Planned theme changes
Based on user feedback thus far, I'm planning some changes to the theme:
- Bringing back the OGA mascot
- Shrinking the art preview boxes to make room for more of them. Instead of 2 rows of 3, I'm thinking 4 rows of 4, for a total of 16 instead of 6.
- A placeholder image for audio where no preview image is available (this is more of a bug, really)
- The comment box will no longer extend all the way across the screen (it looks bad this way, and I've been planning to fix it, but I figured it was usable in the short term).
- Apparently most people don't like Blue as much as me. Since we're bound to get complaints regardless of the color scheme, I think what I'm going to do is implement some way that people can submit and share user stylesheets to recolor the site. This will be done later on, since there are more pressing things to deal with first.
- Fix funky formatting issues (horizontal scrollbars on some browsers, occasional double titles, etc)
- Another thing I want to do is allow people to customize some of the blocks that appear on the front page. Filtered by art type, maybe a random rotation, art by people you've friended, etc. This is another OGA 2.0 feature that will be coming eventually.
- I originally had this theme set up to be fixed width, and I made it fluid in response to some comments from people. Based on what I'm seeing here, though, I suspect that people in general might prefer fixed width.
- Bring back the stats blocks (popular art, challenges, etc) -- this was planned anyway, but I figured we could go without them for a few days.
- Fix forum navigation (this is a bug, not intentional)
- For browsers that don't support HTML5 audio, bring back flash audio previews in those cases. If your browser *does* support HTML5 audio, you won't have to deal with Flash.
- Someone asked why the sidebar on comments is so big just for an avatar pic. There's going to be some more stuff there when I'm done with it: Medals (like on the old site, except more compact, no bronze when you have silver, etc), basic user stats (number of submissions etc), a link to a private message form, and an abbreviated list of the game projects (if any) that they're involved in.
As always, I'm open to comments and suggestions. :)
Cool to see you've fixed the comment box for forum posts. Looks much better. I think it still needs adjusting for art comments though. It would be cool to see more consistency in the layout regarding stuff such as margins. Here's an example of what I mean:
EDIT: Seems there a problem with the images. Here are the links:
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9403/edit1a.png
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/7091/edit2o.png
One of the things I would like to see is possibility of having more sizes to make text readable. Something like http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-company/corporate-trends/loss-making-psu-bsnl-shows-improvement-after-telecom-minsiter-kapil-sibal-review/articleshow/9180002.cms
for instance. See the font-size button therein. It would be preferable if this could be done in the profile as well. Once you do what size of font you want in the profile, the site will render it for you (dunno if this can be done or not, just an idea)
I am using two addons to simulate this in different browsers. On Google Chrome/Chromium its font-size increase and decrease https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ombpcpigmndepfckcifdblemkabaoihk and font-size in Mozilla Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/font-size/
It would make it much better if this was done via site profile rather than using extensions such as these.
Looking forward to your comments on the same.
As of right now, if I use the extensions, then the look changes quite a bit, the look/the columns , the way the other elements on the web-page are, they should not change, only the text should become bigger.
This does not happen atm. If needed will attach pics. to show/illustrate the same.
Not been able to see many of the old threads. For instance see :-
http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/variables-sorting
http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/2d-and-3d-artwork-needed-for-ogs-mahjo...
Perhaps something is still broken somewhere ?
shirish, this is what about I wrote in my comment in this topic: http://opengameart.org/content/more-about-the-new-theme
these links now looks following:
http://opengameart.org/content/variables-sorting
http://opengameart.org/content/2d-and-3d-artwork-needed-ogs-mahjong-3d-b...
i.e. 'content' instead of 'forumtopic' and hmm... 'for' disappeared from '2d-and-3d-artwork-needed-for-ogs-mahjong-3d-board-game'