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  5. Vote on site changes, redux.

    in I want to Help

    Posted

    Ok, this is what a responsive site looks like. Have a look on a big screen.

     

    If you have a smartphone I suggest you look at it on that too, and also on any tablets or small screen devices you have. Rotate the screen and see what happens, especially if you have something like a Nexus 7.

     

    Only the News and the Downloads sections work. All links are dummy links.

     

    So - some caveats.

    1. This in not my final suggested template.
    2. This is to show you what a difference in approach can make.
    3. I haven't used all the graphics on the current site (and the onclick images on the main menu are all broken btw).
    4. I built this with my own templating system. thedarkmod.com is built on Wordpress which has respsonsive templates. I'm not suggesting using my templates, but rather just using a responsive template from Wordpress.

    Tell me what you think.

     

    Here is the link: http://www.southquar...mweb/index.html

  13. Vote on site changes, redux.

    in I want to Help

    Posted

    So my last poll was rubbish. I didn't quite get how limited it was. So this is the redux version which should allow you to express yourselves a bit better. You have to choose one thing in each category (like, don't care, dislike) but it seems that's the only choices we have.

     

    I should clarify some things.

     

    5. Mobile site - if you have a proper responsive site you don't actually need this as the site will work on mobile anyway. And I' told some people DL mods and mission on their phones so this would have all the features of the full site.

     

    6. Tapatalk - this does not affect the site for people who don't want to use it. It is ONLY for people who have and want to use Tapatalk for forum access. It's really easy to set up, doesn't affect the forum at all (if you don't have Tapatalk you'll never know about it - TTLG forums have it enabled. Go have a look. You can't tell.).

  14. Vote on potential changes to the main Dark Mod site.

    in I want to Help

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    The site as it is isn't made for mobile, so the text looks small. If you zoom in to get bigger text you have to pan to read everything and the menu is too big to fit on screen.

     

    Simply increasing text size is not a solution to the usability issues with mobile viewing of this site, or many other sites. This is exactly why there are mobile or responsive versions of websites.

     

    When I say it looks fine I mean the layout and colours are fine. Have you personally viewed this site on a smartphone?

     

    I realise a mobile version isn't an absolute necessity but I'm trying to make the site more user friendly. You get by with a flip phone. I don't think you're my target audience.

     

     

    Fine, leave the downloads available for mobile. I think it'll be rarely used though.

     

    Tapatalk is free. Tapatalk Pro isn't. If you don't want to use it - don't use it. Enabling the forum for it only means that those that have and want to use Tapatalk can do so. How can that be a bad thing? I don't get the resistance here.

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  15. Vote on potential changes to the main Dark Mod site.

    in I want to Help

    Posted

     

    I vehemently disagree with making "news" the main site. That was very trendy back in the 2000s when people were turning blogs into websites, but when users get to a site and can't figure out what the site is about, because it's just a list of news that assume foreknowledge, it's useless.

     

    The info from the Main page - what "The Dark Mod" is would be on the News, Team and Media pages.

     

    Um, increase the size of your text then? All browsers, and especially mobile browsers, the user sets the text size. That's not a site thing, that's a user thing. I have no problem with the size on my flip phone's 1.5" x 2" screen. Site's should never dictate such things, that's a rule going back decades, and the design basis, "trust in your browser".

     

    You haven't seen the page on smartphone have you? It's not user friendly and just increasing the text size doesn't help. I'm sorry, but your flip phone is out of date. Look at in on a modern Android or iPhone.

     

    Why wouldn't people download on mobile or tablet? Then they can just copy it to their system to play when they get home. Or just connect their keyboard to play directly. Or if they use a browser that identifies as mobile on their desktop/laptop, download it at all. You also have to design a site to function for the next few years, and a couple years ago we started seeing the convergence of mobile devices and the reduction in standalone computers, so I wouldn't cripple things for "tomorrow's" systems.

     

    ???

