- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
* Is the navigation system intuitive? If not, then how would you improve it?
Actually, I use the side menu more than the bottom nav.. thingy... I guess I'm not used to it. Though, today, when I was heading for the forums, I reluctantly wandered about until I remembered the bottom thing actually existed.
Maybe add a few links on the left too, like.. forums... seventh collumn... like on old b.net :P
* Do you like the page layout? Can you find what you're looking for?
I love the new game pages. ´When I go to one of the halo pages, I can FAST find screens, wallpapers, art, whatever. On the old halo.bungie.net it was tricky to remember what was in the gallery and what in extras, etc. The dots and (+) icons works great!
* Are all the links working and going to their proper destination?
There were a few odd things with the comics and screens, but they seemed fixed now, nice :)
* Which avatar is your favorite?
I think.. the prophet.... still haven't changed mine though, the default melts into the forum... hehe. Makes me feel stealthy.
* Do you like the various color schemes and b.net site themes?
Very much! It's amazing how much work you have put down! Different graphics schemes for the different games and sites, all the graphical buttons, titles, fields... amazing... I love the icons in the bottom navbar, especially the tilted 343 and the seventh collumn logo. The classics scheme is wonderful :) As I'm a fan of pixelart, it melts my heart. I enjoy the bottom left graphics too, the mechanical elevator.... thingy... I love when sites seem to work mechanically.
There's too much to love about this site... another thing is all the different layers of the site that gives it depth. The buttons that seems to be on the lower layer.
* Can you easily read all the text on all the pages?
I think so.. one small detail that just pokes me in the eye is that the "Full Story" and "Continues" for the news seems to be very close to the rest of the text...
* Do you have any forum improvement suggestions?
It took me a while to notice the text markup box... a small button next to the "Quote" button that opens up some markup help would be nice, or maybe a box below the reply area.
When replying to a long message (like this one) and you have scrolled down, the Markup help is no longer visible.
The max number of characters is a little bit high, me thinks. I think this message is long, and I still haven't used half of it. 5000 should be enough for anyone... if you got more to say you might as well make a website :P But still, as long as it isn't abused, there is no real reason to lower it...
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The text size when previewing isn't the same as in the posted message... uhm... I would prefer them to be the same ;) That's just me.
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Maybe make permalink link of the post subject... that can be copied for bookmarking purposes, that goes to the forum page and to the message in question; anchors.
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* Is the text markup system easy to use?
I think so, but maybe because I'm used to html... the [ and ] characters are harder to typ one a swedish keyboard than < and >, nothing you should need to consider though ;)
* Find any bugs? Or weird glitches?
In Internet Explorer 6 (at least) the bottom navbar is 1 pixel off the bottom, leaving one row where you can see the background. I can see this even when running 1792*1344 :P
This is not the case in Mozilla 1.6 where the positioning is perfect.
And I just noticed then when writing really long messages, the background shadow in this text field repeats :) (the body text field, when replying, that is)
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Too many edits.. anyway, at least in my profile, I get two extra commas after the Bungie games I have played... also it seems to have problem saving.. as it now has removed Marathon 2 Durandal and Oni, which I added... they aren't checked anymore when lookingin the settings.. :| Added them again... might have been a cache problem, though I forced refreshes on both the profile and settings page...
And now my state/province vanished instead...
I added it, and it was visible in my profile, but when I went back to my settings it was gone there, and if I then refreshed the profile page it was gone from there too, without updating the settings... o_O And still force refreshing... (Ctrl+F5 in IE)
And now it's back again!... I'm going crazy... and now gone.
Are there several databases that are supposed to be synced or something? This is really freaking me out...
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* What do you really like about the new site?
The graphics are just astounding. I browse it just to see it all work together. Everytime I look at it I think of the humongous amount of work there has to be behind it, to get it to look the way it does. It amazes me that a game studio have time and resources to create something like this.
And I finally got arrows to navigate from content page to content page :) Joy!
* What do you really hate?
I didn't make it.
[Edited on 4/20/2004 2:42:37 AM]