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Discussion: New City of Heroes Website!

Adar_ICT

By Adar_ICT,
Posted on: 2008-10-27 24:21 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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Damn endless slideshow drives me nuts.

Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket?

 

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I dunno.. I'm kinda regretting hitting the refresh button. It looks way too busy for me. The background peeking between the text blocks constantly drags my eye away from the text. I'm having a hard time actually -reading- anything on the site now

I want my blue back. Or at least the option to skin the site.

 

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This falls under the principle: If you make it difficult to read, than it's not good for design. It's annoying and more difficult to read text that's superimposed over a city background. Text should be on a solid background for readability. Currently, I'm trying to read text superimposed over building rooftops

[/ QUOTE ]There is far more than enough contrast that the background should be a non-issue.

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The center bar over which the text is superimposed is a darkish blue that blends into a bright-whitish blue on the sides of the bar. This dramatic change in the brightness background makes reading the text over it difficult and annoying. Text should be on a solid background for readability.

[/ QUOTE ]The text isn't over the lighter area so that should be a non-issue as well.

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The sidebar graphics square for a trial account has rapidly changing graphic images. I found it so annoying that after hitting Escape to stop it several times, I just used AdBlock to remove it... which then removed the link for trial account altogether. Just make it a different and random non-changing graphic on each reload of the page.

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah, that's definitely changing too fast, seems to be a bit less than 2 seconds.

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Also, something weird: in Firefox, shrinking the text shrinks the background graphics, but not in IE. <shrug>

[/ QUOTE ]Are you shrinking the text or using Firefox's zoom functionality?

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Awsomeness the new site and updater rock. Thanks!

 

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Oh very nice. 2 Quick things:

1) The intro flash is nice, but way short. More importantly, when it ends, there's an ugly plain black box there. Maybe a stillshot or even the logo would be a better final frame.

2) ok how can we make our characters walk, like in the slowmo sidewalk scene? Never seen anyone walking. Or is that a devtoy?

 

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Awesome, now just redesign the forums layout, in particular the color scheme. Or give us the option to choose skins, like a generic black/white color scheme that's not so blue or red.

 

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In the future, ALL browsers WILL be {new feature people think someone wants}. You'll have to switch eventually, and by not switching now, you're only delaying the inevitable.

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Fixt.

Just waiting for the next {new feature people think I want}.

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Its a very well needed upgrade that will only get better with time. They need our help with it too threw our feedback. LH was addressing the issue with a quick fix that only addressed people with outdated browsers. They never said they wouldnt fix it. That beaning said People still are not using chrome ? Despite its one flaw its my default browser and it should be yours. I use IE8 when need be.

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no wonder why issue 13 is takeing so long, they were working on this

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Ya but its pretty and makes people think the game is actually a real mmo.

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Oh. Kind of like quick snarky useless comments designed to make people think the poster is actually clever? Can i try too? Oh wait, i just did! Never mind, this is kinda fun.

 

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Suggestions:

<ul type="square">[*]Patch notes: While the way the new site segments information into smaller easier-to-bite chunks is nice, this does a disservice to patch notes because I often find myself searching the page that had the patch notes for the whole year for the info I'm looking for. Now, all that info is divided into separate pages. Could you please put up a link to page that has a year's worth of patch notes?
[*]Under description of Archetypes, the H/Veats are not mentioned.
[*]The large City of Heroes Banner, plus the large section banners (e.g., Game Info Rewards), plus a graphic at the beginning of the section push the beginning of the text of that section off the window. It's not good design where so many pages start their text off screen and it has to be paged to.
[*]Under fan sites, the Paragon Wiki needs to point to its new site: http://wiki.cohtitan.com
[*]Calendar Wallpaper is buried too deep in the site. The calendar of events should be more prominent.[/list]

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I would have to say at first blush, I LOVE the new website very appealing to the eyes

Good Job Guys

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Love the new website. Can the forums get the same makeover?

