Author Topic: AGS Website Redesign (Read 13834 times)

tampie85 · « **Reply #100 on:** 22 Jun 2021, 21:14 »

Sorry to hear it doesn't work in the browser you want to use.

Thank you

I have a website to practice the PHP AGA taught me, but besides that I have no experience in web design. I guess watching professionals for years paid off.

I think I have good news too and managed to fix the splash page on mobile landscape and small devices. Fingers crossed. It'll be in the next release.

tampie85 · « **Reply #101 on:** 24 Jun 2021, 14:02 »

===== UPDATE =====

I absolutely love your ideas to improve the site (bookmarking, modules/plugin search, proactive reviews, mags, ~~dark theme~~, etc.).
EDIT:
The redesign is now available in dark theme too. The paths are added in the below mentioned URL. Don't use the menu to navigate, you'll lose the dark theme.

To make sure the redesign doesn't end up in a never ending project, I decided to focus only on existing pages/functionality and put the improvements on a list that can be looked at after initial go live.

And I think I'm finished with the redesign

You still should be able to navigate using the menu, but I also made a list of all pages, and the scenarios I could think of, which gives you a better image:

https://new-site.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/temp-mapping.php

===== HELP WANTED =====

Design Review
Please keep your feedback on the design coming. I validated every page/scenario with W3C HTML validator and looked at it in mobile, tablet and desktop view using Chrome Dev Tools.
Post it in this thread if something looks odd/doesn't work/is unclear on a certain device/browser.

Content review
We would really appreciate if you review the content on the redesign on, i.e.:

Is it up to date?
Is it complete?
Does the sequence make sense? (e.g. filter/sort on the search page, or the specs list at the top of the game details page, or the links in the menu/footer)

Please post your suggested changes in this thread.

Images
It would be amazing if someone can help us with creating custom images to make the site look even better. These are the ones I think we need:

Splash - full screen image with transparency to keep the text readable. Likely need a few versions to make sure it looks good on the most popular screen sizes. (Homepage)
AGS Screenshots - Do we want plain screenshots or something fancier like on the current homepage? (Homepage - AGS)
Image not found (Search - Game Details)
Awards (Game Details - Ratings)
Panel/Pick (Game Details - Ratings)
User Rating (Game Details - Ratings)
Features (AGS)
Requirements (AGS)

Looking forward to see the feedback and can't wait to see the site with suitable images!

eri0o · « **Reply #102 on:** 24 Jun 2021, 17:01 »

Tampie85, amazing work! I think this last message of yours should be split into a topic of it's own so there's more focus on what's up to the community to do.

Regarding the mapping, I noticed the legal information may contain a bit of old information, basically on the license of things that comes with AGS, and what comes with AGS is changing with the new SDL based version. There's also non-current information on mp3 patents that have now expired. Is it possible to pickup the data from that page from a wiki or something ? I could update the license/legal information in this new page. The page also appears to have a mix of info from AGS was closed source there.

AGA · « **Reply #103 on:** 24 Jun 2021, 17:09 »

Quote from: eri0o on 24 Jun 2021, 17:01

Tampie85, amazing work! I think this last message of yours should be split into a topic of it's own so there's more focus on what's up to the community to do.

Regarding the mapping, I noticed the legal information may contain a bit of old information, basically on the license of things that comes with AGS, and what comes with AGS is changing with the new SDL based version. There's also non-current information on mp3 patents that have now expired. Is it possible to pickup the data from that page from a wiki or something ? I could update the license/legal information in this new page. The page also appears to have a mix of info from AGS was closed source there.

Makes sense to make it editable. I'm certainly planning to have some pages draw their content from the wiki (when I get around to implementing those pages). I think we should keep the existing legal info as an archive, if only because we still offer the last CJ-made version as a download; we'd make it clear it's not the up to date licence though, and have a separate area for the current licence.

tampie85 · « **Reply #104 on:** 25 Jun 2021, 13:21 »

Quote from: eri0o on 24 Jun 2021, 17:01

Tampie85, amazing work! I think this last message of yours should be split into a topic of it's own so there's more focus on what's up to the community to do.

Regarding the mapping, I noticed the legal information may contain a bit of old information, basically on the license of things that comes with AGS, and what comes with AGS is changing with the new SDL based version. There's also non-current information on mp3 patents that have now expired. Is it possible to pickup the data from that page from a wiki or something ? I could update the license/legal information in this new page. The page also appears to have a mix of info from AGS was closed source there.

