Discussion of changes to Armageddon Website

[Morgenes]

Hey folks, welcome to you new website.  This is the culmination of effort of much time, blood sweat and tears.  It is the effort of many volunteers, both staff and players, and even industry artists who have made this all possible.  The staff would like to publicly acknowledge their efforts here.

I know your'e all excited and many people have their own opinions on styles, colors and layout.  We've done our best for you, and we hope you enjoy it.  We are going to have kinks and issues over the next few weeks as we work on getting everything ironed out.  Please be patient and friendly as you post your thoughts.

In the meantime, if for some reason you can't find something you need on the new website, the old one has been archived for your use at http://old.armageddon.org/

If you have suggestions or ideas you can feel free to post them here, and I'll comb through it, but realize we can't change everything to fit everyone.  We will do our best to make it the website you guys deserve.

If you have a problem or find a bug using the website, please submit a request so that we can be sure it gets resolved.  Make sure you include your operating system, what page(s) you are on, what browser you are using, and describe what you were doing when the error happened.

[TheBadSeed]

Just peeked at it.. ROCKIN! Only problem was that as I scrolled up and down, it continually reset and acted a little strange.. Also, would love a quick and obvious link to the forums.

[maxid]

It's hanging when I try to send Staff Kudos.

Other than that, which could be the site getting pounded, it looks great.

[musashi]

Just peeked at it.. ROCKIN! Only problem was that as I scrolled up and down, it continually reset and acted a little strange.. Also, would love a quick and obvious link to the forums.

Looks great! But I had this problem as well.

[Malken]

I think it's beautiful as well, my only little hic is that I would prefer if the bottom part of the website (where it says Copyright © ArmageddonMUD 2013 Logo artwork by Denny Unger. Header artwork by Andree Wallin.) would be done in a fluid layout, since if I scroll all the way down, that bar ends up in the middle of my screen and there's a whole chunk of blackness afterward.

Just a minor thing! (I also have a giant monitor, so I understand that my problem is probably in the minority)

[Gunnerblaster]

I'll post some bugs / typos that I've already found.

Bug - Already mentioned but the Request tool, once I select a Subject, goes into a never-ending Loading...

Typo - In the Introduction paragraph, the sentence: "Rather, it is about living out a character's sometimes short and always difficult life in the world of harsh world Zalanthas." seems to be a sentence fragment - The portion of the sentence bolded for emphasis.

Otherwise, it's freakin' awesome. A bit of layout rearranging and we're in the green

[BleakOne]

Bloody brilliant. I'd like the server time to be on the front page though, as it was on the 'old' one.

[Skyra]

This one had better not be April Fools. I love it.

[Maso]

[Morgenes]

I think it's beautiful as well, my only little hic is that I would prefer if the bottom part of the website (where it says Copyright © ArmageddonMUD 2013 Logo artwork by Denny Unger. Header artwork by Andree Wallin.) would be done in a fluid layout, since if I scroll all the way down, that bar ends up in the middle of my screen and there's a whole chunk of blackness afterward.

Just a minor thing! (I also have a giant monitor, so I understand that my problem is probably in the minority)

I think I have this licked, let me know

No, Kudos to you Maso.

Request Tool
Sorry, forgot to re-check that, the database 'restore' lost some changes I had made.  It's up, but not 100% of my vision.  It'll be cleaned up ASAP.

Just peeked at it.. ROCKIN! Only problem was that as I scrolled up and down, it continually reset and acted a little strange.. Also, would love a quick and obvious link to the forums.

When you scroll up it's locking the menu to the top, which might make it weird.  Let me know if you see a persistent error, maybe we can work out a screen share or something if it continues.

The Forums are under 'Community Quick Links' on the front page, as well as under 'Community' on every page.

Bloody brilliant. I'd like the server time to be on the front page though, as it was on the 'old' one.

Server time will be done ASAP.

[maxid]

Requests are working now!

[AmandaGreathouse]

Okay... this one is made of awesome. Thank you for including the generator. I'll have to go in and fix whatever broke that causes the names to come up undefined.

[LauraMars]

Love the new look...I'm inspired to play again, read all the helpfiles, do everything...

One thing: when I use the "log in" window, it freezes there for a moment, and does nothing.  When I refresh the page, I'm logged in.

[LauraMars]

Oh, and the website is actually down for me, right now.  I'm going to guess that will happen off and on for a bit while Morgenes gets things sorted out.

[maxid]

Hey did the request tool lose a few requests during the past week?


edit: Nevermind I just noticed that this was mentioned.  Welp resending some stuff.

[Sephiroto]

I have yet to find any links that point to the terms of service or rules for playing the game.  I'm not sure if that's buried somewhere, but in light of today's April Fools to be or not to be, I think this should be on the front page and very easy to find, regardless of whether or not the new changes Adhira posted were real.

I'd also like to see a page in the account tab that would show some basic information about our account login such as karma level, number of characters played, and maybe some information about our current character.

[Morgenes]

Love the new look...I'm inspired to play again, read all the helpfiles, do everything...

One thing: when I use the "log in" window, it freezes there for a moment, and does nothing.  When I refresh the page, I'm logged in.

Hey Laura, could you submit a request with information about what browser (and version) on what OS you were doing this on?  It should flash up a message welcoming you back, and change the login button.

[Morgenes]

I have yet to find any links that point to the terms of service or rules for playing the game.  I'm not sure if that's buried somewhere, but in light of today's April Fools to be or not to be, I think this should be on the front page and very easy to find, regardless of whether or not the new changes Adhira posted were real.

Fair enough, Rules can be found by searching for 'Rules', it should be mentioned in the Intro documentation, but we can add it if not.

I'd also like to see a page in the account tab that would show some basic information about our account login such as karma level, number of characters played, and maybe some information about our current character.

You can get info about your current character from the Biographies page.  I do plan on evolving this and doing more with it (like more of a dashboard on the front page when you log in, instead of the 'Welcome to Armageddon' stuff), it could include info like that.

[Fredd]

So sexy..... I need 5 mins alone.

Wait were pg now, can i make that joke?

Edit: Game time, and last reset would be sexy as hell, if I could find them though

[LauraMars]

Love the new look...I'm inspired to play again, read all the helpfiles, do everything...

One thing: when I use the "log in" window, it freezes there for a moment, and does nothing.  When I refresh the page, I'm logged in.

Hey Laura, could you submit a request with information about what browser (and version) on what OS you were doing this on?  It should flash up a message welcoming you back, and change the login button.

Hm, the website went down for me for about ten minutes.  When it came back up, I tried logging out and logging in again...no more problems.

[Cutthroat]

The new look is great. It's also great that the voting websites link back to it. I think a more modern design will keep the attention of more newer players looking to join us! The new alphabetical helpfile thingy is particularly nice and the way artwork is incorporated throughout the website looks good too.

One thing I did notice is that I can't seem to access clan docs from anywhere. The most I can get to is an individual clan's helpfile page (nice that you can submit a request to that clan from the helpfile page, btw).

[LauraMars]

This looks a bit weird - when I click the "new request" button under the my account menu in the upper right hand corner, the page comes up like this:



When I click outside that box, the menu does collapse, but when the page first loads, the menu also loads as "selected"

(browser: Chrome
operating system Windows 7)

[Maso]

Sticky footers man! They are such derps.

[Scarecrow]

I can't log into the site, new or old, or even connect to the game at the moment.

[Malken]

I think I have this licked, let me know

That worked