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Something possibly overlooked: The links to the Blue King Comic PDFs are gone and so is the Dark Horse one shot.

Also the video for City of Villains is gone.

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Needs some of the features from the European site.

Namely (no particular order):
"Tip of the Day"
"City Sights"
"Hall of Fame"

What does things better:
UK's Game Guide

While the new US website is a bit more graphically appealing, the UK's site is just more informative...

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I [u]do love[u] the US's new Patch notes/Issues pages though.

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I heartily agree with this. This new website *looks* nice, but what is NCNC going to *do* differently with their new, different, site? If nothing, then I'll continue to simply bookmark the forums (and RedTomax's dev digest feeds) and rarely, if, ever, look at the frontpage.

Are you going to involve the community more with the site as the UK site has done for quite some time via the user submitted screenshots and tips?

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Are you shrinking the text or using Firefox's zoom functionality?

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Ah, good catch.



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This falls under the principle: If you make it difficult to read, than it's not good for design. It's annoying and more difficult to read text that's superimposed over a city background. Text should be on a solid background for readability. Currently, I'm trying to read text superimposed over building rooftops

[/ QUOTE ]There is far more than enough contrast that the background should be a non-issue.

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The center bar over which the text is superimposed is a darkish blue that blends into a bright-whitish blue on the sides of the bar. This dramatic change in the brightness background makes reading the text over it difficult and annoying. Text should be on a solid background for readability.

[/ QUOTE ]The text isn't over the lighter area so that should be a non-issue as well.

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I didn't say I *can't* read it. *I* find it distracting and annoying, and *I* find it makes the text more difficult to read than it should be. Plain solid background is *always* easier for readability, even if it's just the degree of readability.

The computer's ability to allow 'graphic designers' to overlay text on top of graphic designs and backgrounds with changing shadings and colors will be the downfall of civilization. Mark my words!!!

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Love the new website. Can the forums get the same makeover?

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New forum software is currently being tested in the Closed Beta. We'll be moving to vBulletin. What sort of skins the Mods will make available to us or whether they'll allow us to customize them (which is an option in vBulletin) is unknown except to Closed Beta Testers.

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wow the new look is just what we needed, something interesting to look at and the updated look on the character. COX is coming along nicely. I like the new look and hope to see some more awesome changes to COX. Keep it up guys.

 

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Thanks for everyone's kind words and constructive feedback! The Community Team has collected your words and criticism for our Web and Marketing Team to consider.

We'll be watching this thread for additional input, so please let us know what you like with the site over the coming days.

Lighthouse
Community Relations Manager

If you have a specific in game, account, tech or billing problem please contact our Customer Support team via The Knowledge Base "Ask A Question" page.

 

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It's cool. When you named all the contacts in the zones you missed the Arachon's contact. for Mercy Island.

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You mean the Soldiers of Arachnos contact.

The site in general is missing H/Veat information except buried in the Issue Update information which is listed under "Game Updates".

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Exactly what I was hoping for! Now.. The Forums? ....

 

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It looks like the update was to bring CoH's website in line with that of Tabula Rasa -- one company, one look. To me, the main differences are largely cosmetic -- TR's site has little flags in the top right for the international sites, CoH's doesn't (probably an oversight -- there should be a link to the EU stuff up there); CoH's middle column is wider and right side column is skinner than TR's; TR's site has a search field in the left column.

But the two sites look /very/ similar now.

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Ah, I'm glad you posted that. That's a much more readable site and an example of putting text on a solid background.

Speaking of the width of the bars, I wish they would expand to fill my screen. They should be coded to be 95% of the user's screen width rather than a fixed width.

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The new site looks good, I like. ^_^

Like others have said though...
Having the server status displayed on the front would be a nice.
Make a the video longer and have some still graphic at the end.
Change the 14 day trial so the image changes when they visit.

Everything else looks great. ^_^