New Site Design

LIanPlatypus on 12/09/2011 - 17:35

I have some feedback on the new site design.
The NEW box that tells you when there is new comments; I found that easier to see when it was over the right hand side like previous, I do like the new look of it though

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        • scotty on 02/11/2011 - 21:24

          For login, you can click on the Login link to go straight to the dedicated login page, which then your password manager would take over, if it does not work with popups.

          Meanwhile I'll see whether work out some alternatives.

    • twig on 02/11/2011 - 20:24

      The colours aren't that bad, maybe it's your monitor config?
      The rest of the site is still some shade of orange so it still looks like OZB to me.

      • the discombobulated… on 02/11/2011 - 21:19

        The colours aren't that bad, maybe it's your monitor config?

        Seen through many monitors. Sometimes, though, a colour that looks good in small quantities doesn't look so good when used in large quantities. Sometimes it can be the contrast difference between two perfectly fine colours that bites.

        It's not that bad but it's a little jarring wrt the rest of the site imo.

  • jv on 09/11/2011 - 22:54

    Avatars seem to be broken ???

    Tried both IE and Firefox so it doesn't seem to be the browser…

  • jv on 09/11/2011 - 22:58

    Voting seems to have broken too ??? :(

    edit: voting is working now, but no avatars still…

    • scotty on 10/11/2011 - 07:34

      Still broken? Avatar is provided by gravatar.com so maybe some issue with their services.

      • [Deactivated] on 10/11/2011 - 07:44

        Saw same thing last night, but back to normal now

      • jv on 10/11/2011 - 10:20

        working fine now…

  • petestrash on 11/11/2011 - 14:00

    Posted this in the suggestions sticky on the 1st, but looks like it is not visited anymore.

    I like the new design, especially preferences.

    Any chance of adding preference options to:
    1. Not show expired deals in new deals or searches
    2. Not show removed deals
    3. Show searches in date order. It makes it easier to find a dupe before posting. I don't search enough to remember the convention, so I always have to search help first to find what term to use so it shows search results by date.

    Also any chance you can make the link to go visit deals open in a new tab. usually look at the deal before deciding to vote on it, but occasionally forget to open in new tab. So by the time I finish poking around it's not easy to get back to the ozbargain page I came from. If the ozbargain page was still open it would encourage more people to vote on the deal after visiting it.

    Thanks,

    Pete

    • A Banana4scale on 19/11/2011 - 14:02

      scroll wheel click/two finger tap opens link in new tab

    • scotty on 20/11/2011 - 07:31

      There's option for that, in your settings page…

  • the discombobulated… on 17/11/2011 - 12:14

    What happened to the nice plain text thread update messages? :(

    • twig on 17/11/2011 - 13:50

      i only noticed after ur reply

      perhaps
      - bold the thread title
      - unbold last comment by username
      - add some spacing or HR before the "this is an automatic message …"

      • the discombobulated… on 17/11/2011 - 14:21

        The readability issue is one thing. The lack of a link to copy and paste (outside of anything that talks HTML) is another.

        Could've at least added the old style as a text/plain component of the email.

        Sigh. :/

        • twig on 19/11/2011 - 14:31

          Oh, I found it confusing when I read the comment summary, and just below it is the whole comment.
          Might as well just remove the summary from it

      • moocher on 21/11/2011 - 09:59

        Thanks for your feedback. I'll fix up the formatting in the version with teasers.

      • moocher on 21/11/2011 - 10:51

        bold the thread title, unbold last comment by username

        Isn't this already the case? If it's not, would you be so kind to upload a screenshot please?

        I found it confusing when I read the comment summary, and just below it is the whole comment. Might as well just remove the summary from it.

        That was what the plain text version had, but I've now updated the HTML version to show one or the other, not both.

    • moocher on 17/11/2011 - 14:23
      +1

      There is discussion about it in this thread

  • illusionarybreeze on 18/11/2011 - 11:06

    Could stickied threads please also have an alternate "yellow-ed" version that indicates that there is a new post? =)

    • scotty on 18/11/2011 - 12:09

      "Stickied threads" as in those in the forums? Number of new comments should already show up under "Replies" like other threads.

  • auna on 27/11/2011 - 02:00

    Congratulations to Ozbargain and Scotty as today is Ozbargain's 5th Anniversary.

    New site design looks great :)

  • Augh on 05/12/2011 - 17:08

    How do you navigate the 'Deals' and 'My Account' drop down menus on a touch screen (Tablet).

    • scotty on 05/12/2011 - 21:27

      Yeah touch screen requires some special hacks. At least on Android you can press "Deals" and drag your finger away — the popup will then show. Not ideal, but works for now.

      • twig on 05/12/2011 - 22:30

        scotty, i find that having an extra js include file when a touch screen device is detected works best.
        for any elements which have a hover handler, add some sort to "touch toggle" to either accompany or replace the original hover functionality.

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