Thanks! Yes please on creating the legal page on the Wiki, then it'll be ready to pull in. I'll change the current page to make clear it it only applicable for Chris' latest version (I wasn't aware that that was the case).

Ali · « **Reply #105 on:** 25 Jun 2021, 22:27 »

The remodelling looks great. If this is the right place for feedback - I can't get the "This site uses cookies to enhance user experience" popup to go away on Chrome/Windows 10. Clicking OK doesn't do anything.

EDIT: Sorry!

AGA · « **Reply #106 on:** 25 Jun 2021, 22:36 »

Quote from: Ali on 25 Jun 2021, 22:27

The remodelling looks great. If this is the right place for feedback - I can't get the "This site uses cookies to enhance user experience" popup to go away on Chrome/Windows 10. Clicking OK doesn't do anything.

That hasn't been implemented yet, as so far this is just about the styling.

Crimson Wizard · « **Reply #107 on:** 29 Jun 2021, 10:45 »

Something reminded me, as there's a page with Resources, here's a list of open-sourced AGS games we were gathering a while ago:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=50980.0

Crimson Wizard · « **Reply #108 on:** 06 Jul 2021, 20:37 »

Don't know if mentioned before, but when adding your game to the database I can only choose resolution from a very short list of presets, probably dating back to pre-open source engine era.

It would be nice if this is resolved in the new site.

tampie85 · « **Reply #109 on:** 06 Jul 2021, 20:42 »

Quote from: Crimson Wizard on 06 Jul 2021, 20:37

Don't know if mentioned before, but when adding your game to the database I can only choose resolution from a very short list of presets, probably dating back to pre-open source engine era.

It would be nice if this is resolved in the new site.

That's a good point. Do you have any idea what the most common resolutions are?

Crimson Wizard · « **Reply #110 on:** 06 Jul 2021, 23:29 »

Quote from: tampie85 on 06 Jul 2021, 20:42

That's a good point. Do you have any idea what the most common resolutions are?

Well, there's a bunch of presets in AGS editor where you choose game resolution, but it may be virtually anything, so I think it should have an option to type arbitrary numbers too.

tampie85 · « **Reply #111 on:** 07 Jul 2021, 02:08 »

Would you mind listing the default presets here? I never used the editor. We can then make sure that those are at least added. Making it a free format will be a future step.

Crimson Wizard · « **Reply #112 on:** 07 Jul 2021, 02:19 »

Here they are:
https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags/blob/master/Editor/AGS.Editor/GUI/CustomResolutionDialog.cs#L30

~~But now I realized they are missing another commonly used one 320x180.~~ added...

tampie85 · « **Reply #113 on:** 26 Mar 2022, 20:44 »

Hello all!

Small update on the new website. AGA is doing an amazing job and I'm very enthusiastic about the result so far and can't wait to show it to you! It still might take a while; it's a lot of work!
But we haven't forgotten about it!

We could use some help from Graphic Artists, so if you're interested, please reach out!

More details here:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=59852

AGA · « **Reply #114 on:** 14 Jun 2022, 21:22 »

We now have a new version of the forums (SMF 2.1) that's ready for testing. As well as a lot of new features and bug fixes, we have new responsive (mobile-friendly) light and dark themes that should blend in well with the design of the work-in-progress new site's design.

Is anyone interested in helping us to test this? Please post here if you are, and I'll send you the details!

Kastchey · « **Reply #115 on:** 14 Jun 2022, 22:32 »

Ready to help test

Stupot · « **Reply #116 on:** 15 Jun 2022, 04:56 »

I use the forum primarily on quite an old phone (iPhone SE 1) and the formatting of some more recent sites and apps is often a little off. I presume you wouldn’t want me reporting on every little such issue as it’s my problem for having such an old phone. But I’m willing to have a play around and try to find some other types bugs and issues.

Pax Animo · « **Reply #117 on:** 15 Jun 2022, 11:41 »

More than happy to help out with testing.

cat · « **Reply #118 on:** 15 Jun 2022, 13:41 »

One thing I noticed: While the logo colours and fonts are totally fine, the gradient around it looks terrible in dark theme. Also on light theme it might look better (at least more modern) without that glow. Can you link to the highest available resolution of this logo? Someone (worst case me) could have a go at cleaning it up.

Of course, we could also make a thread for creating a new logo (that uses the same colours to fit the new page design).

Frodo · « **Reply #119 on:** 15 Jun 2022, 17:53 »

Quote from: cat on 15 Jun 2022, 13:41

Also on light theme it might look better (at least more modern) without that glow.

I actually love the glow. It makes it stand out.

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