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Title: Redesign of diaspora.hard-light.net
Post by: PIe on July 05, 2017, 05:08:10 pm

I've come up with a new website, and although I'm not a good web designer (as you will see), I thinks it's better than current.  In my view, the main advantage is that you don't have to visit the release thread to download the game and the the mirror links are all updated.  Basically, I copied and updated http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=81859.0.
Anyway, the new website is at https://github.com/plieblang/diaspora.hard-light.net.  Don't be too harsh; I know it's pretty basic.

Title: Re: Redesign of diaspora.hard-light.net
Post by: karajorma on July 05, 2017, 08:24:02 pm

I like it a lot actually. My one suggestion though would be to move the release information to the downloads page and stick some more pretty pictures and links to the trailers on the main page. I've always thought that the main page of a website should show you why you want the game. I'd also suggest splitting up the downloads into Windows, Mac and Linux pages, what we have at the moment is a little too busy.

I should probably update those torrents to include the patches as well while I'm at it.

Title: Re: Redesign of diaspora.hard-light.net
Post by: PIe on July 06, 2017, 04:57:43 pm

Ok, I added a bunch of screenshots from the media pack to the homepage, as well as the release trailer and the fourth trailer.  I also divided the OS download sections into different pages.

Title: Re: Redesign of diaspora.hard-light.net
Post by: ngld on July 06, 2017, 05:57:57 pm

For people who are lazy like me, here's a link which allows you to preview the website (http://rawgit.com/plieblang/diaspora.hard-light.net/master/index.html) without downloading the repository.

I think the site looks nice. However, it's not a good idea to embed the full size images because it'll cause long loading times especially with slow connections.
I'd create thumbnails in the appropriate size and embed them instead.

Title: Re: Redesign of diaspora.hard-light.net
Post by: karajorma on July 07, 2017, 02:13:36 am

Yeah, looks good. I'll see about uploading it tomorrow if there are no other comments.

Title: Re: Redesign of diaspora.hard-light.net
Post by: PIe on July 07, 2017, 03:13:08 pm

Quote from: ngld on July 06, 2017, 05:57:57 pm

However, it's not a good idea to embed the full size images because it'll cause long loading times especially with slow connections.
I'd create thumbnails in the appropriate size and embed them instead.

Good point.  Done.

Title: Re: Redesign of diaspora.hard-light.net
Post by: ngld on July 07, 2017, 03:31:29 pm

Great.  :yes:

Title: Re: Redesign of diaspora.hard-light.net
Post by: karajorma on July 31, 2017, 12:16:50 am

Well I didn't manage to get it online before I went on holiday but the site should be up now. I'll update it with newer news at some point in the near future and move the current news page to older news or something.

Title: Re: Redesign of diaspora.hard-light.net
Post by: PIe on July 31, 2017, 03:22:04 pm

Cool!

Title: Re: Redesign of diaspora.hard-light.net
Post by: PIe on March 27, 2018, 11:35:56 pm

I updated the Downloads page to add a Knossos download button.
Also, I noticed that in the live site's CSS, the color for <h1> elements is #aaaeaa.  However, as far as I can tell, all h1 elements should be transparent.  Currently, you can just barely see the bottom of some of the letters in the headers which a little weird.
Edit:  OK I see a couple places in the news page where h1 is being used.  I suppose I could make those h2s.
https://github.com/plieblang/diaspora.hard-light.net
https://rawgit.com/plieblang/diaspora.hard-light.net/master/index.html