Surprise! This new design has been in the works since around the end of September 2014 and we have sent previews around to people a few times, but it's now live!
The design work was done by FireDart Studios who did an excellent job at responding to my constant annoying feedback about issues that bugged me on our current design.
It took me a little while to implement everything correctly code-wise, and after several times of nuking certain bits of old back-end code and re-writing it's now all working correctly (I hope!).
Thanks to our community
A big thank you to our supporter Mirv who fronted the cash prize to this web designer for doing it for us. Also, thanks to Half-Shot for fixing up the comments 'like system' for the new design, as I know it's actually used quite a bit and enjoyed by people.
We all hope you like it and hopefully it will see us through 2015 and beyond! It feels really great to have a much more professional design, and gives me personally more energy in working on the website further. It's a really great time for GamingOnLinux, and see below for why!
Quoting a user
It now inserts a quote into the comment box, with a new line, so now quotes won't bunch up! The quote system was also re-done, so there may be some very minor issues with it, but we found it to work perfectly every time.
Dark theme
The dark theme is still available for GOL Premium users, but it's not final yet, still needs some adjustments, but it's nearly finished! Don't report issues on it yet.
GOTY Awards
Our first GOTY awards will open soon!
Thank you for all of your support, onwards and upwards!
Please report all issues here.
Ps. I am away this weekend for work and family, so things may be quiet. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
The design work was done by FireDart Studios who did an excellent job at responding to my constant annoying feedback about issues that bugged me on our current design.
It took me a little while to implement everything correctly code-wise, and after several times of nuking certain bits of old back-end code and re-writing it's now all working correctly (I hope!).
Thanks to our community
A big thank you to our supporter Mirv who fronted the cash prize to this web designer for doing it for us. Also, thanks to Half-Shot for fixing up the comments 'like system' for the new design, as I know it's actually used quite a bit and enjoyed by people.
We all hope you like it and hopefully it will see us through 2015 and beyond! It feels really great to have a much more professional design, and gives me personally more energy in working on the website further. It's a really great time for GamingOnLinux, and see below for why!
Quoting a user
It now inserts a quote into the comment box, with a new line, so now quotes won't bunch up! The quote system was also re-done, so there may be some very minor issues with it, but we found it to work perfectly every time.
Dark theme
The dark theme is still available for GOL Premium users, but it's not final yet, still needs some adjustments, but it's nearly finished! Don't report issues on it yet.
GOTY Awards
Our first GOTY awards will open soon!
Thank you for all of your support, onwards and upwards!
Please report all issues here.
Ps. I am away this weekend for work and family, so things may be quiet. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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mostly i like the new web design
couple of issues though:
1) i badly need dark theme - too much white kills my eyes
2) the featured section picture is way too big and eats too much space
3) weird space(big gap) between gol icon and the rest of the links on the top panel/bar
4) on the front page when some article has 2 digits for amount of comments the line is split weirdly
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couple of issues though:
1) i badly need dark theme - too much white kills my eyes
2) the featured section picture is way too big and eats too much space
3) weird space(big gap) between gol icon and the rest of the links on the top panel/bar
4) on the front page when some article has 2 digits for amount of comments the line is split weirdly
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Fixed the pagination issues on articles with more then one page, and fixed profiles updating with the blank steam url, if you wipe it now it will be fine and stop showing a blank steam button url.
@Xpander
1) Read the article ;)
2) It's possible to move it, but not by much or else it defeats the point
3) Position is intentional
4) It's due to username length, need a new place for the comments link
@Xpander
1) Read the article ;)
2) It's possible to move it, but not by much or else it defeats the point
3) Position is intentional
4) It's due to username length, need a new place for the comments link
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Quoting: RobertCongratulations for the new design, but now all the tags in the sales page (my favourite page ^_^ ) look black to me and are more difficult to distinguish. I just hope this doesn't mean my colour blindness got worse.Fixed, sales page badges have now had the paintbrush treatment.
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I like the changes, I’m sick of websites having small pokey font... the bigger, fatter style, I like.
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I'll redesign some stuff on my side, like the topbar should scroll with the page and stuff like that, but other than that, it's rather pretty. There are no problems here, that couldn't be solved with a little Greasemonkey :D
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The flattr and RSS buttons are a little too high in portrait view with Chrome 39 for Android. They overlap between a quarter and a third of the share button. They are perfect in landscape mode, however, since then they don't wrap.
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All the comments contain "0 likes" text on the bottom (mobile view). It looks like a part of the comment. I find it quite distracting. It would be nice to make it not blend into the comment text (make it obvious that's a UI, not text), and suppress it when the value is zero. And what about putting it into comment header, so that it does not make each comment two lines longer?
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If you preview your comment, you can't submit it afterwards, invalid redirect.
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Quoting: ripperIf you preview your comment, you can't submit it afterwards, invalid redirect.Fixed.
Edit > Also just fixed submitting an article if you go to preview it first.
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The big featured section took up way too much space so I've blocked it from showing along with a few other elements.
Rest of it is ok. Looks maybe a bit cramped/too busy. But otherwise pretty good.
Nice job everyone involved.
Rest of it is ok. Looks maybe a bit cramped/too busy. But otherwise pretty good.
Nice job everyone involved.
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