     

    Are you seriously suggesting that people will download TDM on a mobile or tablet and then transfer it to their PC? When they get home? Are you suggesting that people will DL on their mobile data plans?

     

    I find this highly unlikely.

     

    Oh, and I'm not a fan of pop-ups, or what they say about a site. If this one had kicked off my pop-up blocker, especially asking me to buy Tapatalk just to read the forums...yeah, no.

     

    Tapatalk is free. You don't have to use it - you can access the mobile version of the forums fine without it.

  16. Vote on potential changes to the main Dark Mod site.

    in I want to Help

    Posted

    I think it's a valid point about removing the "don't like" part of the poll. There's no way to know now whether 6 people like something and the rest don't care, or if 6 people like the change and 18 want to keep it the way it is.

     

    A "don't care" option could be added to the bottom of each list if you have to vote for something.

    I can only add 6 questions and if I kept the Don't like bit you HAVE to vote that don't like at least one.

     

    I didn't really understand how the poll system worked tbh.

  19. Vote on potential changes to the main Dark Mod site.

    in I want to Help

    Posted · Edited by Subjective Effect

    So the main site layout is a few years old now and it hasn't really kept up with modern tech, and has some repeated info/inefficient info placement. It looks good on small screens, great on iPads and 7" Android tablets, and the forum has a nice mobile version.

     

    The style is great. I'm not suggesting any changes to it.

     

    But there are things I perceive as wrong with it, in terms of layout and function.

    • The site is not responsive - it isn't centred so on a larger screen there is a lot of black space on the right side of the screen. Even on an 11"Mac Air one third of the screen is just black space. It should be centred and responsive to the device that is viewing it.
    • The News should be the front page - sites should stay fresh and have their most recent content up front.
    • The About page has very little unique info on it - this can be moved to a panel on the News and Team pages (which should be a standard template).
    • There should be one Downloads page - the Mod DL page already links to the FM DL page. And the Mod DL page is multi-layered; you go to another page to get the DL instructions/install instructions. This is should all be made more transparent by having all the DL info on one page, just in separate panels. With larger screens/resolutions (which are the norm now) this can be side by side, on smaller devices a responsive site will put the FM section below the Mod section and the page can have a responsive menu and "Go to" buttons that only appear when on a smaller screen.

    I've made mock-ups so you can see examples of what it might look like.

     

    New layout (for News, Team and Media pages) which is a template: http://imgur.com/Z4WyNAt NB: There won't be an About section - that text can go in the Latest Missions panel that is probably unnecessary.

     

    Download page - larger screen: http://imgur.com/7xgcs7S

     

    Download page - for smaller screens: http://imgur.com/QrtoNiu

    • There should be a mobile version - looking at the site on a mobile looks fine. But its hard to read because the text is too small. The mobile version doesn't need links to downloads because you're not going to be downloading on a mobile or tablet so it could just be News, Team and Media pages and a link to the Forum.

    • Mobile forum - the mobile version is nice. But it doesn't let you go to the last post in a thread and for long threads this makes it all but unusable. I think we should enable the site for Tapatalk (http://tapatalk.com), the most popular forum app. It's a simple script that lets people use Tapatalk on mobile to access the forum. It doesn't affect the forum in any other way apart from an initial pop-up when you first go to the forum on you mobile, asking you if you want to get Tapatalk.

    That's it. Please vote on the things you like the sound of and if anyone has any other ideas I'd love to hear them.

  20. Thief 4 is trash.

    in Off-Topic

    Posted

    I saw one, saw many never did, and that was when I was looking for it in one uninterrrupted viewing, looking at other things most of the time. When the one went off, I couldn't be sure it wasn't coincidence since he was moving over the top of a wall. I'll gladly screenshot/gif it when I get to it later.

     

    There are different lightning flashes, as in there are some from different sources (which is natural during a storm).

     

    The ones that light up where Garrett is all light up the light gem.

     

    The ones that don't light up where Garrett is don't light up the light gem.

     

    The light gem therefore resounds to the lightning.

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