It looks a little too cluttered for my tastes. I know you want to get all the information up-front so anyone passing by might happen to say "Ooh!" and click something, but most pages have way too much information on them. I don't really need to see that ZP and UR is here on 90% of the pages. On one page, I saw links to the latest video/to the same video series four times!
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I love it. I like that now when I'm at the bottom of the page, I can easily click a new thread to go look at. Instead of having to scroll all the way to the top of the page. It also just has an overall feel of professionalism, think thats word I'm looking for.
Nice change, I like the video links down the side and everything is a lot clearer and nicer, except for the centre articles.
It kinda looks like you ran out of room for those or were in a hurry and just shlacked em in. I reckon it'd be clearer if you had the big picture items (ie the tour, and escapist show) next to each other at the top of their section rather than one under the other, then the smaller picture items and then to the articles with no picture. This would mean the consistency is maintained over the whole page and all the most interesting stuff is accessible.
All in all pretty good and much easier to use than the old setup.
It kinda looks like you ran out of room for those or were in a hurry and just shlacked em in. I reckon it'd be clearer if you had the big picture items (ie the tour, and escapist show) next to each other at the top of their section rather than one under the other, then the smaller picture items and then to the articles with no picture. This would mean the consistency is maintained over the whole page and all the most interesting stuff is accessible.
All in all pretty good and much easier to use than the old setup.
I do like the new design...especially the quick links on the right hand side and the tabs on the top; the community section is great.
One thing I have a slight problem with is thinking that the homepage's articles could do with some sort of border between them- that's just my inner OCD talking.
Overall though, it's good for change. I especially like the quick links below the comment box; ace!
One thing I have a slight problem with is thinking that the homepage's articles could do with some sort of border between them- that's just my inner OCD talking.
Overall though, it's good for change. I especially like the quick links below the comment box; ace!
Pretty much this, I'm sure I'll grow used to it, but right now it's causing alot of eye strain for me. I understand the importance of being dynamic, but some borders to differentiate the section would help break up the "wall-of-text" feeling.The Rogue Wolf said:
I must say, I really preferred the old layout. It's not so much the new shiny-shiny design that is the problem, it's just...I liked the profile button where it was. Now I have huge banners there, and the profile/logout buttons are tiny thing at the top of the screen.
Not so keen...
-SSS.
Not so keen...
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The neat little thing about the design is actually all the stuff you will never see on the backend. The whole front page is actually built on a grid that we can dynamically shuffle around as needed. I think you'll probably see a lot of experimenting over the next few weeks as we look to test what works 
Very, very nice. I love the thumbnails of our online friends it's a very helpful and cool touch!
It looks horribly cluttered to be honest. Every seems scrunched up. And for someone who is viewing the site at 1920 x 1200 that's saying a lot. Scrolling through the older news entries take far longer than it used to do which was what I mainly enjoyed about the older Escapist as you could read through all the headlines in one or two pages and select the ones you want to read, now you have to go through a half dozen entries to see if anything interesting happened since the last time you checked it.
To be frankly honest, the older view was better.
To be frankly honest, the older view was better.
So turning it from an organized professional news-like page into a cluttered myspace collage was an improvement how?
I don't know whether this is because of growing pains for the new site or not, but one problem I'm having is that I can't watch videos any more. They work fine on other sites, and as far as I know all my software is up to date, but none of the videos come up any more.