New Site Design (Still Being Tested)

Hey everyone,

Quick post here as I’m running on very little sleep at the moment. We just launched a new design and some things are still in the progress of being added. The hope was to create a much cleaner look that was easier for you to navigate and read. If you have any comments please feel free to share them below.

We’ll be finalizing the design in the next few days.

Thanks,
Chad-

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  • bluerobsn

    I loveeeeeeeeeeee the new site design. Great work. Although I do wish the login box above would connect to the forums, and not wordpress. Once you login there isn't much going on on the user dash up top.

    But ya, 2 thumbs up. Awesome.

  • http://www.ripten.com Chad Lakkis

    We totally agree blue. In the next few months we are going to be working to get off of WordPress and build our own software. that will allow us to have things like a single sign on for commenting, forums, etc. WordPress is pretty limited unless you are a php programming pro — which I am not.

  • bluerob

    *note* I am bluerobsn. Somehow I have 2 login names and didn't know it. Accidently commented below with another account.

    I hear ya. I use wordress for my site too, but the only thing I hate is that the forum bridges that exist for it are not supported and often break with any software updates, which wordpress puts out every other month it seems.

    I know you guys don't use it, but Vbulletin 4 just went gold so now it's fully supported by jelsoft. That means plugins will now start being developed for it, so maybe perhaps we will finally get the wordpress to forum bridge that hasn't come out yet.

    I am not sure about where to find it, but I know there are various HTML scripts out there that pull external data from forums, and allow users to login and display dashboard links without actually having to be on the forums.

  • http://www.ripten.com Chad Lakkis

    RE: the forum…good to know. I'll keep an eye out. That is why we use an external forum software now…the internal plugin forum wasn't very good.

  • DavidGX

    It's nice but it's just so…. empty.

  • http://www.ripten.com Chad Lakkis

    Yeah. I'll be working on that. A lot of the stuff that was on the old site like top ten buttons and games to follow will be added. I just wanted to get this up asap since it was a better layout overall.

  • http://blog.gynecologistcobra.net demi adejuyigbe

    Needs more lens flares and Comic Sans.

  • http://www.ripten.com Chad Lakkis

    As a follow up David, do you have any thoughts as to what you'd like to see added to make it less “empty”? Just curious if you are referring to the absence of things we had in the last design or something all together different.

    C

  • http://www.facebook.com/nickreaume Nick Reaume

    lovin it.

  • GiantLenin

    The new layout/colours/logo look great! But yeh the sides do seem pretty empty as DavidGX said, but when you add the top 10s and stuff again I'm sure it won't look so empty. Oh, and the new quotes are awesome!

  • DavidGX

    adblock plus is probably responsible for part of it. The right side just seems like a huge chunk of space. Bringing back the links for the coverage of individual games (bayonetta, etc) should help a lot.