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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Sorry, I find this hardly usable. Even with the browser full screen on my PC monitor, hald of the screen is filled by some image. The images for the entries in the main list are way too large as well IMHO. The fonts are quite large, and I'm saying this as someone who generally enlarges fonts from OS's default. (You do know that more people have a PC than a tablet or smart phone, right?) People get much less information on a glance now.
The featured image will be tested with adjustments of moving the content up a bit.
The main list images are almost the same size as the old ones FYI.
Yes i am well aware more people use a PC thanks, no need to be condescending with feedback buddy.
We will look at giving likes their own spot, if anyone has ideas on that put them forward, but they are in the same place as the old design.
If font sizes really bug the minority, then I am sure you know how to adjust them yourselves ;), but it may be possible for me to add an option for big, medium and small font sizes if people would be genuinly interested?
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thelimeydragon 20 Dec 2014
you need to edit your .htaccess file again so that the non-www site redirects to the www site.
and as a personal opinion I'm not a fan of the black distro logos/icons.
and as a personal opinion I'm not a fan of the black distro logos/icons.
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Just noticed that on the main page you can't just scroll down forever any more, you have to load next page :(
Hope you would be interested in bringing that functionality back. It made cruising through last few weeks much nicer.
Hope you would be interested in bringing that functionality back. It made cruising through last few weeks much nicer.
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Wow. loved it! ITS cleaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
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FYI, you may want to fix the wording on the "Avatar page." ;) Also, the spacing and just general feel of that page leaves something to be desired.
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Thank you for making the tags colourful again, now I noticed he submit sales button seems to be broken.
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While I wait for my lift to work I have reduced the featured article space by 100px on all screen-sizes.
That was one of the bigger complaints, so I hope that helps.
That was one of the bigger complaints, so I hope that helps.
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Small thing, but I really dislike the new favicon.Uh, it's the same one?
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Yes i am well aware more people use a PC thanks, no need to be condescending with feedback buddy.
Condescending was not the intent at all, Liam.
I just see more and more web pages changing so they are probably well usable with a tablet - but losing lots of usability on PCs at the same time.
The same ist true for the new gamingonlinux outfit, at least for the part you see first when you enter the site. It yells "Not much information here buddy, sorry!" at me. Most space is taken by the featured article, which AFAIK does not change often. So when I want to visit your site several times a day, most I get is all the same every time. And only at the lowest end of the screen I can see parts of the first news article.
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Good, am glad it wasn't meant to be, but that is sadly how it came across due to the wording.
We 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.
We 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.
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Good, 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.
We 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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The new sales block has been enabled.
That 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.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.
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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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!
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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Metallinatus 22 Dec 2014
Likes 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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The 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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