What an exciting new page.

TWRoO said: ioi said: Wow, where to begin! As stated in the OP this was intended to be a list of bugs etc but we can go over some of the stuff listed. - Site width. Only 10% of visitors to vgchartz use a resolution less than 1280 wide, the site is set at 1150 wide so that 90% can feel the benefit and the remaining 10% can upgrade Well can you at least give a suggestion of what we can do without having to buy a new laptop, because I don't want to be fucking around with a side scroll.... at least those who use widescreen are not inconvenienced by it being slimmer, but we are. - Black backgrounds etc - this is the colour scheme of the site so you'll have to get used to it! I have no complaints there - Homepage clutter - what we've done is actually compress all the stuff on the homepage so you don't have to scroll down 5 times to see what you want - most of the main stuff is above the fold and accessible via tabs etc. I think it's neat and clean and a ten times improvement over the old homepage which was a cluttered mess with no coherancy or theme. Again, [color=#ff6600] [/color]I think it is great.... except for the bad colour scheme thing I mentioned with green and red text and such.... I think if that is changed people won't be complaining of clutter so much. - Site is quite slow - we need to improve the performance of some aspects The thread speed seems to be back to normal already - Control panel / my recent threads being moved - we have no left sidebar anymore as you can see on the homepage, the control panel has been compressed to a neat box and the forum threads is shown when you are on a forum page. It's a shame, but I can live with it... - Game page layout is poor? Please expand on this - the game page is the area that has had the most work and should now offer a huge amount of depth and functionality. I agree, not sure what Okey's problem is.... one thing is that the game pages are still laggy though. As a general point, we expected some regular users to dislike some of the changes to the site. It is a pretty general issue - you like the site as it was, which is why you signed up, like it to be small, intimate, different. Unfortunately, VGChartz cannot survive being small and intimate, it has to evolve and develop and become more professional. A lot of the changes are designed to attract more users and traffic to the site, to allow us to post and handle more news stories, to expand the game database, to add more social networking features. Stuff like removing recent threads from the homepage - recent threads belongs in the forum in my opinion, not on the homepage or game pages or news pages. Basically all the non-forum areas of the site have been improved and there will be some small cost to the forum in order to make other areas of the site more prominent, but that is the direction VGChartz is taking I'm afraid. The guy who said "remove the charts and news stuff from the front page and add recent threads back" kinda sums the issue up perfectly... that, and the fact that some people just don't like change. I had all the same complaints when we carried out the last redesign - the difference this time is that it's not just a graphical overhaul but a ton of new features and functionality has been added. Once again, I agree.... the recent threads is only a minor inconvenience really. Ta ioi.... good stuff. just for a little repetition.... please scrap the mutlple coloured thread titles/game titles.... It is the one thing that looks LESS proffessional. Especially given those three colours don't go well on black/grey.

I'm not the only one who's mentioned it. The numbers should be the first thing you see. Instead, the page is dominated by the updates box.

Also, a little bug I've just noticed--I can't backspace any of the text in your quote. 

My max resolution is 1024 for 768, so yeah...

And I don't see the need for that image of the world (or whatever it is) in the background. Is it possible to change that?

Wow awesome!!! i really like the new interface...

however i have one small problem with this so far. to see the whole page (the wide way) i have to scoll :( I never had to with the old version (or really any other website for that matter)

for example...if i want to see the right side of the webpage i have scroll. I don't know if that makes sense. Its not a big deal but it is kinda annoying.

TalonMan said: TWRoO said: ioi said: snip Ta ioi.... good stuff. just for a little repetition.... please scrap the mutlple coloured thread titles/game titles.... It is the one thing that looks LESS proffessional. Especially given those three colours don't go well on black/grey. Nobody is ever going to agree on your biggest issue regarding the color schemes of the links. I was just discussing this with Brett, and frankly I think it's fantastic. It's very eye-catching to know what a topic/article is about without ever having to open it. If it's blue, I know immediately it's about Nintendo - red, it's Sony - green, it's MS...    ...that's the ENTIRE reasoning behind it - it makes navigating to the things YOU are most interested in without even having to think. If you're most interested in one particular console or another, the colors will cue you right where to go...

That is why I made a suggestion as to a replacement.... I like the idea behind colour coding but not when it messes with the eyes.

In a list form is is very easy to view different colours seperately, which is why only a little is needed. In the weekly charts you have the different console logos. like such:
(ah... seems there is an issue uploading images... the window that pops up when you click the tree icon is blank)

Anyhow, you know what I mean.... What I am proposing is just using those, Like on the charts for instance, first of all make DS and PSP different from Wii/PS3 again, but lose the coloured text for the game title. Then on the homepage with the news and thread titles, simply have a little logo for the different sections of news/forums (so a blue one for Nintendo, perhaps with a logo like the one for Wii, except just a "N", then have one with "S" for Sony etc... and for some like sales, website and gaming forums, the logos could remain the same colour but have a different letter.

That way it would look so much better, but also allow for MORE colour co-ordination as you could have a different colour for PC too, and one for Off-Topic.

I just scrolled over the hot topics box topic changer thing.... and it looks so much better when all the text is one colour.

Cactus said: nordlead said: you people should check out ioi's FAQs http://vgchartz.com/games/gamefaqs.php?id=16717 Hah! Damnit, I just got conned out of $5. Does this mean that we get our VGChartz $ back now after the IM price reduction, since it's actually going to be used for something now?   :P EDIT: is it just me who can't use smileys anymore, or were they taken away for good?

awesome, I've already made 12.50 off of users clicking my FAQ

As for smileys, they don't seem to be showing up, but you can use regular characters to activate some (like : - ) = )

CrazzyMan said: Come on, do something with color scheme, so much red, blue, green on black is not healthy. How was. And how now:

This comparison is going to make me cry  :'(
Old color scheme is so much better.

By comparing the 2, u can really notice another major problem with the new layout.  The color coded articles coupled with the smaller text size makes reading anything very difficult.

I like it. It will take some time to get used but just like SmokedHostage's constantly changing avatars different is good.

OUCH!!!
My eyes!!!!!

TOO MUCH CONTRASTING COLORS!!!!

I don't like these colors at all.

In design, LESS is always BETTER.

I my honest opinion, i think the homepage is too convoluted, i prefered the linear style. Theres too much going on there.