Maintenance 14/12/2012
So, things are busy changing all around you! (Dont Panic! Dont forget your Towel).
If I break stuff and seem to miss it (or if I dont fix it fast enough that you see it broken) let me know here.
New things
- Wiki is up (and spambot safe), you can register and begin editing and adding information as you please, there are already a few pages in place to give ideas as to how to organise things, you can find it here: http://makegamessa.com/wiki or from the new front page which should go live this evening.
- The portal should make things more accessible (hopefully)
Also, thanks to @tuism for the logo work he has done!
If I break stuff and seem to miss it (or if I dont fix it fast enough that you see it broken) let me know here.
New things
- Wiki is up (and spambot safe), you can register and begin editing and adding information as you please, there are already a few pages in place to give ideas as to how to organise things, you can find it here: http://makegamessa.com/wiki or from the new front page which should go live this evening.
- The portal should make things more accessible (hopefully)
Also, thanks to @tuism for the logo work he has done!
Comments
The "On Twitter" section extends past the white background on the right hand side, on the main/home page.
Also the search box is entirely invisible, I only knew it was there because of the "Go" button next to it.
This is completely coincidental it seems, please check your email @edg3 ;)
Edit: accidentally removed the main page in spam removal.
It's not as awesome for massive pics though.
Also I'm not a fan of the drop shadow under the header. In some pages it gets cut of in weird place and it feels like it diminishes what is otherwise a really clean aesthetic.
IMO: When it was narrower (maybe a little too narrow even) the problem wasn't the width, but rather the lack of visual anchors, the seemingly arbitrary division of margin and columns, and that the negative area was completely void in harshest white. And while the new wide format does feel like it addresses those, it seems to be more of a step in the wrong direction for readability; I'm finding myself reducing my browser until my tabs are tiny spikes just to stop myself from leaving.
another something to consider
Hearting is done after reading the post, it should be below the body of the post, particularly for those long posts that that extra effort to write which then need to be navigated back before moving on to the comments. At the moment there isn't any clutter below the post body, so it's still comes off as a worthwhile sacrifice for design, but function is following form here; can we better it?
And I want columns! (too) (I think that's what she's trying to say :P)
#1 - min. width: 1024px; max. width: inf.; no columns
#2 - min. width: 1024px; max. width: 1280px; no columns
#3 - min. width: 1024px; max. width: inf.; columns (HTML5!)
#4 - min. width: 1024px; max. width: 1280px; columns (HTML51)
#5 - Other? (and suggest something)
Currently, we are running with #1, the header layout breaks at less than 1024px which is what that is the minimum width atm, however, you will notice that the minimum width is for the header only at this stage.
min width 1024, max width 1280. Actually I don't really care about min width, max width is what's important to avoid running to wide.
Can we create an Events category to redirect the button to, and remove jobs (cos there's not really one yet, unless we wanna make one now)
GJ :)
- Would it not make sense to add another discussion category for jobs? There has already been a few threads that could be moved there.
- Is the favicon meant to be a blue V or a b/w invader? Sometime I get one, and sometimes I get the other. I prefer the latter BTW.
What I'm actually asking about is that a fan of Broforce from Hong Kong wanted to join Make Games SA and said that he received an "Access Denied" error.
Don't know if that could be due to his location... or if "Access Denied" means something else.
I don't know the workings of the forum software. I'm not saying that I want Edge or someone else to work on it (I know you're busy with other things). Just wondering what could cause an "Access Denied" error and if there is anything that this person could do to solve the problem on their side.
Maybe China is onto us!
>_>
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Could that be due to not activating the account (or something) ?