If you make the background a color that's not so bright, it will be alot better.
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I think first and foremost that the site should be more user friends to the people using it. IE: Making is easy to update your comics, comment about others comics, and rate people's comics.
1) Comics should have a quick link for updating new pages
2) You should be able to change the date your comic goes live after it's already been uploaded to the site
3) Comics should have titles displayed along with their icons (because you're right, the images are going to help drive traffic to a comic, but that doesn't mean that the title of the comic should be removed)
4) Awards / trophies should get fixed
Also, has anyone else noticed that the site moves a lot slower with this new layout? Maybe that's just my computer….
Well, I like how the Fovorites and "Your comics" Are neater. I kinda like the colors, but text needs to be bigger >_<Also, maybe a color option with that? Just my two cents.
Maybe an "account preferences" where you can choose how big you want text to appear? Anyway, I like how It's showing banners of DD comics in the ad banners now.
I think making it more visual is a great idea– like how it's coming together so far. If I had one suggestion to make it would be to get rid of the words "The Rack" and replace that with something more direct to say what the avatars below are suggestions:
"The latest WEBCOMICS"
"Today's best Webcomics"
"Fresh Webcomics!"
You get my drift…
The site is loading much more slowly than usual, and when I was trying to post a comment for a comic, three windows for ask.com popped up….may I ask why?
Also, the quote color isn't very readable…
Edit:nevermind about the quote…
Another ask.com popped up while i was typin this….D:
1. Please un-shrink the text in Forums.
2. Please return Forums to the eye-pleasing former colors (blue).
3. Please do not use white as background color anywhere.
4. Please un-collapse the user bar. Or at least allow it to remain open after you click on it this session.
5. Please make sure everything's aligned correctly in IE browser.
6. Is it necessary to have the ads in My Account and Tools?
Ok, I haven't checked anything besides the forums, but here's my take.
1: Text is too small. I have perfect vision, but I STILL have to squint. I feel for anyone with worse than 20/20.
2: The colors are horrible. Replacing cool, soothing blue with bright, assaulting white was, to put it bluntly, incredibly stupid.
3: We had enough ads before. I'm sure Platinum was making plenty of money off of DD already.
4: Load times seem to be longer, and sometimes things won't load at all.
5: Why are you messing around with layout instead of fixing bugs and adding more basic forum features that everywhere else has?
Well I do notice Volte or someone is working on it because already it's no longer #ffffff, but #cccccc, so that's definitely progress!
I'm not seeing it that way.
Compare the background color to that little white "Search!" tab at the top. You can see one is significantly brighter than the other.
Well I do notice Volte or someone is working on it because already it's no longer #ffffff, but #cccccc, so that's definitely progress!
I'm not seeing it that way.
Compare the background color to that little white "Search!" tab at the top. You can see one is significantly brighter than the other.
You're right, it's not white anymore, but CCCCCC is the forums color and those are pretty different right now unless he just made the forums darker.
It looks good now, but less like a comic site in all honesty. I like that though, although I can see it turning off a few new users. Sleek and sexy is more of my thing though, actually makes me want to come back to the main page and read comics more than I did. However, there are few glaring flaws. Is anyone else getting a HUGE grey blank on the lower half of the site while browsing in FireFox? Also AJAX is still taking forever and a day to load, although I don't have the programing knowledge to know what all that means.
My only suggestion besides touching up the graphics on level three, would be to add the names of comics when you scroll over them. I like seeing the icon before I read, but it's always good to know the name two. Each is very descriptive, but together and picking out new comics is a breeze. I love the featured comic section now though, makes it so much easier to find what I want as opposed to going back. Now that it seems to be done, I have to say… well played, Volte. Well played.
Also, the dark purple or blue for the link text on the forums is difficult to read, maybe switch to an orange like for the user info box? It would match the color of the site and be easier on the eyes when overlapping the blue.
I don't like it… feels very incomplete and amateurish; like a geocities page. It needs more style. Granted the previous style was a bit jumbled, but it worked in the sense that the preview pictures didn't follow any particular theme and allowed easier meshing between them and the site. I think it's good that new things are being tried, but this new system needs a lot of tweaking, particularly for the front page.
Oh hey I'm a moron, the name AND description of the comics do appear, but take forever thanks to the javascript. :/
That's a pretty annoying issue, specially since it closes the tabs after you move away from the page. Also, did you guys cheapen the cost for ads, I'm seeing a ton of ads for DD comics that never really appeared before.
not trying to be a pompous arse, but did you guys run any usability test with a sample group before going forward with this?
The admins here got to use it… We pointed out all the same issues and suggestions already :)
Its good to know the admins got to test it out.
In my job I have had to test out several programs and web based tools and the process is a long and arduous ordeal. It takes a long time and I can see people have put a lot of time into this with some great ideas that just needed some finishing touches and tweaks.
Is there a time-frame as to when everything is finished?
If I may give my opinions on this interesting change of scenery around here.
1: I hate the white color. A lot of people have already complained about it, and they're right; it is an eyesore and it distracts.
2: I love the random comics on the frontpage, and it seems to work pretty good.
3: The idea of a MyFavorites tab sucks. Sometimes it doesn't load in on my browser and I have to click it open and closed repeatedly, much like deviantART's previews and whatnot. Otherwise, the idea of being able to see, at a glance and without those silly stars, what comics have updated it awesome.
4: The text is too small in the forums, as has been noted before. I'm nearly blind as it is, what are you trying to do, finish the job? I jest, but only barely. :)
5: Did I mention the white? I did? Well I'm mentioning it again because it's driving me nuts.
Otherwise, this new look seems slimmer and more streamlined in a lot of ways. A bit more spit and polis hand we'll have a winner here!
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