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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I'm ok with the new design, although I don't like it when giant pictures prevail over most of the content :)
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Quoting: MetallinatusNo problem! Just want to warn too that the notification email sent me to a broken link as well :PEmail links for article comments should be fixed, i just subscribed myself, so I will see.
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Steam community id link is broken.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/http://steamcommunity.com/id/liamdawe
http://steamcommunity.com/id/http://steamcommunity.com/id/liamdawe
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Congratulations 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.
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psychoamericana Dec 19, 2014
Quoting: StianTheDarkIcona overlap text and buttons on mobile, make them a bit smaller?I don't see this, however on my phone or tablet in portrait mode there is no icon for the menu but you can click the top right side of the header and the menu appears.
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The icon for a small nav is now fixed, was missed in the upload. Thanks!
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Segata Sanshiro Dec 19, 2014
Looks absolutely great! I really like the way the articles are presented now, like the headline on top with the speech bubble and stuff :) Hadn't seen that part yet.
Any way we could have "GamingOnLinux" back at the top though? Penguin looks a bit lonely there, has done for a while now.
Any way we could have "GamingOnLinux" back at the top though? Penguin looks a bit lonely there, has done for a while now.
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psychoamericana Dec 19, 2014
Quoting: Segata SanshiroLooks absolutely great! I really like the way the articles are presented now, like the headline on top with the speech bubble and stuff :) Hadn't seen that part yet.
Any way we could have "GamingOnLinux" back at the top though? Penguin looks a bit lonely there, has done for a while now.
I feel there should be text as well which isn't showing up. When the page loads on my tablet or phone I see the text "Gaming On Linux" in blue for a second until the logo loads then it disappears. I imagine the text is there as alternate text but disappears once the logo populates in the browser's cache. I am not sure if that is by design or not. Firefox on all 3 devices used. Android 4.4 on my phone, Android 4.2.2 on my tablet, and Firefox DE (Aurora) on my desktop.
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The new sales block has been enabled.
Quoting: psychoamericanaThat is the html alt text if the image cannot be loaded, we may add text to the nav, but it's low priority and only a possibility.Quoting: Segata SanshiroLooks absolutely great! I really like the way the articles are presented now, like the headline on top with the speech bubble and stuff :) Hadn't seen that part yet.
Any way we could have "GamingOnLinux" back at the top though? Penguin looks a bit lonely there, has done for a while now.
I feel there should be text as well which isn't showing up. When the page loads on my tablet or phone I see the text "Gaming On Linux" in blue for a second until the logo loads then it disappears. I imagine the text is there as alternate text but disappears once the logo populates in the browser's cache. I am not sure if that is by design or not. Firefox on all 3 devices used. Android 4.4 on my phone, Android 4.2.2 on my tablet, and Firefox DE (Aurora) on my desktop.
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