Leon Razor
Measure Zero
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Posted - 2012.02.09 08:07:00 -
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This was long overdue. Finally a front page that looks like its from this century (this is a space game set in the super-future after all). Can't wait to see the new community site once you replace all the old content with a look consistent with the new one.
As other people have mentioned, I think the biggest challenge right now is getting some form of consistent navigation across the different websites. Each site can have a different feel, but its feels too different right now. Load up each site from the drop down in a tab and then flip through them. I get lost will all the different types of navigation bars and it just seems difficult to know what the relation between all the different sites are. Some specific thoughts:
- I count at least 6 different styles of navigation, why?
- The style of the EVE store is the same as EVE Gate and the wiki. This makes no sense to me.
- Just merge all the account-only stuff like petitions, api, and bug reports into the account site. This will be awesome when (if) you give us one master account that manages multiple eve accounts (and DUST accounts?).
- Merge the support site (which now only contains static info, see above) into the community site (you already have it in the navigation there). If it really needs its own sub-domain at least make the two sub-domains feel like the same website.
- The forums feel like they are part of EVE gate. This is good. The wiki looks like it should be part of EVE gate but it's still separated from it (look at the nav bar). Just make it part of EVE gate.
Lets summarize:
- EVE Gate contains forums: add wiki.
- Store looks like part of EVE Gate. This is weird.
- Put all logged-in account stuff into the account site including api, bug reports, petitions, etc.
- Essentially merge the community and support sites.
Now you have
- All sites with EVE gate look and feel like one site (except the store)
- Front-facing site and community+support site are for different purposes but share same feel.
- Account management stays how it is but gets more functionality.
- Expansion page: fine as it is, or can be styled like the front facing site.
This plan can unify the related sites, better group information, and reduce the number of different styles to at best 3 and at most 5. |