MaulIsGod Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Nice Job. Spent some time doing some reading in the Holonet and it's very well done and easy to find what I'm looking for. 2 Thumbs up for the site changes.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fYZZL Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Too bad it is an EPIC failure. only loads in French in Chrome, busted graphics etc. Nice job on browser compatability! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malles Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Well, now that we've established that we're open to improving the website... Maybe next time around you'll allow us to pull up guild and player stats? I like being able to see how I'm doing compared to other people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaulIsGod Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Too bad it is an EPIC failure. only loads in French in Chrome, busted graphics etc. Nice job on browser compatability! I'm using Chrome and mine is in English. Sounds more like user error than anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meanerr Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Me likely. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meanerr Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Too bad it is an EPIC failure. only loads in French in Chrome, busted graphics etc. Nice job on browser compatability! Epic (L)User error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronik_Jast Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Me not like new look!!! Ug! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkZeron Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Looks alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUXs Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 HOLY HUGE FONTS! Any way to decrease the size slightly? I like the colors, but the thread fonts are just massive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aekbrea Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Great news...when should we expect to see our characters on the site? Down the road, soon, or VERY SOON? Cheers, Aekbrea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philosomanic Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Personally, I hate the new design. It just... hurts my eyes. It's not as neat or as clear as the old one was. However, I understand that this is a matter of preference. I'm sure there are people who felt about the old design how I feel about the new one. Could we get an option to change between site designs? Even if you leave the layout similar, I'd like a forum skin that's pretty close to the old design. It was much easier for me to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luca Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Pretty good on a 24" monitor (1920x1200) Color-code the server population in the server status page, tho ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mephane Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 One thing I don't particularly like is the new thread overview. Basically there is for every thread whats looks like an entire line just so that in two places the OP's name and that of the latest poster is display, something which I have never cared about in any forum anyway, yet here now means only half as many threads fit in the same space (i.e. twice the scrolling or page switching). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daximus Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 I actually really like the new look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caadeus Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Ooo its so shiny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessie Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Forums with black backgrounds are just painful on the eyes. =( Any chance we could get multiple color schemes to individually choose from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycanthrop Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 I like the new layout, it's much better than the old one. The color scheme I might have to get used to, but overall the new look is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamewizX Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Too bad it is an EPIC failure. only loads in French in Chrome, busted graphics etc. Nice job on browser compatability! I am using Chrome and it loads no problem in English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannomite Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 (edited) Don't care for the grey tones (more partial to blacks and blues), nor the font (it looks stretched vertically.) Buttons kind of wash out. It's not terrible and there are improvements over the old site, but it could use some tweaks, or better yet, give users a choice of skins/stylesheets. Haven't worked much with Drupal, but I'm sure that's one of its base functionalities. Edit: Also I HATE the fact that the menus have no :hover expansion. (As a web guy I know that's to help screen readers, but honestly, I'd rather they make more robust screen readers than forcing web designers to sacrifice utility to everyone else) Edited April 17, 2012 by dannomite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iRouven Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Like it although I will have to get used to it a bit. Zoomed out to 90%, makes a bit better overview for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merex Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Nice design. A suggestion though; quick reply on the forums would be very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIllfred Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Love the new look and its a lot lighter(faster) than the old one, nice work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikigit Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 (edited) Didn't see the sticky thread and posted this initially in what I suspect is a soon to be locked thread, so cross over: Alternative colouring is fine in itself for me personally. However there are a few readability problems I have already found myself experiencing, due to the up size of pretty much everything. On initial forum load, at 1600x900 resolution the banner header takes up most of the screen realestate, and what little I can see of the forums is a over inflated image and rather large side links to the developer tracker. I am guessing the redesign was aiming for easier accessibility... but may have gone slightly over board with the super sizing every single button, link and image humanly possible, when even typing this post requires me to scroll down the page to see the full post creation frame after the 7th line. Examples: What I see every time I access the forums: http://content.screencast.com/users/...04-17_1746.png How far I have to scroll down through the enlarged images and small handful of initial super links just to get to the forum section overview: http://content.screencast.com/users/...04-17_1747.png I am liking the new style itself.... but certain aspects of the design just feel counter intuitive from a perspective of navigation and quick access to where you need (or rather want) to go. Front page suffers the same problem, all the top news used to be expandable and collapsible and everything was available at a glance to peak your interest... now it's a whole scroll down the page affair, but with a fancy Javascript/PHP slide show at the top for marketing. http://content.screencast.com/users/Tikigod/folders/Jing/media/3b1295ae-3e98-4885-8cb1-e20c3046457f/2012-04-17_1757.png Looks impressive when you first load and go "WOW!", but then if you sit back and think about the design you realise the new design effectively isolates first page load from any at a glance news, promotions and trial detection included on the frontpage... all you see is a static slide that gradually changes every 6-7 seconds and the navigation bar to other pages which is likely what you will impulsively use rather than scrolling down and seeing "PLAY THE GAME FREE FOR 3 DAYS TRIAL!" Edited April 17, 2012 by Tikigit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adderdin Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 We are excited to unveil the brand new Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ website! We’ve completely rebuilt the website from the ground-up, with the intention of providing you with the latest game updates in an easy to navigate way. In addition to all of the latest news and information that is released, we’re also going to give you much more information about in-game content. Right now, you can check out our updated Flashpoints page on the Holonet, which includes information for each of the seventeen Flashpoints currently in the game. Read More Congratulations... new web page probably required alot of work, can you however tell me, who was the not so intelligent person responsible for yellowish text on black / very dark background? aka every second post? Yellow and black is the highest contrast color combination, but contrast is not the same as readability. There is a trade-off between contrast and readability: too little contrast makes things hard to read, but too much contrast creates so much vibration that it diminishes readability. High contrast makes more sense outdoors when something needs to be read at a distance at high speed (driving at night), but even on the highway, yellow and black is used sparingly, for warning signs. Normal highway signs use less-jarring white on green or blue on white. Yellow on black is really overkill on a stationary screen 12" away from the reader's eyes. White on black is nearly as bad as yellow on black. The screen makes this problem worse, because you do not have simple white, as on a piece of paper, but bright light, whether white or yellow. Some people prefer dark backgrounds on web pages, as on slides, to cut down on the amount of glare, but black is an unnecessary extreme, and tends to be favored by adolescent males, both designing and reading. If this is not your target audience, and you like dark backgrounds, you might think of other alternative colours. With a dark background, ensure you do not have overly-bright lettering: tone down white lettering to a pale gray, or dull the colour used to minimize extreme contrast and glare; this principle is used when doing slides, as well: at least 5% gray is used to cut the glare of bright white. Interestingly, this still "reads" as white. Also, make the text bold, so it has enough body not to be "eaten alive" by the darkness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narkis Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Awesome looking website so much better then the old ones and sounds like you have big plans for the future, Keep up the good work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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