
I like the new design. But I think you should change the comment font
to be the same as news items. And it would also be good if the comments
are seperated more to make is more easy to se each comment. Why not reply threds?
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:27 am
I’d like to offer some constructive criticism.
It’s nice that you took the time to give the site a graphical makeover and I’m sure there’s more to it than that, but apart from the new graphics it looks pretty basic for a site that’s using WordPress.
The banner is very nice.
The left-hand menu is very nice.
The search box at the top is well placed.
The main body is sparse. It would have been nice to have individual comment boxes perhaps surrounded by the orange colour you’re using in the menu, and being spaced apart so that the background tile can be seen between them. The 3D effect grey strip down the left-hand-side of the main body is very 1996-home-pagey. Why are the links using the default colours of purple and blue? Do you think they coordinate well with the banner and menu?
There’s no preview when submitting comments. Embedded URLs in comments don’t go anywhere. There’s no text formatting capabilities.
Clicking the Archived News button in the menu and then clicking any period results in just one news entry.
The forum is now empty and is graphically uncoordinated.
My login name is now case sensitive.
I attempted to reset my password and I was sent an empty email.
Regards.
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:42 am
Feedback is always appreciated – we’ll work on those issues.
Thank you!
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:22 am
Yey, brilliant! Looks really nice and the new feed is nice.
What’s with all the popups? You’re keeping my blocker busy. :-P
December 3rd, 2007 at 1:04 pm
thanks for the work with the new site design! I’m diggen the speed increase and the site design.
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Ouch … the old forum content is gone (will it be moved over/converted to WP eventually?), and the new content consists of 100% pure spam so far. :-(
+1 for comment preview. :-)
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Spam on the forum’s been fixed; thanks for the heads up!
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:08 pm
The new look is great, however it’s broken in Opera. Check it out: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/Killdozer/ohnoes.jpg
Also in Firefox, the post numbers are outside the white block, and are barely visible against the dark background. A minor point.
I second the motion regarding the need for a preview button, and some rudimentary text formatting things, so that I can check my spelling and presentation when [b]I’M ENRAGED AND SHOUTING[/b] or merely trying to be [i]emphatic[/i].
On another note, I’d just like to say thanks for all the work you guys have put into the site over the years.
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:57 pm
it’s too hard to read.
I think it’s the dark on light and the font.
The previous font/colors were easier on the eyes.
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Much much better bud. I can actually log in now.
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Items that have been fixed up to now
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Preview when submitting comments.
Text formatting capabilities are available
Archive News is fixed
Forum are going to be a fresh start(sorry) I had to pick between which set of users to import and the Main Site won.
Login name are NOT case sensitive anymore(Why UNIX people have an issue with this, let me know :P )
The post numbers are outside the white block, and are barely visible against the dark background. Moved inside the comments area. (Thanks AL)
Switched BG between alternating comments
Resetting emails will sending a blank email.(I was not able to duplicate this one)
Cursed about the pop-ups ads. We are NOT suppose to get them.
Please let us know as you see new issues and we will attempt to resolve them. Thanks again for your support.
December 4th, 2007 at 3:18 am
Hooray! A decent RSS feed! Thank you!
December 6th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
I’m glad that I don’t get yet another login form data saved in my SeaMonkey when I make a comment, which I got each time with the old site, but I did like the old colors more, not that much a fan of brownish designs.
December 6th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
At work, I’m unable to read the comments as I have to use IE (version 6 I think). I can try to get a screen shot if you can’t see the same issues.
December 8th, 2007 at 10:48 am
testing again
December 8th, 2007 at 10:48 am
testing again