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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Not exactly design related but I think it would be nice if logged in sessions lasted a while longer than they do today. Now I always have to log in again if I haven't used GOL on a particular device in a few hours.
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Quoting: fleskNot exactly design related but I think it would be nice if logged in sessions lasted a while longer than they do today. Now I always have to log in again if I haven't used GOL on a particular device in a few hours.
Previously the stay logged in cookie was set to a month, I've now set it to stay for a year.
If you are getting logged out after a few hours then something's not quite right, do you change any browser settings? If you do anything like user agent switching that will break it most likely.
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Quoting: liamdaweIf you are getting logged out after a few hours then something's not quite right, do you change any browser settings? If you do anything like user agent switching that will break it most likely.
I do occasionally change the user agent, but this issue happens independently of that and on both my work and home computers and my phone. And I don't have any such issues on other websites I frequent.
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Seems like your changes broke the mobile site on my phone Liam. On the desktop is does definitely look improved though.
Having a clean, good looking website is important, and yes you're right in thinking that it needs as update. This site is afaik the no. 1 Linux gaming site...it should look professional. A good designer will do that for you. I'm in the same boat, I do my own web design on occasion, but it always looks slightly off and half-baked.
There are some sites where you can hire designers for a fee. This could be worthy of a small fundraising campaign.
I respect that some people are very happy with the current design, it's certainly not bad....but it could be a lot better.
Having a clean, good looking website is important, and yes you're right in thinking that it needs as update. This site is afaik the no. 1 Linux gaming site...it should look professional. A good designer will do that for you. I'm in the same boat, I do my own web design on occasion, but it always looks slightly off and half-baked.
There are some sites where you can hire designers for a fee. This could be worthy of a small fundraising campaign.
I respect that some people are very happy with the current design, it's certainly not bad....but it could be a lot better.
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In any case, contrary to popular belief, a dark background with clear leters is better to read (also its better if you're on a big screen like me, its almost the only option)
the problem is when you change from an page to another most of webpages are withe so this kind of hurt your eyes.
browsers need an soft transition =P
BTW: for those who want a darker background here, try stilish, the only issue is the twitter plugin.
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last but not least, im a webdesigner but i'm too busy, so i don't know if i will try (especially because i don't know an internation credit card and do need money)
do you have any concept of what kind of design do you expect?
the problem is when you change from an page to another most of webpages are withe so this kind of hurt your eyes.
browsers need an soft transition =P
BTW: for those who want a darker background here, try stilish, the only issue is the twitter plugin.
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last but not least, im a webdesigner but i'm too busy, so i don't know if i will try (especially because i don't know an internation credit card and do need money)
do you have any concept of what kind of design do you expect?
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Quoting: drmothSeems like your changes broke the mobile site on my phone Liam. On the desktop is does definitely look improved though.What broke exactly? Looks fine my end.
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Quoting: liamdaweIt's actually just the browser caching the CSS. When making changes to CSS files, it's a good idea to append a version number to it. This forces the file to be downloaded again. So just throw ?v=something after whatever.css.Quoting: drmothSeems like your changes broke the mobile site on my phone Liam. On the desktop is does definitely look improved though.What broke exactly? Looks fine my end.
Example:
styles.css?v=2014-10-02_10-15
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Ah yeah I forgot to do that, will do it with the next update and increment the version by another 1.
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Is this why suddenly I can't see the site banner any more? Additionally, I assume that's got something to do with the featured articles thing being half-covered by the toolbar.
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Quoting: KelsIs this why suddenly I can't see the site banner any more? Additionally, I assume that's got something to do with the featured articles thing being half-covered by the toolbar.That should be sorted now as I've bumped the css and js versions in our html, so your browsers should now grab the latest.
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