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Title: Re-doing the design, again!
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Liam Dawe 5 Jun 2013
It now uses a light blue I think it looks quite nice.

Home page will not using alternating row colours as munt said, it just wouldn't look right. I will have a look into some sort of separation for them.
sobkas 5 Jun 2013
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Quoting: liamdaweIt now uses a light blue I think it looks quite nice.

Home page will not using alternating row colours as munt said, it just wouldn't look right. I will have a look into some sort of separation for them.
Well E1F7FA have a lot of white but I don't see any blue.

Have you checked out my [second](http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/155/b/e/zrzut_ekranu_z_2013_06_05_02_41_23_by_fboxnf-d67ubqk.png) and [third](http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/155/e/a/zrzut_ekranu_z_2013_06_05_03_28_23_by_fboxnf-d67ugtv.png) mock-up?
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Liam Dawe 5 Jun 2013
Well it looks rather blue to me....are you not seeing it like this?
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I'm still deciding on the home page on how to split them up, I though side images and bold headers where enough to distinquish them? Do the news articles really need a seperator?
muntdefems 5 Jun 2013
I definitely see a light blue in the sales page. :)

Regarding the home page, I don't really need separators to distinguish the articles, but I would find it more aesthetically pleasing. Of course, that could only be my first impressions and easily end up getting used to the current design, without any separation. :P
sobkas 5 Jun 2013
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I'm embarrassed about colors, it was a problem with my monitor. What can I say, sorry.
Liam Dawe 7 Jun 2013
No problem sobkas :)

I will test some minor subtle separation on the home page and see what I can do, I don't want too much though.
Liam Dawe 7 Jun 2013
Okay have a look here testing it now: http://www.prxa.info/articles/category/1

Added a 2px height same colour blue as the sales page alternator it's subtle enough not to get your attention but does split the articles up, I think it fits quite well, thoughts?
muntdefems 7 Jun 2013
Looks (and works) fine to me!

What doesn't look fine at all is the home page overall layout in small resolutions. I'm currently on my 1024x600px netbook and it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/KDzkiIG.png

I hadn't checked the test site with my netbook since its first drafts, so I hadn't noticed this till now. :(
Liam Dawe 7 Jun 2013
Damnit not sure what to do about that, there must be a way to stop any overlap hrmm
muntdefems 7 Jun 2013
No idea, man. I hope someone from Stackoverflow knows how to fix it.

Anyway, now that you're at it I'd suggest changing the current standard 350x220px size for article images. That size roughly corresponds to a 16:10 aspect ratio, but most images you can find around have a 16:9 aspect ratio instead and they sometimes get too stretched for my taste. Am I being a nitpicker here, or does someone else think the same?
Liam Dawe 7 Jun 2013
Getting a little annoyed with it all now nothing is working properly so i've had to take all fancy things off the side images and start over on it.
Liam Dawe 7 Jun 2013
Okay well the only solution I can come up with that works is to just remove the height from the thumbnail, so now the thumbnail won't auto stretch to 220px, it's growing on me take a look.
http://www.prxa.info/articles/category/1
muntdefems 7 Jun 2013
Yeah, let's go with that. :)

Howeeeeeever... could you make the images begin at the same height as the headers? Right now they stand a little higher than the text and I find it a bit nagging.

PS: I haven't realized until now that you can access the full article by clicking on the images! :D
Liam Dawe 7 Jun 2013
Done I just added a top margin to thumbnails, does the job proper bo!

Yeah I left in extra width on the thumbnail (the border around the image) so you don't have to click the image exactly.
muntdefems 7 Jun 2013
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   :P
Liam Dawe 8 Jun 2013
Hahaha that's an amazing picture :D, i've updated the home page as well now so it all matches with the separators.
muntdefems 9 Jun 2013
What's happening here? I've just received two notification emails about new replies to this topic, but I cannot see them! :huh:
Liam Dawe 9 Jun 2013
It was posted on the test website by accident by a user.
muntdefems 9 Jun 2013
I see...  I thought that maybe they weren't registered users and you had to approve their messages, or something along those lines.  :D
Liam Dawe 9 Jun 2013
Reposting it all here:

"Fatal error: Call to a member function check_group() on a non-object in /home/prxa/public_html/index.php on line 93" after attempting to register - still created account anyway
Spelling error when registering and passwords are mismatched. "Click here togo back and try again!"
Login with Twitter button doesn't look right in the "Account" dropdown
Bottom box of the sidebar: "There are There are 18 total online users online", there are is repeated.

The footer is pointlessly big.
This is because there will be an advert there, but as the site is private googles adsense bot can't crawl it to verify it yet.

    Press the dropdown button on the header > Account > Unable to enter login details because every time I attempt to do so the Account dropdown minimizes.
    Same thing happens on the Community dropdown. I can't press Forums, Twitter, or Google+, speaking of which you may want to change G+ to Google+ since there's room for it.
    Despite not having an adblocker on my Android device, it still shows me the "Psst please don't block ads" box. The only ad on the page is Dirk Dashing at the top.
    When I go into landscape mode I'm able to see the second ad at the top of the page.
    At the bottom of the page the Twitter widget isn't centered in the box. When I go to landscape mode the twitter widget sticks outside of the box.
    The "Pick a Category" dropdown no longer fits when in landscape mode. It works fine, but it only says "Pick a cate", the rest is cut off.

General:

    Pressing the GamingOnLinux logo doesn't take me to the home page. It's a much better, larger touch target and I think it'd help for mobile devices. Think about adding that functionality to it.
    On the donate page the "I", as well as Google, should be capitalized at the bottom in this sentence: "We cannot accept payments via google as i don't live in the US"
    The donate page is just generally ugly, why do Paypal buttons suck so bad?
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