The New SP Design is Up!

Wooo! Nice. You must be glad to have finally got that up. Well done.

 

Well, well well. It's been a long time coming, and I must say, well worth the wait! Absolutely fabulous.....such an improvement on look, use of space, ease of navigation. It's just magnificent....and I'm sure, lots of hard work! Congratulations to you and SP!

 

Excellent Tal! Looks great. Good work.

 

Holy Sh!t - that's a whole different SP I'm looking at - way cool though.
Good job!

 

This is a huge improvement! Not that I didn't like the old design, but this is so much better! Great work!

 

I'm not sure I understand the SPS accounts bit fully though. How mcuh do you have to donate and what do you get other than a different level of ads?

 

Aha, I see now. Sorry, I didn't look far enough past the first intro.

 

I definately like the new design. Well done!

 

Tal - can you create a bug reporting thread for the new design? It isn't looking so peachy from my point of view (not the design look itself, the coding just appears to be broken for me). For example, the menus on the right and left are located in the dead center of the scroll, rather than at the top.

I wish I could say it looks great - but I will say that it appears to be a nice improvement. Maybe I'll try it on a different computer later.

 

The link to the home page from the top left corner of the Message Board page doesn't work for me - it takes me to your 'error' page.

 

That was fast. It now works fine.

 

Argh! It is different! It is not the same! I have to honestly say that I prefered the old design. This looks a bit crowded and it feels like I have seen it many places elsewhere.

However it is good that it is finally done and you wont need to worry about it no more.

 

@ Tal

The problems I mention are on the home page. The browser I'm using is Safari, on a G4. I also have Internet Explorer, and at the time I wrote my last post it wouldn't even load in IE. But now it's up in IE and it looks great (kudos). It may just be my Safari browser (which would suck, because that's my primary/favorite browser). Also, in Safari, your cool little border doesn't even appear.

Another thing - can you change the link scripting so that links change color one you've viewed them? As you recall, on the other design new links appeared in Red, and viewed links appeared in white. Now, they appear in that off-white color you have now in both states.

 

The design looks really cool.

However, there is something odd about the navigation in the games section. When you are in the games index, there is a link in the subsection menu to the index. However, when you click on a game, you can't return to the index without using the 'back'-button in your browser. I don't know if this was planned or a mistake, but it just seemed a bit weird.

And as long as we're talking about how it looks in different browsers: if you go to a game in the games section with Firefox, there is a grey line underneath some download buttons. However, some download buttons look just fine. Just some small flaws I guess, which are inevitable with every new site.

Lastly, how are the nice color changes effects of the links done? It changes colors gradually with IE on my pc, however, with Firefox it just changes colors. Maybe with a simple change of the settings, I can also get the full experience with Firefox. (Or Firefox may just not support it.)