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Announcements => Announcements => Topic started by: Fury on July 23, 2006, 03:55:34 am

Title: New Mainpage
Post by: Fury on July 23, 2006, 03:55:34 am
We have a new mainpage in place. At this time it is very minimalistic and does not have any graphics in place, in other words it is still work in progress (WIP). Sandwich and Setekh will eventually make it look even better than the old mainpage, so bear with us until then. :) Thanks.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Prophet on July 23, 2006, 04:02:20 am
Ok. I seriously vote that the background colour should be darker. I appreciate the romantic image it presents, "new HLP rising from the ashes of the old one". But could we please clean up the ashes away already, it's a health hazard you know...

Seriously. Red, black, grey? Bothers me greatly. Something much darker or something with a bit of red in it.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: achtung on July 23, 2006, 04:22:13 am
So.... HLP 4.0?
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Turnsky on July 23, 2006, 04:27:45 am
a slightly darker shade of grey would work, but really, it looks alright in my opinion, it's rather clean looking, uncomplicated. i like.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: achtung on July 23, 2006, 04:30:48 am
I find it a little too bare bones really.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: castor on July 23, 2006, 07:52:25 am
As much as I can see (sun at 12 oclock), I think its a great foundation.
A simplistic (!=boring) mainpage is good  - doesn't overtax the attention span of wandering souls passing by..

Edit: I'm only missing a short description (one sentence, at the top?) on what the frak is this 'Hard Light Productions' about? :)
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Prophet on July 23, 2006, 08:41:45 am
You people son't really pay much attention on what the text reads, do you? I mean, it's like the text is there for people to read. And the text says its Work In Progress. That means the page is not finished! Thats the reason it is so simple.

Thats why I will not release any information concerning my personal opinions about the page (exept the issue with background colour which I consider to be critical since the forums have the same BG colour).
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Polpolion on July 23, 2006, 10:36:34 am
I like the old one better...

But, this one isn't done, so... yeah.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: neoterran on July 23, 2006, 01:25:01 pm
I like the direction you are going with it, the old one was not easy to navigate. Once you have this a little less minimal, it should be quite nice. Good job, and don't give in.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Sandwich on July 23, 2006, 05:19:50 pm
Seriously. Red, black, grey? Bothers me greatly. Something much darker or something with a bit of red in it.

What, you dislike the colors of the Sathanas? :D You'd better retract that, Carl might get mad...
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Shade on July 23, 2006, 05:30:50 pm
Now, if you go ahead and outfit the site with proper glowpoints, spec and shine maps, plenty spikes and four huge beam weapons, I might be able to overlook the horrendous grey background on the forum and main page ;)
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Eishtmo on July 23, 2006, 06:09:07 pm
More bare bones!  Content is the star, not fancy graphics.  I like it.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Sandwich on July 23, 2006, 06:54:32 pm
Updated again, now with ads (Yays! :p), Shivany background images (Mommy! :scared: ), and TEH HLP LOGO OF TEH D00M!!!
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Cobra on July 23, 2006, 07:04:22 pm
I glanced at the logo on the Main Page and it looked like it said "Hard Light Froductions" :p :lol:
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Fury on July 24, 2006, 12:18:10 am
If you wonder why HLP is going down, up, down, up... It is because London Telehouse is having technical problems after yesterdays power outage.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Mars on July 24, 2006, 12:25:03 am
I thought it was my connection... thanks for the tip.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: camcanr on July 24, 2006, 12:27:02 am
 :D Whoa!!! This site keeps getting better and better :nod:
Can't wait to see what it looks like!
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 24, 2006, 04:45:03 am
The new homepage must die. It's horrible. Simplistic. Looks like I made it as a project for my CISC 181 class...or worse yet a LiveJournal page. The old style was good, looked much more polished, was easier to navigate.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 24, 2006, 04:46:43 am
I like the minimalist look on HLP, (Not in general just HLP)  :yes:
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: IPAndrews on July 24, 2006, 05:22:18 am
Lots of sites I see around look like the web designer has vomited on the screen. Clean and elegant is good!
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 24, 2006, 03:18:42 pm
I'll give you clean, but it's not elegant at all...

