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GFLPraxis
Nov 21, 2006, 05:35 AM
http://www.nintendoplayers.com/

http://nintendoplayers.com/comingsoon.jpg

You guys are gonna love this :D


raggedjimmi
Nov 21, 2006, 07:29 AM
Is this what I saw a long time ago? Can't wait to see it fully working :)
GFLPraxis
Nov 22, 2006, 02:20 PM
And it's up!
http://www.nintendoplayers.com/
http://www.nintendoplayers.com/design/image_files/header4.png
:D
Jovian9
Nov 22, 2006, 02:29 PM
Looks good. Great job!
eva01
Nov 22, 2006, 02:32 PM
gah giant ad in the middle of the site.
sb58
Nov 22, 2006, 02:53 PM
no offense GFLPraxis, but that whited-out mario or luigi on the banner doesn't look to great... it just seems odd. if you made that, could i have a link to the original of that mario/luigi thing? :D
raggedjimmi
Nov 22, 2006, 02:56 PM
The ad thing sucks. it's some bouncing Windows pop-up lookalike annoying the hell out of me.
The Miyamoto article isn't working properly. Page 1 works, but nothing else.
Some design problems on the Mario Kart image too, the typeface looks out of place, the white D also overlapping the white part of the track could do with sorting out :o
sikkinixx
Nov 22, 2006, 03:05 PM
The "WINNER WINNER WINNER" banner gave me a short seizure but other than that kudos! nice site :D
GFLPraxis
Nov 22, 2006, 03:08 PM
gah giant ad in the middle of the site.

Yeah, we just corrected that but it'll take an hour for the changes to show. Rob is going to go through all the advertisements tonight and kill the ones that mess with the site layout.

Please post all bugs in this thread and we'll try to have them fixed ASAP :) We had to rush the site out a little as we promised it at Wii launch so there's a couple minor bugs (mainly in IE).

We've got some major upgrades coming on top of this in the next couple months; custom-built forums to replace the crap PHPBB ones, blogs, possibly bonuses to regular contributers like web space, etc.
eva01
Nov 22, 2006, 04:47 PM
Personally I would make the layout fluid instead of fixed. Looks bad on my 2005FPW
raggedjimmi
Nov 22, 2006, 04:56 PM
Personally I would make the layout fluid instead of fixed. Looks bad on my 2005FPW

Echo this. the width looks to be just over half the size of the screen. Noticeable on my 17" screen too.
Haoshiro
Nov 22, 2006, 05:35 PM
Echo this. the width looks to be just over half the size of the screen. Noticeable on my 17" screen too.

Meh, you people that keep your windows maximized... bleah!

Fixed is always nicer for article presentation.... i mean, who would even want to read a newspaper if paragraphs ran the entire length of the page... or worse... of the entire paper!
wako
Nov 22, 2006, 06:05 PM
lol.. got a kick out of...


"The number one source for Nintendo Innuendo"



I love sites that do that. Their poll probably consisted only their webmaster :p
eva01
Nov 22, 2006, 06:35 PM
Meh, you people that keep your windows maximized... bleah!

Fixed is always nicer for article presentation.... i mean, who would even want to read a newspaper if paragraphs ran the entire length of the page... or worse... of the entire paper!

I don't keep my window maximized at all.
Haoshiro
Nov 22, 2006, 06:45 PM
I don't keep my window maximized at all.

Then "dang you people that keep your browser windows at ridiculously large sizes!", heh.
wmmk
Nov 22, 2006, 06:47 PM
gah giant ad in the middle of the site.

adblock pro is free for FF users:)
mkaake
Nov 22, 2006, 07:02 PM
That main logo in the middle of the page... main.png... is 256k. On my slow 384k DSL, that took a full 7 seconds to finish loading after the rest of the page.

1/4 of a meg is a little on the large side for graphics, IMHO.

but overall, the new look is great, and far improved from version 1. The adverts in the middle of the page are 'meh', and are right in the place that typically makes me choose not to visit a website all that often. On the plus side, you seem to have them filtered semi-okay, as I haven't seen any half naked ladies yet...
GFLPraxis
Nov 23, 2006, 04:52 AM
Thanks for all the feedback guys! We're going through big bug-hunts on the first day. Multi-page articles are working now. From our board:
Sorry about the ugly ads today. While testing the site, we couldn't use the actual ads because it would violate the terms of the ad program (it would only be the website's staff loading and viewing all the pages and ads). So when the site when up today we were seeing those ads for the first time. Many of them were horribly annoying, and I apologize! I went through this afternoon and disabled all the bad ads, including only ads that should definitely be less annoying and more relevant (or if they had a hot girl on them then that's cool too).

If you see any more specific ads that are particularly annoying, let me know, but it should be okay now.