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New Main TH Page?

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:12 pm
by Corrupt Shadow
Logged on around 5:00PM CST on July 13, 2009, and the main page was different.

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Trying something new, Ryme?

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:52 pm
by Harry Dresden
Heh...I thought my browser was screwed up for the first 10 seconds or so.

And the inclusion of that green....thing is just rubbing salt in my wound of curiousity. :D

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:28 pm
by neocamp22
I like it, mostly. It needs a little bit of work making the entire thing more uniform, IMO, but it's a nice look.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:41 pm
by MagiNinjA
Hmm. It is more interesting, for sure. But it's also much wider and not as...smooth as the last one. Wider isn't necessarily bad, but not everyone has a widescreen computer. Or is it just the fact that I do have one make it seem a little weird?

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:32 pm
by Ryme
Why dont' you try shrinking your browser window and find out?

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:58 pm
by TheK3vin
Looks great when your window isn't maximized- Looks... good when it is on a widescreen monitor. I certainly won't be starting any petitions.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:16 pm
by MagiNinjA
Yeah, it's definitely better on a normal (non-widescreen) monitor, but it's not bad by any means.

It still looks a little too sharp and boxy compared to the old one though, IMO.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:54 pm
by Cristiona
It looks... a little cluttered. Certainly got my attention when I loaded the site.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:57 pm
by Corrupt Shadow
Well, "I like it, like it, yes, I do."

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:26 pm
by Strlikecrazy
It's cool. But, the green thing :mrgreen:

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:52 pm
by MagiNinjA
Agreed. Looks interesting. And shiny.

It'd be interesting if it pulled up random images though, instead of just static.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:01 am
by Muhandes
My first reaction was that it doesn't look good on a wide screen, too cluttered.
But on a second look it might not be so bad, and my first reaction was just me being used to the old clean look.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:42 am
by Satan
It's so ugly. I thought I'd gone to the wrong site. Upon realizing I didn't, my first reaction was OH GOD THE UGLY. Perhaps this was exaggerated because I'd only been awake for like a minute. But still >.> If you could somehow line up the item lines, it'd probably look better :/

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:37 am
by Muhandes
On my laptop things look better, but on my home machine I get this (click thumbnail for full version):

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As you can see there are some alignment problems.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:56 pm
by Ryme
So, some of you love it, some of you hate it, some are weirded out because it's different. Sounds pretty typical of any change.

I had two main goals with the update:
1) Let the page expand/flex to fit different browser sizes, instead of being a fixed width.
2) Work in some actual game art.
3) Get rid of the borders on the tables that nobody else has used since 1997.

I'm pretty sure those three things have been accomplished. Maybe not exactly elegantly, but close enough.

@awaj: Rounded corners? Do you have any idea how difficult those are?

@jazztap: obviously not going to constrain the width, because that's counter to one of my goals. I'm sticking with the principle that every user can set their browser however they like, but if I fix the width then I'm forcing a lot of people to be stuck with a width they don't want.

@ magi: I can't do a series of random images as a background image in a table. I have to do a background to let it scale with changing page sizes. At least, that's how I understand it; someone may know tricks that I don't. There might be other ways to fudge it, and I can give it some thought.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:22 pm
by Ryme
Not really. Like I said, it was using the old border tag that nobody has used since 1997. Wasn't really rounded, just fake beveling.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:24 pm
by Carygon Nijax
I thught my browser was broken too.. because I never saw the little images of the items.. and.. what the hell is that green thing??

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:29 pm
by TheK3vin
Carygon Nijax wrote:I thught my browser was broken too.. because I never saw the little images of the items.. and.. what the hell is that green thing??
I could be wrong, but I think it's in the slots, too. Ryme's just teasing us with it.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:56 am
by Corrupt Shadow
Yes, it's in the slots. If it's elsewhere in the game, no one has found it yet.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:56 am
by Strlikecrazy
Ryme, want to dispense some info on the green item? :D

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:49 am
by Harry Dresden
There's already an ultra rare in the garbage. So I doubt there would be a second.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:43 am
by Cristiona
I already gave a hint about that item in chat :?

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:23 pm
by Satan
I'd have to agree. My desktop monitor is 22 inches, so maximized it makes it a pain to read. And it's an inconvenience to place upon us large monitors to have to re-size every time we switch over to the TH main page >.> But granted, since it's just one page, it can be lived with.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:50 pm
by Ryme
Therum wrote:
-The picture of the CD is cut off on my resolution, and that looks reeeaaaalllllyyyy goofy. You need to make sure the last image in a row doesn't get cut off like that. Likewise, the left and top edges of the gasmask cut off naturally - I would use images that fit within the frame instead.
It scales. That's the whole point. I can't design for 100 different screens, and the choice is either not scale at all (and thus be too big or too small) or scale and thus risk being cut off. There's nothing magical about your monitor that I should use it as a guide -- hundreds of others see hundreds of different things.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:16 pm
by MagiNinjA
Er, but that's the thing. There WAS nothing wrong with the previous one. It wasn't too big OR too small. It was always just right.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:10 am
by Carygon Nijax
I don't want to be rude or anything.. but.. I actually liked the old one more than this new one

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:31 am
by Cristiona
Honestly? It's a page I look at for 10 seconds. It's different, but it's not bad. It's certainly not something that would drive away potential players.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:47 am
by Carygon Nijax
Maybe not.. but it won't attract them either

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:52 am
by Cristiona
By the time they see the page, they've already been attracted. :?

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:55 am
by Carygon Nijax
well.. If they mind that much about the main page. then they should never play!

go play some wii game you freaks!

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:22 am
by Corrupt Shadow
I agree with Cris, it's a log in page that I look at for 10 seconds. I just made the thread because it was different.

I like different. It's fine, Ryme. Either way works, and I understand why you did it. Can't please 'em all.

Re: New Main TH Page?

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:25 am
by Satan
The point we're making Cris is that it is bad for monitors which are too small or too large, where the original page was just fine for even my large monitor. Also, Ryme, you certainly could design it for 100 or 1000 or /all/ screens... You've got the power of JS and PHP, afterall, which is /made/ for dynamic programming of web pages >.>