And I still think it looks like somebody's LiveJournal.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Kamikaze on July 24, 2006, 05:31:35 pm
I like the minimalistic main page a lot. I think there should be more navigation in the sidebar though.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Harbinger of DOOM on July 25, 2006, 04:12:02 am
I like the new look alot, but..... wheres the downloads section button?
*nervous glance*
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Fury on July 25, 2006, 04:23:45 am
There's none. All FS2 modding tools are in the fs wiki or in the fs modding board at the very least.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Harbinger of DOOM on July 25, 2006, 12:56:05 pm
What about all the mods and stuff?!
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Polpolion on July 26, 2006, 08:53:55 pm
What about the Highlights?
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Xelion on July 26, 2006, 09:34:19 pm
WIP for the highlights I'd imagine
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Mars on July 26, 2006, 09:37:50 pm
Quote from: Harbinger of DOOM
What about all the mods and stuff?!
Didn't Fury just answer that  :nervous:
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Ransom on July 27, 2006, 04:26:58 am
Is there any particular reason why the tagline's wording was changed? 'We Bring MODders together' not only has less of a ring to it than 'Bringing modders together', but the capital MOD in MODders seems to be completely unnecessary. Since when is mod an acronym?

That aside, I don't mind the new site. It does seem a bit overly minimalistic though, to the point where there's very little reason at all for it to even be there since the news gets posted on the forum as well. I'm assuming there's still features to be implemented.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Fury on July 27, 2006, 04:33:17 am
Is there any particular reason why the tagline's wording was changed?
Because Sandwich forgot what the slogan was. He has been humiliated publicly for this.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Sandwich on July 27, 2006, 07:26:42 am
Yer mom.

Image is changed.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: vyper on July 27, 2006, 04:07:14 pm
Yer mom.


A close approximation of the insult one is trying to achieve. The best variation I've heard was, yer maws got baws and yer da likes it.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: aldo_14 on July 28, 2006, 03:21:39 am
Yer mom.


A close approximation of the insult one is trying to achieve. The best variation I've heard was, yer maws got baws and yer da likes it.

Aaah, so that was what Materazzi said...........
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Windrunner on July 28, 2006, 06:02:29 am
Yer mom.



A close approximation of the insult one is trying to achieve. The best variation I've heard was, yer maws got baws and yer da likes it.

Aaah, so that was what Materazzi said...........

:lol:

that comment just cracks me up...l
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Goober5000 on July 28, 2006, 05:12:04 pm
MOD = My Own Design
mod = short for modification

The two definitions are usually interchangeable.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Eishtmo on July 28, 2006, 05:56:19 pm
Is it just me, or is the front page loading very, very slowly?

I'm using Opera, and it does have issues, but it still takes a long time.  Hell, it's faster to go straight to the forum, skipping the main page all together.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Mars on July 29, 2006, 01:06:40 am
Is it just me, or is the front page loading very, very slowly?

I'm using Opera, and it does have issues, but it still takes a long time.  Hell, it's faster to go straight to the forum, skipping the main page all together.

Connection speed?
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Fury on July 29, 2006, 01:10:17 am
I tested the mainpage with Opera under Ubuntu and it loads up just as fast as with Firefox. Only thing that does not work properly with Opera is the upper menu where sub-menus do not work.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Grizzly on July 29, 2006, 03:52:50 am
I like it without extra graphics, loads faster ;)
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 31, 2006, 08:01:20 am
It is still only a temporary measure, so it doesnt matter to be honest, I liked the old one,. i like this one. Chances are i'll like the new one too, Its not the cover its the book inside that counts......... ;7
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Kamikaze on August 01, 2006, 11:21:54 pm
I tested the mainpage with Opera under Ubuntu and it loads up just as fast as with Firefox. Only thing that does not work properly with Opera is the upper menu where sub-menus do not work.

Sub-menus work fine for me. Opera 9 on Debian testing.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Mars on August 02, 2006, 02:46:20 am
It is still only a temporary measure, so it doesnt matter to be honest, I liked the old one,. i like this one. Chances are i'll like the new one too, Its not the cover its the book inside that counts......... ;7

I like the covers, and find the books to be highley ammusing and undeniabley... disturbing.

I need to get aspellfox on this box.
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Polpolion on September 01, 2006, 10:48:51 am
How long will the mainpage remain "WIPpy"?
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: vyper on September 01, 2006, 12:09:50 pm
Until it earns some damned respect and only then will we call it MR WIPpy!
Title: Re: New Mainpage
Post by: Colonol Dekker on September 04, 2006, 05:23:37 am
*suddenly a vision of dancing ice-creams fills CD'd head*  :nervous: