To be honest: I suck at any form of design. GamingOnLinux is in need of a super web guru to make a new look for us, so could that be you?
We can offer £50 to the person who is chosen (paid via paypal) thanks to our community member "mirv" <3 who has offered the prize up to help get people interested. I have the money ready to send to whoever creates something nice for us.
Our current design came out of a quickly whipped up template someone sent me once, and I've never really liked "Bootstrap" for being a little heavy and quite overly complicated, but you are free to use it I'm just not good with it myself.
There are a couple requirements:
- It needs to keep our carousel (unless you can come up with a better idea to show highlighted posts along the top)
- Needs to look good on mobile
- People do complain it's too bright (and I agree), so brightness is an issue, we have a dark theme, but that's also a bit crap, so maybe something in-between?
- And that's pretty much it
You are free to come up with any sort of idea's, but let's not be silly and do things like make it bright purple ;)
If you fancy a go at it then feel free to comment away, or email me at [email protected]. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
We can offer £50 to the person who is chosen (paid via paypal) thanks to our community member "mirv" <3 who has offered the prize up to help get people interested. I have the money ready to send to whoever creates something nice for us.
Our current design came out of a quickly whipped up template someone sent me once, and I've never really liked "Bootstrap" for being a little heavy and quite overly complicated, but you are free to use it I'm just not good with it myself.
There are a couple requirements:
- It needs to keep our carousel (unless you can come up with a better idea to show highlighted posts along the top)
- Needs to look good on mobile
- People do complain it's too bright (and I agree), so brightness is an issue, we have a dark theme, but that's also a bit crap, so maybe something in-between?
- And that's pretty much it
You are free to come up with any sort of idea's, but let's not be silly and do things like make it bright purple ;)
If you fancy a go at it then feel free to comment away, or email me at [email protected]. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Hmm, okay, that didn't go well. :/
Yes, I was probably pouncing too hard and too quickly there, sorry.
But, the thing is, I care deeply about being able to use the basic functions of a website with NoScript turned on. Or hell, even with a text-only browser like w3m. I get frustrated a lot by some other websites using JavaScript for what are basically frivolities, and then not working at all when JavaScript is not available.
The design degrading gracefully, as Speedster puts it, is something I personally very much want to see kept for this website.
EDIT: Also, there is the issue of accessibility. Screen readers in particular will probably get horribly confused by JavaScript'd layout animations.
Yes, I was probably pouncing too hard and too quickly there, sorry.
But, the thing is, I care deeply about being able to use the basic functions of a website with NoScript turned on. Or hell, even with a text-only browser like w3m. I get frustrated a lot by some other websites using JavaScript for what are basically frivolities, and then not working at all when JavaScript is not available.
The design degrading gracefully, as Speedster puts it, is something I personally very much want to see kept for this website.
EDIT: Also, there is the issue of accessibility. Screen readers in particular will probably get horribly confused by JavaScript'd layout animations.
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I personally like the site the way it is, but I am often resistant to change. The only thing I would like is to basically invert black/white, but I think a dark theme is available to supporters, so when the next round of Patreon goes through, ill have access to that.
So long as whatever it gets changed to is as tasteful and intuitive as it is now I will learn to like it too.
So long as whatever it gets changed to is as tasteful and intuitive as it is now I will learn to like it too.
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Redesigning CAN work, but usually messes stuff up.
At any rate, as long as there's a fallback in place and the new site works with JS disabled I don't mind if you give it a try.
At any rate, as long as there's a fallback in place and the new site works with JS disabled I don't mind if you give it a try.
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I find the website as it is really quite well designed in terms of functionality. Whether on desktop or mobile I can read the articles clearly and I suppose that's all that really matters to me (and I should expect a lot of people). I'm not averse to the idea of a design overhaul as long as my favourite gaming website retains it's functionality.
Perhaps if there are a number of users wanting to submit ideas, we could do a bit of a poll. I'm not savvy enough to know, but is there a way to set up a section of the website to trial designs, such that you could switch between them to get a feel of how they work?
Perhaps if there are a number of users wanting to submit ideas, we could do a bit of a poll. I'm not savvy enough to know, but is there a way to set up a section of the website to trial designs, such that you could switch between them to get a feel of how they work?
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Segata Sanshiro Oct 2, 2014
A lot of modern website designs are difficult navigate and and generally a bit nonsensical, so I quite like GOL, it's easy to navigate and "clean". Basically this is how I think websites shouldn't look:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk
and how they should look:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk?view=classic
The one thing I would change on GOL is the way the articles are displayed, maybe have squares and the description of the article when you hover over the picture, and an easier way of seeing and categorizing the different article series, maybe with a menu bar at the top (GOL cast, Funding crowd, etc).
Looking forward to see what comes of this :)
http://www.theguardian.com/uk
and how they should look:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk?view=classic
The one thing I would change on GOL is the way the articles are displayed, maybe have squares and the description of the article when you hover over the picture, and an easier way of seeing and categorizing the different article series, maybe with a menu bar at the top (GOL cast, Funding crowd, etc).
Looking forward to see what comes of this :)
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Quoting: Segata SanshiroA lot of modern website designs are difficult navigate and and generally a bit nonsensical, so I quite like GOL, it's easy to navigate and "clean". Basically this is how I think websites shouldn't look:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk
and how they should look:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk?view=classic
The one thing I would change on GOL is the way the articles are displayed, maybe have squares and the description of the article when you hover over the picture, and an easier way of seeing and categorizing the different article series, maybe with a menu bar at the top (GOL cast, Funding crowd, etc).
Looking forward to see what comes of this :)
How do you switch it to classic view on the guardian website? They both look the same to me.
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Quoting: Segata SanshiroThe one thing I would change on GOL is the way the articles are displayed, maybe have squares and the description of the article when you hover over the picture, and an easier way of seeing and categorizing the different article series, maybe with a menu bar at the top (GOL cast, Funding crowd, etc).We do have the category selection in the sidebar, but I've wanted to put it into the navbar for quite some time, just haven't figured out a good way to do it yet.
Looking forward to see what comes of this :)
I am currently making a navbar that works better on mobiles and after that I will tinker to see if we can get the category selector in the navbar too.
I am still making tweaks to the current design just in-case no one comes up with anything suitable.
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Segata Sanshiro Oct 2, 2014
QuoteHow do you switch it to classic view on the guardian website? They both look the same to me.
Scroll to the very bottom, I think it's on the right-hand side. I'll stop using it when they make that switch permanent, they already started doing it with some articles.
QuoteWe do have the category selection in the sidebar, but I've wanted to put it into the navbar for quite some time, just haven't figured out a good way to do it yet.
That's good :) Welcome change
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Well, I do love the actual design of Gaming On Linux. It's clean, as has already been said by others. I hope that it won't change too much :)
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Made some adjustments just now.
There is a new navbar for mobiles that actually works properly unlike before, the content is also properly pushed under it unlike before as well on mobiles.
Will be looking to add a category selection in the navbar later once I think up a good way to do it.
If you see any weirdness do a hard refresh to clear your cache.
There is a new navbar for mobiles that actually works properly unlike before, the content is also properly pushed under it unlike before as well on mobiles.
Will be looking to add a category selection in the navbar later once I think up a good way to do it.
If you see any weirdness do a hard refresh to clear your cache.
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