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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Quoting: liamdaweGood, am glad it wasn't meant to be, but that is sadly how it came across due to the wording.
It was more of a general discontent with ways websites are changed nowadays (of which GoL is not the worst case) that had it's first occasion to get expressed here... Sorry for having been harsh.
Quoting: liamdaweWe wanted a way to bring attention to featured articles, and this is the way we liked. I will, however, look at adding a way for users to disable it, as it is not essential to show.
In my humble opinion it shouldn't take more than say a fourth of an ordinary screen if presenting new news is important for your site.
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Fixed the like icon to show a broken heart if you have already liked a post.
Fixed submit sales button.
Fixed submit sales button.
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Quoting: Segata SanshiroQuoting: liamdaweThe 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.
Tried this in several different browsers and there's always no text there (this actually happened before the re-design too, but I thought it was just a temporary thing). Would be nice to have something there, I doubt we're the only ones this happens to.
I've been wondering this too. It seems a little bare at the top without a title.
Also, now that I've quoted, it would be clearer if there was an indication that clicking the quote button worked if you're quoting a post from further up the page. I ended up clicking it twice because there was no feedback. Either an animation or scrolling the page down to the comment box after clicking the quote button would work well.
Overall, I really like the new site design, especially the look of the news on the home page with the larger images!
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Quoting: km3kI've been wondering this too. It seems a little bare at the top without a title.
Also, now that I've quoted, it would be clearer if there was an indication that clicking the quote button worked if you're quoting a post from further up the page. I ended up clicking it twice because there was no feedback. Either an animation or scrolling the page down to the comment box after clicking the quote button would work well.
Overall, I really like the new site design, especially the look of the news on the home page with the larger images!
Will see what we can do about having "GamingOnLinux" text in the header.
Quoting: Ask and you shall receive, done.
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Likes have been moved to the bottom of comments, with a small separator. Hope that helps, we think it looks better.
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Quoting: liamdaweLikes have been moved to the bottom of comments, with a small separator. Hope that helps, we think it looks better.
Yes, it's much better now, thanks :D
But the number of likes and the heart icon is not updating when I press it anymore....
Earlier today it was.... but now it only changes when I reload the page.
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Sorry about that, the new position borked the js selector for it, all fixed.
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Quoting: liamdaweThe main list images are almost the same size as the old ones FYI.
I found out more on this one. When the browser is full screen, the images are of reasonable size and three news fit on my screen. But if I resize my browser to a width of say 1100 pixels, the images get much larger (about 700 * 440) and only 1 1/3 news fit on the screen (height wise).
In case you wonder, I regularly use a smaller browser width in order to get text lines of less width. They are easier to read (that's why newspapers use several columns).
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